Agreed - this just seems to be an extension of the calculator story listed above, except using machine learning. Why wouldn't you use state of the art technology (including those labeled as AI) to help push any field forward?
It gets even more interesting when they are federal but not state crimes. In this case, officers from a relatively far away jurisdiction were seizing cash and cannabis from people following all state and local rules. Just one of the individuals was awarded 1.2 million last week. If this ruling applies to all previous cases police departments are going to go broke paying this back.
Is there a problem with part-time science? I am not reading the article and I imagine this is a tangent, but it would actually be interesting if work in true science was thought of as a part time pursuit, at least by practicing engineers and others in technical fields that had ideas they were interested in studying scientifically but their day jobs are far too lucrative to leave for the pursuit of knowledge. That, or the 20% time policy (again, no idea how this works in practice) being adopted at a more national level, somehow creating incentives for companies to allow their talent to pursue science that might be a bit more out there than would traditionally receive a formal grant.
Same thing happened to my wife. A newly promoted VP transferred her out of a great position she loved to work on a special project he invented to make department look innovative, under promise of a promotion once complete. Instead as soon as the project was done he hired a new manager into another newly created position above my wife, only supervising her. He proceeded to have the manager take all her responsibilities and make her life hell until she quit. Manager was told she would get a director position for doing it, instead they did the same to her a few months later until she quit too. VP promoted to SVP.
For example, bismuth crystals grow in an interesting way and, like h20 are less dense as a solid than a liquid. At the utterly extreme temperature/pressure environments expereinced in the universe, it isn't hard to believe there are solids out there we can't begin to predict at present. Below are some 3D crystal growths at SEM and macro scales for earth examples
The jetstream, like all weather and winds, is on a continuum. There is no barrier where outside of the jetstream the air is static. See the principles of flight and how air functions VERY close to a wing for an example. This is actually a good example, though a bit unrelated.
I went to school in the north bay area, slightly rural. PE taught all of those things, the teachers were great at teaching proper form in weightlifting, the mile "times" required were easy for anyone who didn't walk. I really am not understanding why every comment but yours seems to think PE is possibly the worst experience of their entire education.
Do either of them actually provide any value (apart from homepod audio quality)? For the life of me I can't find a reason to have one of these in my house and I really am not concerned about the privacy issues.
I drive a 30 year old vehicle at times, replaced the engine with a japanese engine at around 60k on it, at a cost of around $2,000 with new timing belt and associated accessories/pumps/etc. The engine is rock solid still pushing out about 450 HP but the suspension, frame, and body are pretty beat at ~200k miles on the car. I would say you really aren't going to have an enjoyable car at much more than 130-150k miles, whether or not the drivetrain is replaced. I did a good amount of work in college on fatigue cycles in metals, and with our roads and infrastructure deteriorating this is only going to decrease the usable life of an average frame/suspension.
In all honesty, as a Materials Engineering student at a "learn by doing school", I could easily have done without the expensive lab equipment, but not without the library. I've always thought industry should be supporting the labs and having students perform some relatively basic work for them, for a random example Scanning Electron Microscope sample prep and basic analysis
Edit: not a current student and graduated 10 years ago.
As some clarification I am all for breaking laws that can really only hurt the individual doing the lawbreaking. The government shouldn't have the right to protect us from ourselves. However, that this could have affected the other items in the payload or existing satellites in orbit if something went wrong is why I am disappointed.
This could have gone an entirely different way. I am glad it worked out but I do not gain respect or hope in a company because they willingly ignored a very serious regulation and the consequences of a failure on their part could have caused a big problem up there. Feels very amateur and irresponsible.
While I agree with your sentiment I wouldn't describe this as hacking, it is much closer to stealing someones car key and then the car (though the value is way off). This does not require any technical knowledge whatsoever apart from using ctrl-F on a password database.
My dopamine response system has apparently never bought into the idea that likes actually determine my value in any way. I seem just use them to see what specific friends or colleagues are interested in and invite them for a specific activity. Vegetarian? Invite them for pizza not a BBQ. Outdoorsy? See if they want to go skiing or hiking some time. Based on what I see and hear I feel pretty lucky.
I had 4 years of CAD in High School (autodesk had an office in town) and one year of 3DS Max, but it really feels like one could take some community college courses and get up to speed FAST.
Sounds like 95% of scientific studies these days. People always try to pick the best option given multiple items to select from. It's basically what you learn in persuasive argument courses - show the best evidence as it is not in your best interest to show the weakest evidence. If they altered it I would find that truly deceitful, but if they just picked the transcoded version that looked best they were just doing their job. Beyond that its just as likely they posted the first one they saw and had no intention to even find the "best" one.