Vacationing in Tbilisi: Brutalism, Street Dogs, and the Math of TVNR
Reflections from Georgia on Soviet brutalist architecture, street dog ecology, and a Python differential population model for municipal TVNR thresholds.
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Data insights, analytics, and technical explorations.
I’m Dominick Ryan. As a Senior Systems and Data Engineer, I build reliable data transformations and cloud-native infrastructure. NextValData is my curated repository of academic and technical documentation—a personal archive shared in the hope that it helps others, while being just self-serving enough.
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The Value of Simple Models
Why early atmospheric simulations 'blew up' and what it teaches us about systemic equilibrium.
DB Basics with DuckDB and some Nuances
An exploration of database engineering terminology gaps, the differences between ETL and ELT compute paradigms, and the SELECT * query performance nuances in analytical engines like DuckDB.