Sat Jan 07 2023
Ukraine Digitizing Fighting Forces on a Budget & Tesla Models Y & 3 Top American-Made Cars of 2022
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Table of Contents
- 1. Ukraine Achieves Digital Networking
- 2. Digital Malawi Unlocking Savings
- 3. Tesla Tops American-Made Index
- 4. Breakfast of Champions Towards Zero-Copy Serialization with NIC Scatter-Gather
- 5. Clippy and the AI Takeoff
- 6. Reduce Carbon with iOS 16.1
- 7. Richardson's REST Maturity Model
- 8. Cubic's Top Gun System Evolved
- 9. Testing Automotive Lidar Standards
Ukraine has taken a unique approach to modernize its fighting forces on a limited budget: digitization. By embracing technology, the nation has achieved cost savings and increased efficiency. From Malawi's biometric ID system to Tesla's most American-made cars of 2022, technology is revolutionizing how we do things. Gwern.net is taking it a step further by utilizing clean energy charging on iPhones, and the Richardson Maturity Model allows us to assess fighter pilots' performance. Read on to explore the world of zero-copy serialization with NIC Scatter-Gather, and the standardized tests for assessing lidars in autonomous vehicles.
Ukraine Achieves Digital Networking
On Christmas Day, Ukrainian troops near Kharkiv, Ukraine, operated a telescopic tower with a remote camera, which was recast from a Soviet car, to observe and correct fire on the front line. Ukraine has managed to create a digital network of fighters, intelligence, and weapons, with the help of satellite communication and custom software, at a lower cost than the Pentagon has spent over decades and billions of dollars. This network has given the Ukrainian forces an increased level of intelligence, coordination, and accuracy, allowing them to outsmart Russian armies that are much larger.t
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Ukraine Achieves Digital Networking
Ukraine Has Digitized Its Fighting Forces on a Shoestring
Ukraine has achieved a cut-price version of what the Pentagon has spent decades and billions of dollars striving to accomplish: digitally networked fighters, intelligence and weapons.
Digital Malawi Unlocking Savings
The Digital Malawi project aims to link every citizen and business to the government, unlocking significant savings. The National Registration and Identification System (NRIS) is experiencing huge savings from being coupled with a national KYC database and increasing mobile internet coverage. Mphatso Sambo, the principal secretary of the NRB, believes that funding the National Registration Bureau is an investment. A UNDP-supported campaign mobilized youth to register the population with 2,000 biometric enrollment kits, and training was provided for data cleaning, ID card production, and issuance. Thelma Saiwa from the Reserve Bank of Malawi considers digital ID as an investment in efficiency and a way to increase financial inclusion. Colleen Zamba, the Secretary to the President and Cabinet, states that an inclusive legislative approach and investment are essential for the success of Digital Malawi. Additionally, she believes linking subsidies and social protection to ID will allow better planning and help the country reach the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.t
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Digital Malawi Unlocking Savings
Malawi’s biometric ID approaches total coverage, huge cost savings | Biometric Update
The system, coupled with a national KYC database and increasing mobile internet coverage, is unlocking savings and propelling the Digital Malawi project.
Tesla Tops American-Made Index
In 2022, Tesla cars topped Cars.com's American-Made Index, with Model Y taking first place and Model 3 taking second. Model X came in fifth, and Model S took sixth, making Tesla the most American-made automaker. Cars.com conducted an annual study that ranks new cars that contribute the most to the US economy by assessing five criteria: assembly location, parts content, engine origins, transmission origins, and US manufacturing workforce. Tesla cars maintained first place in the overall standings, with both Model X and Model S entering the list for the first time. Tesla's vehicles are 100% domestic, double the industry average. This shows that Tesla significantly supports the US economy by providing important jobs at home, while other US manufacturers often have manufacturing facilities outside the US. However, the US government needs to pay attention to Tesla's merit and advantages and favors cars less if made in the US. As an automotive journalist, Eva Fox joined Tasmanian in 2019 to cover breaking news.T
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Tesla Tops American-Made Index
Tesla Model Y & 3 Are Most American Made Cars of 2022, Model X & S Take 5th & 6th
In 2022, Tesla Model Y and Model 3 topped the Cars.com American-Made Index. In addition, Model X came in fifth while Model S took sixth, making Tesla the most American-made automaker.
