I wonder who has their hands in an AI company and will charge the government a ridiculous contract price to run all of those pointless emails?
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Right on time for the Excel World Championships... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4NP5FBB2G0
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As a chemical/petroleum engineer, this is a great little summary of how these stations work. Good find.
The whole oil scene in California is bad...Between the number of unplugged wells (just look at photos of South Belridge field to get an idea of the potential of what is out there) and the amount of water used in California for oil production (it is a bit different than every other basin in the U.S. due to the oil gravity - the vast majority need steam flooding, so 3-5 barrels of fresh water/bbl oil produced), the state, the one oil producer that you would think wants to be environmentally friendly, is probably the worst of the top producing states.
This will be another huge hit to what I call “Old Pittsburgh”. It’s still very much a steel city, especially in the South Hills. Interested to see that how it impacts the local economy.
As someone from the South Hills area, I, too, am interested in seeing how this goes...Pittsburgh has really changed over the past 30-40 years, replacing a massively overwhelming population of blue collar jobs with white collar (mostly doctors and lawyers). I know a lot of folk who work at/have worked at U.S. Steel and hope the transition works out for them.
Having served on boards, the one thing I have not seen that would be really key (and maybe I just have not been lucky in my searches), is something that answers the question of what is the language around releasing information regarding the company to the press or in a research capacity? Typically there are rules that are set up to give the board notice of anything going out to the public, be it an article or research paper, that allows for a heads up or gives time to discuss the implications of such a thing. While whistleblowers are necessary, was there a need to be a sort of whistleblower in this case? Was there adequate board discussion around the subject and the paper before the release? If not, nobody needs a rogue board member like that and it was definitely not in the interest of the company - she is the one at fault here. If that process did happen, she definitely did the right thing and shame on the board for not getting out in front of it.
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Institutional review board time. We've already been warned that a computer merely enumerating the names of God can end existence. Then surely a computer can also summon ancient demons.
I mean, my computer has Legion written right on the front of it, so this just makes sense.
So, to capture this better, would you then design your factory with acoustics in mind (more so than now), too? Like areas where soundwaves would bounce to resonate and concentrate to hit sensors?
Interesting idea to jack up beef prices even more... So, having worked with a few ranchers out in Wyoming on the oil and gas side, I can tell you that in some cases the cattle have access to free water, but it ain't that good water you and I can drink. Produced water from oil and gas wells, depending on cleanliness at the well head, can be "land applied" and that is what some ranchers use. This water is a health hazard for us, but is supposedly fit for cattle. That water still evolves entrained gas and has some sort of rough minerals/chemicals for the body in it. I wonder if this is all getting captured by their calculations.