Mostly for pumped hydro, we just use existing natural geography like a mountain plateau with a river, add a pile of rocks to raise the water level, use the water flow downwards to drive turbines, then use the spare capacity to pump water up. The natural water cycle of evaporation, transport, rain, snow and melting forms the other half of the cycle.
Downside was that fish used those rivers to breed, native people lost lands.
We could build the reservoirs underground, inside hollowed out mountains.
On average, 370 w/m^2 is received from the Sun. The energy in the form of light and heat ping-pongs around a bit between clouds, air, the ground and oceans. This is converted into kinetic energy like wind, waves. Orbit of the moon add more energy in the form of tides. Scaled up to the size of the planet, these values go into the Terawatt range.
They started using neural networks and machine learning to look at optimizing algorithms. Things like solving anti-aliasing problems. Normally they had to super-sample every pixel hundreds of times. Most cases, the result is the same. An ML algorithm let them figure out the most important cases and reduce the number of samples needed. Instant speedup.
They are jumping straight to mobile phone networks and skipping landlines. For a fisherman wanting to sell fish, this allows him to find the best port to sell fish at the highest price. Coastal villages don't go hungry because they never got anyone to land a catch. A few text messages let them run like an Amazon marketplace.
They just kick possible but unpopular solutions into the far distant future as possible. By then either the other party is in power and has to deal with the problem, or the problem has resolved itself.
It's like that researcher who tried to design an electronic circuit to differentiate between two different frequencies. The idea was that there would be two electronic circuit oscillator that would resonate when the input matched their frequency. Using genetic algorithms, different electronic circuits would evolve. They came to a point where some wires were missing but the circuit still worked. The circuit took advantage of the electromagnetic interference simulation component and avoided the need for wires.
There was one high school teacher who would reward the student with the highest improvement in grades with a candy bar. One kid figured out that he just needed to fail the weekly test one week and get a high grade the next week.
That was like playing Archon. Using the right moves, you could win the game within five or six moves rather than slogging it out. Grab the middle power squares at the edge, wait until one cycle and then grab the square at the far end.
Playing Command and Conquer, there was one level where the enemy had airplane factories on top of cliffs at the top of the screen. Inbetween there were whole battalions of tanks and rocket launchers. The quick way to win was to get somes construction droids, build a wall, then get aircraft to bomb the airbases and then mop up the battalions of tanks.
I know there were some early PC flight simulators that stored the rotation of the aircraft in 16-bit fixed point. Spin fast enough clockwise and your aircraft would end up spinning anti-clockwise at the fastest rate.
"And finally, antibiotics are often used prior to any specific evidence of an infection after surgery or a bite with a high likelihood of infection. Those are much harder cases to deal with for phage therapy."
There is another problem. The agricultural industry have grown used to feeding livestock with antibiotics because it makes the animals grow larger and fetch a better price at the market. Then doctors prescribe people antibiotics on the chance that a sore throat might be an infection. Then some patients don't complete their course of antibiotics and the country ends up with antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria.
What they are doing at the moment is like teaching someone to drive a car, where the instructor takes over when something goes wrong. What they also need to be doing is being like a flight school where they train the pilots to handle things when they go wrong. Otherwise, there are always going to be high profile accidents in the news, like the Viola Group accident:
I've seen these kinds of bridges in Norway. One end of the road at the bridge becomes a solid concrete wall. The other end becomes an empty void with no barriers.
The UK allows buses to have advertising on them. Those can be anything from pictures of other vehicles to a collage of road signs. Sometimes even an aircraft. For a simple vision systems, those are going to be confusing.
Youtube were announcing that they were banning gun related videos. Presumably, they want to stop anyone from keeping and archiving these videos. Same with anything political sensitive.
Maybe the government wants to reduce overtime payments by getting employees to leave early. Then they reduce the government budget. Or perhaps get departments to expand. Cutting down on salaries like that would encourage workers to seek other ways of getting a pay rise.
I've looked at unversity courses, and the world is moving to cloud and mobile. Cloud for the vast processing capability. Mobile for the ability to visualize data anywhere, acquire sensor data and then visualize it locally using AR/VR.
Speed-of-light trading. Electronic systems automatically make PUT and CALL options on share prices. If the price doesn't rose or fall as expected, the trade is cancelled. These are done so fast that the ordinary home investor would never notice. The banks profit from the quantum fluctations of the stock market.
That is a better off position than having the stress of a senior management position trapped between the CEO and shareholders wanting costs kept down, constant project reports, worrying about whether your engineers are going to leave for a startup. Robotics is an in demand field, especially with animatronics and autonomous vehicles. When I see something like this, I wonder how easy it is to make:
With every software position I've had, the company would advertise for the position that I want, there's a match, then over the next year or two, there is a gradual slide or job drift away from what was advertised. Then the only choice is to leave.
