Re:On Cultures That Build
by cameldrv on Friday June 19, 2020 @01:17AM
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One is Neural Machine Translation, as embodied by, for example, the new Google Translate. For many language pairs you can get automated translation that is actually mostly plausible. It's an incredible aid to global communication.
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I think they meant "Machinists, masons, mechanics and teachers."
To which I would say a lot. Spaceships, CERN, LIGO, giant skyscrapers, and a lot more.
And those are just the high-tech, high-profile projects.
Even a mundane bridge near a small town saves thousands of people a day of making a detour. This might not sound 'impressive', but imagine a bridge that gets used by just a thousand people a day and that replaces a detour that takes 15 minutes longer. That's a 1000 people * 0.25 hours * 2 times a day = 500 human hours saved per day, or over 180.000 hours saved per year. With a lifespan of 50 years equals that to close to 10 million(!) hours or 4500 'working years' saved. This is an example of just a small bridge near a small town, just imagine the benefit of larger bridges (and other infrastructure projects) near the big cities.