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AI Predicts Manhole Explosions In New York City
reillymj writes "Every so often, a 300-pound manhole cover blows sky high in Gotham, followed sometimes by a column of flame and smoke. (There are a few hundred 'manhole incidents' per year in the city, not all of them this dramatic.) Researchers from Columbia University applied machine learning algorithms to Con Edison's warren of aging electrical wires and sewage access points around Manhattan. As the system learns where dangerous mixtures of sewer gas and decrepit wiring are likely to come in contact, it makes forecasts about trouble spots, including where the next explosion may occur. The team has just completed rankings for manholes in Brooklyn and the Bronx, and plans to return to Manhattan's grid, armed with the most recent inspection and repair data." The research was published in the July issue of Machine Learning.
I thought those manhole popping incidents were due to the heavy microwave emitter vaporizing the water?
Information theory is life. The rest is just the KL divergence.
They should just put them on bungee cords so they shoot into the air and then slam back down in place.
AT&ROFLMAO
I predict massive manhole manhole cover blowouts and big explosions anywhere within a mile radius of the next Michael Bay movie.
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Why not call it 'humanhole incidents', you male chauvinistic pigs??
Oh yeah, Coyote ACME style, the only problem is calculating the event at the precise moment when the roadrunner is right above the manhole cover, or so that it gets right underneath it, I still think it is the Coyote who'll get hurt.
You can't handle the truth.
you spend an oddly large amount of time planning to break into sewers. Personally I put most of my effort into avoiding rivers of shit.
There may be some merit in a hinge, as suggested a bit further down, but how's about also incorporating a large-scale version of the party blower that uncurls with a whistling noise - this would channel the explosive force harmlessly upwards (20ft?) and provide some entertainment at the same time. /yeah, it's Friday!
AT&ROFLMAO
Some wise guy just noticed one day that all known incidents happened near the locations of Taco Bell toilet sewer pipe connections, and so extrapolated the other locations from all known franchise pipe connections.
No Al is a hologram projected from the real person in the future... He actually doesn't predict it himself he uses Ziggy a supercomputer with a personality, to do the actual predictions. He is telling us this so his friend Sam Becket (who looks a lot like Captain Archer from Star Trek Enterprise) can Quantum Leap again hopefully back to his own time...
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
you spend an oddly large amount of time planning to break into sewers. Personally I put most of my effort into avoiding rivers of shit.
Dude's name is drinkypoo. What did you expect?
>> large-scale version of the party blower
I think this would have to make a tremendous farting noise.
but can it predict whether it lands heads or tails?
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...err, foreigners. Don't use words like "manhole" in headlines. My native tongue isn't English, and you don't want to know what kind of associations comes to a foreign mind while reading the word "manhole".
On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place.
You Brits are so soft. I suppose that an average British family can expect their children to survive into adulthood. What a bunch of pampered pussies.
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