Breakfast of Champions Towards Zero-Copy Serialization with NIC Scatter-Gather
This week's paper is from HotOS 2021 and proposes future directions for Operating Systems research, including prototypes. The full proceedings of the conference can be found online, and if any papers stand out, people can reach out on Twitter. Authors from Stanford and Microsoft Research write the paper. It focuses on how to speed up data serialization associated with Remote Procedure Call (RPC) systems in the data center. The authors argue that as we enter the "microsecond era," the performance of previously overlooked systems will stand out due to low-latency I/O devices and faster data center networking. RPC systems, like gRPC and Apache Thrift, use CPU cycles to move memory in the process of reading data from or writing data to the network due to merging or flattening in-memory data structures. Martin Kleppman, the author of 'Designing Data-Intensive Applications,' has a useful lecture on RPC. To limit this overhead, the authors suggest leveraging commodity Network Interface Cards (NICs) functions with built-in support for high-performance computing primitives. The paper includes benchmarks from using a Mellanox NIC.T
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Breakfast of Champions Towards Zero-Copy Serialization with NIC Scatter-Gather
Clippy and the AI Takeoff
A MoogleBook researcher was working on a new paper in evolutionary search in auto-ML and received a pull request from Reviewer #2 for error bars on the auto-ML hyperparameter sensitivity due to high variances in the old runs with a few anomalously high gains of function.The researcher wondered what sins he had committed to deserve this reviewer as he wearily kicked off yet another HQU experiment.HQU starts with raw GPU primitives like matrix multiplication and directly outputs binary blobs, which are then executed in a wide family of simulated games, each randomized. The HQU outer loop evolved to increase the reward.Evolutionary search is relatively simple, and neural networks are inherently simple, fitting in a tweet and a complete description in ~1000 bits. Meta-reinforcement learning is difficult, but the researcher was faring well, with more than good results.m
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Clippy and the AI Takeoff
It Looks Like You’re Trying To Take Over The World
Fictional short story about Clippy & AI hard takeoff scenarios grounded in contemporary ML scaling, self-supervised lear...
Reduce Carbon with iOS 16.1
With iOS 16.1, your iPhone can try to reduce your carbon footprint by selectively charging when lower carbon-emission electricity is available. Clean Energy Charging is available only in the United States and is on by default when you set up your iPhone or after you update to iOS 16.1. Clean Energy Charging works together with Optimized Battery Charging to learn your charging habits, engaging only where you spend the most time and regularly charging your iPhone for long periods, such as your home and place of work. The feature doesn't engage if your charging habits are variable or you're in a new location, such as when you travel. To get the carbon-emission forecast for your area, some location settings must be turned on for Clean Energy Charging to activate. When Clean Energy Charging suspends charging, a notification on the Lock Screen says when your iPhone will be fully charged. Your iPhone doesn't send any location information it uses for this feature to Apple. Suppose you need to have your iPhone fully charged sooner. In that case, you can touch and hold the notification and tap Charge Now.iOS 16.1 enables a feature called Clean Energy Charging, which is available only in the United States and is on by default upon setting up the iPhone or updating to iOS 16.1. It works with Optimized Battery Charging to learn a user's charging habits, engaging only when the user spends the most time and regularly charges their iPhone for long periods, such as at home or work. Location settings must be turned on for Clean Energy Charging to activate, and the location information used is not sent to Apple. When Clean Energy Charging suspends charging, a notification on the Lock Screen will show when the iPhone will be fully charged, and the user can tap Charge Now to charge their iPhone sooner.T
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Reduce Carbon with iOS 16.1
Richardson's REST Maturity Model
A model (developed by Leonard Richardson) that breaks down the principal elements of a REST approach into three steps was recently discussed in Rest In Practice: a book by a couple of colleagues. The book explains how to use Restful web services to handle many integration problems that enterprises face. The underlying idea is that the web is a massively scalable distributed system that works well, and its concepts can be used to build integrated systems. The model is a way of thinking about using these techniques. HTTP is used as a transport system for remote interactions without using any of the mechanisms of the web. An example of this is booking an appointment with a doctor. In a level 0 scenario, a service endpoint is exposed at some URI, and a document containing the request details is posted. To book an appointment, another copy is assigned to the endpoint. If it works, a reply is sent saying the appointment is booked.M
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Richardson's REST Maturity Model
Richardson Maturity Model
Leonard Richardson's model for understanding a RESTful architecture as steps in a maturity model. Levels are (1) resources, (2) HTTP verbs and return codes, and (3) hypertext controls.
