9 Times the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Miscalculated Badly at the Expense of #Taxpayers, #Wildlife
The agency has a history of diving into big #construction projects that exceed projected costs, fall short on projected benefits and, in some cases, create new problems that #engineers hadn’t bargained for.
The Carpentries train researchers in digital and coding skills - allowing them to use computational methods, because universities often aren't placed to do this themselves.
In a time when the only organisations that can train huge models are those that can afford the compute time, we need more people with the skills to evaluate them and find their weaknesses.
We need to find a way to fund the Carpentries or we will have a generation of researchers who won't have the computational research skills needed to keep Big Tech accountable.
Today, I published an op-ed with Wired about #ChatGPT. Looking at the #history of technological developments and innovations for #engineers, we can see a long pattern where management and capital see opportunities to get rid of engineers or weaken their #labor power, try a new technology, and end up either making things worse or making engineering more powerful. https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-coding-software-crisis/
Memorial in the former Institute of Engineers and Shipbuilders on Elmbank Crescent in Glasgow for the engineers of the Titanic, who all died when it sank after striking an iceberg on 15th of April 1912.
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