GeoAtreides

it's slate, bacteria and free oxygen won't do anything to stone...

>so am constantly context switching

a recipe for omni-disaster

no, but that's how normal distributions work

Do you know that if I own a house and can't pay property taxes, it gets repossessed and sold? this is common. Let's apply it to stocks and billionaires too.

yes, they're called sadists

>you get changes on timescales of minutes to a few hours but not on timescales of days.

again, correct. That's how they're supposed to work. If the air is very slowly getting worse, MOx sensors might not catch it.

That being said, what "very slowly" means depends on the sensor. For example, for Bosch BME680 (very good with 'organics'), you can set the tracking interval between 4 and 28 days (i use 28). Sensirion SEN66 (very good with 'chemicals') can have a tracking interval of up to 1000 hours.

Open-weights models that need closed markets hardware... (as in the markets are closed because you can't afford it)

The Culture is Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism, not TESCREAL. Musk picked the cool gadgets and the funny ship names, but missed or ignored the ideology

>you can’t really use it to characterize the chemical content of the air

correct, that's not VOC sensors do. you need specific sensors for different gases for that. All VOC sensors are metal-oxide (MOx) sensors, i suggest reading on their supposed applications and uses.

I know. I find it very... peculiar not reading the Culture books, some of the best SF books ever written, just because Musk also read them. Not to mention they're a very direct critique of his (stated) ideology

>More of a Musk thing, by association, surely? Totally out of the cultural frame.

the things i read on HN...

What sensor, exactly, are you describing here? Different VOC sensors have different gas sensibilities, as well as different algorithms to interpret the gas sensor raw data.

You would think this place would instead discuss The Culture more, but that's not happening either.