IBM depends on patents and lawsuits to deal with any competitors. They have enough cash reserves that they could afford to pay for a division of lawyers to keep working until the heat-death of the universe in order to settle a court case. Even funding new university departments, chip fabrication plants, and new fields of quantum astro-economics if necessary. Look at the SCO vs. Linux lawsuit.
There was story about Sun Microsystems, who had developed a new speedup for workstations. They received a visit from IBM lawyers in black suits and with briefcases. One of the founders did a whiteboard talk explaining how all the technology was in the public domain and there was no patent violations. Lawyers sat there with glazed look, and then said "Sure. We'll contact you when we find something." then left the building.
Then you end up with other European practises. Such as "you can operate as a sole trader, but so long as you only earn less that Euro 40K year". Or if you want to set up a startup company, you have to put down an insurance deposit of Euro 120K, just in case your software injures someone. Other countries have restrictions that entry level graduates must earn less than half of someone with several years experience. This is what a lot of Spanish engineers who had left would complain about.
With a union workplace, we would have fixed times for coffeebreaks. In a non-union place,you could go up and get a coffee any time.
UK companies did that - they were safe slow growth established products type companies. The profit margins weren't high but they were safe and guaranteed. That was good for pension fund managers who invested in 20 year time scales. But that wasn't good enough for the shareholders who wanted these companies to be young, dynamic, taking risks, all-or-nothing type bets, so they got the executive boards to sell off those safe product lines and reassign their engineering teams into the high-risk new markets. If something didn't make the expected profits they closed that division and fired the engineers. Basically turning corporations back into startups. They ended up disappearing.
Other companies had an internal job board that allows people to move around on their choice. They are still around.
IBM fell for the "getting rid of the deadwood" policy that Wall Street loved. Whenever job losses were announced, the stock price would rise, just because. Only years later, they realized they had lost all their institutional knowledge.
Early 1990's - that was the hardware accelerated SVGA graphics modes, plus audio multimedia like CD drives, MIDI soundcards, multimedia instructions SSE2,
Early 2000's - the first programmable GPU's, audio has been sorted, superscalar CPU's (500MHz)
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Let's hope they can build room temperature superconducting cables using nanotechology or other advanced crystallography.
Mostly for pumped hydro, we just use existing natural geography like a mountain plateau with a river, add a pile of rocks to raise the water level, use the water flow downwards to drive turbines, then use the spare capacity to pump water up. The natural water cycle of evaporation, transport, rain, snow and melting forms the other half of the cycle.
Downside was that fish used those rivers to breed, native people lost lands.
We could build the reservoirs underground, inside hollowed out mountains.
Energy budget for a one meter square column of the Earth's atmosphere
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
On average, 370 w/m^2 is received from the Sun. The energy in the form of light and heat ping-pongs around a bit between clouds, air, the ground and oceans. This is converted into kinetic energy like wind, waves. Orbit of the moon add more energy in the form of tides. Scaled up to the size of the planet, these values go into the Terawatt range.
They started using neural networks and machine learning to look at optimizing algorithms. Things like solving anti-aliasing problems. Normally they had to super-sample every pixel hundreds of times. Most cases, the result is the same. An ML algorithm let them figure out the most important cases and reduce the number of samples needed. Instant speedup.
Sounds like human DNA.
They are jumping straight to mobile phone networks and skipping landlines. For a fisherman wanting to sell fish, this allows him to find the best port to sell fish at the highest price. Coastal villages don't go hungry because they never got anyone to land a catch. A few text messages let them run like an Amazon marketplace.
Make giant interlocking blocks that could form tube walls:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
They just kick possible but unpopular solutions into the far distant future as possible. By then either the other party is in power and has to deal with the problem, or the problem has resolved itself.
It's like that researcher who tried to design an electronic circuit to differentiate between two different frequencies. The idea was that there would be two electronic circuit oscillator that would resonate when the input matched their frequency. Using genetic algorithms, different electronic circuits would evolve. They came to a point where some wires were missing but the circuit still worked. The circuit took advantage of the electromagnetic interference simulation component and avoided the need for wires.
There was one high school teacher who would reward the student with the highest improvement in grades with a candy bar. One kid figured out that he just needed to fail the weekly test one week and get a high grade the next week.
That was like playing Archon. Using the right moves, you could win the game within five or six moves rather than slogging it out. Grab the middle power squares at the edge, wait until one cycle and then grab the square at the far end.
Playing Command and Conquer, there was one level where the enemy had airplane factories on top of cliffs at the top of the screen. Inbetween there were whole battalions of tanks and rocket launchers. The quick way to win was to get somes construction droids, build a wall, then get aircraft to bomb the airbases and then mop up the battalions of tanks.
I know there were some early PC flight simulators that stored the rotation of the aircraft in 16-bit fixed point. Spin fast enough clockwise and your aircraft would end up spinning anti-clockwise at the fastest rate.
