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by rapjr9 3y ago
Ah, so the regulators should share in the punishment when wrong doing is found, not just the CEO's.
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I agree, it's quite accurate from what I've seen in 20 years of working in computer science. It also explains why there are no big breakthroughs today like in the old days of science. People can't decide their path of study
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by rapjr9 3y ago
People can learn. So I've often wondered if the Peter Principle is more of a recognition that people stop learning as they get older. Seems like the data could fit either scenario. People rise until their job requires more skills th
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by rapjr9 3y ago
https://www.science.org/content/article/bird-flu-discovered-... Sounds like there is some concern.
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by rapjr9 3y ago
Is the LEO-PNT part of this funding really going to make indoor localization a reality? That seems like a big deal.
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by rapjr9 3y ago
I find a few issues with the study paper: The papers results section says: Results Among the 81 participants with AHIs, the mean (SD) age was 42 (9) years and 49% were female; among the 48 control participants, the mean (SD) age was 43 (11)
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by rapjr9 3y ago
While remote monitoring can be useful, be careful about starting to rely on it more and more. It can't monitor everything (for example: skin condition, cuts and bruises, periodic hallucinations and confusion, depression, etc.) so don&
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by rapjr9 3y ago
Yes, though ocean ships are not the only source of sulfer (and even low sulfer fuels have some sulfer.) But the duration would be short, we've already been doing it for decades, and the data could be invaluable. Regardless of the pol
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by rapjr9 3y ago
Seems like there is a natural experiment here that could be easily tried. Let the ocean going ships switch back to the high sulfer fuel for a while and see what happens to the ocean temperature. Even if it proves the effect is small it wo
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by rapjr9 3y ago
How about a shield against bugs? Maybe an electrostatic charge? Every homeowner would buy one.
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by rapjr9 3y ago
"in a decade or so"? Where did they find this oracle of future inventions? Can they predict the stock markets as well? I think that if you are predicting scientific inventions a decade out you are probably guessing. It's
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Might be useful for evacuating the wounded from the front lines.
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by rapjr9 3y ago
Seems like the solution here should be to re-review all those studies, and for the ones found lacking ask the authors to address those deficiencies or withdraw the papers. Once that's been done then a meta-analysis can be done to find
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by rapjr9 3y ago
Seems likely this will open up Florida to lawsuits down the road.
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by rapjr9 3y ago
Take a look at these pictures: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cluttered+old+persons+home&atb=v31... I was thinking that people who live in an environment like this are most in need of a robot to help them.
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by rapjr9 3y ago
While permitting and long delays are a problem, I think the biggest argument is over who pays for the new lines, whether they are separate lines or reconductored lines. The utilities want the solar and wind farm owners to pay, the farm own
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by rapjr9 3y ago
Robots like this will have a small market until they can handle obstacles. The cat toy that the cat left in the middle of the floor, the papers that an open window blew off the table, the toys the kids left scattered about, the pencil that
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by rapjr9 3y ago
From the article: "And I think the only way to move forward in this is to galvanize it as one voice, not only in Hollywood and in this industry, but also in Congress." Assume AI does pan out and widespread change is soon upon us,
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by rapjr9 3y ago
The solution used by the aircraft industry is to document, investigate, and mitigate to build a common defense against failures. This is the way operating systems like SunOS were developed and hardened. That ended with the move to commodi
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by rapjr9 3y ago
One thing that has held back a lot of computer automation is context. For example, an app can know your geographic location, it can know your activity level, it can know what messages you send and receive, but it doesn't know you, it
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by rapjr9 3y ago
This looks like it would be great for tracking Activities of Daily Living (ADL) for seniors. With a little machine learning it would be possible to recognize many activities automatically. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by rapjr9 3y ago
Batteries are not expensive. If the battery was easily replaceable and the phone could detect a defective battery (perhaps a sensor to detect the start of swelling?) then eeking the most life possible out of the battery would be something
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by rapjr9 3y ago
When I read articles like this I can't help but think that if they were probing apples with a hammer, using stronger and stronger hammer blows, they would conclude that apples are flat and mushy. With stronger hammer blows they'd
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by rapjr9 3y ago
I love this idea. In the early days of computing computers were claimed to always be deterministic. Give it the same inputs and you get the same outputs. Little by little that disappeared, with interrupts, with multithreading, with human
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by rapjr9 3y ago
An article about small heat pumps and why they aren't very available yet in the US, it lists the few current models: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/heat-pumps/renters-you-... Ones sold in the US won&#x2
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The things that stop me from buying a Remarkable or any similar products are: * Too expensive. I want to have one everywhere in my house, all wirelessly connected so I can just pick one up and scribble a note anywhere. I may carry one als
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by rapjr9 3y ago
Friend of mine found another one: https://www.acwholesalers.com/Amana-AH093G35AX/p100206.html?... Expensive, but it does seem to be a true heat pump. Looked at several stores that sell it and they usually have just on
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by rapjr9 3y ago
That unit has been discontinued, GE doesn't sell it direct and where it shows up on a few other sites it's listed as "discontinued" or "not available": https://www.ajmadison.com/cgi-bin/ajm
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by rapjr9 3y ago
The trucks can tow, the owner just can't predict if they'll need to charge during the day. It does sound like the battery is too small to match the work day though, which is a design flaw.
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Or you could think of it in business terms, dealers want to optimize profit. So they don't conspire together, but they all do the same thing anyway. One of the sources for the article is a national dealers association, which in some

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