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.
(physics) a point or region in spacetime in which gravitational forces cause matter to have an infinite density; associated with Black Holes. What we are most interested in, however, is the definition of Singularity as a technological phenomenon -- i.e. the Technological Singularity. Here we can also find a variety of subtly different interpretations of the definition of Singularity.