Most of what a devops person does is in fact development but it is of the non value adding variety. Basically a devops person spends the vast majority of their time configuring common off the shelf software, scripting this or that, etc.
A singular matrix is a matrix which has no inverse because its determinant is zero. If you recall, the inverse of a matrix is. 1/ ad-bc multiplied by: [ d -b ] [-c a ] If ad-bc = 0, then the inverse matrix would not exist because 1/0 is undefined, and hence it would be a singular matrix. E.g.
What is SVD(singular value decomposition) SVD can be understood from a geometric sense for square matrices as a transformation on a vector. Consider a square n x n matrix M multiplying a vector v to produce an output vector w: w = M*v The singular value decomposition M is the product of three matrices M=U*S*V, so w=U*S*V*v. U and V are orthonormal matrices.