Phoenix and it's suburbs have a lot of dirt roads. And no snow, but the streets flood every 10 years or so to 50cm deep. (Rain is so rare there that most places do not have sewers for drainage, but it's usually gone in a day).
Pulses are encoded, but that does not solve the malicious device problem where someone hacks a device to make it return erroneous numbers. Sure you could also be a person standing on the side of the road shining a laser into people's eyes to do the same thing to a human, but I think the temptation would be greater.
Not much. This is the autonomous car problem that I worked on in college. The dynamic models are all done, but you still have to characterize some parameters such as mass and dynamic motor response. There's about three dozen variables, some which are known a priori and others which can be measured as needed such as vehicle weight (can be calculated from strain measurements on the axle or other weight sensor). Optimal dynamics can be used that are as close to theoretically perfect as you can get.
As an OT: aside, on of the things that surprised me is the degree to which tires influence the driving dynamics, it's significant. Also, a us of wind can blow a car 2m off course,
The far more difficult problems, but common to any vehicle are the decision making ones, eg, is that a shiny spot on the road or a puddle unknown depth that I must avoid. Is that bird on road or a rock (safe to drive over the former, but not the later), what does that hand made non-standard warning on the side of the road say?
What exactly would a colonist 'do' on either Venus or Mars? It seems like every other day there are dozens of posts about there are no jobs on Earth and robots/AI is about to take over.
No matter where humans go outside of Earth, they would be highly dependent on automation even to the point of being irrelevant. Even on the surface (or floating in the clouds) people at most would be there to surf the internet and play video games.
What would a typical day be like? Wake up. Drink your synthetic protein/glycerin shake. Look around your 3x3m living space. Wish you were dead. Look at your monitor to see what the inside of a cloud looks like for the 3476th day in a row. Wish you were dead again. Watch the latest crappy movie from Earth just because there is nothing else to do. Wish you were dead some more. Fall asleep. Wake up on your 3477th day. Drink your shake. Wish you were dead..... It would not be any better than solitary confinement after the novelty wore off.
Yeah, I forgot the real number an was to lazy to look it up.;/
It wasn't until the soviets had the bomb until the US couldn't have conquered to world if it wanted to. If the nazi's or japan had gotten the bomb first, I'd seriously doubt that they would not have used it to their full advantage. The rest of the world was understandably paranoid during this period.
I don't think there had ever been a previous mismatch in world power where it was not used.
Who took over Hiroshima after a nuclear bomb as dropped on it? Modern bombs are designed to be clean, unlike the first bombs that were designed to simply go off (uncertain at the time).
except that the American government wanted an empire.
America at the end of WWII could have almost trivially conquered the world. It had an intact industrial base, unmolested population and was producing an atom bomb a month. What other power could have stood up to that? It could have done so for many years after the end of the war.
I have. I lived there (in Hiroshima) for a short time in the 90's. Both parents of a friend lived through the bombing. They were 3 and 4 at the time and lived on the outskirts of town. Most of the destruction was due to the fires that the bomb set, not the blast. It was a city mostly built built of wood.
I don't recall any opinions they had on it (they were very young at the time) other than it's the long past and time to move on. Which the city has done.
It's a large prosperous city with a war museum and an old concrete building surrounded by shrubs and an iron fence near a stream.
I don't know. I pretty much have a life of leisure, so it's possible. I was not particularly lucky, just a couple decades of planning, more setbacks than I'd care to count, a lot of work and a few years of hardship. But things are going well now and I am not rich, not even middle class.
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.
I like to think
(right now, please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms.
I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.
I'm finding that I can do almost everything I with a computer on a raspberry pi (seriously). It's a little slow but usable and I'm not under a time constraint.
Is this really a thing? I'm trying to think of he largest driver I've written and it can't be more than a few pages of C/asm. Even a HAL is not that big. And who needs six cores other than games and science programs?
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are soon parted
All the ones I have known do. I couldn't find any statistics other than to say that the number is increasing.
