How New York City Vaccinated 6 Million People in Less Than a Month. On April 4 (1947), the results came back from the U.S. Army Medical School Laboratory in Washington. All three were confirmed cases of smallpox, which had not been seen in New York City since before the war. (compare to COVID-19) (more)

Neo4j is a graph database management system developed by Neo4j, Inc. Described by its developers as an ACID-compliant transactional database with native graph storage and processing,[3] Neo4j is the most popular graph database according to DB-Engines ranking,[4] and the 21st most popular database overall.[5] Neo4j is available in a GPL3-licensed open-source "community edition", with online backup and high availability extensions licensed under a closed-source commercial license.[6] Neo also licenses Neo4j with these extensions under closed-source commercial terms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo4j

educational Programming Language - "LisP without the parentheses" (more)

Original Constructivist. Jean William Fritz Piaget (UK: /piˈæʒeɪ/,[17][18] US: /ˌpiːəˈʒeɪ, pjɑːˈʒeɪ/,[17][19][20][21][22] French: [ʒɑ̃ pjaʒɛ]; 9 August 1896 – 16 September 1980) was a Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development. Piaget's theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemology". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piaget

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Dai (or DAI, formerly Sai or SAI) is a stablecoin cryptocurrency which aims to keep its value as close to one United States dollar (USD) as possible through an automated system of smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain. Dai is maintained and regulated by MakerDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) composed of the owners of its governance token, MKR, who may vote on changes to certain parameters in its smart contracts in order to ensure the stability of Dai... In 2019, MakerDAO experienced internal struggle over whether it should integrate more with the traditional financial system. Christensen wanted greater regulatory compliance to allow for assets besides cryptocurrency to serve as collateral for Dai. The struggle led to the departure of MakerDAO's CTO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dai_(cryptocurrency)

Arweave is a decentralized data storage protocol that leverages on blockchain technology to enable permanent and sustainable data storage (online storage) through a server-less web. It is described as a global, permanent hard drive with a new type of storage that allows users and developers to truly store data securely forever. $AR is a native cryptocurrency of Arweave network and it is used to incentivize participants in the network. https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/arweave https://www.arweave.org/ (more)

Ron Jeffries: Strawberries 9: TDD. TDD is too big a lump to be a good strawberry. Today I’m playing with TDD to try to find a bite-sized goodie. I expect not to accomplish that. (more)

Column: When a medical team quit, this hospital sued to force them to keep working. a Wisconsin hospital has been trying to break new ground in the field by suing to stop a team of seven healthcare workers from quitting their jobs and taking posts at another hospital. As we write, the workers are in limbo. Outagamie County Circuit Court Judge Mark McGinnis granted the former employer’s request for a temporary injunction preventing the workers from taking up their new jobs. But he didn’t order them to keep working at their original jobs. (more)

Boston Public Schools has installed Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) sensors in all classrooms in schools. The sensors report information in real-time on key measures of air quality. The data is used to direct changes to the set-up in each classroom and note any additional work that needs to be done to reach optimal air quality and ventilation. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 1/20/22: Peak Omicron. The Omicron variant and Weekly posts are now combined, so this includes the last day’s Omicron developments. This week was the peak. (more)

Kata is a Japanese word (型 or 形) meaning "form". It refers to a detailed choreographed pattern of martial arts movements made to be practised alone. It can also be reviewed within groups and in unison when training. It is practised in Japanese martial arts as a way to memorize and perfect the movements being executed... Kata are also used in many traditional Japanese arts such as theatre forms like kabuki and schools of tea ceremony (chadō), but are most commonly known in the martial arts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kata So can be framed as ritual, habit, or small abstract exercise for learning.

Dave Thomas is sharing a list of Computer Programming exercises he calls Code Kata (kata). They're language-agnostic. I hope to use some for building my Python skills.

Process of ongoing incremental Process Improvement (Self Improvement) kata http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mrother/The_Improvement_Kata.html (more)

Robin Sloan pitches a "book to be adapted into a movie" starting Dwayne Johnson (TheRock). I am here to tell you the professional wrestler turned movie star Dwayne The Rock Johnson is going to be US president, but before that happens, we are going to make a book, to make a movie, to make a mind... We've both read plenty of novels where you can see the screenplay moving just under the skin. Our innovation will be our shamelessness, which will be total. Everyone will know exactly what's up, and because they know, buying this book will become a vote: YES, make this movie! And while you're at it: make this reality, too.

Book by Jerry Weinberg (early 2002). ISBN:0932633528 (more)

Jerry Weinberg book ASIN:B004J35LHQ https://geraldmweinberg.com/Site/Consulting_Secrets.html (more)

In software engineering, a monolithic application describes a single-tiered software application in which the user interface and data access code are combined into a single program from a single platform. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolithic_application (more)

Granular SOA? (more)

Operations Research/Systems Thinking guru (more)