Neither is a kit plan but rather many articles discussing the various aspects. There are floor plans in some of the articles. The exact floor plan is less relevant than the basic concept: put a large mass inside an envelope and control how the natural environment heats and cools it in a relatively passive manner.
The answer is yes and math will get you there. Math is the foundation of the other sciences so they to come into play.
I built a house for about $7,000 in materials that does not require artificial heating nor cooling. We live in a cold climate so the heating end of the season is the more challenging one here in the central mountains of northern Vermont.
The same technology can be applied to keep houses cool in hot climates. It is based on thermodynamics, large thermal mass built into the structure of the house, good but not fantastic insulation, no fancy 'smart-home' electronic gadgets. I just works. It floats down into the 40's or 50's F in the winter so put on a sweater or alternatively light a very small fire. 0.75 cord of wood keeps the house toasty warm all through long winter when it my be below -25ÂF for extended periods and some periods to -45ÂF with high winds.
Yet all of this technology is solid state, easy for the average Jane or Joe to build without even a complete high school education. Doing the design does take a lot more skill with math but here are people like myself who do it for fun and freely share their results.
I built my house, called my tiny cottage where I've been living for over a decade with a family of two adults and three kids. It worked. We loved it. As a nice bonus the town assesses the value of the house very low so our real estate taxes are low.
Low cost of construction. Low maintenance costs. Low operating costs (electric, other fuels). Long life (figure 400 to 1,000 year life span for building) Beautiful interior and exterior designs.
We use masonry, stone, concrete generally from local sources These are materials that are beautiful, durable and last hundreds to thousands of years.
After the cottage came our on-farm USDA/State inspected butcher shop or meat processing facility as they call them in the lingo.
People told me we crazy to try build our own on-farm butcher shop. But it's doable. It's been done. And now we've one it once more with a super lower energy efficient design and operation. Our butcher shop is about 40' x 35' x roughly two stores or 25' high.
Currently we have on-farm progressing which is paying our bill and generating additional need to fund the research and construction of the next step. It is very much a boot strap projected. We keep building bigger boots.
It's repeatable. Every family could be building a low cost, low resource, low maintenance, long lived home. This would save trillions of dollars and the associated energy and reduction in pollution.
This week I just got informed that our on-farm Vermont state inspected meat processing facility has passed the USDA head of regional operations Walk Through. Normally they find problems that you must then fix and get rescheduled with them to come back to review the fixes. To our surprise and delight we obtained a score of 100% right! We aced the test. Now we'll be upgrading from doing Vermont State inspection to USDA inspection in about two weeks to a month. Pretty wild!!!
While I find the having to turn the clocks back mildly irksome it is merely because it is an added task. Personally it doesn't make much of any difference to us and we barely notice because we don't do most of our work by the clock but rather by what needs to be done, the season and the light. We farm. We raise pastured livestock and fortunately, by choice, don't milk so we're not tied to someone else's time clock other than when we have to interface with other people but that's what appointments are for and they have nothing to do with DST or standard time.
I can see how it is more stressful for people who are tied to the clock. They would benefit, according to the research, from decoupling both from time clocks and from DST/ST.
I believe you can install High Sierra on a 2011 MacBook Pro 17" - or at least that is what I did and it worked fine. This "PortaBook" has a nice big screen, big hard drive (solid state), 16GBRAM and lots of ports just like you're asking for. I do agree with you that it is unfortunate that Apple doesn't make them anymore. And yes, I got mine on eBay for only a few hundred dollars.
A lot of people do see the purpose of them so they buy the MacBook Airs and use them. Frankly, your comment is very self centered, along the lines of "If you don't want it then nobody should have it." Realize there are people with different needs than you and you're not the center of the Universe, no matter how massive you may be.
There is an easy fix to the "Tech Group's" fallacious "survey" concerns about devices connected to the internet: just don't buy devices connected to the internet that don't need connecting to the internet. My fridge, my stove, my vacuum, my washer, my drier, my water heater, my breaker box, my...