Phoenix and it's suburbs have a lot of dirt roads. And no snow, but the streets flood every 10 years or so to 50cm deep. (Rain is so rare there that most places do not have sewers for drainage, but it's usually gone in a day).
Pulses are encoded, but that does not solve the malicious device problem where someone hacks a device to make it return erroneous numbers. Sure you could also be a person standing on the side of the road shining a laser into people's eyes to do the same thing to a human, but I think the temptation would be greater.
Or some kid on the side of the road with a GPS spoofing device.
has to be optimized for this
Not much. This is the autonomous car problem that I worked on in college. The dynamic models are all done, but you still have to characterize some parameters such as mass and dynamic motor response. There's about three dozen variables, some which are known a priori and others which can be measured as needed such as vehicle weight (can be calculated from strain measurements on the axle or other weight sensor). Optimal dynamics can be used that are as close to theoretically perfect as you can get.
As an OT: aside, on of the things that surprised me is the degree to which tires influence the driving dynamics, it's significant. Also, a us of wind can blow a car 2m off course,
The far more difficult problems, but common to any vehicle are the decision making ones, eg, is that a shiny spot on the road or a puddle unknown depth that I must avoid. Is that bird on road or a rock (safe to drive over the former, but not the later), what does that hand made non-standard warning on the side of the road say?
Long-haul truckers own their own trucks. Why wouldn't they be allowed to own their own autonomous trucks?
That was done in the 90's
No matter where humans go outside of Earth, they would be highly dependent on automation even to the point of being irrelevant. Even on the surface (or floating in the clouds) people at most would be there to surf the internet and play video games.
What would a typical day be like? Wake up. Drink your synthetic protein/glycerin shake. Look around your 3x3m living space. Wish you were dead. Look at your monitor to see what the inside of a cloud looks like for the 3476th day in a row. Wish you were dead again. Watch the latest crappy movie from Earth just because there is nothing else to do. Wish you were dead some more. Fall asleep. Wake up on your 3477th day. Drink your shake. Wish you were dead..... It would not be any better than solitary confinement after the novelty wore off.
Most scientists are against manned spaceflight.
It wasn't until the soviets had the bomb until the US couldn't have conquered to world if it wanted to. If the nazi's or japan had gotten the bomb first, I'd seriously doubt that they would not have used it to their full advantage. The rest of the world was understandably paranoid during this period. I don't think there had ever been a previous mismatch in world power where it was not used.
The US public would never have supported an attempt
Very true, but they were in a position to do so if they wanted to. So they didn't want to which is my point.
Who took over Hiroshima after a nuclear bomb as dropped on it? Modern bombs are designed to be clean, unlike the first bombs that were designed to simply go off (uncertain at the time).
except that the American government wanted an empire.
America at the end of WWII could have almost trivially conquered the world. It had an intact industrial base, unmolested population and was producing an atom bomb a month. What other power could have stood up to that? It could have done so for many years after the end of the war.
I don't recall any opinions they had on it (they were very young at the time) other than it's the long past and time to move on. Which the city has done.
It's a large prosperous city with a war museum and an old concrete building surrounded by shrubs and an iron fence near a stream.
I don't know. I pretty much have a life of leisure, so it's possible. I was not particularly lucky, just a couple decades of planning, more setbacks than I'd care to count, a lot of work and a few years of hardship. But things are going well now and I am not rich, not even middle class.
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.
I like to think
(right now, please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms.
I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.
2020: WOPR vs Colossus
What percentage truck drivers are owner-operated?
If you can 3-d print cheaply, why do you need any sort of income?
Who gets to train the AI?
It's because Star Trek stopped being scifi and became action adventure. It sells better.
I'm finding that I can do almost everything I with a computer on a raspberry pi (seriously). It's a little slow but usable and I'm not under a time constraint.
gigabyte sized software drivers
Is this really a thing? I'm trying to think of he largest driver I've written and it can't be more than a few pages of C/asm. Even a HAL is not that big. And who needs six cores other than games and science programs?
Except in the used market where you can find boxes full for $1/box. Libraries give old ones away for free.