Follow Slashdot stories on Twitter

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment huh? (Score 4, Interesting) 68

So in 2023 in April the burnt area was 50% higher than 2012-2022 average.

Then came floods and burnt area went down,

This kind of whiplash weather... scorching heat waves breaking records, and heavy rains breaking records is exactly what the papers on climate change predict.

Records were broken in 1920s and the 19th century too. you can look at the the data. But what we see is records being broken every year or every alternate year. That has never happened before in the last 200 years or so (or even before looking at ice core data, though that data is limited)

Comment Clickbait...? (Score 0) 69

From the summary :

Deaths from fungal infections are increasing, due in part to growing populations of people with weakened immune systems who are more vulnerable to severe fungal disease, public-health experts said. At least 7,000 people died in the U.S. from fungal infections in 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, up from hundreds of people each year around 1970. There are few effective and nontoxic medications to treat such infections, they said.

Look at the last sentence... Few nontoxic medications

Comment Not a replacement, but a tool (Score 1) 150

Many fields are grappling with the question, "will AI take my job?"

I think a more reasonable response is one I've seen in, for example, the medical profession:

"Langlotz concluded that “Will A.I. replace radiologists?” is “the wrong question.” Instead, he wrote, “The right answer is: Radiologists who use A.I. will replace radiologists who don’t.”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/1...

The same is probably true for software engineers. We can't just hand over the whole task to a machine, but we can definitely get some productivity boosts by having code assistants handy to generate starting point code and same a lot of time.

Comment Not tsunami-like (Score 5, Insightful) 29

"Star-quakes" (more accurately, the excitation of one or more internal acoustic or gravity oscillation modes in a star) are neither tsnunami-like or cataclysmic, and TFA is pure clickbait. In most stars in which they've been detected, the brightness fluctuations they cause are well below the one-part-in-a-thousand level.

They do, however, have the potential to uncover the internal structure of stars, via the technique of asteroseismology. So, the Gaia DR3 release is pretty exciting stuff -- just no need to overhype it with Michael Bay adjectives.

Full disclosure: I am a computational asteroseismologist.

Slashdot Top Deals

What hath Bob wrought?

Working...