@drahardja When you read the article what you find isn't that kangaroos are irrational, what you find is that they jump (not an obvious sign of irrationality) and engineering rationality hasn't caught up yet. #ai#engineering
💘 more cores 💘 more ram 💘 more ports 💘 more more more 💘
going to validate whether this SO-DIMM format will work in my TuringPi2, but generally underlying all technical plans, a vast majority of my home-lab acquisitions are solely because I want it and it's fun!
Random photo from the archive. A pseudo-HDR stacked image from inside the Eastney Beam Engine House here in Portsmouth. This Victorian engineering marvel was constructed in the late 1800s to help deal with sewage drainage issues on the low-lying land of Portsea Island, on which Portsmouth is located. This museum is open the last Sunday of most months.
"Actually, the business case of the #Nighttrain doesn’t quite addup," explains #IDE alumnus Annabelle Out. That’s why Annabelle designed a carriage interior for both day and night trains as part of her graduation project for the #Engineering firm Royal HaskoningDHV.
It’s a sorry commentary on the media landscape that I heard about The Boring Company way before I learned about the tunnel infrastructure work under The Faroe Islands.
Thankfully the YouTube algorithm put that right today. This is remarkable. And is actually delivering. Unlike the aforementioned Boring Company.
Fmr #Trump treas sec #Mnuchin is telling investors he has a plan to buy #TikTok
Mnuchin told potential backers he aims to maneuver around its price of >$100B & #China’s ban of the export of recommendation #algorithms.
He indicated he could overcome those hurdles by offering to buy the #app w/o the export-blocked #code, essentially forcing his consortium to remake a service built on billions of lines of code.
“Everyone wants to build a #TikTok-level #algorithm. That’s a key element of competition in… #tech …right now,” said Matt Perault, UNC prof & fmr #Facebook dir who studies tech #policy.
“…the biggest cos have thrown a lot of money & #engineering talent at that issue & have struggled to do it. If #Mnuchin thinks he can do that & succeed where…successful cos have struggled, good luck.”
Mnuchin, [is] a fmr hedge fund mngr & Hollywood producer w/no #SocialMedia experience….
“They don’t get much in the way of posthumous glory, but Roman surveyors have left us a wealth of technical treatises, collectively known as the Corpus Agrimensorum Romanorum, which is of unique historical importance for its detailed descriptions of the nature of land settlement, and the role of emperors, especially Augustus, in regulating urban centers in a rural environment. Archaeologist David Gilman Romano, longtime director of the Corinth Computer Project, has been using the Agrimensores to understand the rural geography of Corinth and the nature of Roman re-settlement of the city… #GIS#spatial#mapping#surveying#surveyor#survey#instrumentation#ancientrome#roman#history#urban#buildings#aqueducts#roads#fortifactions#construction#engineering#design#archaeology#archaeologist
Here's an IBM s/360 at the Computer History Museum, from some months ago; it was so very fun to see how data storage has evolved!
ok ok, it's true that my lab no longer has a LTO drive of any generation, but I still want one… LTO5 should be sufficient to backup a couple hundred terabytes right?
Think your smartphone camera is fast? A group of scientists have made a camera that can shoot 156 trillion frames per second. The swept-coded aperture real-time femtophotography, or SCARF, is designed for experiments where events happen too fast for most sensors to detect, paving the way for scientific breakthroughs in engineering and medicine. Read more from Engadget about the device.
"A fresh, icy crust hides a deep, enigmatic ocean. Plumes of water burst through cracks in the ice, shooting into space. An intrepid lander collects samples and analyses them for hints of life."
Sellafield have a video about some of their current cleanup, moving some containers out of an ancient temporary storage pond (40 years temporary...). The fun bit for me was the comment that someone had engineered how to get stuff into the pond but never designed how to get it out:
The difference between #engineering as a job vs engineering as a hobby, whether we're talking mechanical, electrical or software engineering, is that you can take more time for fine crafting when it's a hobby, whereas if it's a job, job requirements often force you to do it quick, dirty and cheap, which takes all the joy out of it.
The only #engineering jobs where you're allowed to take a bit of time to do things elegantly is R&D. There aren't many jobs like that around, and they usually go to the most accomplished people in the field, which is usually not you. I don't want to work in engineering again unless it's in the R&D department though. Since that's not happening, I'm looking at completely different fields, such as teaching and nursing, for a steady income, while I work on engineering projects on my own time.
The terrible human toll in Gaza has many causes.
A chilling investigation by +972 highlights efficiency:
An engineer: “When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed.”
An AI outputs "100 targets a day". Like a factory with murder delivery:
"According to the investigation, another reason for the large number of targets, and the extensive harm to civilian life in Gaza, is the widespread use of a system called “Habsora” (“The Gospel”), which is largely built on artificial intelligence and can “generate” targets almost automatically at a rate that far exceeds what was previously possible. This AI system, as described by a former intelligence officer, essentially facilitates a “mass assassination factory.”"
"The third is “power targets,” which includes high-rises and residential towers in the heart of cities, and public buildings such as universities, banks, and government offices."
It was easier to locate the individuals in their private houses.
“We were not interested in killing operatives only when they were in a military building or engaged in a military activity. On the contrary, the IDF bombed them in homes without hesitation, as a first option. It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home. The system is built to look for them in these situations.”