The technology has its place. But it isn't something that magically does the right thing.
It only has to be slightly less stupid than typical humans, and/or cost less than humans. It may also need more trace-ability, such as knowing why it gave an answer it did. With humans you can ask and usually get an answer such as "we always did it this way", "that way usually works for me", or "because the alternative confuses the sales team", etc.
But career-wise AI has had multiple boom/bust cycles as the usual hype-masters overdo claims and damage AI's cred. Have a Plan B if you go into AI. (No, not a Plan 9.)
It had the advantage that editing was easy and consistent across vendors. You type in the line number and it's there. You retype it with different code and it's changed. You type the number without code and it's deleted. In the teletype era this was a important.
AT&T has been dicking with our bills for years. They have added "insurance" fees and plan-change fees without asking or warning, for example. When confronted with it, they usually pull a Steve Urkel: "Oh gee, how did that little charge get on there?"
It's interesting researchers say the efficiency falls off at higher power. That suggests it *is* quantum-related, because quantum stuff always seems to have tricky walls that limit its practical use. God doesn't only play dice with the universe, but teases us with near misses.
That's for amateurs. Elite engineers use a perpetual motion machine (PPM) to power it. In fact, skip the EMD, just use the PPM to power the whole damned ship. Keep it simple.
But no known container is 100% radiation-leak-proof. Thus, energy is leaking out of the container in some form. Even heat can generate thrust, as the "Pioneer anomaly" investigation showed. I would assume they accounted for that.
But it would be cool if they discovered the lopsided chamber resulted in the conversion of microwave radiation into dark energy or dark matter, which seem difficult to measure, explaining the puzzlement.
Works based on fairies flying out of an engineer's butt
Does that mean we have to send that blessed engineer into space to power the probe? I'd rather "have to" send politicians. If bullsh1t turned out to be a powerful propellant, we could hook it up to the bozo's in Washington DC and visit Andromeda.
P.S. don't walk into the EMD lab wearing a red shirt until they find out how it works.
[eliminating the need to carry propellant]...violate conservation of momentum by invoking some sort of vaguely defined quantum woo...
What are we calling "propellant"? It requires power to generate the radiation. How is this diff than say an ion engine? It needs SOME energy source, just not necessarily traditional sources such as flammable chemicals.
And as the radiation bounces around inside the Gumby-head-shaped chamber, it does lose some energy on each bounce such that the radiation generator has keep doing its job.
What's unknown is if we get "bonus" energy beyond what say an ion engine can do with the same amount of electricity.
The speculation is kind of like cold-fusion for space: direct matter-to-energy conversion without the messy side-effects such as high temperatures and dangerous radiation found in traditional nuclear reactors.
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It only has to be slightly less stupid than typical humans, and/or cost less than humans. It may also need more trace-ability, such as knowing why it gave an answer it did. With humans you can ask and usually get an answer such as "we always did it this way", "that way usually works for me", or "because the alternative confuses the sales team", etc.
But career-wise AI has had multiple boom/bust cycles as the usual hype-masters overdo claims and damage AI's cred. Have a Plan B if you go into AI. (No, not a Plan 9.)
It had the advantage that editing was easy and consistent across vendors. You type in the line number and it's there. You retype it with different code and it's changed. You type the number without code and it's deleted. In the teletype era this was a important.
Your marketing dept. needed better liars. There never was a dBASE I because they called the first version II to give it credibility, for example.
I fed it an MS brochure, and it said the company acts 80 years old
Here's my drawing of Mohammad.
Unfortunately, war is the more politically palatable solution among the two.
And you didn't stop to help me, insensitive skinny clod!
Some hell of a shit to cause a 4-quake. No more chili-burgers for you.
They want you to think it's a mere bird.
Utah Jazz will win a championship before we see flying cars and Rosey-like maid robots.
Microsoft should invent Inactive-X
WANTED: Security expert to help patch the problems caused by our search for security experts.
AT&T has been dicking with our bills for years. They have added "insurance" fees and plan-change fees without asking or warning, for example. When confronted with it, they usually pull a Steve Urkel: "Oh gee, how did that little charge get on there?"
Is Lena by chance Hawaiian?
It's interesting researchers say the efficiency falls off at higher power. That suggests it *is* quantum-related, because quantum stuff always seems to have tricky walls that limit its practical use. God doesn't only play dice with the universe, but teases us with near misses.
To me, she has 2 vaginas and 1 tit
I have an ugly feeling this ultimately involves unpleasantries with cats.
Oops, I meant PMM. I have Lexdysia. My ships travel backward.
That's for amateurs. Elite engineers use a perpetual motion machine (PPM) to power it. In fact, skip the EMD, just use the PPM to power the whole damned ship. Keep it simple.
1. Bacteria invents it thru mutation and natural selection
2. Humans discover it
3. Conglomerate steals credit & patents it
4. Profit!
Look Ma, no "???" needed!
But no known container is 100% radiation-leak-proof. Thus, energy is leaking out of the container in some form. Even heat can generate thrust, as the "Pioneer anomaly" investigation showed. I would assume they accounted for that.
But it would be cool if they discovered the lopsided chamber resulted in the conversion of microwave radiation into dark energy or dark matter, which seem difficult to measure, explaining the puzzlement.
Flying saucers: just around the corner?
So it's powered by a typical Comcast bill
Does that mean we have to send that blessed engineer into space to power the probe? I'd rather "have to" send politicians. If bullsh1t turned out to be a powerful propellant, we could hook it up to the bozo's in Washington DC and visit Andromeda.
P.S. don't walk into the EMD lab wearing a red shirt until they find out how it works.
What are we calling "propellant"? It requires power to generate the radiation. How is this diff than say an ion engine? It needs SOME energy source, just not necessarily traditional sources such as flammable chemicals.
And as the radiation bounces around inside the Gumby-head-shaped chamber, it does lose some energy on each bounce such that the radiation generator has keep doing its job.
What's unknown is if we get "bonus" energy beyond what say an ion engine can do with the same amount of electricity.
The speculation is kind of like cold-fusion for space: direct matter-to-energy conversion without the messy side-effects such as high temperatures and dangerous radiation found in traditional nuclear reactors.
Don't give them ideas! Certain parts of my anatomy hurt just thinking about it.