But what if I want to see something new. I watch music videos on Youtube. There are tracks that have been around for decades but I have never heard (Obsolete Orkestra, Dischingas Khan, "Born to be Alive", "siberian shaman lady" but the way Youtube is set up, it's impossible to find videos that are unrelated because everything is ring linked and since the videos are random hashes in a huge data space, there's no way to genuinely choose a random valid video. Random video selecters can only pick out videos that you know about.
Rescuing people from high buildings and mountain searches. If you had a drone that could carry a single person or unravel a zip-line to carry people from one high-rise building to another. Maybe just a nylon cord so that a zip line could be hauled up.
We still haven't fully explored the oceans. A single sonar system can scan a range between 1000 and 10,000 meters. Oceans are 1000 miles wide. Just 1000 drones working autonomously underwater (hydrodynamics are similar to aerodynamics) and we could scan an entire ocean in a few weeks.
Norway gives their young people the choice of doing community service as an alternative to national service in the Army. Only 10% of the population go to university. The majority of the population lives in small towns of 10,000 or less all along the fjords on the Eastern side of the country, with four larger cities (Trondheim = 120,000, Stavanger, Oslo = 500,000, Bergen = 265,000). There really isn't much air pollution apart from the cruise liners that use sulphur based coal. Main food in Norway is fish.
For manual labour, craftsmanship in wood and metalwork required constant self improvement. These days, something like designing a yacht ship propeller is no longer done by hand but through the use of CAD and CFD software. That manual skill of knowing how a propeller should look like so that there is no cavitation isn't needed.
Physics and mathematical calculations are no longer done by hand.
Holistic body armour. There's a steampunk game which had the observation that of all the people who survived fighting in the trenches, 30% had a bible in their top left pocket, another 40% had a hip flask and the other 30% had a metal neck brace. Therefore, wearing all three simultaneously would provide 100% protection.
For the UK, HMRC look to see whether an individual is an "employee in disguise". Do they work at the customers premises. Does the company provide tools. Does the individual work his own hours? Does the individual service multiple clients?
In this case, the plumbing company provided the van, the tools and customer bookings, plus require the individual works a minimum number of hours.
Supermarkets in the UK already get their customers to operate as checkout clerks in the supermarkets. Get the trolley to the checkout area, pick out each item one by one, put it through the scanner, and place it on electronic scales which correlates the item barcode with the weight. You only get to process the next item once the current item has been processed successfully. For security, certain items still have to be audited by a member of staff. Razor blades are usually in plastic boxes with a security tag. Some items are age limited like alcohol and tobacco. Other restricted items that need security clearance include bottles of Mountain Dew.
Still too expensive, even at $0.25 an RFID tag. Given that billions of items are going to be purchased and sold, that price for an RFID tag gets multiplied by a billion.
How do genes index or reference each other? We know that genes encode for proteins and enzymes plus epigenetic information that can cross generations. There have been cases where a slight rearrangement of one gene caused the entire chromosome to explode simply because the repair systems lost all sense of the organisation of genes. With DNA, the same gene can encode for six different possible enzymes due to the triplet arrangement of codons and the option of going forwards or backwards.
No different from having a ID card with a low employee number. One company had a security database with a maximum of six digits so they just wrapped around the numbers and started reusing old ID numbers that weren't in use. Many old timers were furious.
Those white males and females are either getting out of the industry by the time they are 50, or becoming tech writers, software consultants and/or running their own businesses.
Supercomputers these days are superscalar, so you can add as many racks and shelves of nodes as you have space and money for. When they do upgrades, they just swap out the old slowest nodes and add new nodes with the faster CPUs and GPU's.
And being a large team of software developers is exactly the same problem. Everyone is fighting for the interesting tasks and trying to avoid being pushed away from software development. Sometimes these are the large tasks that take more time. Maybe it's the tasks that involve signal processing, DSP's, parallel processing, mathematics or those that involve writing new code. Then it becomes like a medieval banquet. Those closet to the king get the juicy chunks of meat. The serfs at the bottom get the throw-aways. Plus you are now trapped in a senior position that requires a three-month or more notice period.
"It's not a wage problem, it's a housing speculation problem. If we want to solve the problem, the main problem areas the states where this is a bigger issue NEED to make big change... likely by increasing property taxes on non-owner-occupied single family homes. Then the cost of housing will drop and THEN you'll see demand for a more rational minimum wage increase... because right now the $15 minimum wage doesn't prop anyone up but landlords."
They tried that in the UK. It was called "The Poll Tax". The property taxes paid were based on the number of residents in the property. A millionaire living in a mansion house would end up paying less property tax than a group of minimum wage earners sharing a home. There were exceptions for those who were retired, unemployed or full-time students.
