In computing, Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) refers to a process in database usage and especially in data warehousing that performs: Data extraction â extracts data from homogeneous or heterogeneous data sources.
(Beginner) Reading astronomy books, I've come up with the word singularity a lot, but I can't figure out what it exactly means. A singularity means a point where some property is infinite. For example, at the center of a black hole, according to classical theory, the density is infinite (because a finite mass is compressed to a zero volume). Hence it is a singularity.
(Discuss) Proposed since March 2017. The technological singularity (also, simply, the singularity) is the hypothesis that the invention of artificial superintelligence will abruptly trigger runaway technological growth, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization.