And I might add that the root cause was that the pilots did not see the large flock even though the weather was good. A very simple computer based vision system would have picked them up in plenty of time to avoid. As would a good set of pilot eyes that were actually looking out the window.
(No, the planes do not fly so fast that vision is useless. They are flying at about 100m/s, and it is easy to see a LARGE flock of geese at 1000m, just look up in the sky sometime.
Simulations with fast decision times always enabled simulations to get back. The pilots were let off the hook for taking 30 seconds. But as just a weekend warrior, I can tell you that it would not take me anything like 30 seconds to take action if the fan stopped. It is always on one's mind when low to the ground.
They hit the birds quite high, 2,000' by memory. They took a full 30 seconds to decide to turn the bird around, by which time it was too late. Fortunately, the river happened to be nearby. (Wikipedia is your friend.)
Any computer would have got that plane back to the airport. But then now news story.
As to an actual landing on a river, not that hard. You need some moderately clever vision software to identify rough vs smooth crash sites. Tricky but doable. Or just use cameras to let a remote pilot handle just the emergency.
If you have a pilot at all, they need to actually fly the plane, or they will deskill. No half-smart AutoThrotle that can cause crashes like the Air Asia one.
And then we need a smart AI system to monitor the pilot and warn them if they are doing something stupid. Like trying to land the plane miles short of the runway.
If the pilot does not respond the autopilot can disconnect the controls.
It used to be said that you need a pilot and a dog. The pilot to feed the dog, and the dog to bite the pilot if they touch the controls. But the Autopilot can the job of the dog as well. Maybe electric wires in the seat.
[AutoThrotle -- when flying a small plane, one constantly monitors air speed on descent. But large planes have autothrotles that are like cruise control and do this for the pilot. But if they autothrotle is set to the wrong mode, then nothing is monitoring the air speeed. which has led to several crashes.]
I do not think there was any reluctance to use smart women where available. It is just that culturally not many women studied maths and engineering so had the skills, nor, socially, the inclination.
Miss Shilling's orifice to improve spitfires is a notable counter example. She was the engineer, and went around airfields with mechanics to apply the fix she designed.
That is one great benefit of having a workforce work from their homes.
When you need to shrink, you just tell them they need to come into the office every day to increase productivity. When enough quit, change the policy, and not retrenchments need be paid.
Before electronic computers, people used to compute things by hand. Following a well defined algorithm using a mechanical calculator. This was considered semi-skilled women's work, much like typing pools, to keep them employed until they could get married and stay at home and look after kids (when households could survive on a single income).
Unsurprisingly, some of the smarter women started designing the algorithms themselves, often solving tricky mathematical problems. So when electronic computers came along, they were the operators, which included programming. So you see a lot of women in the early days.
Also, during the war, the men were off fighting. Most of the operators at Blechly park were women. But very few, if any, drove the code breaking process.
C Elegans is am extensively studied nematode with exactly 302 neurons, whose contetome (wiring) is consistent and known.
But how its brain actually works remains a mystery. Neurons are complex, as is their interactions with the input and output.
Not much point looking at mice with many orders of magnitude more first.
Personally, I do not think that mapping neurons in detail will lead to AI. But if you are going to do it, start with something vaguely tractable. C Elegans.
If the boss was reasonable, this would not come up in the first place. If you talk it over with them then they will just not like you, and you will move up a slot on the potential redundancy list. Do not waste time talking to a bully unless you have power.
Getting a job elsewhere wont work. If the industry you are in had job openings then you would not have this problem in the fist place. You will find similar attitudes in other related employers, and moving will just look bad on your resume.
But the good news is that if you say Yes Sir often enough, and smile as you are being beaten, then you may eventually become a boss, and then be able to inflict pain on others. It will seem normal and the right thing to do, because you have been on the receiving end for so long.
The solution is political. Join a union (secretly), even though it costs you a little money. Join the Democratic party, and contribute -- yes you will only have a tiny influence, but that is better than none at all.
And stop voting for people that will make America great again.
If you were in management you would realize that backups are not important.
Normally things work. So you save money and get praise. If they fail, you just move one. And in all probability they will fail after you have gone anyway.
You actually don't even need to verify tickets. In an emergency like this just ask people and believe them, most will be honest. It is not that difficult to calculate fuel by hand. Weather is available. Rosters are worked out in advance, so people just turn up. It should all muddle along without computers for at least a few days.
The trouble is that the systems were made very complex *because* of computers, and then nobody understands them any more.
The solution is simple. China et al can simply fork Wikipedia onto their own website. They can then push edits through for all non-controvertial pages, and do what they like with the others. Wikipedia provides a huge ability to rewrite history. He controls the present...
That is the difference between ADVENT and modern games.
Ancient technology. But the Hall of Mists that sways back and forward as if alive is far more evocative than anything a bazillion flop GPU can produce.
Andy first went to the IT dept. They said that it would need to got to the planning committee to get budget, and then to IT management to have resources allocated, then be scheduled some time in the year after next because it was of no interest to the IT department.