Anyone who was going abroad to work wouldn't register as having moved out or gone abroad. They would just rent the property out to friends/family.
A stream of camera drones that monitor the remote highways of Australia? One takes off every 15 minutes, follows the route of the highway until it reaches a charging station, then recharges and continues it's journey before looping back.
Like genetic algorithms, you start with something simple, then apply operations like duplicate, mutate best performers, cull worst performers, and repeat. There are some genetic frameworks; the groups of three amino acids (codons) that encode basic proteins. It's more of a stack based geometry language in that it allows to roll back by one amino acid, remove it and begin a new sequence. There's also END codons. From that you can build enzymes, RNA, DNA. The cell machinery allows for routing of proteins within the cell. Then there are inter-cellular signalling systems, hormones, hundreds of different reaction-diffusion systems to govern muscle contractions, and ion based protocols to govern neuron firing. There are histone groups to manage repair and reproduction of the DNA.
Big Dollar Engineering have to deal with customers who aren't willing to pay millions of pounds just to upgrade every engineers workstation to the latest gaming card. They want solutions that work on their oldest machines, in order to maximize the return on their investments. Sometimes they'll pay for applications that use a supercomputer to do rendering and stream the final images to an old PC. Simply because they have the supercomputer with some spare nodes and an old PC and it's a configuration they want to use.
The mobile gaming industry tried to get rid of all the "legacy" OpenGL features like smooth shading and anti-aliased lines, only to have Big Dollar Engineering realize that they could do things like stream rendering of CAD files onto AR headsets and mobile tablets and see how something should look on site or in the workshop. That forced the GPU vendors to put back the features that they took out and merge OpenGL with OpenGL ES. Mobile gaming has now moved to Vulkan to get rid of all the "legacy" OpenGL features.
They have Metal and there are third party libraries to map Vulkan onto Metal. Their versions of OpenGL don't support modern GLSL features like Uniform Buffer Objects, so that's already broken. The goal is to unify iOS with OSX. Perhaps some third party could implement the OpenGL state machine over Metal or Vulkan.
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But what if I want to see something new. I watch music videos on Youtube. There are tracks that have been around for decades but I have never heard (Obsolete Orkestra, Dischingas Khan, "Born to be Alive", "siberian shaman lady" but the way Youtube is set up, it's impossible to find videos that are unrelated because everything is ring linked and since the videos are random hashes in a huge data space, there's no way to genuinely choose a random valid video. Random video selecters can only pick out videos that you know about.
Rescuing people from high buildings and mountain searches. If you had a drone that could carry a single person or unravel a zip-line to carry people from one high-rise building to another. Maybe just a nylon cord so that a zip line could be hauled up.
We still haven't fully explored the oceans. A single sonar system can scan a range between 1000 and 10,000 meters. Oceans are 1000 miles wide. Just 1000 drones working autonomously underwater (hydrodynamics are similar to aerodynamics) and we could scan an entire ocean in a few weeks.
Norway gives their young people the choice of doing community service as an alternative to national service in the Army. Only 10% of the population go to university. The majority of the population lives in small towns of 10,000 or less all along the fjords on the Eastern side of the country, with four larger cities (Trondheim = 120,000, Stavanger, Oslo = 500,000, Bergen = 265,000). There really isn't much air pollution apart from the cruise liners that use sulphur based coal. Main food in Norway is fish.
For manual labour, craftsmanship in wood and metalwork required constant self improvement. These days, something like designing a yacht ship propeller is no longer done by hand but through the use of CAD and CFD software. That manual skill of knowing how a propeller should look like so that there is no cavitation isn't needed.
Physics and mathematical calculations are no longer done by hand.
Holistic body armour. There's a steampunk game which had the observation that of all the people who survived fighting in the trenches, 30% had a bible in their top left pocket, another 40% had a hip flask and the other 30% had a metal neck brace. Therefore, wearing all three simultaneously would provide 100% protection.
For the UK, HMRC look to see whether an individual is an "employee in disguise". Do they work at the customers premises. Does the company provide tools. Does the individual work his own hours? Does the individual service multiple clients?
In this case, the plumbing company provided the van, the tools and customer bookings, plus require the individual works a minimum number of hours.
Take a trip down the Unicode page sheets. My favourite language is Vai. It looks like a cross between chemical plant design and electronics.
They managed to recover Egyptian hieroglyphic language through a single stone tablet which had a peace treaty written in four languages.
Supermarkets in the UK already get their customers to operate as checkout clerks in the supermarkets. Get the trolley to the checkout area, pick out each item one by one, put it through the scanner, and place it on electronic scales which correlates the item barcode with the weight. You only get to process the next item once the current item has been processed successfully. For security, certain items still have to be audited by a member of staff. Razor blades are usually in plastic boxes with a security tag. Some items are age limited like alcohol and tobacco. Other restricted items that need security clearance include bottles of Mountain Dew.