Besides, those are not really what the issue is about. The issue stems from third parties, including users, not being able to repair their cars, trucks and tractors. I certainly do NOT need my tractors connected to the internet. Besides, there is no service here on our farm that the tractor would connect to - no cell, no wide area WiFi, etc. John Deere and other makers are sucking the life out of us by over pricing repairs and they're locking us in by banning us from repairing our own equipment.
The counts of employment and unemployment are flawed because there are a lot of jobs they can't see.
I am self employed. I farm. My job doesn't show up in the rolls of the employed or unemployed because I'm not counted either way.
My son works with me on our farm. Similarly he does not show up as either unemployed or employed.
We still pay taxes. We're not on disability. We're not on welfare. We're not retired. We're not unemployed. We are both part of the dark matter jobs that just don't show in the statistics. There are a LOT of these jobs.
Not everyone wants the skills. Not everyone has the inclination. Not everyone needs it. Making it a requirement is elitism and simply pushes up the cost of education with no meaningful benefit.
Part of the problem is that it really isn't obvious to the casual observer.
For example, I've been going to Cape Cod (Mass) for over 50 years. In that time the sea level has remained the same. It has not changed in any significant, meaningful, observable manner that has any impact on the man on the street, or at the beach.
This lack of observable change makes it hard to appreciate.
There is another problem and that is the hoopla about global warming distracts from a far more imminent and disastrous change that is going on: toxic pollution. All the pollutants that are being dumped into the environment are doing far more damage than the global warming will do. This is not to waylay global warming concerns, but this is another issue that is immediately observable and far more serious. If the effort that went into publicizing global warming concerns went instead into the issues of pollution we might get more effect which would coincidentally also help to reduce global warming.
I am deep into the genetics of my pigs, that is to say I do very hard selective breeding between my nine lines of genetics in order to produce the best pigs for our market niche that will thrive in the outdoors (we pasture pigs) in our climate (USDA Zone 3 northern Vermont mountains) on our pig diet (80%DMI pasture, 7%DMI dairy (primarily whey), 2%DMI spent barley from a local brew pub, 1%DMI eggs from our pastured hens, 1% dated bread (great treat for pigs) plus apples, pears, sunflowers and other things we grow.)
Genetics make a HUGE difference in the pigs. Pigs with poor genetics do not perform as well - all on the same diet. I have selectively bred for pigs that thrive on our climate, diet and management. Looking over my decades of selective breeding of our herds I can clearly see the improvement in the animals and it is genetic, not environment.
Gut biome also makes a difference - yogurt helps, piglets eating their mother's manure helps to inoculate their guts with the right bacteria.
What I've done in pigs I suspect also applies very strongly to humans. Of course, with the pigs I'm aiming to put on weight while with humans we're looking to not put on (too much) weight. But actually you see it is closer than you might think because I do not want fat pigs. I want good muscling with marbling and about 2 cm to 3 cm of fat cap on the back.
So for a human lets use me as an example. I eat a high meat, high cholesterol and high fat diet. I eat a lot more than the daily recommended calories - but then I'm not an office worker sitting on my butt. But here's the interesting part, I have excellent blood chemistry even with that diet. Today I happen to be at the doctor's office for my annual physical today and got my blood labs done. The doctor was very pleased. He said keep doing what ever it is I do because it works.
What do I do, besides eating meat for two to three meals a day, seven days a week? Well, I get a lot of varied exercise every day. I farm. I do construction. I live on the side of a mountain. I built and operate my own on-farm USDA/State inspectable butcher shop. That means most days are moderate exercise for me - what most people would consider pretty heavy exercise for six to ten hours a day. Two to three days a week we do nine to ten hours a day of very heavy exercise - marathon butchery sessions. I figure I lift about 16,000 to 35,000 lbs in reps of 1 to 200 lbs each those days.
My sons and daughter are like me and so is their mother although she carries a little bit of extra weight - probably it is from not getting as much exercise.
We eat carbohydrates and sugars in moderation. A little ice cream or cake once in a while. A little bread once in a while. But neither is a big part of our diet.
Mostly we drink mint tea, hot chocolate and milk. Not much in the way of sodas although occasional, maybe five or ten a year. Little to no alcohol other than in cooking. (Alcohol gives a lot of calories which is why I mention it here.)
