An Introduction to Velocity-Based Data Architectures

Lambda and Kappa data architectures may be a fit for your needs, depending on how quickly data is generated, how quickly that data moves, and how soon it is processed into usable insights.
https://redis.com/blog/velocity-based-data-architectures/

It's unclear of the specifics of this attack, at least until next week's talk, but researchers say that they use "low-cost, off-the-self hardware" to accomplish it. https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-hackers-find-unpatchable-jailbreak-to-unlock-paid-features-for-free

If you happen to be shopping for men's underwear, these earned 5 stars. https://amzn.to/3OLNpA0

Are you sure of this?
https://www.science.org/content/article/some-scientific-papers-words-expressing-uncertainty-have-decreased

The physics of soap bubbles are pretty complicated. Maybe 18th century French painters can give us some much-needed insight? https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/french-painters-inspire-new-insights-into-the-physics-of-soap-bubbles/

Mattel isn’t playing around when it comes to its film strategy: no fewer than 45 movies based on its toy brands are in development https://qz.com/mattel-cinematic-universe-45-movies-barbie-toy-sales-1850682683

Veni, vidi, visa.

I came, I saw, I shopped.

Mattel is looking for a chief Uno player for its new Quatro edition. The job offers 4-hour shifts, 4 days a week, for 4 weeks, and the salary is $4,444.44 per week. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66387417

That time a seal wandered into a hardware store... https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/07/31/very-random-juvenile-seal-wanders-into-northland-bunnings/

I know: I had you at "new Connie Willis novel." https://amzn.to/3Qt7f4h

TIL there's a vintage laser hologram museum in Tempe -- and it's free. https://laserhistorymuseum.com

"A newer kind of device, known as a 'myoelectric prosthesis,' is powered by electric nerve signals from the residual limb." https://www.wired.co.uk/article/this-prosthetic-limb-actually-attaches-to-the-wearers-nerves

Currently playing: Joseph Papp's The Pirates of Penzance [1980] with Kevin Kline and Linda Ronstadt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bp_M0NQkrg

To highlight how travelling sustainably first starts at home, here are some places that are challenging the long-established idea of packing before you leave – and offering shortcuts to a more streamlined holiday.
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230730-are-luggage-free-trips-the-future

Because publication wasn’t Dickinson’s ultimate goal, she intended her poems to be read as she wrote them—not in type, but in her own handwriting. So let’s explore some of Emily Dickinson’s poems, as she wrote them with her own hand. https://jillianhess.substack.com/p/deciphering-emily-dickinsons-notes

Social media actually has the ability to create user habits to share high-quality content. After a few tweaks to the reward structure of social media platforms, users begin to share information that is accurate and fact-based. https://theconversation.com/social-media-can-in-fact-be-made-better-research-shows-it-is-possible-to-reward-users-for-sharing-accurate-information-instead-of-misinformation-209676

Heirloom varieties make up far less than 1% of total domestic corn production in Mexico. But for the first time in years, Vargas and others are hopeful about the crop. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/heirloom-corn-organic-mexico-resurging-industrial-white-corn-rcna96412