The word has been redefined. It used to imply violence or threat thereof, not any more. Underage sex is also called "rape". Newspeak.
The sexual case against Assange was always very dubious. Women accusing him of "rape" then having a lobster dinner with him the next night. None of them wanting to press charges etc.
The Swedish prosecutor knows this which is why she never questioned Assange in the embassy. She was relieved when the statutary time limit expired on the lesser charges. And now she is just rationalizing her position. The last thing she wants is this farce to go to trial.
The British bail charge is also irrelevant. At worst Assange could spend a few months in jail, but that is unlikely.
But the US charges are a different matter. He could spend the rest of his life in a very uncomfortable cell (quite unlike Swedish jails). And their justice system is pretty rough. Also remember, they have huge sentences for minor crimes, so being found guilty of anything at all would be very serious.
Assange's real crime was publishing that video of US soldiers shooting up civilians. That is unforgivable.
Contrary to what the Fraudbanders will scream, there was never a business case for the fibre project. It would have cost much more than the $42 billion (over $5,000/household) budgeted and delivered something that most Australians did not actually want. It was always obvious that multiple technologies should be used -- which ones is debatable on a case by case issue.
But the big issue was than when they did trials in Tasmania most people could not be bothered to switch. Because their ADSL was good enough. It only takes 1mbs to run Netflix (on my dodgy line) so what good does 100 mbs actually provide?
So then the NBN had to pay Telstra to cut the copper so that people would be forced to move to the NBN. That cost a fortune. And is a sore point with me as they threaten to cut my perfectly adequate ADSL and force me onto... Satellite! And no, I do not live miles from nowhere.
But the real threat to the NBN is the growing capacity of mobile technology. There are now plans at $30/month for 30 gig, and and that is more than enough for many people that do not have teenage kids. Mobile prices are falling, there was recently a big spectrum increase, and more towers are being built.
According to Jim Corbet, 1930s Tiger hunter with a national park named after him (seriously -- he really understood wild tigers).
In his book Corbet warned any readers that wish take up the sport of hunting tigers on foot through thick jungle that tigers do not realize that humans cannot smell. So if you are walking downwind you will be safe from an attack from behind. However, walking upwind can be extremely dangerous if there is a man eater nearby.
Information that I am sure Slash Dot readers will find very useful.
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And I might add that the root cause was that the pilots did not see the large flock even though the weather was good. A very simple computer based vision system would have picked them up in plenty of time to avoid. As would a good set of pilot eyes that were actually looking out the window.
(No, the planes do not fly so fast that vision is useless. They are flying at about 100m/s, and it is easy to see a LARGE flock of geese at 1000m, just look up in the sky sometime.
Read a bit more, and look at the picture.
Simulations with fast decision times always enabled simulations to get back. The pilots were let off the hook for taking 30 seconds. But as just a weekend warrior, I can tell you that it would not take me anything like 30 seconds to take action if the fan stopped. It is always on one's mind when low to the ground.
The Hudson river crash was due to pilot error.
They hit the birds quite high, 2,000' by memory. They took a full 30 seconds to decide to turn the bird around, by which time it was too late. Fortunately, the river happened to be nearby. (Wikipedia is your friend.)
Any computer would have got that plane back to the airport. But then now news story.
As to an actual landing on a river, not that hard. You need some moderately clever vision software to identify rough vs smooth crash sites. Tricky but doable. Or just use cameras to let a remote pilot handle just the emergency.
If you have a pilot at all, they need to actually fly the plane, or they will deskill. No half-smart AutoThrotle that can cause crashes like the Air Asia one.
And then we need a smart AI system to monitor the pilot and warn them if they are doing something stupid. Like trying to land the plane miles short of the runway.
If the pilot does not respond the autopilot can disconnect the controls.
It used to be said that you need a pilot and a dog. The pilot to feed the dog, and the dog to bite the pilot if they touch the controls. But the Autopilot can the job of the dog as well. Maybe electric wires in the seat.
[AutoThrotle -- when flying a small plane, one constantly monitors air speed on descent. But large planes have autothrotles that are like cruise control and do this for the pilot. But if they autothrotle is set to the wrong mode, then nothing is monitoring the air speeed. which has led to several crashes.]
I do not think there was any reluctance to use smart women where available. It is just that culturally not many women studied maths and engineering so had the skills, nor, socially, the inclination.
Miss Shilling's orifice to improve spitfires is a notable counter example. She was the engineer, and went around airfields with mechanics to apply the fix she designed.
That is one great benefit of having a workforce work from their homes.
When you need to shrink, you just tell them they need to come into the office every day to increase productivity. When enough quit, change the policy, and not retrenchments need be paid.
Before electronic computers, people used to compute things by hand. Following a well defined algorithm using a mechanical calculator. This was considered semi-skilled women's work, much like typing pools, to keep them employed until they could get married and stay at home and look after kids (when households could survive on a single income).
Unsurprisingly, some of the smarter women started designing the algorithms themselves, often solving tricky mathematical problems. So when electronic computers came along, they were the operators, which included programming. So you see a lot of women in the early days.