Genetics may be a partial factor: my father and one of my brothers, who looks like my father, have high cholesterol but are trim. My other siblings, my mother and I all have low cholesterol. My mother is over weight, the rest of us are not. I'm the most physically active of all of us and I'm the heaviest - high muscle and bone density, trim with narrow waist, no inch to pinch.
This is a very small data set but it does suggest a genetic component.
I suspect that the exercise is the key component - we burn a lot of calories - but my siblings are all trim and they don't get nearly as much exercise. My guess is that the other big issue is genetics, contrary to the headline on this article.
So back to the original research, my guess is they just don't understand the genetic well enough yet to apply them to dietary recommendations. With more research and time that will come. After all, look at how well we understand animal diets and genetics.
AI is like a Hammer. Before AI, er, I mean hammers, we didn't have nails. Once we had hammers all the world looked like a nail. Later came screw drivers and WOW! power screw drivers. Now we use screws where once we used nails, before that pegs and before that vines to bind. Can you envision what AI will let us do? Maybe you have some limited ideas. But before nails and screws people didn't foresee all the things we do with them. Now they're standard tools of the trade. Before screwdrivers and hammers we didn't have screwdriver and hammer operators. Nobody envisioned the job but the construction industry grew to employ millions. And we're not even talking rivets yet... Rivets led to sky scrapers, iron ships, planes, space ships and so much more and then there is welding... AI is like the hammer, AI is like the screwdriver. AI is a game changer that will let us do something new, as well as many old things in totally better ways. You can't even imagine it because it's outside our ken, for now.
AI is like a Hammer. Before AI, er, I mean hammers, we didn't have nails. Once we had hammers all the world looked like a nail. Later came screw drivers and WOW! power screw drivers. Now we use screws where once we used nails, before that pegs and before that vines to bind. Can you envision what AI will let us do? Maybe you have some limited ideas. But before nails and screws people didn't foresee all the things we do with them. Now they're standard tools of the trade. Before screwdrivers and hammers we didn't have screwdriver and hammer operators. Nobody envisioned the job but the construction industry grew to employ millions. And we're not even talking rivets yet... Rivets led to sky scrapers, iron ships, planes, space ships and so much more and then there is welding... AI is like the hammer, AI is like the screwdriver. AI is a game changer that will let us do something new, as well as many old things in totally better ways. You can't even imagine it because it's outside our ken, for now.
This is not good enough. Apple needs to issue updates for all the older affected OSs too. Not all hardware can run the new OSs. Not everyone wants the new OSs. Not all legacy software works with the old OSs. The result is there are a lot of older devices out there that need continued legacy support. The cost of fixing the older OSs is trivial. Apple should do it.
The odd thing about subsidizing farming is that it isn't necessary. I farm successfully without subsidies. I did not inherit my farm, I bought land and I built it up from scratch. I vertically integrated so I produce most of my own feed, my own replacement livestock and have my own on-farm meat processing facility (a.k.a. a butcher shop) and deliver direct to customers both wholesale and retail. If I can do it without subsidies then I would argue the subsidies are not needed, with natural intelligence or AI. Of course, maybe I'm just an early AI that beat the system... I suppose that's an option.:)
Slashdot Mirror
See this for our house:
http://sugarmtnfarm.com/cottag...
and this for the butcher shop:
http://sugarmtnfarm.com/butche...
Neither is a kit plan but rather many articles discussing the various aspects. There are floor plans in some of the articles. The exact floor plan is less relevant than the basic concept: put a large mass inside an envelope and control how the natural environment heats and cools it in a relatively passive manner.
The answer is yes and math will get you there.
Math is the foundation of the other sciences so they to come into play.
I built a house for about $7,000 in materials that does not require artificial heating nor cooling. We live in a cold climate so the heating end of the season is the more challenging one here in the central mountains of northern Vermont.
The same technology can be applied to keep houses cool in hot climates. It is based on thermodynamics, large thermal mass built into the structure of the house, good but not fantastic insulation, no fancy 'smart-home' electronic gadgets. I just works. It floats down into the 40's or 50's F in the winter so put on a sweater or alternatively light a very small fire. 0.75 cord of wood keeps the house toasty warm all through long winter when it my be below -25ÂF for extended periods and some periods to -45ÂF with high winds.
