Readit Newsfrenchman_in_ny commented on My dad could still be alive, but he's not jenn.site/my-dad-could-st... · Posted by u/DustinEchoes
My condolences, very sorry for your loss.
I work as an EMT (911) and resourcing is certainly a problem. In my small city, our response time is around 5 minutes, and if we need to upgrade to get paramedics, that’s maybe another 5-10.
However, if we are out on a call, out of service, or the neighboring city is on a call, now the next closest unit is 15+ minutes away.. sometimes there can just be bad luck in that nearby units are already out on multiple calls that came in around the same time, making the next closest response much further.
for a heart attack or unstable angina, the most an EMT will do (for our protocols) is recognize the likely heart attack, call for paramedics to perform an EKG to confirm the MI, administer 4 baby aspirin to be chewed and/or nitro (rx only), and monitor closely in case it becomes a cardiac arrest. If medics are far away we will probably head immediately to a hospital with a catheterization lab, or rendezvous with medics for them to takeover transport.
The few goals though:
- recognition (it could also be something equally bad/worse like an aortic aneurysm).
- aspirin to break any clots, assist administering nitro if prescribed.
- getting to a cath lab.
I'm coming at this as someone who had an MI at a relatively young age:
For the goals -- and this may differ between EMT / paramedic & protocols -- but I would really wish that there was a blood draw done in the field. Before they bring you to the cath lab with a suspected MI, the ER is likely going to draw blood to get troponin levels at a 2-hour interval. You could save some time & heart muscle by getting a blood sample (containing initial levels) in the field.
frenchman_in_ny commented on American solar farms tech.marksblogg.com/ameri... · Posted by u/marklit
Texas is about as red as it gets and leads the nation in renewable energy including solar. Red or blue, if the gov can setup a situation where renewable energy is profitable then nature will take its course.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/texas-tops-us-states...
There's a very specific reason (or quirk) as to why Texas leads the nation in renewable energy -- ERCOT. Basically, 90% of Texas' electric load is serviced by in-state assets, and they have very few interconnections to the rest of the grid. The electricity dispatch curve is priced on the margin, on the cost to operate the last-fired generator (natural gas), and ERCOT has moved to grow solar as a way to reduce prices.[0]
ERCOT has also had a number of spectacular -- and costly -- failures.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Reliability_Council_o...
"Lewis had unknowingly violated an Indian law that requires individuals to obtain a license before owning or using a personal satellite communication device."
I'm curious -- would iPhone 14 and up be illegal under Indian law as well, given they have the ability to sent SMS to satellites?
I found it especially ingenious when they mentioned: "another candidate wrote more than 120 lines of code to influence A.I. and hid it inside the file data for a headshot photo." Next level steganography.
It chafes me that recruiters feel like it's OK to deploy AI to screen candidates, but feel that it's not OK for candidates to try to game the AI. (Full disclosure: have been job hunting for ~2 years, so somewhat jaded on the AI / ATS world).
frenchman_in_ny commented on Demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high worksinprogress.news/p/wh... · Posted by u/bensouthwood
It's not autonomous because it is rote automation.
It does not have logic to deal with unforeseen situations (with some exceptions of handling collision avoidance advisories). Automating ATC, clearance, etc, is also not currently realistic (let alone "the easiest part") because ATC doesn't know what an airliner's constraints may be in terms of fuel capacity, company procedures for the aircraft, etc, so it can't just remotely instruct it to say "fly this route / hold for this long / etc".
Heck, even the current autolands need the pilot to control the aircraft when the speed drops low enough that the rudder is no longer effective because the nose gear is usually not autopilot-controllable (which is a TIL for me). So that means the aircraft can't vacate the runway, let alone taxi to the gate.
I think airliners and modern autopilot and flight computers are amazing systems but they are just not "autonomous" by any stretch.
Edit: oh, sorry, maybe you were only asking about the Garmin Autoland not being autonomous, not airliner autoland. Most of this still applies, though.
There's still a human in the loop with Garmin Autoland -- someone has to press the button. If you're flying solo and become incapacitated, the plane isn't going to land itself.
frenchman_in_ny commented on Demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high worksinprogress.news/p/wh... · Posted by u/bensouthwood
This is essentially what's happened with airliners.
Planes can land themselves with zero human intervention in all kinds of weather conditions and operating environments. In fact, there was a documentary where the plane landed so precisely that you could hear the tires hitting the center lane marker as it landed and then taxied.
Yet we STILL have pilots as a "last line of defense" in case something goes wrong.
No - planes cannot "land themselves with zero human intervention" (...). A CAT III autoland on commercial airliners requires a ton of manual setting of systems and certificated aircraft and runways in order to "land themselves" [0][1].
I'm not fully up to speed on the Autonomi / Garmin Autoland implementation found today on Cirrus and other aircraft -- but it's not for "everyday" use for landings.
[0] https://pilotinstitute.com/can-an-airplane-land-itself/
[1] https://askthepilot.com/questionanswers/automation-myths/
[0] https://avherald.com/h?article=52f5748f&opt=0