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By scooby
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-12/danl-mls121718.php

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Anonymous said…


Sandbox science. As soon as Bechtel leaves the scientists go cowboy and study anything that just springs to their mind. This really boils my blood. What do earthquakes have to do with anything at LANL or nuclear weapons? Machine learning at a NNSA lab is crazy just crazy.
12/30/2018 9:40 AM
Anonymous said…
LANL has a many-decades long history of excellent research in earthquake monitoring (a cousin to nuclear test monitoring), and an excellent reputation in planetary and geosciences of all kinds. LANL is and has always been a multidisciplinary laboratory. If Bechtel tried to restrain or deny that, it never understood LANL, and good riddance. If your blood boils, you die - just sayin'
12/30/2018 4:50 PM
Anonymous said…
This is actually in the NNSA mission at least coincidentally. Earthquakes help tell us about other things.
12/30/2018 6:11 PM
Anonymous said…
LANL Researchers should apply machine learning to mine data, human behavior, profits, and politics, to predict the next avoidable LANL accident. No really, they should.
12/31/2018 12:29 PM
Anonymous said…
December 31, 2018 at 12:29 PM

No actual technical knowledge, huh?
12/31/2018 5:19 PM
Anonymous said…
December 31, 2018 at 5:19 PM

Never heard of how to improve worker safety, health, and environmental management, using machine
learning techniques? Not big on being situationally aware, huh?
1/01/2019 2:20 AM
Anonymous said…
Situational awareness is big for hunters, soldiers in combat, people on busy urban streets. For scientists in the lab, not so much. Technical and scientific awareness, yeah. But you don't know anything about that. Like I said, no actual technical knowledge.
1/01/2019 5:03 PM
Anonymous said…
"Situational awareness is big for hunters, soldiers in combat, people on busy urban streets. For scientists in the lab, not so much. Technical and scientific awareness, yeah..."

If you believe situational awareness only applies to hunters and soldiers and not to scientists in the lab, you are a potential danger to yourself and your lab coworkers. You may have a scientific or technical background, maybe, but probably not at LANL or LLNL, or you are a new hire.
1/01/2019 9:42 PM
Anonymous said…
Situational awareness is big for hunters, soldiers in combat, people on busy urban streets. For scientists in the lab, not so much. Technical and scientific awareness, yeah. But you don't know anything about that. Like I said, no actual technical knowledge.

January 1, 2019 at 5:03 PM

Exactly my point and why it is a waste of time to have something like machine leaning at an NNSA lab. We do not do situation awareness at the labs and as you noted there is no technical knowledge either.
1/01/2019 10:06 PM
Anonymous said…
Machine learning applied to past and future LANL accidents has a negative PR value, predicting earthquakes has a positive PR value.
1/02/2019 12:25 PM
Anonymous said…
as you noted there is no technical knowledge either.

January 1, 2019 at 10:06 PM

That was referring to you, not to the labs.
1/02/2019 5:49 PM
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