B is a for-profit company in a capitalist economy. What do you expect? You need to question as a society how did you let B be the only player in the field? what happened to competition within the country? when someone claims B is greedy; no everyone in the society is greedy (likely your 401k is invested in B). You take shortcuts. and at times you pay the cost..collateral damage.
If with good software you can reuse 80% plus of your previous design, why wouldn't you do it?
MCAS was not just assisting, it was flying. The first critical flaw was in the naming of the system. It's not augmentation. Once you name it wrong, you sneakily got away with doing things like using single sensor - not letting pilot know of its working / how to disable it.
this fix is just a software fix and no hardware/maintenance fix is needed. So lot less expensive.
They can detect if a sensor is malfunctioning - atleast give a probablity. The recent crashes happened 'coz the sensor was constantly giving a high value.. likely say a high stuck value like 50 degrees. With some past values/ML/AI etc you can reasonably guess the instrument is stuck/malfunctioning. [because even after doing lot of trimming, why it still shows the same 50 degree]. The point is as a machine and something capable of analyzing lot of data in short time, it should provide as much insight to the pilot. Many times the pilot has to guess if the instrument is wrong and they do it wrongly like in the air france 447 - the speed sensor was working fine, just the pilot forgot he is holding the aoa too steep.
When only 1 in a 10k/100k gets admission, what's the point in someone working "hard"? the point is you can't just work and succeed there. The thing/passion must be inside you - ie you live and breathe every second for that skill/domain/subject - else you are not going to be the one. Such a person will not get distracted by PUBG or anything else or need a "parent" to guide him/her.
GPS can't give you *relative* air speed. eg if you are in a tail-wind jet stream of 200 mph, just to get the lift you need 200 mph more than normal speed needed.
Surely in calm weather, GPS could aid - a secondary indicator when your instruments malfunction. I guess pilots ask the air-traffic-controller (if one is within reach) about their speed - which the atc gets thru' radar.
I believe an employee (pilot here) won't be allowed to share on-job details on a public or outside company channels. Because it may affect the reputation of the company and its partners [eg Lion Air may look bad if it bought a bad plane; and boeing looks bad for engineering a bad plane / not requiring better pilot training]. And all these may affect the corporate's bottom line.
I believe they don't use GPS for speed calculation. While it may not solve the need to measure relative air speed (which is used in the lift computation), it still is a good backup. I think in any crashes like the air france 447, the pilots thought the plane is moving too fast and did not increase power - a gps based speedometer would've clearly shown the real speed is not that much. I wonder why they don't use gps even as a secondary speed sensor.
Even those 6-9 tabs, allow only reputed websites to stay (may be wikipedia/google); so not some poor/maliciously written webpage can do background hogging of cpu/disk/ram.
Best is to limit the number of open tabs/windows by closing them. If you didn't use it in the last say 1 hour or say 4 hours, just close it. The content is anyway available in the remote server (likely in its memory). The browser code hits lot of algorithmic complexity issues when too many tabs are open; things like shared locks waiting etc - grinding CPU to halt, hitting too much disk rotations; Also remote webserver's adware/malware can be hitting the cpu/disk/ram - so just close the tab. And these unnecessary activities can also trash the cpu cache reducing performance.
It's in the DNA of a human mind to see and enjoy a fellow human's suffering. You feel more rush when u see and know someone else is suffering more than you. So the society as a group will not want UBI since it eliminates some of these fun of the sadists.
The poor are poor because they are ignorant/stupid. And even if you show them how to climb out of the hole, they will close their eyes/ears n say 'lalalaalllaa' and may even attack you, who has come to help them.
So the way things are, it's the way it will be. And I guess there is nothing wrong in it as well.
I believe in currencies, say someone stole a bag of say $100 bills and if the bank/govt knows the sequence numbers, it can theoretically invalidate those numbers. I think a crypto-currency will have some form of identifier/sequence-number that you could mark it as dead and remove it from circulation. Not an expert on how crypto currency works but if it doesn't have this capability, I guess it's a serious design flaw. As anyone can steal and run-away and the majority can't do anything but just look.
Or a very profound question. Say I give you a boon that in two hours of sleep you will feel completely refreshed. So you have extra 6 hours per day than an average human. What are you going to do with it? watch more netflix/youtube, practice on your art/music? and do what? does that aid in your purpose? and what is your purpose? If you say I want to reach this goal xyz, I will ask why xyz? the point is a human feels the most happiness/bliss in deep-sleep and not while in the waking state. 'coz at that time, the misery maker, mind is non existent. So likely the conclusion is it doesn't matter if you have more hours or less hours of wakefulness. Its contribution is kinda nil.
