At first I wanted to make some joke about having the sustained fury of crabs scuttling about and reaching long claws fruitlessly in the dark of the ocean floor. But all that actually came to mind was the sustained fury of the towering boat tossing waves of an arctic storm and in fact how a GPU could render that power and scale.
Normally it would be hard to crack this market but five stars are aligning right now that are going to make this easy. 1. Crypto Currency has made NVIDIA scarce and expensive. While that probably at it's peak and will wane for bitcoin and now etherium, new emerging currencies are going to emerge for which GPUs will still matter.
2. There about to be a paradigm shift to real-time ray tracing. GPUs have just reached the critical level of performance while new standards, drivers and libraries to support them are emerging that will bring this into the next generation of games about to be written.
3. VR and augmented reality are not come and gone. Far from dead they are just resting like parrot. Well maybe not like a parrot. Vapor ware like Magic leap is about to become real ware but the problem has been insufficient performance for real time augmented graphics.
4. And I save the best market for last. Driverless cars and self flying drones depend on GPUs. that market isn't even commerical yet. time to leap.
5. But none of the above matters. Nvidia and AMD can and are expanding into all those niches and they have the market channels and cost scales to do it. Competition cant get started. Unless of course you happen to have infitely deep pockets, a known history of selling loss leaders to crush competitors, and and superior channel to mobo makers who just gulp down your chip sets already.
Intel's timing is pretty good. demand rising, shifting requirements, actual need for improved performance, and deep pockets mean they can enter the market at the top teir of performance while competing on price without the worry of market share.
The sun's position in the sky is useful for navigation. Except when it's a heavy cloud day like happens in alaska a lot. There's lot of light but now you can't find the position of the sun. But there are two signals that can still tell you where the sun is located. One is polarized light. Since scattering depolarizes, only the direct sun light retains any residual polarization. But this is a very faint signal. It's thought that viking calcite stones used this and some people think pigeons might be able to see light polarization. Still it's not a robust signal. The other signal is UV light. UV is absorbed and scattered more heavily on a cloudy day. THis means that proportionally, what UV light does make it through is mainly unscattered and thus came straight from the sun.
If you have a flourescent card you can look at amd move round you can maximize the brightness when it's facing the sun. However to do that you have to always keep your head at exactly the same angle to the card othewise you are measuring the lambertion scattering angle of a surface relative to the angle you look at it not the normal incident angle of the illumination source.
SO if your eyes are fixed relative to you beak and you can see both sides of your beak you can see which side is flourescine more as you point it in different directions. when both sides are the same brightness you are pointing at the sun.
MIcrosoft tried to unify the OS on desktops and phones. Well that stank. really screwed things up for a whole OS generation till Win 10 go things back on track.
THis seems like courting the same disaster for apple.
the PPC isn't as good an analogy, though it's not bad. In the ebb and flow of things, PPC was a better chip than intel for much of it's heyday. It eventually fell behind.
Samsungs 8 core processors seem to be stuggling too. and Nvidia keeps wanting to become a CPU make as well. THe problem is that market size matters in the processor world. Intel dominates CPUs and Nvidia dominates GPUs so most compiler and software targets those.
But remember ARM. Who started ARM? well Apple was one of them. And now ARM is back and eating Intel's lunch.
I think what will save Apple's bacon here is the effer they have put into making good compilers and even good languages (swift). With that and the abstractions of the OS, it's no longer going to be a software title dominated contest. All titles can be compiled for all platforms so it will matter less who makes the GPU or CPU.
There's no dichotomy here. Slashdot doesn't hate apple but rather the arrogance of the fanboi. Only a few simpletons persist in arguing that apple products are great products in and of themselves. Likewise, Slashdotters are of a ilk that uses social media but also has a deeper appreciation of the insidious privacy invasion at work.
Thus Apples stance is admirable even to haters. What might taint it is that Apple isn't pure as the driven snow either, despite fanboi exaggeration.
