Update Think about it, many of the Democrat politicians decided to make bald-faced lies about the recently updated election laws in Georgia (which are now on par with the election laws used by many other States in the USA), crying
Category: Engineering
Does AI Mean ‘Augmented Intelligence’?
Update Here is article in IEEE Spectrum magazine (web site) that supports the position of this posting by exclaiming “Stop Calling Everything AI”: Artificial-intelligence systems are nowhere near advanced enough to replace humans in many tasks involving reasoning, real-world knowledge,
Is Anything Else Happening in the World Besides COVID?
The orderly control of pandemics always starts with quick and reliable testing as well as proactive and selective prevention… Neither of which are being practiced with the response to COVID. It appears that the current state of medical uncertainty (i.e.,
Changing the 100 Amp Fuse in a Toyota Camry
I discovered that many electrical items were not working in the faithful 2000 Toyota that we’ve had in the family for 17 years. I opened up the fuse box in the engine compartment (see below) to check the status. I
Practical Application of Statistics & Data Analytics
The press is bubbling with excitement about machine learning, statistics, and data analytics. However, for the rank and file, the applications of these techniques are not intuitive. Here are some interesting applications for recent emotional public events in the election
Perception of Time at the Intersection of Neurology & Physics
With the invention of digital computers, the notion of time as a universal construct has become extremely pervasive. Most data are recorded and retrieved with the construct of a date/time stamp. For example, when people review their bank accounts, they
One More Engineering Joke
How many nuclear engineers does it take to change a lightbulb? Seven. One to install the new bulb and six to figure out what to do with the old one for the next 10,000 years.
More Engineering Humor
Newton asked a group of medical students, science students, management students, and engineering students the question, “How can you write 4 in between 5 with just 2 characters?” The medical students answered, “This is a joke, right?” The science students
Only an Engineer Understands
A pretty decent article in Interesting Engineering: 1. You have the constant urge to build and tinker with something 2. Always thinking about making things work better 3. Going into a project and having absolutely no idea what to do
Engineering Humor
A priest, a doctor, and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers. The engineer fumed, “What’s with those guys? We must have been waiting for fifteen minutes!” The doctor chimed in, “I don’t know,