@corlin
That's the idea.
Build a model. Collect available data. Overlay the data. Run scenarios. Build a task list. Connect them to vendors. Connect them to funding sources.

We're building a tool to help people living near a forest to make a plan to harden their homes and property against wildfire risk.

This requires building many layers of information that doesn't currently exist.

1) Get the perimeter of the house mapped using public data.

Last night I was able to generate the latitude and longitude of the corners of the building as defined by Google Maps!

While not perfect, it's a start. AI and photos will refine that perimeter.

2) Add trees

@TwiHusband
Thanks. Just re-watched it. Still terrifying.

Story-telling is always the most effective means to get a complex point across to the most people.
Data and logic are powerless when influencing the masses.

I just saw this on Telegram.
A UAV (drone) delivering a dog-style robot in a war zone.
This looks like a test.
But, vendors have already started fitting these robots with munitions.
I've read that they are currently using these robots to deliver ammunition to troops in Ukraine.
#ukraine
#israel

@voltronic
It will live here.
Big cleanup project when I install it later in the week.

@voltronic
Yes. The receiver. That was a requirement. I need to switch from the TV to the projector and pull from either the TiVo or a Chromecast or Blu-ray.

Just finished building a patch panel for the new stereo.
I got tired of pulling the old stereo out of the rack to change cables. Broke the audio-optical plug once.
Once this is in I shouldn't ever have to pull it out.
This took 2 days to design, spec and assemble. Just finished labeling.

Taking a self driving taxi to dinner is now normal.
Also, more reliable and civil (no crazy drivers, crazy driving or stinky cars).

@Museek
A friend of mine died of that recently.
Difficult time.
But, she lived 15 years longer than anticipated.
That didn't make it any easier.
She live just north of you in Pacifica. Her husband is a friend of mine. Nicest person I've ever met. Married since they were teenagers.
She was always positive and navigated life with strength and happiness.

@AkomoCombine
All my lady-friends are dressing up a Dorothy.
Then we go out an look for houses giving away adult beverages.

@AkomoCombine
That's because this is my actual Halloween costume that arrived yesterday:
(Not kidding)

The abstraction of "infidelity" does not have a place in certain types of minds.
It doesn't register.
There is no place to consider "OK" or "Bad" or "WTF?"

Those of us that do have that place in our minds to consider these sorts of abstractions are puzzled by those that don't.

Consider how NC Lt Gov Mark Robinson's email address was registered on Ashley Madison.
It doesn't matter to him.
Nor to his supporters.

It
Doesn't
Register.

Before we argue
We must agree
On what our words
Mean

If I use a word...
It means something.

I'm conveying my insight about how the world works or will be.

If my audience (friends, family) does not understand that word, I am not understood.

These are words that describe abstractions that I do not believe my audience understands:

- Data
- Trend
- Probability
- Policy
- Demographic
- Foundation
- Branch
- Endpoint
- Entity
- Alignment
- Governance
- Utilization
- Capacity
- Productivity
- Constraint
- Efficiency
- Accelerant
- Flow
- Concept

I'm finding it disconcerting that I've been using a language that few can understand.

I've been speaking for years while friends and family nod merely in respect and not agreement.

They
Never
Understood

@EvilBunny
In the later era of ancient Rome the emperor needed local, respected leaders to provide local governance. The christian bishops were a convenient role to leverage, which he did.

In my early 30's I was trained to use abstractions to think.

Before, I used intuition and looked for confirming evidence.

I struggled before I learned about abstractions.

I then built a career solving hard problems.

The problems were often created by people who could not use abstractions to understand what was happening to their business.

Now I realize that this "skill" is not shared by everyone.

I cannot use abstractions in an argument and succeed. They don't understand them.

@Usama_Backhair
Just how they got hacked is one layer of "interesting".
Just how Hezbollah failed to assess all of their similar assets is another level of "stupid" (or hubris).

@Usama_Backhair
Interesting.
So, did they then say "you can trust those walkie-talkies 'cuz my cousin bought them on Amazon a few months ago"?

So, let me get this straight.....
Hezbollah gets thousands of its people scrambled by hacked pagers.
Then, the very next day, they get say "Well, we didn't see that coming. Let's start using another electronic wireless device (with a rechargeable battery whose supply chain we haven't analyzed) to communicate. There's nothing to worry about with those, right?"
If laptops and cellphones start killing people on Thursday and then Friday ..... I dunno...
#israel