Items of Interest

The Rise & Fall of The OLAP Cube

The Holistics blog posted about the OLAP cube, the mainstay of enterprise data management for so many years, which is now falling out of favour and being replaced by more efficient parallel processing architecture and column store data warehouses.

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Book Covers 1820-1914

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Public Domain Review have posted a fanstastic piece on book covers from 1820 to 1914. New mechanical binding techniques and cloth printing form 1820 allowed book covers to become a new artistic space. Feast you eyes on some glorious examples here.

Design

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Clean Energy

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Look at these fantastic Beautiful News data visualisations about how clean energy is increasing worldwide!

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Science Diagrams That Look Like Shitposts

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Science Diagrams That Look Like Shitposts is a great twitter account. It is as described :-)

Science

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Google Dataset Search

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Google's Dataset Search tool has been released out of beta. The tool now includes filtering options by dataset type and usage rights.

AI & ML

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PHP in 2020

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Brent over at Stitcher.io published an illuminating article on the current state of PHP in 2020. He describes the recent evolution of PHP to include strong types, closures and package managers, among other things.

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Cheap Scaleable Cloud Hosting

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Alex Oliver has published a great how to article describing the use of Google Cloud Run for cheap and auto scaleable serverless managed container hosting which is language agnostic.

Tech

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Modelling Knot Stability

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Mathematicians and engineers at MIT have developed a model that predicts the stability of a knot. The model was created by observing the pressure on knots using fibres that change colour with pressure. A simulation was then created and tested against the real world results in order to validate the model.

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Movie Review: The Two Popes

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I really enjoyed watching The Two Popes on Netflix. Jonathan Pryce's performance as Jorge Bergoglio is outstanding! I'm no fan of the Catholic Church, but the narrative and progression in the discussions between the two characters works very well and as a story telling device, the film is excellent. Not to be mistaken for a documentary though :-)

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City Roads

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City Roads is a tool created by Andrei Kashcha that displays only the roads on a city map. The colours can be customised and the resulting image can be printed on a mug or exported.

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