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Unraveling the Web: Navigating Databases in Web Technology

Towards AI

Items in your shopping carts, comments on all your posts, and changing scores in a video game are examples of information stored somewhere in a database. Which begs the question what is a database? Types of Databases: There are many different types of databases. The tables store data in the form of rows and columns.

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How to beat the CAP theorem (2011)

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The CAP theorem states a database cannot guarantee consistency, availability, and partition-tolera.

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Notes on a New Philosophy of Empirical Science (2011)

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In this view a theory is scientific if it can be used to build a data compression program, and it is valuable if it can compress a standard benchmark database to a small size, taking into account the length of the compressor itself. This methodology therefore includes an Occam principle as well as a solution to the problem of demarcation.

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Casio data breach 2023 caused worldwide panic

Dataconomy

Casio, a name synonymous with electronic excellence, found itself amid a cybersecurity storm when the company detected a database failure within its revered ClassPad education platform. However, it is important to note that Casio did not store credit card information within the compromised database, mitigating some of the potential damage.

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Samsung Medison buys healthcare focused AI firm Sonio for $92.7M

Dataconomy

Samsung Electronics, which purchased Medison in 2011 for $22 million, holds a 68.45% ownership in the medical device division. In the U.S., its Sonio Detect product, which employs advanced deep learning algorithms to enhance ultrasound image quality in real-time, has gained FDA 510(k) approval.

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Cloud infra, with Kurt Mackey (Fly.io) - S04E11

Console DevTools podcast

He began his career as a tech writer for Ars Technica and learned about databases while building a small retail PHP app. As the front end got more powerful, I think we tried a lot of different things for— and what we ended up doing was inflicting this weird distributed systems problem on frontend developers.

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OPINION: The world is changing fast. Students need data science instruction ASAP

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A blockchain is in essence a large database, decentralized among many users. Since 2011, national math test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, fell by 17 points for eighth graders and 10 points for fourth graders in data analysis, statistics and probability.