But it should be recognized that "if you aren't paying for the product, you are the product". Sure you get facebook for "free". But it's not free is it? Apple hardware's baseline cost is higher than other brand's entry level prices. But they don't make (as much) money on the backend of your personal data, they do have a phenomenal security record even including lapses, and moreover they rarely make rush-to-market mistakes that lead people to ignore security up front in getting the product out the door. THey have a very wholistic view, and remarkable a corporate philosopy of excellence not just dominance, so they view their moves with that lens.
With younger generations the sell out of privacy isn't considered as negative as it is to older generations. Part of that is custom but a lot of it wisdom. Tattoos and vaping seem cool too when you are young too. Like those it remains to be seen if either foregoing private data control or heavy vaping will be a transient phenomena or new normal. I'd bet there's a backlash on both eventually, along with a tinge of regret. But really who knows. Maybe private data isn't going to be important. Maybe coating my lungs with PEG and VOCs won't give me palsy and emphysema when I'm 60.
Personally, apple and linux are my preferred tools. I use apple as a persistent platform that I can reliable count on across decades to be nearly trouble free hardware, exquisitely maintained firmware, and very very few surprises in the operating system. Since my time has value, the cost of apple's ecosystem is a actually a huge savings of both time and money. On the otherhand when I need raw computation/$$ I buy linux machines, use them then salvage them. Trying to maintain a cheap linux machine over time isn't worth the cost in effort or risks in patching a cobweb of bolted together libraries. I periodically just nuke all my installed packages and rebuilt for my current projects. I find that any given package manager system only has a lifetime of few years before there's something better to learn anew for what ever distro is right for the job (currently I'm in love with anaconda and Linux mint).
The new turing test is something we get to play every day-- ask your phone a quetion then refer to the previous question or an obvious inference from it. Can the phone follow you like a human would?
Were still in the context dependent era of AI. We have not yet produced an AI that can handle the non-sequitur. Indeed siri does less than even that, it doesn't follow a train of thought. You can't refer to something you just said in a new instruction.
The problem Siri has is that it's trying to do too much with too little context. Google and the self driving cars do their jobs seemingly more proficiently because they are context aware. Google by spying on you so it can guess what you are doing when you ask it something. Cars because, cars are found on roads and roads have rules.
I think Siri would improve fastest if apple could bridge the gap between restraint in collecting information and selling information. Google has no such qualms.
this article is pure ignorance. it's not the france is banning netflix for not showing films in theaters. It's that cannes has always exclded films not released in france.
What is it with all these coin and blockchain schemes that seem to ignore the obvious.
They all seem to be annoyed that a mining epoch is so slow/compute expensive. SO they do something to remove that.
The fundamental bedrock of any blockchain or coin that allows distributed adversarial authentication is preventing the "double spend". There has to be no way to spend the same "coin" twice.
and for that there has to be a ledger that can't be re-written after a transaction (with high probability or inexpense)
Here's the unremovable fact that makes all this rubbish: SO far no one has invented a distributed trust scheme that, while having all the virtues of bit coin, does not involve Proof of Work (or Stake or Resources or something that ain't free).
that's the barrier to re-writing the ledger.
If I can marshal enough resources to re-write the ledge for less cost than I could gain from a double spend then no one should trust the ledger.
Now there is a difference between fast closures on the ledger entries and expensive to compute entries. Litecoin and the alt-coins has a faster closure rate than bitcoins ten minute equlibrium rate. But I'm pretty sure here they mean fast to be low expesne.
From the abstract: Results: A statistically significant increase in the incidence of heart Schwannomas was observed in treated male rats at the highest dose (50 V/m). Furthermore, an increase in the incidence of heart Schwann cells hyperplasia was observed in treated male and female rats at the highest dose (50 V/m), although this was not statistically significant. An increase in the incidence of malignant glial tumors was observed in treated female rats at the highest dose (50 V/m), although not statistically significant.
