Thread by @mdavidallen

A function is a DB that maps a key/input set to a value/result that's why they memoize so well

A DB is an impure function that returns a value given a particular input/query

GitHub is a database of programs

And data.gov is a program that returns DBs

Streams and tables are kinda the same thing looked at through different lenses

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docs.confluent.io/platform/curre…

Tables and graphs are kinda the same thing looked at through different lenses

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Trees. And HTML. And XML. And JSON. are kinda the same thing as graphs looked at through different lenses.

(The opposite also works: every graph is a *set* of complex json objects)

medium.com/@iampika/javas…

I got this dataset:

x,y
0,0
1,1
2,4
3,9

And I put it into some fancy ML and it wrote me a linear program:

y = x^2