Tried to copy/paste some excerpts for context, but weirdly, the bulk of the text content on that page is not text, but are part of images.
I was curious to know what was meant by "small data". From what I understand it goes something like:
* most often, only recent data is useful,
* single computers are enough to deal with the volumes of such recent data,
* local development is better for this (since individual computers are 100 times more powerful than when "big data" hype/trend emerged).
I have two reads: one is that if you are doing information extraction with A.I. your bills are big so your data had better be small; if on the other hand “small” is supposed to be contrarian to “big” they could better represent contrarianism by having the conference in Wisconsin or the Research Triangle Park area or any place where you feel it’s safe to stay someplace other than the conference hotel.
To add some context: the astronauts are not "stranded" in space. They are in the international space station. They were supposed to get back on this capsule after a few days stay, but they are now expected to stay in the ISS and get back only in February on SpaceX capsule/vehicle.
Nobody is stranded. At no time does NASA not have a plan to evacuate the space station if there's an emergency. There's currently 7 people aboard and 5 space craft docked, all of which can carry multiple people, all of which can be used to get people off the station.
You’re describing a plan for how to deal with stranded astronauts. If I’m on a road trip and my car breaks down at a gas station, I’m stranded. Even if there are other people and other cars at the gas station, and even if I still have access to emergency services, and even if I have a plan for how to deal with being stranded at a gas station.
I think some of us have a different (and perhaps colloquial) definition of stranded. Like, on a deserted island with no practical way home until some random ship happens to come by.
Stranded means you have no means for moving from where you are, or really no practical/acceptable means (you could swim off a deserted island for instance, but that probably wouldn't be considered a practical means of moving off the island).
Boeing has stranded these astronauts on the ISS because it has no (acceptable) means of bringing them down, and the astronauts themselves have no personal means for doing so. If they want to become un-stranded then somebody will need to arrange the means for them to come down.
That doesn't mean that it's impossible for somebody else to provide those means, or that the means simply don't exist in any capacity. But they meet both the dictionary and common colloquial definition of stranded.
There is no emergency that would require launching a rocket. They have craft docked to the space station at all times that they can return to Earth on at a moment’s notice.
I thought about this overnight and isn’t the real problem that nobody is saying is that NASA never wants less than 1 re-entry module on even an empty ISS, so that if god forbid they had to evacuate everyone for any reason other than a dead station, that the next crew has two ways to get home?
So even though everyone fits in the existing modules there is no spare if they let these two go home.
That's not context. It's apologia and Boeing propaganda. An 8 day mission turning into a 6 month mission that can only end because a completely different company brings them home is the definition of "stranded".
That's like saying that after 9/11 when all flights were grounded and you, as a New Yorker, weren't "stranded" in London because, hey, you could always row a boat back. It's such a weird and meaningless semantic defense.
Had zero intentions of defending Boeing (or anyone else) here. I made a mistake about the meaning of “stranded” in my comment. What I should have said is “they are not stranded in space like how the two main characters in the film ‘Gravity’ were stranded”.
Mistake made, lessons learnt. Apologies.
As per the article, the SpaceX vehicle due for launch later this month will only carry two of the four astronauts originally planned. The two empty seats will be used by the two delayed-return astronauts when the vehicle returns in February.
That's the intended return vehicle, but "lifeboat" refers to how they will get home if they suddenly need to leave the station due to an emergency now (before the SpaceX vehicle launches).
Stranded: Left without the means to move from somewhere.
If you are stranded on an island, it implies you have no means of return. They have a means, to return on the same capsule. They also could return on another capsule. NASA decided to not take the risk, as there are other less risky options available.
If there were no other options, NASA would send the back on Starliner, and it would still likely be much safer than something like the space shuttle
Nobody plays these semantic games with the word stranded in any context other than Starliner. If somebody's car breaks down they can fairly claim they were stranded even though they could call an uber or even hitchhike and nobody pisses and moans about them not truly being stranded according to some dictionary definition of the word. Boeing has made you their PR bitch.
Sorry to hear your privileged existence never had to rent a car last minute and drive 13 hours, Steve Martin and John Candy style. Because I certainly have.
The article doesn't mention how or what kind of location data will be collected/used. There is no explicit mention of tracking location using smartphones or laptops.
It is mentioned that the firm already uses location data in connection with billable hours (verifying/approving the billable hours, I'm guessing). Again, no mention of how/what location data is collected.
It is mentioned that EY does something similar (office attendance tracking) using swipe card data.
Summary: "Plan with AI" then offered me a timetable that tried to ensure I get to watch all the chosen films over the week, with no screening time conflicts.
Longer walk-through:
Took an initial 10 seconds to figure out what I should be doing. The confusion happened because all the films were selected by default and therefore the "Plan with AI" button did not do anything.
But it told me in the tooltip/infobox "select 12 films or less". Good. But wasn't clear how do I change the selection individually, or even the fact that all films were selected by default.
Tried the "Unselect all". Then it all clicked.Randomly selected around 6 films. Saw on the calendar that the same film has repeat screenings on multiple days.
"Plan with AI" then offered me a timetable that tried to ensure I get to watch all the chosen films over the week, with no screening time conflicts.
There may be edge cases I'm not aware of, but overall, this was impressive to me.
"Planning" really feels like an area where AI can offer so much of meaning and value.
Suggestion:
How about either enabling "unselect all" by default, or limit default selection to 12 random films.
Curiosity question:
How did you arrive at the number limit 12?
> Our central question is whether there is a “STEM crisis” or a “STEM surplus.” The answer is that both exist. Our analysis yields the following findings:
The STEM labor market is heterogeneous. There are both shortages and surpluses of STEM workers, depending on the particular job market segment.
During the curation, how do you deal with problems for which some solutions exist but that some users are not aware of yet?
I would guess that social media will be so noisy with people complaining and thinking up tools/solutions. What level of signal-to-noise ratio would this service be able to manage?
Also, at least a preview of one week's newsletter would be appreciated.
I have some automation running but it's not fully automated, once I collect the problems I validate the idea researching if it's already implemented and if it would be a good idea to implement or not before sending it to your inbox. After that it will be you deciding to build it or skip.
>Councillors say they see what Phorest is trying to do, but that it’s not what the city overall needs.
“I definitely empathise with the CEO and company, said Eoin Hayes, a Social Democrats councillor with long experience in the tech industry. “It’s an effort at creative problem solving, but it’s going against the grain of what we’re trying to do with housing policy.”
I was curious to know what was meant by "small data". From what I understand it goes something like: * most often, only recent data is useful, * single computers are enough to deal with the volumes of such recent data, * local development is better for this (since individual computers are 100 times more powerful than when "big data" hype/trend emerged).