If you framegrab the images and then histogram the light curve it's hard edged at zero. Someone deliberately made the blacks blacker so it seems like no one could have seen her. Perhaps this is an artifact of the video compression algorithm or the camera itself.
First why is there light shining on the driver? wouldn't that blind them? I don't think that's ambient light because the passenger seat and walls are not illuminated like the driver is.
Second, what is with the coming out of the back of the driver's head? Seriously look at the video.
There should be a minimum of 2 and they should be given tasks that prevent them from distracting each other. No talking allowed. I cannot imagine any human short of maybe an astronaut with the capacity to remain focused on such a mind numbing job. Heck even when I drive my own car I realize there's huge sections of time where I can't even recall the drive. The only safety there is that because I'm actually controlling the car there some part of my brain reading the road even if it's not my frontal lobe.
Go to a well run public swimming pool and watch the life guards. If they are well trained every couple minutes they will stand up and sequentially point to a dozen different places in the pool. They are using biomechanics to force their attention not to glaze over. You have to do stuff like that and you have to rotate the lifeguards. One safety person in the car at night is nuts.
I had heard reports that the video showed her popping out of no where. Absolutely that is not what it shows. It shows here suddenly coming into the headlights lit region, not appearing from behind a bush.
What's the cardinal rule of driving at night or snow storms? NEVER outdrive the range of your headlights. That is, your stopping distance abolutely positively has to be within your range of sight. Anything else is completely irresponsible.
So that's clearly what happened here. The woman in the video just appears like magic in a couple of frames from dark to in the head light. That means the leading edge of the headlight zone was something less than 1/2 of a second from impact. No way can you stop in that time.
This is defacto outdriving your headlights. Uber is guilty. Case closed.
Now moving on to technical details this also shows. I think part of this is that the dymanic range of the camera sucks. I am fairly sure my own eyes would have been able to see further into the dark. Those black pixels ar not just dark they are completely saturated on the dark end. Nothing is resolvable in them which is why the appearance time is so short. This is a serious problem for all systems as the dynamic range of most cameras is very limited, especially when were dealing with 1/R^4 light fall off ( 1/^R^2 light outbound and then 1/R^2 reflected. Thus a 256 bit sensor is effectively a 16 bit dynamic range sensor. And if you were to account for glints and such then it's even less. No wonder she pops out.
Secondly, where the hell was the lidar here? Shouldn't that have spotter her?
Why is it considered duping to get people excited about working on something for free? Passion is one of the greatest joys and I'd sacrifice a lot of take home pay if I could get more passion for my work. Thus breaks now and then where I get excited and work on fun challenges with other people to create something remarkable are not working for free, they are working for me.
Waymo says they have logged 5 million miles of testing. But what sort of testing it is really? There's these safety arresters for table saws that stop the blade harmlessly if a human finger touches it. While you can run 5 million hotdogs through it, do you really believe it works till some person actually tries it? And who's going to do that? And Is testing under controlled conditions with well maintained saws any test of neglected heavily worn saws in real shops?
Same with car testing. If you aren't having real bicyclists darting in front of these things under bad driving conditions at lethal speeds how are you testing these things for real? Perhaps they should require car company execs to actually perform these acid tests.
It's a new thing. Literally everyone on the planet foresaw the potential for this has very very high. I'd be amazed if the developers themselves found themselves in a quandray that often occurs in machine learning: holy crap these are amazingly good results but we can't tell you when it will fail. After not seeing failures in all the test cases you find yourself letting go of that worry that it will fail catastrophically.
When cars were new themselves there were some remarkably crazy pedestrian protecting rules put in place such as requiring a flagman to walk in front of a car. But the thing about cars was that they really weren't a big leap from horses,trains, or boats. Propulsions systems controlled by human drivers are dangerous too of course. But were used to them and have mental models to protect us well ingrained.
Not so with driverless vehicles. And everyone thought this would happen even if they hoped it would not.
The whole tesla didn't see the truck thing should have been a tip off that the system wasn't flawless yet.