It's only a matter of time before they try and ban animated ASCII art.
"And finally, antibiotics are often used prior to any specific evidence of an infection after surgery or a bite with a high likelihood of infection. Those are much harder cases to deal with for phage therapy."
There is another problem. The agricultural industry have grown used to feeding livestock with antibiotics because it makes the animals grow larger and fetch a better price at the market. Then doctors prescribe people antibiotics on the chance that a sore throat might be an infection. Then some patients don't complete their course of antibiotics and the country ends up with antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria.
What they are doing at the moment is like teaching someone to drive a car, where the instructor takes over when something goes wrong. What they also need to be doing is being like a flight school where they train the pilots to handle things when they go wrong. Otherwise, there are always going to be high profile accidents in the news, like the Viola Group accident:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...
I've seen these kinds of bridges in Norway. One end of the road at the bridge becomes a solid concrete wall. The other end becomes an empty void with no barriers.
In may places they paint murals on the outside walls of buildings. Those extended from the ground to the top of the building and can be anything from crowds of people to fake roads, staircases and windows.
https://farm8.staticflickr.com...
http://www.theparisblog.com/wp...
http://assets.design.cultuurpl...
The UK allows buses to have advertising on them. Those can be anything from pictures of other vehicles to a collage of road signs. Sometimes even an aircraft. For a simple vision systems, those are going to be confusing.
I know just the video for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Youtube were announcing that they were banning gun related videos. Presumably, they want to stop anyone from keeping and archiving these videos. Same with anything political sensitive.
Maybe the government wants to reduce overtime payments by getting employees to leave early. Then they reduce the government budget. Or perhaps get departments to expand. Cutting down on salaries like that would encourage workers to seek other ways of getting a pay rise.
I've looked at unversity courses, and the world is moving to cloud and mobile. Cloud for the vast processing capability. Mobile for the ability to visualize data anywhere, acquire sensor data and then visualize it locally using AR/VR.
Speed-of-light trading. Electronic systems automatically make PUT and CALL options on share prices. If the price doesn't rose or fall as expected, the trade is cancelled. These are done so fast that the ordinary home investor would never notice. The banks profit from the quantum fluctations of the stock market.
That is a better off position than having the stress of a senior management position trapped between the CEO and shareholders wanting costs kept down, constant project reports, worrying about whether your engineers are going to leave for a startup. Robotics is an in demand field, especially with animatronics and autonomous vehicles. When I see something like this, I wonder how easy it is to make:
http://www.kwaddle.com/program...
With every software position I've had, the company would advertise for the position that I want, there's a match, then over the next year or two, there is a gradual slide or job drift away from what was advertised. Then the only choice is to leave.
IBM depends on patents and lawsuits to deal with any competitors. They have enough cash reserves that they could afford to pay for a division of lawyers to keep working until the heat-death of the universe in order to settle a court case. Even funding new university departments, chip fabrication plants, and new fields of quantum astro-economics if necessary. Look at the SCO vs. Linux lawsuit.
There was story about Sun Microsystems, who had developed a new speedup for workstations. They received a visit from IBM lawyers in black suits and with briefcases. One of the founders did a whiteboard talk explaining how all the technology was in the public domain and there was no patent violations. Lawyers sat there with glazed look, and then said "Sure. We'll contact you when we find something." then left the building.
Then you end up with other European practises. Such as "you can operate as a sole trader, but so long as you only earn less that Euro 40K year". Or if you want to set up a startup company, you have to put down an insurance deposit of Euro 120K, just in case your software injures someone. Other countries have restrictions that entry level graduates must earn less than half of someone with several years experience. This is what a lot of Spanish engineers who had left would complain about.
With a union workplace, we would have fixed times for coffeebreaks. In a non-union place,you could go up and get a coffee any time.
UK companies did that - they were safe slow growth established products type companies. The profit margins weren't high but they were safe and guaranteed. That was good for pension fund managers who invested in 20 year time scales. But that wasn't good enough for the shareholders who wanted these companies to be young, dynamic, taking risks, all-or-nothing type bets, so they got the executive boards to sell off those safe product lines and reassign their engineering teams into the high-risk new markets. If something didn't make the expected profits they closed that division and fired the engineers. Basically turning corporations back into startups. They ended up disappearing.
Other companies had an internal job board that allows people to move around on their choice. They are still around.
IBM fell for the "getting rid of the deadwood" policy that Wall Street loved. Whenever job losses were announced, the stock price would rise, just because. Only years later, they realized they had lost all their institutional knowledge.
Early 1990's - that was the hardware accelerated SVGA graphics modes, plus audio multimedia like CD drives, MIDI soundcards, multimedia instructions SSE2,
Early 2000's - the first programmable GPU's, audio has been sorted, superscalar CPU's (500MHz)