“machine learning” for herb gardens? WTF…talk about a solution in search of a problem!
this is interesting - humanity’s scientific community is getting hidebound and complacent - too content to protect their own careers and social status. Look at them dump on this guy - even talking to him might threaten their funding stream! This is how professional science sold us out on things like herbal medicine & cannabis, atmospheric science (global warming), the cancer epidemic, autism, etc.
Step out of line with dogma and the mob will be gathering with torches & pitchforks:
There are actually quite a few useful applications that may not be obvious. Many of which we already have solutions for but a machine learning approach can actually provide improved results in some respects.
Take a “fuzzy” CO2 controller. This is a closed loop system that “learns” how to apply CO2 depending on how the data is changing based on the interaction between a variable or two. ML is applied in a similar manner but the number of inputs can be much more varied and not directly obvious to how they would affect CO2, for instance. Surprising insights are discovered in this way. For instance, the controllers we have today look at the rate of CO2 change and perhaps account for exhaust events. Taking this one step further, for instance, if we integrate the PAR information into the machine we glean more information about how the CO2 will change apriori to changes in light intensity. That is before the change to the environment actually occurs (on things we normally take for granted). The machine figures out how such changes will affect CO2 based on a bunch of loosely connected pieces of data. Sometimes it’ll guess the correct course of action even if the machine has never encountered a unique situation.
Or how about the leaf image processing. Detection of nutrient deficiencies can be performed using normal image processing and recognition (a form of ML) but then further expanded to account for data collected on other environmental considerations. With a large enough dataset, you end-up being able to “automatically” optimize a system even under a constantly changing environment or for unexpected/unknown situations. Cool stuff could result…
Overkill, perhaps. But, this stuff is coming to you “soon” and it’ll likely be packaged in the same footprint as our current controllers…
Thanks to the overprescription of antimicrobial drugs and use of antifungicides in crop production, a relatively new germ that preys on people with weakened immune systems is rapidly spreading across the globe, according to the New York Times. … A fungus known as Candida auris, kills almost half of all patients who contract it within 90 days
Something else happened last night about 3 blocks from here too. Cops had everything blocked off. 2 shootings in one day. They had the morning crime scene blocked a square mile for about 18 hours.
Reuters revealed that J&J knew for decades that small amounts of asbestos had occasionally been found in its raw talc and in Baby Powder and Shower to Shower, based on test results from the early 1970s to the early 2000s
Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a public health emergency that would require unvaccinated individuals living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to receive the measles vaccine. The mayor said the city would issue violations and possibly fines of $1,000 for those who did not comply.
what is the threat level???