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Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
It's not observing itself, it's being observed by other autonomous vehicles.
Comment · 10 years ago
There are sensors designed for broadacre cropping that will pick weeds out of crop.[0]
As well as sensors that will pickup weeds from dirt.[1]
This would be in the middle of those two problems. There isn't a dense crop to pick the weeds out of, but it's probably slightly too dense to just pick them up from the dirt.
Comment · 10 years ago
Precision agriculture is all about controlling variability. When you have a small plot of all the same soil, under the same weather conditions, your really not going to have much, if any variability, and probably won't actually need any precision agriculture. As opposed to a 400ha paddock where you can have 3 different soil types and different weather at either end of the field.
As for this technology being used on a larger scale, I'd be really interested to see the cost for a similar setup over a few thousand hectares, and what sort of efficiencies might be gained compared to our current system. However I'm not convinced it'll replace our machinery any time soon.
The other interesting use for this would be, if it gained a large enough user base, the sharing of different planting setups and rotations for nutrient replacement. i.e planting crop x and y in rotation, or interrow with crops a and b.
Refactoring of the core networking code has been ongoing for quite some time. See https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/projects/4.
"Can you name anybody with a good background in networking? You can't point to a list of 100 odd names and assert that certain skills must be present"
sipa? He worked as an SRE at Google before starting work on bitcoin. [1]
rustyrussell? He has done extensive work on the linux kernels networking subsystems. [2]
cdecker? He did a phd at the Distributed Computing Group in Zurich which included work on scaling bitcoin. [3]
gwillen? Also a SRE at Google before bitcoin, and worked on Dapper[1].
[1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/pieterwuille
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_Russell
[3] https://disco.ethz.ch/alumni/cdecker
[4] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...