@ThinkingElixir Oh no! Who am I going to, “Let’s get into the news,” with. I think the majority of my Elixir learning started with one of your podcasts and following up on the discussions. You will be sorely missed.
BREAKING: Google is planning to release 32 million mosquitoes across Florida and California.
The company has asked the EPA for permission to proceed, with the public given until June 5 to respond.
The mosquitoes are infected with Wolbachia bacteria, which stops them from reproducing and slowly collapses the wild population from within.
Google's previous Debug Project trial in California's Central Valley nearly eliminated mosquitoes from three test sites entirely. A separate trial in Singapore cut dengue cases by 70% within 12 months.
Google has now released over 1 billion mosquitoes across four continents. This new proposal is the largest deployment in US history.
@t_blom This problem will naturally tend to go away as companies are grown from the start using AI. Then you don't need to extract any domain knowledge from people's heads; it will never have been in people's heads.
@johnennis@elves_skill I did read it. Let us know when you actually ship; the internet is full of people running agents for long periods of time thinking they get something useful out of it without ever producing tangible evidence of such.