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Dystopian Robot Tailor Makes Terrible Shirts
A Tailored Task
Machine learning and artificial intelligence have been used for several exciting tasks in recent years, including helping fight against mental illness, discovering new exoplanets, and teaching AI systems new languages.
There’s one task that AI hasn’t mastered: making clothing. It probably seems a little mundane compared to exploring the universe, but for most of us, finding a good shirt is more useful than finding a new planet.
A California-based clothing company has been trying to help AI make the move from the fabric of the cosmos to just…well, fabric. Original Stitch lets users create their own button-up dress shirts. The company once tested a service that claimed to be able to make accurately-sized dress shirts using nothing more than a photo of a similar shirt for reference.
Considering that many of us buy clothes online simply hoping they’ll fit, the concept was a savvy one. Even if we get the shirt and it doesn’t fit, how many of us would admit that we ended up just keeping the shirt, rather than trying to wrangle what was required to ship it back?
While it sounded good in theory, as Bloomberg’s Pavel Alpeyev and Jason Clenfield found out, Original Stitch’s ambitious goal to use AI to make shirts ultimately wasn’t up to the task. According to the pair, the first shirt they ordered was “too tight around the chest and too long in the sleeves.” The second (presumably made with the aid of a higher quality photo of the desired shirt) had similar issues. The third attempt couldn’t be buttoned up at all. Given it’s true that some people do wear shirts unbuttoned — but if you bought a shirt expecting to button it up, its inability to do so is understandably disappointing.
A Stitch in Time
Perhaps unsurprisingly, once it was established that the service wasn’t succeeding, it was taken down. As of December when the company shuttered the service, Original Stitch founder Jin Koh told Alpeyev and Clenfield that the service is obviously “still in beta.”
Koh is currently working on an improved version of the computer-vision software behind the service, which could be released later this year. Instead of using one photo, the updated version will require three: one of the desired shirt, another of the wearer’s chest, and the third photo of the wearer’s chest from the back.
For the user, it’s a little more work than the first iteration of the service (imagine asking a friend to take a picture of your back). If it works, having the ability to buy tailored clothes online would likely be appealing — especially if it eliminates the need for going to the store and trying on clothes in the dressing room, for those who dislike doing so.
We’ve known for a while that automation is expected to impact many industries in the years to come, but who could’ve ever guessed tailors would be at risk of being replaced by robots?
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The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) observatory has recorded five blue jets , an anomalous type of lightning that strikes from the top of a thundercloud into the stratosphere. This is reported in an article published in the journal Nature.
On January 20, a video filmed from the International Space Station was posted on the channel of the European Space Agency, which puzzled all academics who study the atmosphere and build theories about how everything works there:
The 10 microsecond jets were sighted on February 26, 2019, near Nauru Island in the Pacific Ocean. One of the lightning flashes produced a jet that reached the stratopause – the boundary between the stratosphere and the ionosphere at an altitude of about 50 to 55 kilometers. In addition to the jets, “elves” were recorded, which are expanding rings of optical and ultraviolet radiation in the stratosphere, lasting no more than a millisecond.
Electrical phenomena in the upper atmosphere are poorly understood and attract a lot of attention from physicists from around the world. They are short-lived and vary greatly with altitude.
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The blue jets belong to streamers – branched filaments of electrical discharges, similar to those generated by Tesla coils. In addition, blue jets are more likely to occur as a phenomenon than previously thought.
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The impact of the asteroid that destroyed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was so powerful that it sent into space huge volumes of earth’s soil and rocks from the crash site. But together with them, he could send into orbit the remains of living beings, including dinosaurs.
Such a possibility is discussed in the book “The End of the World” by the scientific journalist and winner of several awards Peter Brannen, according to the Daily Mail.
It is known that an asteroid or meteorite about 10 km in size collided with the Earth 66 million years ago, forming the Chikshulub crater on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. About 15 trillion tons of ash and soot were thrown into the air. Because of this, during the day it was dark on Earth, like a moonlit night.
As a result of the lack of light in plants, photosynthesis slowed down, which could lead to a decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere. Temperatures on continents dropped by 28 ° C, in oceans by 11 ° C. The disappearance of phytoplankton has led to the extinction of zooplankton and other marine animals. Other species died after them.
This is one of the largest mass extinctions in the history of the Earth, which is called the Cretaceous-Paleogene. Brannen, trying to make the numbers more descriptive, points out that the asteroid (or meteorite) was larger than Everest and crashed into the atmosphere 20 times faster than a flying bullet. At the same time, the pressure of the atmosphere was so strong that a crater in the Yucatan began to form even before the asteroid fell.
The “response” release of soil into the atmosphere occurred only within a second or two after the impact and was incredibly powerful.
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