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“Pumpkin Spice is as Popular as Ever”
ABSTRACT Timestamp October 1, 2024: A team of faculty and students from the School of Communication and Media at Montclair State University today released a new study examining 2024 conversations, trends and sentiment on social media about pumpkin spice. With Starbuck releasing its popular Pumpkin Spice Latte one week earlier than last year, consumers took to social media to discuss the polarizing flavor.
Data Center Bust, Boom, Bust, Boom….
Where is Standards Michigan LLC in this conversation? We have followed development of the stack that governs these "installations" since 1993; nudging technical committees -- NFPA, IEEE, ASHRAE, BICSI, Uptime Institute, TIOA, UL among others. The frontier improvises daily. Today we review relevant, open public consultations even though we know, at present pace, there are no stable standards and probably shouldn't be.
Critical Operations Power Systems
The United States is high on the list of nations with weather related disasters. Today at the usual hour we review developments in the First Draft of the 2029 NEC covering these systems and prospects for co-location of these systems in data centers
“Whatever It Is, I’m Against It”
Every new infrastructure project begins as someone else's problem. We collect our work in standards, codes and regulations informing the artificial intelligence zietgeist generally and the data center build out specifically. With link to orbital data center frontier.
Quadrivium: Autumn
Educational settlements should be magical places. The stack informing the beauty of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day globally. We monitor the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Topics appear on our CALENDAR and explored every day at 15:00 UTC.
Bulletin Board
Curated list of open consultations and calls for information from state, federal and global agencies.
Virtual Gross Anatomy Lab
Best practice is likely supported by a combination of virtual and laboratory-centric teaching methods; not unlike nearly all other academic spaces in education communities. Design professionals should contemplate anatomy laboratories as more than a first-year medical student training facility but as resource for all the allied science programs in residence and as a revenue generation source for continuing medical education enterprises.
Current Issues & Recent Research
We are tooling up for the NFPA 2029 National Electrical Code Technical Committee Meetings in September and the IEEE Industrial Applications Society Meetings in October.
“The Halloween Problem” | Recursive Self-Improvement
The Halloween Problem refers to a phenomenon in databases in which an update operation causes a change in the physical location of a row, potentially allowing the row to be visited again later in the same update operation. Named after an October 31 discovery, it’s fixed by separating read and write phases using temporary tables or snapshots, ensuring each row is touched exactly once