AI Predicts Manhole Explosions In New York City 213
reillymj writes "Every so often, a 300-pound manhole cover blows sky high in Gotham, followed sometimes by a column of flame and smoke. (There are a few hundred 'manhole incidents' per year in the city, not all of them this dramatic.) Researchers from Columbia University applied machine learning algorithms to Con Edison's warren of aging electrical wires and sewage access points around Manhattan. As the system learns where dangerous mixtures of sewer gas and decrepit wiring are likely to come in contact, it makes forecasts about trouble spots, including where the next explosion may occur. The team has just completed rankings for manholes in Brooklyn and the Bronx, and plans to return to Manhattan's grid, armed with the most recent inspection and repair data." The research was published in the July issue of Machine Learning.
I saw Batman, I remember this (Score:4, Funny)
I thought those manhole popping incidents were due to the heavy microwave emitter vaporizing the water?
Re:death by manhole cover? (Score:5, Funny)
I can beat the machine (Score:5, Funny)
Its a male, male, male world (Score:1, Funny)
Why not call it 'humanhole incidents', you male chauvinistic pigs??
Re:death by manhole cover? (Score:5, Funny)
Oh yeah, Coyote ACME style, the only problem is calculating the event at the precise moment when the roadrunner is right above the manhole cover, or so that it gets right underneath it, I still think it is the Coyote who'll get hurt.
Re:death by manhole cover? (Score:4, Funny)
you spend an oddly large amount of time planning to break into sewers. Personally I put most of my effort into avoiding rivers of shit.
Re:death by manhole cover? (Score:5, Funny)
Prognostication process revealed (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Who? (Score:3, Funny)
No Al is a hologram projected from the real person in the future... He actually doesn't predict it himself he uses Ziggy a supercomputer with a personality, to do the actual predictions. He is telling us this so his friend Sam Becket (who looks a lot like Captain Archer from Star Trek Enterprise) can Quantum Leap again hopefully back to his own time...
Re:death by manhole cover? (Score:1, Funny)
you spend an oddly large amount of time planning to break into sewers. Personally I put most of my effort into avoiding rivers of shit.
Dude's name is drinkypoo. What did you expect?
Re:death by manhole cover? (Score:5, Funny)
>> large-scale version of the party blower
I think this would have to make a tremendous farting noise.
Sure an AI can predict the explosion (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:I saw Batman, I remember this (Score:3, Funny)
Did anyone else read this and immediately just start giggling? In my defense, it IS Friday...
Please, think of the children... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Rio de Janeiro (Score:2, Funny)
You Brits are so soft. I suppose that an average British family can expect their children to survive into adulthood. What a bunch of pampered pussies.
Re:I saw Batman, I remember this (Score:3, Funny)
I read it and thought: 'who is Al?'
They need a better font.
Re:I saw Batman, I remember this (Score:3, Funny)
You might not be a physicist, but you'd still suck to go to the movies with.