As usual it's the race to market that takes off the safety restraints. This is why we have regulations. To add some friction into the tragedy of the commons.
This is really behind the times. Sequencing your DNA doesn't tell you your state of health. The big problem we have with things right now is we don't have a lot of samples of unhealthy people and more specifically pre-symtomatic or people in the process of healing. Static snapshots of DNA are not useful. Your actual state of health is contained in your DNA transcription profile and your microbiome DNA (the relative ratios and types of bugs in your gut)
Amazingly, In the very near future the cost of having your microbiome sequenced is going to drop under $100. At that point every doctors office visit will also include a microbiome sequence. Every person in the ICU getting drip antibiotics will get sequenced every day. At that price it would be stupid not to do it given all that it potentially reveals about your state of health. These sequencing will also sequence the hosts transcription profile as well. That is, what your DNA is doing today rather than just what it contains.
There's a few companies out there now that are doing this on a boutique basis, catering mainly to the current lucrative market of selling supplements and diet advice. (e.g. Viome) But THe infrastructure they are building will get switched on to public health when it's ready. That will mean literally millions of sequencing events every day (world wide) when it's up to full speed. At that point we'll reach where data analysis can do actual prediction of the health state and be used to guide a patient in an unhealthy state to a healthy one.
By the way, when human dieoff's hit 50-90% then decarbonization can occur as nations collapse and return to pre-industrial carbon usage. Could that actually happen. A growing body of research suggests that, with a healthy dose of scienctific controvery, that the century of the little ice age was caused by deaths in the highly populated americas.
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At first I wanted to make some joke about having the sustained fury of crabs scuttling about and reaching long claws fruitlessly in the dark of the ocean floor. But all that actually came to mind was the sustained fury of the towering boat tossing waves of an arctic storm and in fact how a GPU could render that power and scale.
Normally it would be hard to crack this market but five stars are aligning right now that are going to make this easy.
1. Crypto Currency has made NVIDIA scarce and expensive. While that probably at it's peak and will wane for bitcoin and now etherium, new emerging currencies are going to emerge for which GPUs will still matter.
2. There about to be a paradigm shift to real-time ray tracing. GPUs have just reached the critical level of performance while new standards, drivers and libraries to support them are emerging that will bring this into the next generation of games about to be written.
3. VR and augmented reality are not come and gone. Far from dead they are just resting like parrot. Well maybe not like a parrot. Vapor ware like Magic leap is about to become real ware but the problem has been insufficient performance for real time augmented graphics.
4. And I save the best market for last. Driverless cars and self flying drones depend on GPUs. that market isn't even commerical yet. time to leap.
5. But none of the above matters. Nvidia and AMD can and are expanding into all those niches and they have the market channels and cost scales to do it. Competition cant get started. Unless of course you happen to have infitely deep pockets, a known history of selling loss leaders to crush competitors, and and superior channel to mobo makers who just gulp down your chip sets already.
Intel's timing is pretty good. demand rising, shifting requirements, actual need for improved performance, and deep pockets mean they can enter the market at the top teir of performance while competing on price without the worry of market share.
Right to repair, which should be the law. You can't get OEM parts because Apple won't sell them.
Companies are not required to sell parts for complete systems.
But repair companies could still acquire the OEM parts. Just buy a bunch of iphones and part them out.
And if they choose non-OEM parts, then the people who repair them need to also patch the drivers for their screens not apple
In the long run, you will be fossil fuel for the cockroach civilization that emerges in geologic time.
The sun's position in the sky is useful for navigation. Except when it's a heavy cloud day like happens in alaska a lot. There's lot of light but now you can't find the position of the sun. But there are two signals that can still tell you where the sun is located. One is polarized light. Since scattering depolarizes, only the direct sun light retains any residual polarization. But this is a very faint signal. It's thought that viking calcite stones used this and some people think pigeons might be able to see light polarization. Still it's not a robust signal.
The other signal is UV light. UV is absorbed and scattered more heavily on a cloudy day. THis means that proportionally, what UV light does make it through is mainly unscattered and thus came straight from the sun.
