Saturday, December 10, 2022
Monday, December 5, 2022
Digital Twin Spin
Another episode of I Read The News Today Oh Boy
InSAR Earth Eye - Some folks are thinking about twins in space A Research
Profile looks at Application of satellite technology in infrastructure
monitoring using Satellite Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
(InSAR) monitoring. The site is that of a 5 year UK program that dutifully shut
down when it reached five years. Good sports, what? From
<https://www.cdbb.cam.ac.uk/news>
ESG could be twinish. Since it monitors systems. In realtime maybe. And even as a RT
market. ESG has its failings. Its honest critics who see Green washing is real.
ESG also has its enemies – and these include Oil Loving Texans. A vision of the
future is blurred when the Texas Public Policy Foundation, backed by oil and gas
companies and Republican donors, enters the fray. From
<https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/04/climate/texas-public-policy-foundation-climate-change.html>
Supply chain twin view – From the MIT Digital Supply Chain Transformation lab. In Sloan
Review it is written: “Digital twins observe their physical environment through
a network of sensors that dynamically gather real-time data; they evolve by
learning from this information and its contexts and by interacting with humans,
devices, and other networked digital twins. Such a capability makes digital
twins active and social tools, because they can continuously communicate and
collaborate with their associated physical and digital objects and with humans.
Digital twins support end-to-end visibility and traceability, enabling supply
chain practitioners to spot patterns of highly complex and dynamic behavior.” From
<https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/unlocking-the-potential-of-digital-twins-in-supply-chains/>
Twins go to the city, or let’s get civil - At Columbia
University, a three-year project — Hybrid Twins for Urban
Transportation: From Intersections to Citywide Management — that began in 2021
is working to create a digital twin of key intersections and other locations in
New York City. It is not alone. Other
civil engineering projects involving digital twins include a computer model being created of the Houston water
system and a sensor-based, real-time decision-support system used
by the city of South Bend, Indiana, to better understand the hydraulic conditions in its sewer
system. There’s more: Civil engineers
and others have also formed a new organization, the Coalition for Smarter Infrastructure Investments, to promote greater use of digital
technology in infrastructure projects. From <https://www.asce.org/publications-and-news/civil-engineering-source/civil-engineering-magazine/article/2022/09/in-nyc-digital-twin-project-tackles-traffic> JV
Saturday, December 3, 2022
NeurIPS 2022 Skidoo!
Caption this! Said to be from Lecun session…
LLM Awakens - Prof. Chalmers discussed "Could a large language model be conscious?" at the Nov. 28th opening keynote of the 36th annual Neural Information Processing Systems conference, commonly known as NeurIPS, in New Orleans Read it. ZDNet
Dont lose the compass - “Mortal computation" means analog computers marrying AI closely to hardware will put GPT-3 in your toaster on the cheap. Read it. ZDNet
Friday, December 2, 2022
Holger Mueller, Constellation Research | AWS re:Invent 2022
This is one of the first few Amazon re:Invents .. where
there was no new database announced. So, it was always add another one… They
have enough, right? It's a great approach to build something quick, which
Amazon is all about. It's not so great when customers want to leverage things. And,
ultimately, which I think with Selipsky, AWS is waking up to the enterprise
saying, "I have all this different databases and what is in them matters
to me." - Holger