I was reading a BSTJ article about the UNIX Time-Sharing System, which mentioned Schumacher’s dictum: that Small Is Beautiful. Turns out this phrase (small is beautiful) was originally posed in an economics context by Schumacher‘s teacher.
Stolen from here:
It’s fun to see what ends up on the workbench:
From What’s SAP?:
A basic installation of SAP has 20,000 database tables, 3,000 of which are configuration tables.
So I’m following the instructions over here: Installing the Hub on Linux. I hope they’re not gonna install spyware… :|
A high-level pictorial view of the data & AI landscape as of 2020: Resilience and Vibrancy: The 2020 Data & AI Landscape.
Like Maslow’s hierarchy, but for AI and data: The AI Hierarchy of Needs.
A 2016 article about how AWS came about: How AWS came to be.
This looked pretty interesting: Keywords for Today… but I don’t have time to read it.
This is an essential tool for any critical thinker interested in the history of language or politics. From culture to identity, from sexuality to socialism, Keywords for Today provides the crucial contexts and histories of our vocabulary.
I found the names of the standard icons over here: Icon Naming Specification.