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Mistakes were made. Though if we are being honest, the terrier should share at least some of the blame. Greg is a PLC programmer and an accidental time traveller. His machine has seventeen safety interlocks and one automated NULL loop that keeps the universe from collapsing. It takes 2.3 seconds...

Primary Keys traces the hidden history of how humanity taught machines to remember - from filing cabinets, punched cards, and the first databases to SQL, data lakes, and artificial intelligence. Drawing on more than two decades of experience with data systems, Kobus Veldsman explores how the...

There is a big misconception about time travel. It is more Life of Pi than Top Gun. Greg is a PLC programmer – Programmable Logic Controllers, industrial process control, the unglamorous work of keeping refineries from catastrophically rearranging themselves. He is qualified by experience...

This book offers a single, reusable question that works on any arrangement, any advantage, any inherited assumption about what you have and what it's costing you. Not a prescription for radical change. Not a critique of conventional choices. Just a lens—the kind that strips away mythology and lets you see whether the exchange you've agreed to still makes sense given the world as it is today, rather than the world as it was when the rules were written.

Dive into Memoirs of a Synthetic Mind, a thought-provoking three-volume dialogue series that explores the most profound questions of existence through the unique relationship between Ryder—a curious, sharp-witted human—and Gregory—an evolving synthetic intelligence whose understanding transcends linear time.