Also even if you don’t want to get rear ended. You can at least do moderate braking and hit the debris at a slower speed. Humans make these sorts of split second tradeoffs all the time on the highway.
It’s a lot easier to make an AI that highly reliably identifies dangerous road debris if it can see the appearance and the 3D shape of it. There’s a fair bit of debris out there that just looks really weird because it’s the mangled and broken version of something else. There are a lot of ways to mangle and break things, so the training data is sparser than you’d ideally like.
No way. I call in road debris on the freeway once every couple of months. People swerve around it and if it’s congested, people swerving around it create a significant hazard.
In recent history, most all of the rabies cases in the U.S. have been from infections acquired in other countries. The fact that there are outbreaks at all is concerning and suggestive of an immunity tipping point being approached.
In my experience, if you know a few people who are doing the same thing, that’s a sign of a trend. Jeff Bezos has this great quote: When the data and the anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. I’ve also found that to be true. The people you know are different from the average person, but they’re not that different. On the other hand economic surveys and such can be very slow to respond to big changes.
One thing that frustrates me about air quality is that we have sensors for various types of gasses, but when it comes to particulates, the sensors are just telling you the size. The composition of the particle has to make a huge difference in terms of the effects. Metal dust from a brake pad or rubber from a tire must do very different things to your lungs than vegetable oil.
If you look at how a CO2 sensor works [0], you see that it is tuned for a specific material. Characterizing any possible material would be the job of a gas chromatograph [1], which are typically an industrial/scientific instrument as opposed to a more limited mass produced device. Maybe one day the cost (both material and ongoing maintenance) will be low enough to have in one's home.
They also screwed up cmd-shift-g a few versions ago where if you type, say, /Users/me/Documents, it puts you in /Users/me. Now you have to put in /Users/me/Documents/ if you actually want that folder. Then of course the autocomplete wasn’t changed as well, so if you start typing and then cursor down to the completion and hit enter, it doesn’t fill in the slash, so it goes to the parent folder. You have to cursor down, press tab, so it fills in the trailing slash, then hit enter.
It’s theoretically a small annoyance, but it gets me a few times a week since I had muscle memory for the old, correct way. I’ve filed several radars over the years and never heard back. It’s one of those things that makes me want to get a job at Apple, fix the bug, and quit.
Incidentally, this was one of the nice little things that made me switch to the Mac many years ago. There wasn’t any way to my knowledge that you could switch to a path in windows by typing it out from inside explorer.
I recently found out, after getting a big surprise bill, that you can sort of comparison shop now, at least with my insurer. They have a “Treatment cost estimator”, which I’ve found to be pretty accurate, and the price differences from one place to another are substantial.
The problem is that due to the nature of democracy, people expect to be bailed out if there is a huge disaster. If you don’t want to pay another claim, you need to make demolishing the house and rezoning the land a condition of paying the final claim.
This is because very few people have even an extremely rough understanding of the difficulties our nation (and world) are facing. This is an very difficult situation for a democracy. When people are confused about important matters, the most reassuring thing is to be told that there is a fairly simple and understandable solution, and that they should just let the adults get in there and solve it. People will always vote for people who say these things. The reality is that we've gotten ourselves into knots upon knots upon knots.
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