Here’s some good info for configuring ODBC for MariaDB on Ubuntu for use from LibreOffice Base: LibreOffice Base and MariaDB. The same article also has some info about how to use ENGINE=CONNECT for importing JSON from web services.
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.
Today I found myself reading William Kahan’s homepage after having waded through An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point.
This came across my desk today: Subnormal number.
Today’s reading: Unicode Normalization Forms.
This was a quick romp around “plain text”: Plain Text – Dylan Beattie – NDC Oslo 2021. Would recommend if you don’t already know about such things.
RisingLight is an OLAP database system for educational purposes: RisingLight. If I had more time I would check this out.
I think the Laravel developers don’t know what a Pivot Table is. At the time of writing:
If you need to define attributes that should be set on the pivot / intermediate table linking the models, you may use the hasAttached method. This method accepts an array of pivot table attribute names and values as its second argument
The concept they’re looking for is Association Table.
Oh, look. I just noticed this on the Wikipedia article: “pivot table (as used incorrectly in Laravel – not to be confused with the correct use of pivot table in spreadsheets)”; so this has already been discovered.
Today I was referred to: Unicode Utilities: Confusables.