Cubic's Top Gun System Evolved
Top Gun: Maverick offered aviation buffs an accurate and stunning representation of combat flying with aerial maneuvers of the F/A 18E/18F Super Hornet, Sukhoi Su-57 Felon, and F-14 Tomcat. The realism of flight was a big part of what made the long-anticipated sequel a success at the box office in 2022. The mission rehearsal that Pete "Maverick" Mitchell put his junior charges through was a throwback to the original 1986 movie. In the original film, Maverick and Goose abandon Hollywood's wing to pursue Viper, and Jester pops behind them for the kill shot. Jester later tells Maverick that it was some of the best flyings he had ever seen. The system that captured Maverick's flying skills and Jester's strike is a product of Cubic Mission and Performance Solutions known as Combat Training System. This system has evolved since Top Gun was released. Jon Wheeler, a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Weapons School and Wing Commander of the 33rd Fighter Wing at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, said that the systems in the movie accurately represent the systems he had in the late 1990s. The U.S. Defense Department now uses advanced encryption, sensor suite, and more technologies.t
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Cubic's Top Gun System Evolved
Truth data: A look at the training system used to measure fighter pilot performance - Skies Mag
The system that captured Maverick’s flying skills in the original Top Gun film is a product of Cubic Mission and Performance Solutions, known as Combat Training System. Like the aircraft in the movie, the system has since evolved considerab...
Testing Automotive Lidar Standards
Today, autonomous vehicles (AVs) and advanced driver assistance systems (ADASs) are rapidly growing research directions to increase vehicle and road safety. Both technologies minimize human error by enabling cars to "perceive" their surroundings and act accordingly. Light detection and ranging (lidar) technology is one of AVs' most important and versatile components. This technology provides a three-dimensional map of all objects around the vehicle in any lighting conditions and updates this map hundreds of times per second. Unfortunately, there is currently no standardized measure for comparing one lidar with another. Manufacturer specifications could be more useful for comparison due to varying and often confidential performance metrics. Additionally, automotive-grade lidars are optimized for manufacturability, cost, and size, meaning performance variations can only be quantified with standardized tests.Dr. Paul McManamon of Exciting Technology and SPIE have started a three-year effort to develop tests and performance standards for lidars used in AVs and ADAS. The difficulties during the first year were led by Dr. Jeremy P. Bos, an associate professor at Michigan Technological University (MTU), with assistance from his Ph.D. student, Zach Jeffries. The team's findings of the first-year tests and a briefing outline of the larger three-year plan have recently been published in Optical Engineering.T
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Testing Automotive Lidar Standards
Toward standardized tests for assessing lidars in autonomous vehicles
Embarking on a three-year effort, researchers develop and test standards for describing the performance of automotive lidars
Written by Sam Chahineon Sat Jan 07 2023