Insightful and nicely put :)

Yep! I did this once as someone over 50. It over excreted some muscles in the shoulder and tore the tendons.

It took more than a year of pain to recover.

Never again.

The last unpublished bit of information. I live between between where the guy in the story lived and a where a guy lived that I'll call "the target" that in 2005 was arrested and convicted for having a marijuana plantation. What happened to us was collateral damage from the dynamics between those two and a third party for which I'll let you fill in the gap.

We won the case, then the police appealed. Then we won in appeal as well. But that only means I got to read the police files, not that I could make copies or reveal them. Except that one document that I mentioned.

Yes. Years later I got to view around 1000 pages of police data and was able to view evidence that confirmed what our lawyer thought.

One piece of data that I got freed under the Dutch freedom of information act shows and is publishable shows that the police had indeed made decisions never to come to my house when I called them. The rest of subject to secrecy laws. But I haven't published that.

Okay, you twisted my arm. This is the reason I developed the system. I developed in in 2010, it had a different name then. The new name obviously relates to it being a state machine:

https://www.hydracontrolfreak....

I bet you don't even have an AI driven intruder detection system :-) That's probably why your brain didn't do that.

I didn't say I was going to buy one :-) My current rtx 2080ti works just fine for standard intruder detection.

But I guess I'm biased as I developed the security software. And once the threat was so overwhelming that the cameras and this system were the only thing that helped, I may possibly have not been around without it. That's why I developed the software (Not yolov7, the software that make's use of it, StalkedByTheState).

But you would be surprised. The current rtx 2080ti can't process all of the frames from the 15 or so cameras. Being able to process all of the frames would help in say detecting intruders far away say 80m in the dark and might avoid some misses at that distance. Also, the greater speed could allow you to process bigger frame sizes quicker which would help at long distances at night, right now I process frames of around 640x480 size. Additionally, greater speed can help the effectiveness of loiter detection.

Also being able to process around 150 frames per second would allow a single card in a desktop to protect a largish industrial park.

I expect the top end model will likely be able to process about 150 frames/second of yolov7 for object detection. That's a great security system when coupled with StalkedByTheState :-)

        https://github.com/hcfman/sbts...

Might need to buy some more cameras though.

Hmmm. I guess people old enough to be on slashdot don't generally use this new fangled AI stuff. Am I the only one ?

Or maybe also package install versions that install on older Intel processors that donâ(TM)t support the avx2 instructions ? That would also be handy.

Cool! Maybe we'll get some shiny new arm based packages now for Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 that support both CPU and GPU. Currently, at least on the NVidia Jetson Developer kits, you can't get pytorch plus torch vision installed on these releases with simple apt install commands. You have to make source versions

Pytorch and torchvision make the new yolov7 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.02696) object detectors install easily.

Indeed, in principle you could make some pretty impressive chips without needing EUV by adopting the approach taking with the cerebras chip.

The failure of democracy was a little side ways to the action of the euro parliamentarian. Referring to the whole European Commission structure. A little different to the US failure of democracy which is down to congress being bought and paid for by lobbyists. No one saw that one coming.

Thereâ(TM)s Chernobyl and three mile Island. About 20 years ago scientists were predicting that maybe around 2035 there would begin to be viable fusion power. Maybe better to wait for that. Of course. Perhaps it wasnâ(TM)t so wise to repeatable keep stabbing Russia in the eye and this energy thing might not have been an issue. Bit late for that now.

But on the bright side of things itâ(TM)ll keep people working for companies producing nato certified arms warm in the winter.

Maybe that fission powered warmth you mention will still come ? Perhaps just not in the form you envisioned.