ᔑᐸᐱᑚᕬᐱᑎ @skanman@qoto.org

@gpowerf you think you would die wearing skates? I can see the coroner smiling now.. I like it.

@Spinybadger it's just lazy programming. When the outbound time is called back from the API, they just "let arrivalMax = new Date(departureTime.getTime() + (3*60*60*1000))" or something basic like that..

If it was me I'd call the Google Navigation API and fetch the average traffic time for the drivers entire route at that particular time, with all stops and just add an accumulative minute per stop. Store the route in the db with the user data linked to the stop. Loop through the stops and inform the user "around x time". I'd track the vehicle using websockets and ping it's location to the server. (Mongodb has built-in geo fencing), I'd set that to maybe like 500 meters in each stop. If the truck enters the fence, send an arriving soon push notification. As the truck goes through stops, I'd recheck the estimate, if it exceeds by a tolerance of 10 minutes, I'd broadcast new arrival estimates to the users.

In most areas this is more accurate than you think and customers prefer it cause it statistically wastes less of their time. Also has a general UI UX practice, less is better, making the user think about a single general time is much better making them think about a span.

Happy weekend!

@diverzija

Best retirement plan. Comment if you got a great unlisted one. Vote on users unlisted one by favoriting.

@torq Its possible due to the rise of instant gratification. In your example, the person might be emotionally triggered by the movie trailer, but never contemplated why. So when you ask the question, instead of them considering the complex dynamics of why, they assume you prefer speed over clarity.

Most people today don't consider why they become emotional or even try to augment it. Consider there's a slider of priority between thinking and feeling. It differs for everyone.

Another possibility is shame. Let's say you're asking your Mom why she wants to see the movie and the main reason is she finds the main actor sexy, she might be just quickly deflecting. Or if there's someone that has a crush on you and they are shy, they might be probing for further engagement with you hoping you want to see the movie too. By asking "why" they instantly feel caught and fear their intentions may be revealed.

I'm a CTO and I experience this often with employees and associates, I just want to collect data so I can do my job better, but it's often perceived as if I'm evaluating their personal performance which scares them when really I'm just thinking, "we've got a hardware bottleneck somewhere", I even started personally increasing benefits, and rewards so maybe they'll realize I'm super satisfied with their performance. That backfired, they became more satisfied with their job => more afraid of losing it.

When I read your post, I laughed so hard because it reminded me of that scene with Thor and Eitri the dwarf in Avengers: Infinity War.

Eitri: Don't do that, it's suicide!
Thor: Only if it kills me.
Eitri: Yes, that's what suicide means.

All humor aside, do you think there's any solutions to this issue? It's getting worse.

Sorry for the long toot, but your toot was quality thought provoking, and thought it warranted a quality response.

@earthjay sometimes, I wish I would have chosen the path of seismology. I'm 41, and I felt my first earthquake visiting Jakarta in I think 2018. It wasn't that strong. I was so strangely excited and was feeling the directions the ground was moving and imagining all the affects on mountains and how the entire surface of the earth is continuously shifting. No thoughts entered my mind about protecting myself cause that's how fascinated and stupid I am. Have a great weekend Jason!

@dm hey Daniel, Welcome to Qoto. I'm a software engineer as well, but my love is algorithms.

I've noticed that most common AI libraries are python driven, so as a pet projects, I've been recreating some of them in other languages to improve versatility, and benchmark performance variances on different configurations. While python handles complex math most efficiently, I've discovered Node handles prioritization and delegation more efficiently when many jobs are queued, and creating microservices in C++ to handle comparing results from various AI libraries, allows applications to process input synchronously into various libraries, and append meta data to the other AI libraries for supplemental reprocessing.

Maybe that's confusing so here's an example.
1) A user uploads an image / streams a video / streams audio into the server. (Image)
2) Node detects media type and initializes the appropriate libraries for that media type and sends the data to them. (Tesseract) (opencv) (SciPy) (Mahotas) (Pgmagick)
3) Node knows there's a threshold of accuracy needed to deliver the results to the user, once the threshold is reached, it returns the results to the user. (opencv) (Mahotas) deliver results to user.👍
4) the real magic begins here.. (Tesseract) (SciPy) are still running anyway,
(Tesseract) found text inside of an object detected by (openCV). And (SciPy) found patterns between the text and object characteristics.
5) Node gets excited and initializes a few microservices that use that data to upgrade all libraries models.
6) Node re-runs step 2, all that metadata that all the AI learned from each other might alter the results a bit, this can be used in the future to decide if it's worth it to wait longer before delivering results to the user from particular combinations of AI.
7) if the results changed drastically enough, notify the user more detailed results are available.

It's so inefficient it's hilarious 😂
This toy could never be used in production..
And to strip all the libraries down to something that is efficient and merge them, no thanks. But I've discovered baby configurations of this are doable.

Can you think of any libraries that might be fun to make learn from each other? Let me know I'd love to try.

Have a great weekend 😁

@nickopotamus hey Nick, Mastadon is different where different servers have clustered different types of people. If you search the Federated timeline for #F1, you can see the servers after the people's names. When you see a server with a lot of like minded people, you can create an account there too so you can scroll that servers local timeline. Have a great weekend!

@borngeek
She's since switched to veterinary medicine and graduated as a DVM.. but I remember when she was in school, we had that discussion too. Now it's even more relevant because of things like the Davinci surgical arm. Imagine that, you learn to perform surgery using a sophisticated robot, by the time you graduated, it's obsolete. That's not how it is yet but that's definitely where we're headed. Medical tech has moved slower due to trials and such, but it's still exponentially growing. As nanotechnology is emerging, they're already talking about repairing and maintaining your DNA. That's finding the cure for cancer and curing aging and death as a side affect. This will require many teams and countless hours of research. So will people become obsolete? Not really, as long as we stay creative. But we're headed for a bottleneck of nurturing higher education. Have a great weekend by the way. I like long posts cause I like clarity :)

@Paulos_the_fog
it's a bit troubling.. I think your right. I also think more people should be talking about it, because let's say you're brain is affected by 30%. If it recovers 25%, you still have a 5% deficit and maybe you don't notice because of the small amount. But 5% across 100m people. That's a serious problem. I also don't believe there will ever be a cure. They haven't cured the common cold, and it's in the same family. Which means the issue becomes an inevitability issue. Even though it's been around for a few years, that's still a short time for a virus. It's got many more mutations to go. I'm not saying it's something that will end humanity. But how much will humanity really be altered?

@LouisIngenthron
You know he's autistic right?
That ought to sum up many explanations about what he does.
Autistic people have challenges with social interactions.
Which does make buying a social network a mystery.
But even with autism, somehow he's still more human than Zuckerberg.
Maybe that's his justification, if Zuckerborg can do it, he can too.

I'm gonna write a children's song..

"the TypeScript is psuedo for..
JavaScript,
the JavaScript instructs the..
Java Runtime Environment,
the Java Runtime Environment was written in..
C,
the C compiles out to..
Assembly,
This is why all our Apps go up in smoke.
It's also why new devs are always broke.
And video game sizes are a joke."

I'm convinced this is the main reason I have no children. 😕