Technology changes, humans don’t. – Web 2.0 NY Second keynote

I needed a rest from my opening keynote review NY Tech 1995-2008. Opening Web 2.0 Expo NY Keynote but a few siginificant points from The Death of the Grand Gesture by Deb Schultz.

  • An interesting site is Visual Complexity showing graphical representations of many social networks.
  • All the binary communication becomes white noise — Information Overload.
  • “Technology changes, humans don’t” – Deb Schultz
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Producing Skewness statistics with SQL

Skewness measures the asymmetry of a distribution. A perfectly symmetric distribution has a skewness of zero. A positive skew (right-skewed) means the tail extends to the right — a small number of high values pull the mean above the median.

Exploring the vsql-ai extension

The vsql-ai extension adds AI prompt capabilities and text embeddings directly in SQL queries, with support for Anthropic Claude , Google Gemini , OpenAI ChatGPT , or a local LLM such as Ollama .

Producing Chi-Squared statistics with SQL

The Chi-Squared test is one of the most widely used statistical tests for categorical data. It comes in two flavors: the goodness-of-fit test asks whether an observed frequency distribution matches an expected one, while the test of independence asks whether two categorical variables are associated with each other.