Yet all of this technology is solid state, easy for the average Jane or Joe to build without even a complete high school education. Doing the design does take a lot more skill with math but here are people like myself who do it for fun and freely share their results.
I built my house, called my tiny cottage where I've been living for over a decade with a family of two adults and three kids. It worked. We loved it. As a nice bonus the town assesses the value of the house very low so our real estate taxes are low.
Low cost of construction.
Low maintenance costs.
Low operating costs (electric, other fuels).
Long life (figure 400 to 1,000 year life span for building)
Beautiful interior and exterior designs.
We use masonry, stone, concrete generally from local sources These are materials that are beautiful, durable and last hundreds to thousands of years.
After the cottage came our on-farm USDA/State inspected butcher shop or meat processing facility as they call them in the lingo.
People told me we crazy to try build our own on-farm butcher shop. But it's doable. It's been done. And now we've one it once more with a super lower energy efficient design and operation. Our butcher shop is about 40' x 35' x roughly two stores or 25' high.
Currently we have on-farm progressing which is paying our bill and generating additional need to fund the research and construction of the next step. It is very much a boot strap projected. We keep building bigger boots.
It's repeatable. Every family could be building a low cost, low resource, low maintenance, long lived home. This would save trillions of dollars and the associated energy and reduction in pollution.
This week I just got informed that our on-farm Vermont state inspected meat processing facility has passed the USDA head of regional operations Walk Through. Normally they find problems that you must then fix and get rescheduled with them to come back to review the fixes. To our surprise and delight we obtained a score of 100% right! We aced the test. Now we'll be upgrading from doing Vermont State inspection to USDA inspection in about two weeks to a month. Pretty wild!!!
We got there with perseverance and math.
While I find the having to turn the clocks back mildly irksome it is merely because it is an added task. Personally it doesn't make much of any difference to us and we barely notice because we don't do most of our work by the clock but rather by what needs to be done, the season and the light. We farm. We raise pastured livestock and fortunately, by choice, don't milk so we're not tied to someone else's time clock other than when we have to interface with other people but that's what appointments are for and they have nothing to do with DST or standard time.
I can see how it is more stressful for people who are tied to the clock. They would benefit, according to the research, from decoupling both from time clocks and from DST/ST.
If you don't like the rumors then set your filters to ignore them.
I believe you can install High Sierra on a 2011 MacBook Pro 17" - or at least that is what I did and it worked fine. This "PortaBook" has a nice big screen, big hard drive (solid state), 16GBRAM and lots of ports just like you're asking for. I do agree with you that it is unfortunate that Apple doesn't make them anymore. And yes, I got mine on eBay for only a few hundred dollars.
A lot of people do see the purpose of them so they buy the MacBook Airs and use them. Frankly, your comment is very self centered, along the lines of "If you don't want it then nobody should have it." Realize there are people with different needs than you and you're not the center of the Universe, no matter how massive you may be.
There is an easy fix to the "Tech Group's" fallacious "survey" concerns about devices connected to the internet: just don't buy devices connected to the internet that don't need connecting to the internet. My fridge, my stove, my vacuum, my washer, my drier, my water heater, my breaker box, my...
Besides, those are not really what the issue is about. The issue stems from third parties, including users, not being able to repair their cars, trucks and tractors. I certainly do NOT need my tractors connected to the internet. Besides, there is no service here on our farm that the tractor would connect to - no cell, no wide area WiFi, etc. John Deere and other makers are sucking the life out of us by over pricing repairs and they're locking us in by banning us from repairing our own equipment.
Hey! Don't go trying to glam onto the glory of other people's credit snatching! :)
The counts of employment and unemployment are flawed because there are a lot of jobs they can't see.
I am self employed. I farm. My job doesn't show up in the rolls of the employed or unemployed because I'm not counted either way.
My son works with me on our farm. Similarly he does not show up as either unemployed or employed.