Likely your circadian clock is totally out of sync with the sun; if you are in low lattitude, it's best to follow the sun. It takes a few days, say 21 days to get it right but with practice you can do it. That is once sun is down, don't give artificial blue light stimulus to your eyes; and stay in darkness for like 7 to 9 hours just before sunrise. And go out in morning and let the sunlight (it's unique spectrum...visible light wavelengths) to hit ur retina.. doing for a week or so, your body will adjust the internal circadian clock - how we mammals were doing for 100s of millions of years before Edison came along and screwed the darkness.
During the time you are waiting for sleep to arrive. those hour or two.. what were you doing? if no visual stimulus (ie visual cortex is off -- no screen/cell phone, blue light etc), I guess just lying n staring at darkness is as good as sleeping for giving rest to your brain. The point is do you feel refreshed the next day - if it's similar to having 8 hours sleep, then it's fine. I think just waiting 2 hours in darkness and having 6 hours sleep shd be almost same as having 8 hours sleep. The deeper issue is if you feel fine and refreshed, then things are good. I've seen animals like cows in deep night, have their eyes open and say chewing (masticating?) - so the mammalian brain may only need visual cortex off (biggest real estate n consume of power) and not awareness/attention/thinking turned off. [auditory cortex can be on too.. ie you can engage in small talks/ listening to music or singing]
Once I needed the lyrics of a song (in lang foo). Internet search I could find only a jpeg image (likely a scan from a physical song book). I need to edit it. I found a online OCR which did a pretty good job, reducing my work by say 90% or more. Yes there were some errors but the time/effort I saved is significant. So OCR has its place and with AI/ML abilities increasing, they get better with time.
Isn't typing a 100x10 grid of numbers harder than checking if they are the same?
The tool aims at helping you not eliminating the human altogether (kinda the driver assists in self-driving cars, not fully autonomous).
Also the lesser work can be done by a less skilled person (say an intern)
This reasoning was valid at the time of external combusion engine (200 years ago?) invention; and still there is economic upward mobility. The reason is the small group which owns (say 1%) have internal fights/competition/ego-clashes. So there will always be new jobs (like who sends the first dog to mars, say.. it's me with $100B worth or that guy with $99.9B worth). So this rotating ladder of networth keeps churning and ppl go up n those in up come down (say due to substance abuse). So chill n enjoy the show.
Do you know what the flight instruments show as speed? Since the pitot tube uses airflow to measure speed, I assume it should only measure the relative speed which shd be say mid-500s and not the absolute (ground speed) which is 715 mph. I guess lot of stall crashes are due to wrong relative speed measurement (hence a gps solution may not help)
But why do they let it on youtube? Google could blend the ad seemlessly into the video. Not sure when they will do it; until then we can enjoy youtube ad free with ad-blocker. I"m sure even firefox or other software can't solve that problem that easily.
Content creation. From brain to your fingers/limbs/movable body parts to convey to machine. How can using one finger (touching/dragging) more efficient than 10? (touch typing..9 if not left thumb); Also the efficiency of mouse usage is far ahead than sliding fingers? Just because tech allowed a touch-sensitive interface, it's not the efficient one.
In any case, when you have ten engines to do a job, why use only one or two? I'm sure it also leads to repeated stress injury as the effort is not spread out.
another advantage of HLL/v-HLL ( high level language like C; very hll like python) is feature-velocity. If your team is using 10 year old system (hw/ sw), it's hard to compete with a nimble competitor who uses the latest tech and reaps the benefit of 10 year tech growth.
When you want to be ahead of the rest, you need to use human capital/attention/time with utmost care and delegate as much work to machines/sw/hw.
one of the reasons a system is run 10 years on same hw or sw is because its hard to evolve it; it's so tied down to various dependencies that you can't use latest cheaper n more powerful hardware. In other words, you can't be fast; that may be ok for some, but for places where u want to be running ahead, you can't afford to be slowed down by inferior processes.
It's like saying a business is happy using fax machines to communicate because it thinks using internet is unnecessary as the fax machine seems to do the work fine at reasonable cost for last 10 years. Unless you embrace a new/better process you won't know what you are missing.
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How is snail mail different than asking me to walk to the IRS building (in DC?) ?
