Need a test signal...
Can we have the Norks bomb Florida?
AI can detect signs of nuclear weapons testing banned under the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, according to research from the US Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. A group of scientists have built a neural network to sniff out any unusual nuclear activity. Researchers from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory …
Proud, here at least. Born, bred and absolutely insane.
That's what I like about Cal! Unfortunately, since having visas of some "evil" countries in the east in my passport, it's out of question to go back there any time soon*.
* Yes, I could apply for a USA visa. And no, I certainly won't go through that.
I live here, and have stamps from many of those so-called "evil" countries in my passport. Nobody's even given me a passing glance, so far as I know.
(Note: It's not the country that's evil, rather it's the idiots in charge of that country who may, or may not, be doing evil things. The vast majority of humans, world-wide, are folks you'd probably enjoy shooting the breeze with over a cold one (assuming a lingua franca .. or a good translator, babble fish being the product of a particularly fertile imagination).)
@jake
Nobody's even given me a passing glance, so far as I know.
With USA immigration officers I've only had pleasant, funny experiences, every single time.
I assume, you, living around Napa County, are a citizen of the USA. I'm not but used to "profit" from the visa waiver programme. But now would have to apply for a visa and if you'd check what information they ask for, you might understand why I prefer to stay away. For example, IIRC, they ask information about former spouses which I don't even know.
I'm no victim, no how much my .gov wishes it were so.
The IdiotInChief's comments don't make me feel proud, either. I'm more sad that the moron who uttered those words is actually sitting in the Oval Office. What a waste. What a complete, total and utter waste. Ah, well. In a couple years we can start fixing his fuckups. Onwards & upwards.
I understood the title of the article but little of the explanation made sense to me.
For example:
"The lab, buried beneath 81 feet of concrete, rock and earth, is blocked out from energy from cosmic rays, electronics and other sources. It means that the data collected is less noisy"
Now I would have thought that under those conditions, deep underground, all you're going to detect are neutrinos and very high energy cosmic rays whereas, I believe, that particles from nuclear testing will have lower energies and would thus be undetectable. The 'normal' way of detecting the products of nuclear testing is by airborne sampling.
But the biggest problem with the idea of using AI to identify rogue nuclear-testing events is the quality of the training data. I don't think that there have been enough real nuclear tests to have gathered sufficient training data and suspect that most of it must have been synthetic, which raises the risk of bias.
And there are plenty of "free" nations with seismographs ready to call out on a nation they consider "rogue".
Back in the day, when it looked like South Africa was building a nuclear test site "hidden" out in the desert, Kruschev(?) sent a letter, hand delivered, as a matter of urgency to the British government to let them know and, as the ex colonial power, most likely to be able to bring pressure to bear. Neither UK nor yanks had spotted this development and were alarmed and panicked into confirming ASAP.
Yes, that sounds about the size of it.
A lot of tedious data entry otherwise.
Of maybe just proving that where there's a research grant going begging someone will write a proposal that fits it like a glove.
I mean I get that they can trawl through past data where they absolutely know what was happening. But that assumes they know when all the bombs have gone off in the past, otherwise all they're proving is that the neural net can do what we already can, which doesn't seem like a massive advance.