We still pay taxes. We're not on disability. We're not on welfare. We're not retired. We're not unemployed. We are both part of the dark matter jobs that just don't show in the statistics. There are a LOT of these jobs.
Since the teleportation booths were invented I thought everyone had abandoned using trains, planes and cars. Huh...!
Not everyone wants the skills.
Not everyone has the inclination.
Not everyone needs it.
Making it a requirement is elitism and simply pushes up the cost of education with no meaningful benefit.
Aye, the problem is don't do it with image recognition but instead measure distance to objects - LIDAR. It works better.
Part of the problem is that it really isn't obvious to the casual observer.
For example, I've been going to Cape Cod (Mass) for over 50 years. In that time the sea level has remained the same. It has not changed in any significant, meaningful, observable manner that has any impact on the man on the street, or at the beach.
This lack of observable change makes it hard to appreciate.
There is another problem and that is the hoopla about global warming distracts from a far more imminent and disastrous change that is going on: toxic pollution. All the pollutants that are being dumped into the environment are doing far more damage than the global warming will do. This is not to waylay global warming concerns, but this is another issue that is immediately observable and far more serious. If the effort that went into publicizing global warming concerns went instead into the issues of pollution we might get more effect which would coincidentally also help to reduce global warming.
If we're headed for self-driving cars this seemingly trivial problem should be closer to 100% not 78%.
There is no need for your foul language.
I'm talking about GAI rather than the specific AI of say map routing. Think about it a little bit...
The only defense against bad guys with AI is good guys with AI first.
Whom ever gets to generalized AI first wins. There is no second place in this race.
The writers of the report are missing this key point and no amount of laws, regulations or policy making is going to save them.
The AI race is on. First one over the finish line wins all. Hamstringing your own team guarantees you lose.
"Nobody's buying the iPhone X."
Nobody? Just 30,000,000 nobodies according to Fortune Magazine's latest data:
http://fortune.com/2018/01/23/...
I guess you're in your own private little bubble where the real world doesn't intrude.
You missed the point. But being that you are an AC I suppose that is to be expected.
I raise pigs.
I raise a lot of pigs.
I raise thousands of pigs out on pasture.
I am deep into the genetics of my pigs, that is to say I do very hard selective breeding between my nine lines of genetics in order to produce the best pigs for our market niche that will thrive in the outdoors (we pasture pigs) in our climate (USDA Zone 3 northern Vermont mountains) on our pig diet (80%DMI pasture, 7%DMI dairy (primarily whey), 2%DMI spent barley from a local brew pub, 1%DMI eggs from our pastured hens, 1% dated bread (great treat for pigs) plus apples, pears, sunflowers and other things we grow.)
Genetics make a HUGE difference in the pigs. Pigs with poor genetics do not perform as well - all on the same diet. I have selectively bred for pigs that thrive on our climate, diet and management. Looking over my decades of selective breeding of our herds I can clearly see the improvement in the animals and it is genetic, not environment.
Gut biome also makes a difference - yogurt helps, piglets eating their mother's manure helps to inoculate their guts with the right bacteria.
What I've done in pigs I suspect also applies very strongly to humans. Of course, with the pigs I'm aiming to put on weight while with humans we're looking to not put on (too much) weight. But actually you see it is closer than you might think because I do not want fat pigs. I want good muscling with marbling and about 2 cm to 3 cm of fat cap on the back.
So for a human lets use me as an example. I eat a high meat, high cholesterol and high fat diet. I eat a lot more than the daily recommended calories - but then I'm not an office worker sitting on my butt. But here's the interesting part, I have excellent blood chemistry even with that diet. Today I happen to be at the doctor's office for my annual physical today and got my blood labs done. The doctor was very pleased. He said keep doing what ever it is I do because it works.
What do I do, besides eating meat for two to three meals a day, seven days a week? Well, I get a lot of varied exercise every day. I farm. I do construction. I live on the side of a mountain. I built and operate my own on-farm USDA/State inspectable butcher shop. That means most days are moderate exercise for me - what most people would consider pretty heavy exercise for six to ten hours a day. Two to three days a week we do nine to ten hours a day of very heavy exercise - marathon butchery sessions. I figure I lift about 16,000 to 35,000 lbs in reps of 1 to 200 lbs each those days.
