Comment Peer review (Score 1) 109
So now we need some sort of peer review system for AIs?
So now we need some sort of peer review system for AIs?
"...amounts of climate-warming emissions"
-- it releases heat.
.... is to make it less understandable?
whether the driverless cars' systems/software takes into account the possible behavior of other drivers. For example, experience tells me that another driver will sometimes expect without caution that the driver ahead will not stop at a yellow light and proceed even if the light will be red for them. Then "unexpectedly" the driver ahead stops (as a driverless car likely would). Drivers run such "orange" lights regularly and rear-end collisions do occur, sometimes fatal like the one described in the article. I don't know if such was the case for this collision, but it does inspire the question.
So, question for Math Olympiad participants: "You are trapped in a hole too deep to climb out of and all you have is the shovel you dug it with. Devise a way to escape from the hole."
This is a valid math question because "math is all inclusive".
Trump changes his MAGA hats to blue?
Or the media swaps the red and blue colors for states?
Just askin'
A bottle labeled "HOOCH" in the lab would probably be mistaken for HCOOH and that's not the kind of acid to take to a party even if they call you "The Chemist".
.... to extinction. Problem solved.
Because many railway trains run on power from overhead or through the rails, each car could be topped with an array of panels that feed their output back into the grid after extracting what the train needs for propulsion. Even when a train is sitting idle it can be generating power during the day. Maintenance only takes a car out of service for a short time.
.... pays off
to hear the droning of drones along with the sound of their rattle-trap trucks. For the small packages I'd rather they use self-driving cars (ground drones) unless someone invents a stealth drone.
The predictions of the models cannot be too dire or the world governments will no longer be able to control people by putting the blame on them if they do not behave in ways to reduce the warming. Too dire equals "can't do anything about it", so people will refuse to do anything.
It was in the 70's when I worked as a student for an atmospheric scientist who told me of his hypothesis that jet aircraft contrails were seeding high altitude cloud formation and therefore changing Earth's reflectivity (albedo). He said as time goes on and there are more and more flights every day, the effect will become measureable.
That got me to thinking that whether or not the warming is triggered by carbon-based molecules, the warming causes more evaporation of water and as an even more potent greenhouse gas that water vapor causes more warming which increases evaporation and so on. The vapor returns to Earth's surface due to increased rain and snow and eventually there will be an equilibrium reached at some higher average global temperature. I'm not sure that the cycle, once set in motion, can be affected by doing anything about carbon. It is water vapor (especially at high altitudes) that matters now.
I've always wondered why emphasis is not mostly on how to cope with the higher temperature in case it is unavoidable.
... more people are collecting the national parks & monuments quarters since COVID has resulted in more idle time and family time. Imagine each child in the U.S. collecting at least 50 or even 100 quarters during the last couple of years.
... and imagine what happens when the exit gate opens and a projectile moving at escape velocity hits the atmosphere.
of the Slingatron comes back to light. Next will be an attempt at the space elevator.
The number of arguments is unimportant unless some of them are correct. -- Ralph Hartley