Piloting Drones as a Reforestation Tool
Tree planting typically occurs two years after a fire. Alternatively, aerial drone seeding can occur a couple of months after a fire, once the seed vessels are ready and the winter rains arrive to water the seeds.
Here are the DOGE steps and the order in which they are being carried out:
From my vantage point, we are rapidly approaching step 7. Granted, there will be some variance by project. Please don’t take my word for it. Reach out to anyone you know still working in or with a federal agency and ask.
Many private companies are using a similar game plan for AI adoption. Do not get me wrong, I’m all about automation. A lot of my over 40 years as a developer has been to automate my job away. The point is that you should get the new system working before laying off people, not after.
So on the plus side, despite the current state of the job market, the future for contract labor looks promising in the near future. Similar to the boom from Y2K. I think maintaining contact with your old project is key, since employers will be looking for people with the skill sets of those laid off, as bringing in new people generally takes a good while to get them up to speed.
Oklahoma is trying to out Texas, Texas.
Oklahoma requires ‘America First’ certification test for teachers fleeing blue states
Liberals started leaving a while back, with the governor trying to override/annex the liberal cities, but now it seems the right has had enough as well.
‘Moving to Texas is over’: Podcasters who followed Joe Rogan to Austin rail against state
Not boding well for jobs or paying bills
US inflation picks up again in June, rising at 2.7% annual rate
Be sure to read the study, which analyzed self-reported data from 504 Chinese university art students using structural equation modeling with the equally click-bait title of Dark personality traits are associated with academic misconduct, frustration, negative thinking, and generative AI use habits: the case of Sichuan art universities. Essentially, they “discovered” that students with “dark traits” are more likely to utilize AI tools to assist with their homework, achieve good results, and continue using them. Sounds like maybe the problem is the ones not using AI tools.
This is a great video to cut through the hype on AI from both sides.
Apple’s ‘AI Can’t Reason’ Claim Seen By 13M+, What You Need to Know
Multiple Texas Farms Shut Down After ‘Almost 100%’ Of Workforce Vanishes Overnight
Looks like food prices will be on the rise again.
Think movies and shows entirely generated from AI are still a long way off? Check this video made with Veo 3 that starts at just $67/month
The administration is terminating leases for 11 OSHA offices, including the one in Houston. Trump has cut 10 percent of its workforce, and more layoffs could be coming. See Will Texas Workers Ever Get a Break from the Summer Heat?
Harper Reed on coding with AI video
Some great tips, but it’s clear he’s rewriting the entire app to add a feature or fix a bug, which I don’t believe most companies will adopt, as they prefer the code to change as little as possible to avoid introducing new bugs. Since most of the work that paid programmers do involves fixing bugs, upgrading versions (like Java 8 to Java 17), and adding features, I foresee AI being an excellent tool for researching new functions instead of googling and clicking on numerous links to find a working example among all the unanswered and incorrectly answered question posts. I see the next step as utilizing tools to read your codebase and requirement documents to build a model that can “understand” your application. This model will collaborate with coding models to generate updates for your codebase and tests for those changes. Perhaps in a decade, management will feel comfortable removing the last human coder, at a senior or lead level, from the loop.
UPS to cut 20,000 jobs, close dozens of buildings due to lower Amazon volumes
Note also adding automation.