If you have a flourescent card you can look at amd move round you can maximize the brightness when it's facing the sun. However to do that you have to always keep your head at exactly the same angle to the card othewise you are measuring the lambertion scattering angle of a surface relative to the angle you look at it not the normal incident angle of the illumination source.
SO if your eyes are fixed relative to you beak and you can see both sides of your beak you can see which side is flourescine more as you point it in different directions. when both sides are the same brightness you are pointing at the sun.
MIcrosoft tried to unify the OS on desktops and phones. Well that stank. really screwed things up for a whole OS generation till Win 10 go things back on track.
THis seems like courting the same disaster for apple.
the PPC isn't as good an analogy, though it's not bad. In the ebb and flow of things, PPC was a better chip than intel for much of it's heyday. It eventually fell behind.
Samsungs 8 core processors seem to be stuggling too. and Nvidia keeps wanting to become a CPU make as well.
THe problem is that market size matters in the processor world. Intel dominates CPUs and Nvidia dominates GPUs so most compiler and software targets those.
But remember ARM. Who started ARM? well Apple was one of them. And now ARM is back and eating Intel's lunch.
I think what will save Apple's bacon here is the effer they have put into making good compilers and even good languages (swift). With that and the abstractions of the OS, it's no longer going to be a software title dominated contest. All titles can be compiled for all platforms so it will matter less who makes the GPU or CPU.
There's no dichotomy here. Slashdot doesn't hate apple but rather the arrogance of the fanboi. Only a few simpletons persist in arguing that apple products are great products in and of themselves. Likewise, Slashdotters are of a ilk that uses social media but also has a deeper appreciation of the insidious privacy invasion at work.
Thus Apples stance is admirable even to haters. What might taint it is that Apple isn't pure as the driven snow either, despite fanboi exaggeration.
But it should be recognized that "if you aren't paying for the product, you are the product". Sure you get facebook for "free". But it's not free is it? Apple hardware's baseline cost is higher than other brand's entry level prices. But they don't make (as much) money on the backend of your personal data, they do have a phenomenal security record even including lapses, and moreover they rarely make rush-to-market mistakes that lead people to ignore security up front in getting the product out the door. THey have a very wholistic view, and remarkable a corporate philosopy of excellence not just dominance, so they view their moves with that lens.
With younger generations the sell out of privacy isn't considered as negative as it is to older generations. Part of that is custom but a lot of it wisdom. Tattoos and vaping seem cool too when you are young too. Like those it remains to be seen if either foregoing private data control or heavy vaping will be a transient phenomena or new normal. I'd bet there's a backlash on both eventually, along with a tinge of regret. But really who knows. Maybe private data isn't going to be important. Maybe coating my lungs with PEG and VOCs won't give me palsy and emphysema when I'm 60.
Personally, apple and linux are my preferred tools. I use apple as a persistent platform that I can reliable count on across decades to be nearly trouble free hardware, exquisitely maintained firmware, and very very few surprises in the operating system. Since my time has value, the cost of apple's ecosystem is a actually a huge savings of both time and money. On the otherhand when I need raw computation/$$ I buy linux machines, use them then salvage them. Trying to maintain a cheap linux machine over time isn't worth the cost in effort or risks in patching a cobweb of bolted together libraries. I periodically just nuke all my installed packages and rebuilt for my current projects. I find that any given package manager system only has a lifetime of few years before there's something better to learn anew for what ever distro is right for the job (currently I'm in love with anaconda and Linux mint).
The new turing test is something we get to play every day-- ask your phone a quetion then refer to the previous question or an obvious inference from it. Can the phone follow you like a human would?
Were still in the context dependent era of AI. We have not yet produced an AI that can handle the non-sequitur. Indeed siri does less than even that, it doesn't follow a train of thought. You can't refer to something you just said in a new instruction.
