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Stephen Bailey
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If storytelling is the telos of analytics, that essential human capability we enhance through technique and information, what is the corresponding telos of data engineering?

This systematic collection and ordering of data is worldbuilding.

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Worldbuilding with data
The raison d'etre for data engineering + my 2025 research theme
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February 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
In 1200, the liberal arts were:

The trivium:
- grammar
- logic
- rhetoric

The quadrivium:
- arithmetic
- geometry
- music
- astronomy

What are they today?
January 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Read 47 books last year, and I threw together some mini-reviews of them.

Worst place goes to Wuthering Heights. I had low expectations, and it didn't meet those. (But I have talked about it a lot to people, so maybe that's the appeal.)

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5 Great Books from 2024
Since the only thing I can predict is the past
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January 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM