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Narrow corridor in our life. (Narrow Corridor Part 2)

Our life is like a narrow corridor. There is a line. And at the sides of that line are rooms. The line or great room between those rooms is the life itself. In that room is the beginning. And the final door is waiting for us. The greatest paradox in life is that the only certain thing in that corridor is the end. The length of that corridor is not described.  So we know only that there is an end. In that corridor, we can only make choices that are allowed by law. If we want to stay free. In the real world, there is no absolute freedom. When somebody takes too much freedom that takes the person to jail. The beginning of that corridor is the birth. And the door that is opposite to us is the death. The rooms at the sides of that corridor are points where we spend some time in our life. Those rooms are schools, marriage, and other things that are connecting with our life. In every single room is two doors. And when we are stepping into those rooms we will step out from them.  The reason wh

Narrow corridor in democracy.

When you are the leader of the company. All that is needed is to remember that the leader represents stakeholders. At the national level, the leader represents the people. But then we must understand that the term "people" means different things. The problem is that benefit of a nation and its people might be different from what people want. The private company can kick their workers out.  The state must take care of them until they get new work. But the state cannot kick people out. And even if the person ever pays taxes the state must take care of them.  What if people want something, that is against the long-term benefit of the nation? The populists are the people who are promising short-term benefits. Things like refusing to pay back international loans can seem very nice things. But the problem is this, who gives investments to a nation that will not pay back its loans? There is the possibility that the World Bank will not ask for those loans back. Then all other nations

The economics and environment.

  Things like delivery robots are important for making something interesting. When marketing people offer products, their job is to make the product interesting. That people will click them or touch them. The image of the robot makes homepages interesting. People are always interested in high tech.  And when some new services like home delivery are marketed to customers. The first challenge is to make people click the homepage. Homepages are making products that customers use interesting looking. But they are also making some marketing areas interesting.  Economics is not an independent thing. The economic conditions are connected to the will to invest in the country. And when we are looking at things. That is looking good from the point of view of investments. Investors are afraid of things like dictatorship, corruption, and authoritarian governments. Also, areas that promise nothing cause investors are not interested in that kind of thing.  When an investor gives money to some projec

Why Kaliningrad area is so important to Russia?

Image 1) Nanuchka-class corvette The thing that causes a crisis in Kaliningrad is the location of that city and naval base. When the Soviet Union was gone in 1992 Russia lost all other Baltic bases than Kaliningrad. Another naval base at the Baltic Sea is at St. Petersburg. The naval base is located at the fornix of the Gulf of Finland and the route to that base is very narrow. The distance between Helsinki, the capital of Finland.  And Tallinn the capital of Estonia is about 70 kilometers. And that means the troops can close that sea route quite easily by using missiles and long-range torpedoes. Another thing is that the reconnaissance systems like hydrophones and underwater cameras can observe ships and submarines when they try to go to the open sea.  The location of Kaliningrad is on the straight coast of the Baltic sea. The naval base cannot be closed so easily. And ships and submarines can slip to the open sea easier than from St. Petersburg. The location makes Kaliningrad a more

Question about the survivability of drones against the anti-aircraft systems.

Image 1) Grey Eagle  Some Ukrainian operators criticized drones and say that those systems would not survive a long time because Russians transported effective anti-aircraft systems to the front. A drone is so-called loitering ammunition.  It is a similar tool to submarines and other aircraft. The idea is that the system stays undetected. If the submarine is detected, it's easy to destroy. Same way, aircraft is easy to destroy if some weapons are targeted and locked to it.  ********************************************************************* Forbes says:  The Bayraktar TB-2 Drones are made this kind of result and destroyed the next targets: -6 armored fighting vehicles  -5 towed artillery, -1 multi-rocket launcher -2 anti-aircraft guns -10 helicopters -6 naval ships -3 command posts -1 communication station -2 logistics trains and numerous resupply trucks. Ukrainians lost 8 Baraktar drones The Ukrainian military reportedly started the war with just 30 of these drones and has lost

The dangers of 3D printers are visible.

Image (DailyMail/Teenager, 18, is charged after 'home-made 3D printed semi-automatic rifle is found inside an Australian home': 'It's deeply concerning') The internet of things shows its danger when an Australian teenager printed a fully working semi-automatic assault rifle by using a 3D printer that is bought from the shop. That assault rifle is made of plastic. That thing makes it extremely dangerous because those guns can pass the regular security check of airports.  The 3D printer can make it possible to turn any CAD image into physical merchandise. This thing is the new type of CAD/CAM (Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided  Manufacturing) robot. The 3D printer systems are more flexible than regular robots.  In a 3D printer system, the system turns plastic or metal wires into any merchandise. And that means there are no non-necessary parts onboard. This makes 3D printers suitable for supporting spaceflight. In that case, there are no spare parts that are not nee

The Tesla robot vehicles reported collisions with 16 emergency vehicles.

Oldsmobile 442 (Pinterest) The problems with Tesla vehicles are showing how difficult is to make the AI that can drive cars, especially in the city area. Especially in city areas, many variables must be noticed by programmers. If all variables are not involved in the programs. This thing causes problems with safety. Things like emergency vehicles are so-called very rare. But important things.  Programmers must notice the emergency vehicle's right to go first. But if there is not mentioned a flashing blue light. In fuzzy logic, the computer sees the shape of the target and compares it with images that are stored in its memory. The computer increases the accuracy or in the case of the CCD-based machine views the number of the used pixels of the CCD camera.  The system increases accuracy until it gets a match for the image that the CCD cameras are transmitting to the computer. The fuzzy logic makes programming lighter. But the problem with emergency vehicles in the area of the paintin

Artificial intelligence can make the diagnosis.