The problem Siri has is that it's trying to do too much with too little context. Google and the self driving cars do their jobs seemingly more proficiently because they are context aware. Google by spying on you so it can guess what you are doing when you ask it something. Cars because, cars are found on roads and roads have rules.
I think Siri would improve fastest if apple could bridge the gap between restraint in collecting information and selling information. Google has no such qualms.
When april fools is on a sunday it moves to the nearest monday. Post this tommorrow.
this article is pure ignorance. it's not the france is banning netflix for not showing films in theaters. It's that cannes has always exclded films not released in france.
What is it with all these coin and blockchain schemes that seem to ignore the obvious.
They all seem to be annoyed that a mining epoch is so slow/compute expensive. SO they do something to remove that.
The fundamental bedrock of any blockchain or coin that allows distributed adversarial authentication is preventing the "double spend". There has to be no way to spend the same "coin" twice.
and for that there has to be a ledger that can't be re-written after a transaction (with high probability or inexpense)
Here's the unremovable fact that makes all this rubbish: SO far no one has invented a distributed trust scheme that, while having all the virtues of bit coin, does not involve Proof of Work (or Stake or Resources or something that ain't free).
that's the barrier to re-writing the ledger.
If I can marshal enough resources to re-write the ledge for less cost than I could gain from a double spend then no one should trust the ledger.
Now there is a difference between fast closures on the ledger entries and expensive to compute entries. Litecoin and the alt-coins has a faster closure rate than bitcoins ten minute equlibrium rate. But I'm pretty sure here they mean fast to be low expesne.
From the abstract:
Results: A statistically significant increase in the incidence of heart Schwannomas was observed in treated male rats at the highest dose (50 V/m). Furthermore, an increase in the incidence of heart Schwann cells hyperplasia was observed in treated male and female rats at the highest dose (50 V/m), although this was not statistically significant. An increase in the incidence of malignant glial tumors was observed in treated female rats at the highest dose (50 V/m), although not statistically significant.
No she was just not staring into the headlights like a deer. she was saving her night vision by looking away from the car.
If you framegrab the images and then histogram the light curve it's hard edged at zero. Someone deliberately made the blacks blacker so it seems like no one could have seen her. Perhaps this is an artifact of the video compression algorithm or the camera itself.
First why is there light shining on the driver? wouldn't that blind them? I don't think that's ambient light because the passenger seat and walls are not illuminated like the driver is.
Second, what is with the coming out of the back of the driver's head? Seriously look at the video.
There should be a minimum of 2 and they should be given tasks that prevent them from distracting each other. No talking allowed. I cannot imagine any human short of maybe an astronaut with the capacity to remain focused on such a mind numbing job. Heck even when I drive my own car I realize there's huge sections of time where I can't even recall the drive. The only safety there is that because I'm actually controlling the car there some part of my brain reading the road even if it's not my frontal lobe.
Go to a well run public swimming pool and watch the life guards. If they are well trained every couple minutes they will stand up and sequentially point to a dozen different places in the pool. They are using biomechanics to force their attention not to glaze over. You have to do stuff like that and you have to rotate the lifeguards. One safety person in the car at night is nuts.
Jaywalking doesn't mean a driver doesn't have to be prepared for predictable the driving hazards.
dashcam isnt part of the system.
Then it shouldn't be offered as proof nothing could have been done better
I had heard reports that the video showed her popping out of no where. Absolutely that is not what it shows. It shows here suddenly coming into the headlights lit region, not appearing from behind a bush.
What's the cardinal rule of driving at night or snow storms? NEVER outdrive the range of your headlights. That is, your stopping distance abolutely positively has to be within your range of sight. Anything else is completely irresponsible.
So that's clearly what happened here. The woman in the video just appears like magic in a couple of frames from dark to in the head light. That means the leading edge of the headlight zone was something less than 1/2 of a second from impact. No way can you stop in that time.
This is defacto outdriving your headlights. Uber is guilty. Case closed.