Still too expensive, even at $0.25 an RFID tag. Given that billions of items are going to be purchased and sold, that price for an RFID tag gets multiplied by a billion.
The items tend to be a bit pricy:
https://thetab.com/uk/2017/08/...
How do genes index or reference each other? We know that genes encode for proteins and enzymes plus epigenetic information that can cross generations. There have been cases where a slight rearrangement of one gene caused the entire chromosome to explode simply because the repair systems lost all sense of the organisation of genes. With DNA, the same gene can encode for six different possible enzymes due to the triplet arrangement of codons and the option of going forwards or backwards.
No different from having a ID card with a low employee number. One company had a security database with a maximum of six digits so they just wrapped around the numbers and started reusing old ID numbers that weren't in use. Many old timers were furious.
Those white males and females are either getting out of the industry by the time they are 50, or becoming tech writers, software consultants and/or running their own businesses.
Good players at tic-tac-toe will always end up in a draw.
But you don't even need an electronic computer to achieve this. The Tinkertoy computer was made entirely out of string and balsa wood:
http://www.computerhistory.org...
Supercomputers these days are superscalar, so you can add as many racks and shelves of nodes as you have space and money for. When they do upgrades, they just swap out the old slowest nodes and add new nodes with the faster CPUs and GPU's.
And being a large team of software developers is exactly the same problem. Everyone is fighting for the interesting tasks and trying to avoid being pushed away from software development. Sometimes these are the large tasks that take more time. Maybe it's the tasks that involve signal processing, DSP's, parallel processing, mathematics or those that involve writing new code. Then it becomes like a medieval banquet. Those closet to the king get the juicy chunks of meat. The serfs at the bottom get the throw-aways. Plus you are now trapped in a senior position that requires a three-month or more notice period.
"It's not a wage problem, it's a housing speculation problem. If we want to solve the problem, the main problem areas the states where this is a bigger issue NEED to make big change... likely by increasing property taxes on non-owner-occupied single family homes. Then the cost of housing will drop and THEN you'll see demand for a more rational minimum wage increase... because right now the $15 minimum wage doesn't prop anyone up but landlords."
They tried that in the UK. It was called "The Poll Tax". The property taxes paid were based on the number of residents in the property. A millionaire living in a mansion house would end up paying less property tax than a group of minimum wage earners sharing a home. There were exceptions for those who were retired, unemployed or full-time students.
Anyone who was going abroad to work wouldn't register as having moved out or gone abroad. They would just rent the property out to friends/family.
+infinity insightful
Pity the solar panels on a microwave relay tower. They have more damage than a satellite out in geo-stationary orbit.
A stream of camera drones that monitor the remote highways of Australia? One takes off every 15 minutes, follows the route of the highway until it reaches a charging station, then recharges and continues it's journey before looping back.
Like genetic algorithms, you start with something simple, then apply operations like duplicate, mutate best performers, cull worst performers, and repeat. There are some genetic frameworks; the groups of three amino acids (codons) that encode basic proteins. It's more of a stack based geometry language in that it allows to roll back by one amino acid, remove it and begin a new sequence. There's also END codons. From that you can build enzymes, RNA, DNA. The cell machinery allows for routing of proteins within the cell. Then there are inter-cellular signalling systems, hormones, hundreds of different reaction-diffusion systems to govern muscle contractions, and ion based protocols to govern neuron firing. There are histone groups to manage repair and reproduction of the DNA.
Does that make them gravitons?
Big Dollar Engineering have to deal with customers who aren't willing to pay millions of pounds just to upgrade every engineers workstation to the latest gaming card. They want solutions that work on their oldest machines, in order to maximize the return on their investments. Sometimes they'll pay for applications that use a supercomputer to do rendering and stream the final images to an old PC. Simply because they have the supercomputer with some spare nodes and an old PC and it's a configuration they want to use.
The mobile gaming industry tried to get rid of all the "legacy" OpenGL features like smooth shading and anti-aliased lines, only to have Big Dollar Engineering realize that they could do things like stream rendering of CAD files onto AR headsets and mobile tablets and see how something should look on site or in the workshop. That forced the GPU vendors to put back the features that they took out and merge OpenGL with OpenGL ES. Mobile gaming has now moved to Vulkan to get rid of all the "legacy" OpenGL features.
They have Metal and there are third party libraries to map Vulkan onto Metal. Their versions of OpenGL don't support modern GLSL features like Uniform Buffer Objects, so that's already broken. The goal is to unify iOS with OSX. Perhaps some third party could implement the OpenGL state machine over Metal or Vulkan.