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B is a for-profit company in a capitalist economy. What do you expect? You need to question as a society how did you let B be the only player in the field? what happened to competition within the country? when someone claims B is greedy; no everyone in the society is greedy (likely your 401k is invested in B). You take shortcuts. and at times you pay the cost..collateral damage.
If with good software you can reuse 80% plus of your previous design, why wouldn't you do it?
MCAS was not just assisting, it was flying. The first critical flaw was in the naming of the system. It's not augmentation. Once you name it wrong, you sneakily got away with doing things like using single sensor - not letting pilot know of its working / how to disable it.
this fix is just a software fix and no hardware/maintenance fix is needed. So lot less expensive.
They can detect if a sensor is malfunctioning - atleast give a probablity. The recent crashes happened 'coz the sensor was constantly giving a high value.. likely say a high stuck value like 50 degrees. With some past values/ML/AI etc you can reasonably guess the instrument is stuck/malfunctioning. [because even after doing lot of trimming, why it still shows the same 50 degree]. The point is as a machine and something capable of analyzing lot of data in short time, it should provide as much insight to the pilot. Many times the pilot has to guess if the instrument is wrong and they do it wrongly like in the air france 447 - the speed sensor was working fine, just the pilot forgot he is holding the aoa too steep.
what's wrong with dis-service to the stupid? Oh you don't want them to learn and grow up?
When only 1 in a 10k/100k gets admission, what's the point in someone working "hard"? the point is you can't just work and succeed there. The thing/passion must be inside you - ie you live and breathe every second for that skill/domain/subject - else you are not going to be the one. Such a person will not get distracted by PUBG or anything else or need a "parent" to guide him/her.
GPS can't give you *relative* air speed. eg if you are in a tail-wind jet stream of 200 mph, just to get the lift you need 200 mph more than normal speed needed. Surely in calm weather, GPS could aid - a secondary indicator when your instruments malfunction. I guess pilots ask the air-traffic-controller (if one is within reach) about their speed - which the atc gets thru' radar.
may be the human rnn had 500 million years of tinkering both software and hardware?
I believe an employee (pilot here) won't be allowed to share on-job details on a public or outside company channels. Because it may affect the reputation of the company and its partners [eg Lion Air may look bad if it bought a bad plane; and boeing looks bad for engineering a bad plane / not requiring better pilot training]. And all these may affect the corporate's bottom line.
I believe they don't use GPS for speed calculation. While it may not solve the need to measure relative air speed (which is used in the lift computation), it still is a good backup. I think in any crashes like the air france 447, the pilots thought the plane is moving too fast and did not increase power - a gps based speedometer would've clearly shown the real speed is not that much. I wonder why they don't use gps even as a secondary speed sensor.
Even those 6-9 tabs, allow only reputed websites to stay (may be wikipedia/google); so not some poor/maliciously written webpage can do background hogging of cpu/disk/ram.
Best is to limit the number of open tabs/windows by closing them. If you didn't use it in the last say 1 hour or say 4 hours, just close it. The content is anyway available in the remote server (likely in its memory). The browser code hits lot of algorithmic complexity issues when too many tabs are open; things like shared locks waiting etc - grinding CPU to halt, hitting too much disk rotations; Also remote webserver's adware/malware can be hitting the cpu/disk/ram - so just close the tab. And these unnecessary activities can also trash the cpu cache reducing performance.
It's in the DNA of a human mind to see and enjoy a fellow human's suffering. You feel more rush when u see and know someone else is suffering more than you. So the society as a group will not want UBI since it eliminates some of these fun of the sadists.
The poor are poor because they are ignorant/stupid. And even if you show them how to climb out of the hole, they will close their eyes/ears n say 'lalalaalllaa' and may even attack you, who has come to help them.
So the way things are, it's the way it will be. And I guess there is nothing wrong in it as well.
I believe in currencies, say someone stole a bag of say $100 bills and if the bank/govt knows the sequence numbers, it can theoretically invalidate those numbers. I think a crypto-currency will have some form of identifier/sequence-number that you could mark it as dead and remove it from circulation. Not an expert on how crypto currency works but if it doesn't have this capability, I guess it's a serious design flaw. As anyone can steal and run-away and the majority can't do anything but just look.
