{"id":150444,"date":"2023-12-05T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=150444"},"modified":"2023-12-04T13:35:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T18:35:12","slug":"tuesday-euromadness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=150444","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Euromadness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Follow-on to Slow Joe’s AI comments on Monday – several weather-forecasting groups in France are striking, because forecasting algorithm’s predictions are\u00a0 considered so accurate that no human vetting or intervention is needed.<\/p>\n

Unions have blamed staff cuts for the debacle. Mr Lartisant told Lib\u00e9ration that previously, \u201cseven people assessed supercomputer bulletins, one for each major region, seven days a week, 24 hours a day. With the new organisation, there is now just one person in charge of this\u201d.<\/p>\n

Unlike traditional models which rely on running current conditions through physics equations and computer algorithms, the new programme uses a neural network to learn how the atmosphere evolves over time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(All the following\u00a0 temperatures have been converted from C to F:)<\/p>\n

The software that has led to the strike has predicted that the eastern city of Strasbourg will hit a baking 82.4F on Dec 9 despite it currently experiencing freezing temperatures.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThis data includes absurd mistakes, forecasts of temperatures of 82.4 degrees in Brittany in November, forecasts of snow when temperatures are at 50 degrees \u2013 a whole load of failings that our organisation isn\u2019t able to correct.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n

Strasbourg is considered in the Rhine Valley – if you know anywhere in Germany that hits 80 degrees in December, please let me know? They do have an unusually warm few days coming up next weekend – maybe 60 degrees – but the highest average temperatures in the summer<\/em> are below 80. And Brittany is on the west coast…at roughly the same latitude as the US-Canadian border. See many places in the 80’s this month there?<\/p>\n

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And in the formerly sane country of Wales, in an effort to curb traffic deaths and reduce pollution, the national speed limit in built-up areas has been dropped to 20mph.<\/p>\n

… speed camera-controlled 20mph zones, all previously 30mph, that have been rolled out in a \u201cblanket\u201d policy that has caused crippling delays and could cost the Welsh economy \u00a34.5bn, according to the Welsh government\u2019s own analysis.\u00a0 Telegraph<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A government’s own estimate – bet that 4.6 billion is under by at least 4 billion? 2 signs at the beginning of a speed change, two at the end – 4000 pounds per zone just in signage. Yeah, that second 4 billion may be low…<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, situations like the following have arisen:<\/p>\n

One road in Wales now has eight speed limit changes in less than two miles following the switch to 20mph.<\/p>\n

One 30mph limit stretch in a Vale of Glamorgan village is 520ft (160m) and each new road sign costs \u00a31,000 to fit.<\/p>\n

The road just outside Cowbridge was created after Wales’ default speed limit dropped from 30mph to 20mph in September and now also includes stretches of 40mph and 60mph in the space of 1.8 miles (2.9km) .\u00a0 BBC<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We have places that do that here in Texas – they are usually in small towns whose civic income is 90+% derived from speeding tickets.<\/p>\n

A public health study estimated that the 20mph default speed limit in Wales could result \u2013 every year – in:<\/p>\n