Now moving on to technical details this also shows. I think part of this is that the dymanic range of the camera sucks. I am fairly sure my own eyes would have been able to see further into the dark. Those black pixels ar not just dark they are completely saturated on the dark end. Nothing is resolvable in them which is why the appearance time is so short. This is a serious problem for all systems as the dynamic range of most cameras is very limited, especially when were dealing with 1/R^4 light fall off ( 1/^R^2 light outbound and then 1/R^2 reflected. Thus a 256 bit sensor is effectively a 16 bit dynamic range sensor. And if you were to account for glints and such then it's even less. No wonder she pops out.
Secondly, where the hell was the lidar here? Shouldn't that have spotter her?
Uber is flagrantly at fault.
Why is it considered duping to get people excited about working on something for free? Passion is one of the greatest joys and I'd sacrifice a lot of take home pay if I could get more passion for my work. Thus breaks now and then where I get excited and work on fun challenges with other people to create something remarkable are not working for free, they are working for me.
Waymo says they have logged 5 million miles of testing. But what sort of testing it is really? There's these safety arresters for table saws that stop the blade harmlessly if a human finger touches it. While you can run 5 million hotdogs through it, do you really believe it works till some person actually tries it? And who's going to do that? And Is testing under controlled conditions with well maintained saws any test of neglected heavily worn saws in real shops?
Same with car testing. If you aren't having real bicyclists darting in front of these things under bad driving conditions at lethal speeds how are you testing these things for real? Perhaps they should require car company execs to actually perform these acid tests.
It's a new thing. Literally everyone on the planet foresaw the potential for this has very very high. I'd be amazed if the developers themselves found themselves in a quandray that often occurs in machine learning: holy crap these are amazingly good results but we can't tell you when it will fail. After not seeing failures in all the test cases you find yourself letting go of that worry that it will fail catastrophically.
When cars were new themselves there were some remarkably crazy pedestrian protecting rules put in place such as requiring a flagman to walk in front of a car. But the thing about cars was that they really weren't a big leap from horses,trains, or boats. Propulsions systems controlled by human drivers are dangerous too of course. But were used to them and have mental models to protect us well ingrained.
Not so with driverless vehicles. And everyone thought this would happen even if they hoped it would not.
The whole tesla didn't see the truck thing should have been a tip off that the system wasn't flawless yet.
As usual it's the race to market that takes off the safety restraints. This is why we have regulations. To add some friction into the tragedy of the commons.
This is really behind the times. Sequencing your DNA doesn't tell you your state of health.
The big problem we have with things right now is we don't have a lot of samples of unhealthy people and more specifically pre-symtomatic or people in the process of healing. Static snapshots of DNA are not useful. Your actual state of health is contained in your DNA transcription profile and your microbiome DNA (the relative ratios and types of bugs in your gut)
Amazingly, In the very near future the cost of having your microbiome sequenced is going to drop under $100. At that point every doctors office visit will also include a microbiome sequence. Every person in the ICU getting drip antibiotics will get sequenced every day. At that price it would be stupid not to do it given all that it potentially reveals about your state of health. These sequencing will also sequence the hosts transcription profile as well. That is, what your DNA is doing today rather than just what it contains.
There's a few companies out there now that are doing this on a boutique basis, catering mainly to the current lucrative market of selling supplements and diet advice. (e.g. Viome) But THe infrastructure they are building will get switched on to public health when it's ready. That will mean literally millions of sequencing events every day (world wide) when it's up to full speed.
At that point we'll reach where data analysis can do actual prediction of the health state and be used to guide a patient in an unhealthy state to a healthy one.
Thank you, eh? Looks like someone actually read my post to the end before responding.
By the way, when human dieoff's hit 50-90% then decarbonization can occur as nations collapse and return to pre-industrial carbon usage. Could that actually happen. A growing body of research suggests that, with a healthy dose of scienctific controvery, that the century of the little ice age was caused by deaths in the highly populated americas.
https://www.scientificamerican...
http://www.slate.com/blogs/fut...
https://phys.org/news/2011-10-...