Or a very profound question. Say I give you a boon that in two hours of sleep you will feel completely refreshed. So you have extra 6 hours per day than an average human. What are you going to do with it? watch more netflix/youtube, practice on your art/music? and do what? does that aid in your purpose? and what is your purpose? If you say I want to reach this goal xyz, I will ask why xyz? the point is a human feels the most happiness/bliss in deep-sleep and not while in the waking state. 'coz at that time, the misery maker, mind is non existent. So likely the conclusion is it doesn't matter if you have more hours or less hours of wakefulness. Its contribution is kinda nil.
Likely your circadian clock is totally out of sync with the sun; if you are in low lattitude, it's best to follow the sun. It takes a few days, say 21 days to get it right but with practice you can do it. That is once sun is down, don't give artificial blue light stimulus to your eyes; and stay in darkness for like 7 to 9 hours just before sunrise. And go out in morning and let the sunlight (it's unique spectrum...visible light wavelengths) to hit ur retina.. doing for a week or so, your body will adjust the internal circadian clock - how we mammals were doing for 100s of millions of years before Edison came along and screwed the darkness.
During the time you are waiting for sleep to arrive. those hour or two.. what were you doing? if no visual stimulus (ie visual cortex is off -- no screen/cell phone, blue light etc), I guess just lying n staring at darkness is as good as sleeping for giving rest to your brain. The point is do you feel refreshed the next day - if it's similar to having 8 hours sleep, then it's fine. I think just waiting 2 hours in darkness and having 6 hours sleep shd be almost same as having 8 hours sleep. The deeper issue is if you feel fine and refreshed, then things are good. I've seen animals like cows in deep night, have their eyes open and say chewing (masticating?) - so the mammalian brain may only need visual cortex off (biggest real estate n consume of power) and not awareness/attention/thinking turned off. [auditory cortex can be on too.. ie you can engage in small talks/ listening to music or singing]
Once I needed the lyrics of a song (in lang foo). Internet search I could find only a jpeg image (likely a scan from a physical song book). I need to edit it. I found a online OCR which did a pretty good job, reducing my work by say 90% or more. Yes there were some errors but the time/effort I saved is significant. So OCR has its place and with AI/ML abilities increasing, they get better with time.
Isn't typing a 100x10 grid of numbers harder than checking if they are the same? The tool aims at helping you not eliminating the human altogether (kinda the driver assists in self-driving cars, not fully autonomous). Also the lesser work can be done by a less skilled person (say an intern)
This reasoning was valid at the time of external combusion engine (200 years ago?) invention; and still there is economic upward mobility. The reason is the small group which owns (say 1%) have internal fights/competition/ego-clashes. So there will always be new jobs (like who sends the first dog to mars, say.. it's me with $100B worth or that guy with $99.9B worth). So this rotating ladder of networth keeps churning and ppl go up n those in up come down (say due to substance abuse). So chill n enjoy the show.
Do you know what the flight instruments show as speed? Since the pitot tube uses airflow to measure speed, I assume it should only measure the relative speed which shd be say mid-500s and not the absolute (ground speed) which is 715 mph. I guess lot of stall crashes are due to wrong relative speed measurement (hence a gps solution may not help)
But why do they let it on youtube? Google could blend the ad seemlessly into the video. Not sure when they will do it; until then we can enjoy youtube ad free with ad-blocker. I"m sure even firefox or other software can't solve that problem that easily.
Content creation. From brain to your fingers/limbs/movable body parts to convey to machine. How can using one finger (touching/dragging) more efficient than 10? (touch typing..9 if not left thumb); Also the efficiency of mouse usage is far ahead than sliding fingers? Just because tech allowed a touch-sensitive interface, it's not the efficient one.
In any case, when you have ten engines to do a job, why use only one or two? I'm sure it also leads to repeated stress injury as the effort is not spread out.
another advantage of HLL/v-HLL ( high level language like C; very hll like python) is feature-velocity. If your team is using 10 year old system (hw/ sw), it's hard to compete with a nimble competitor who uses the latest tech and reaps the benefit of 10 year tech growth.
When you want to be ahead of the rest, you need to use human capital/attention/time with utmost care and delegate as much work to machines/sw/hw.
one of the reasons a system is run 10 years on same hw or sw is because its hard to evolve it; it's so tied down to various dependencies that you can't use latest cheaper n more powerful hardware. In other words, you can't be fast; that may be ok for some, but for places where u want to be running ahead, you can't afford to be slowed down by inferior processes.
It's like saying a business is happy using fax machines to communicate because it thinks using internet is unnecessary as the fax machine seems to do the work fine at reasonable cost for last 10 years. Unless you embrace a new/better process you won't know what you are missing.