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.
For any nonnegative integer n, the set of all n-by-n unitary matrices with matrix multiplication forms a group, called the unitary group U(n). Any square matrix with unit Euclidean norm is the average of two unitary matrices.