Artificial intelligence can make the diagnosis. But it can also find the things like genetic disorders that predispose things like dangerous immune defense over-reaction.  Artificial intelligence can make a diagnosis. The AI can search for things like anomalies in the structure of the tissue. It can compare differences in many separate X-ray images and see changes in brains. Things like changes in the brain structure can tell about Alzheimer's disease or cancer. Artificial intelligence can search and connect many types of data.  Artificial intelligence can make a connection can one individual case. Or artificial intelligence can compare multiple different cases.  It can compare blood analysis. And also the AI can check what kind of nutrients people who have some diseases are eaten. The system can also check the use of drugs and how often a person uses alcohol. Artificial intelligence searches for common and simultaneously repeating details in the diseases.  The system can track the

How do politics, technology, and security effect to the world? From the global level to the individual level?

In global theatre, everything interacts. There are always connections, that people do not recognize or even think about. It's not the same thing as who has the most powerful rockets or the most powerful space programs. In the real world, everything interacts. The thing is that even if we would see the public list about things that some politician would handle during a state visit, there is always some discussions about things that are not mentioned in the public lists.  Things, that are not on the public lists are always interesting and might involve many things that might interest the media. When we are thinking about things like Sergey Lavrov's visit to Turkey, we must remember that this man is one of the most powerful men in the Russian government.  Those people are not moving for anything. There is always a reason for the visits of those people. And when we are thinking about the visit of Lavrov, and the behavior of the Turkish government in the NATO membership of Finland a

A couple of things about the western aid to Ukraine

M-777 Howitzer. (Wikipedia)  Ukraine got military aid from the western alliance. And one of the key elements in that aid is the GPS homing grenades. Those very highly advanced grenades can adjust to detonate at a certain altitude and they are the most effective precise guide ammunition that artillery has ever used.  The GPS must just have the information of the location of the target and the new systems can update that position very rapidly. So the modern GPS-guided grenade can also hit moving targets. The GPS systems that are connected to Javelin and other modern antitank weapons allow to shoot off those missiles over buildings and hills and the shooter can remain unseen.  The GPS will guide the missile at the beginning of the trajectory. And then the optical seeker will start to search for targets. The fact is that the NATO or the controller of the GPS systems can observe every single GPS-guided weapon that is used in Ukraine. That means NATO can control where Ukraine uses those weap

The 6G or 7G technology moves mobile telephones into history.

In the future, mobile telephones will go into history in the form of how we know them. The next-generation mobile technology allows making many new things in the mobile world that are been impossible before. The next step for mobile technology is the thing called mixed reality.  In some versions of the mixed reality, the person wears intelligent HUD glasses. That are transmitting data to the eyes. Those screens can transmit data about sales and the train timetables. But the most incredible thing in mixed reality is the so-called BCI (Brain-Computer Interface). The thing is that the future mobile telephone can operate by using neural electricity.  The term BCI means that the person interacts with computers by using EEG waves. The BCI technology allows technical remote viewing. If two persons are using the microchips that are developed to control prostheses they could also see and feel things that the other sees and feels.  The robots can send everything that they hear and see to the com

Decoy-effect: how do marketing specialists make people see what they want?

In marketing texts, the first image is important. That thing wakes people's interest. And makes a person want to open the marketing material. The main problem with the marketing material is simple. How to make people look at them? And how to make them buy the products that are maximizing the profit.  So the first image wakes up interest. But also, the last image, and last words have an important role. They are the things that remain in memory.  One thing that marketing people use when they manipulate our senses is the so-called decoy effect. The decoy effect means. That a certain product in the line raised above others. Marketing people can make that thing by spotting light on that product. Like in the image above this text. The light is spotted at the door in the middle of the row. And that makes it easier to find. The person would choose that door where is light above it rather than other doors.  The second image is a series of coffee cups. The last one is the largest. And the id

The use of hydrogen in the propeller-aircraft opens new roads for manned, and unmanned systems.

The H2FLY aircraft The RTG (Radio Thermal Generator) would be an extremely good power source for propeller aircraft. The problem in that solution is the highly radioactive isotope that can deliver to nature if that aircraft fill is fall from the ground. The RTG is easy to install on drones. And it can give electricity to electric motors that rotate the propellers of the drone and give it virtually unlimited operational time and range.  The German experimental hydrogen-using drone has reached 2203 meters altitude. The startup company H2FLY created that system. The hydrogen-powered fuel-cell-based propeller drone systems can use oxygen that they are taking from the air.  Or they can use hydrogen tanks. Hydrogen is easy to get if somewhere is an electricity city. The electrolysis chamber is easy to install in the body of the drone or manned aircraft. So the system can create hydrogen from the water that is put in that chamber.  Akinci Drone Wikipedia commons The solar panels and power cel

The black box model in machine learning is the thing that should make robots learn things.

The black box model in programming means that the user doesn't see the code itself. The only needed thing is functionality. The functionality is made in artificial intelligence by using the modules. The modular program is made by using pre-programmed tables or elements that will be connected to the entirety. The learning machines can connect the tables to their entirety. And the complicated learning machine can make large entireties and sub-entireties. Things like walking to a shop can be one entirety, and that thing means that the number of skills that artificial intelligence can do expands like a fractal.  The thing is that a learning machine can make connections between those tables like the real nervous system makes new connections between neurons. But there is a problem with that model. Machine learning requires some values that describe the tables it must choose. There is the possibility that the programmer will drive the mission of the robot first time by using the remote co