My sons and daughter are like me and so is their mother although she carries a little bit of extra weight - probably it is from not getting as much exercise.
We eat carbohydrates and sugars in moderation. A little ice cream or cake once in a while. A little bread once in a while. But neither is a big part of our diet.
Mostly we drink mint tea, hot chocolate and milk. Not much in the way of sodas although occasional, maybe five or ten a year. Little to no alcohol other than in cooking. (Alcohol gives a lot of calories which is why I mention it here.)
Genetics may be a partial factor: my father and one of my brothers, who looks like my father, have high cholesterol but are trim. My other siblings, my mother and I all have low cholesterol. My mother is over weight, the rest of us are not. I'm the most physically active of all of us and I'm the heaviest - high muscle and bone density, trim with narrow waist, no inch to pinch.
This is a very small data set but it does suggest a genetic component.
I suspect that the exercise is the key component - we burn a lot of calories - but my siblings are all trim and they don't get nearly as much exercise. My guess is that the other big issue is genetics, contrary to the headline on this article.
So back to the original research, my guess is they just don't understand the genetic well enough yet to apply them to dietary recommendations. With more research and time that will come. After all, look at how well we understand animal diets and genetics.
AI is like a Hammer.
Before AI, er, I mean hammers, we didn't have nails.
Once we had hammers all the world looked like a nail.
Later came screw drivers and WOW! power screw drivers.
Now we use screws where once we used nails, before that pegs and before that vines to bind.
Can you envision what AI will let us do?
Maybe you have some limited ideas.
But before nails and screws people didn't foresee all the things we do with them.
Now they're standard tools of the trade.
Before screwdrivers and hammers we didn't have screwdriver and hammer operators.
Nobody envisioned the job but the construction industry grew to employ millions.
And we're not even talking rivets yet...
Rivets led to sky scrapers, iron ships, planes, space ships and so much more and then there is welding...
AI is like the hammer,
AI is like the screwdriver.
AI is a game changer that will let us do something new,
as well as many old things in totally better ways.
You can't even imagine it because it's outside our ken, for now.
AI is like a Hammer.
Before AI, er, I mean hammers, we didn't have nails.
Once we had hammers all the world looked like a nail.
Later came screw drivers and WOW! power screw drivers.
Now we use screws where once we used nails, before that pegs and before that vines to bind.
Can you envision what AI will let us do?
Maybe you have some limited ideas.
But before nails and screws people didn't foresee all the things we do with them.
Now they're standard tools of the trade.
Before screwdrivers and hammers we didn't have screwdriver and hammer operators.
Nobody envisioned the job but the construction industry grew to employ millions.
And we're not even talking rivets yet...
Rivets led to sky scrapers, iron ships, planes, space ships and so much more and then there is welding...
AI is like the hammer,
AI is like the screwdriver.
AI is a game changer that will let us do something new,
as well as many old things in totally better ways.
You can't even imagine it because it's outside our ken, for now.
"$6 billion every year
That's a very nice idle profit rate... Especially in a time when other computer companies saw sinking profits or even losses.
This is not good enough. Apple needs to issue updates for all the older affected OSs too. Not all hardware can run the new OSs. Not everyone wants the new OSs. Not all legacy software works with the old OSs. The result is there are a lot of older devices out there that need continued legacy support. The cost of fixing the older OSs is trivial. Apple should do it.
"billions of farm subsidies"
The odd thing about subsidizing farming is that it isn't necessary. I farm successfully without subsidies. I did not inherit my farm, I bought land and I built it up from scratch. I vertically integrated so I produce most of my own feed, my own replacement livestock and have my own on-farm meat processing facility (a.k.a. a butcher shop) and deliver direct to customers both wholesale and retail. If I can do it without subsidies then I would argue the subsidies are not needed, with natural intelligence or AI. Of course, maybe I'm just an early AI that beat the system... I suppose that's an option. :)
Licensing also benefits bureaucrats and enforcement agencies as well as providing fees to boost the budgets of government.
If you can't tax it, license it to death.