Also, during the war, the men were off fighting. Most of the operators at Blechly park were women. But very few, if any, drove the code breaking process.
Proof?
It now compiles.
Netflix streams fine on my 3mbs ADSL line. Indeed 1.5mbs is enough.
C Elegans is am extensively studied nematode with exactly 302 neurons, whose contetome (wiring) is consistent and known.
But how its brain actually works remains a mystery. Neurons are complex, as is their interactions with the input and output.
Not much point looking at mice with many orders of magnitude more first.
Personally, I do not think that mapping neurons in detail will lead to AI. But if you are going to do it, start with something vaguely tractable. C Elegans.
If the boss was reasonable, this would not come up in the first place. If you talk it over with them then they will just not like you, and you will move up a slot on the potential redundancy list. Do not waste time talking to a bully unless you have power.
Getting a job elsewhere wont work. If the industry you are in had job openings then you would not have this problem in the fist place. You will find similar attitudes in other related employers, and moving will just look bad on your resume.
But the good news is that if you say Yes Sir often enough, and smile as you are being beaten, then you may eventually become a boss, and then be able to inflict pain on others. It will seem normal and the right thing to do, because you have been on the receiving end for so long.
The solution is political. Join a union (secretly), even though it costs you a little money. Join the Democratic party, and contribute -- yes you will only have a tiny influence, but that is better than none at all.
And stop voting for people that will make America great again.
If you were in management you would realize that backups are not important.
Normally things work. So you save money and get praise. If they fail, you just move one. And in all probability they will fail after you have gone anyway.
CEOs are extremely competent ... at becoming CEOs. If we had those skills we would cashing in instead of winging on slashdot.
You actually don't even need to verify tickets. In an emergency like this just ask people and believe them, most will be honest. It is not that difficult to calculate fuel by hand. Weather is available. Rosters are worked out in advance, so people just turn up. It should all muddle along without computers for at least a few days.
The trouble is that the systems were made very complex *because* of computers, and then nobody understands them any more.
The solution is simple. China et al can simply fork Wikipedia onto their own website. They can then push edits through for all non-controvertial pages, and do what they like with the others. Wikipedia provides a huge ability to rewrite history. He controls the present...
That is the difference between ADVENT and modern games.
Ancient technology. But the Hall of Mists that sways back and forward as if alive is far more evocative than anything a bazillion flop GPU can produce.
Andy first went to the IT dept. They said that it would need to got to the planning committee to get budget, and then to IT management to have resources allocated, then be scheduled some time in the year after next because it was of no interest to the IT department.
Then Andy just did it himself.
I am sure there are lots of jobs that IT people ended up taking when the bubble burst...
The word has been redefined. It used to imply violence or threat thereof, not any more. Underage sex is also called "rape". Newspeak.
The sexual case against Assange was always very dubious. Women accusing him of "rape" then having a lobster dinner with him the next night. None of them wanting to press charges etc.
The Swedish prosecutor knows this which is why she never questioned Assange in the embassy. She was relieved when the statutary time limit expired on the lesser charges. And now she is just rationalizing her position. The last thing she wants is this farce to go to trial.
The British bail charge is also irrelevant. At worst Assange could spend a few months in jail, but that is unlikely.
But the US charges are a different matter. He could spend the rest of his life in a very uncomfortable cell (quite unlike Swedish jails). And their justice system is pretty rough. Also remember, they have huge sentences for minor crimes, so being found guilty of anything at all would be very serious.
Assange's real crime was publishing that video of US soldiers shooting up civilians. That is unforgivable.
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Contrary to what the Fraudbanders will scream, there was never a business case for the fibre project. It would have cost much more than the $42 billion (over $5,000/household) budgeted and delivered something that most Australians did not actually want. It was always obvious that multiple technologies should be used -- which ones is debatable on a case by case issue.
But the big issue was than when they did trials in Tasmania most people could not be bothered to switch. Because their ADSL was good enough. It only takes 1mbs to run Netflix (on my dodgy line) so what good does 100 mbs actually provide?
So then the NBN had to pay Telstra to cut the copper so that people would be forced to move to the NBN. That cost a fortune. And is a sore point with me as they threaten to cut my perfectly adequate ADSL and force me onto ... Satellite! And no, I do not live miles from nowhere.
But the real threat to the NBN is the growing capacity of mobile technology. There are now plans at $30/month for 30 gig, and and that is more than enough for many people that do not have teenage kids. Mobile prices are falling, there was recently a big spectrum increase, and more towers are being built.
That is what the world really needs.
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Talking about factory reset is showing your age. These days it is all about continuous update. If the device stops working you buy another one.
According to Jim Corbet, 1930s Tiger hunter with a national park named after him (seriously -- he really understood wild tigers).
In his book Corbet warned any readers that wish take up the sport of hunting tigers on foot through thick jungle that tigers do not realize that humans cannot smell. So if you are walking downwind you will be safe from an attack from behind. However, walking upwind can be extremely dangerous if there is a man eater nearby.
Information that I am sure Slash Dot readers will find very useful.