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Post by noetsi on Jul 24, 2019 22:41:20 GMT -5
I know computers can be wrong (well people can be, the computer does what it was told). My point is even if they are wrong it will be hard to argue with a computer. No one will likely “argue”. The more likely issue would come when a ball passes through without being read. Silence. Hold on folks, while we go to the replay camera... That would likely be on site, so no long delays like we get now on protested calls. So unless there is a highly advanced system I haven’t heard of (NORAD, anyone?)... there are potential challenges to overcome... Cyberdyne has an excellent system although there are some downsides... |
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Post by chiyankee on Jul 24, 2019 22:44:06 GMT -5
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Post by utahyank on Jul 24, 2019 22:45:04 GMT -5
How do you argue with a computer... I sent a solar proposal back to the designer last week because he did a bad job inputting data and it was wrong. You’ve surely heard of garbage in, garbage out. I’ve caught multiple bad spread sheets in the past and will catch many more because I’m pretty quick with math in my head... I would think that someone will have to set up a strike zone for each hitter. In my mind’s eye I see the hitters being stood up in their batting stance and perhaps have some magnetic or similar tape applied and a laser measurement taken. Believe it or not RFID is not completely infallible. I’ve seen it fail in a manned similar to what we all see when a barcode, or a barcode reader fails in a retail store. Sorry I have experiences that I can share with anyone who has a pollyannish view point of this as an easy solution. I feel it to be feasible, but there will be challenges. Baseball will probably have to use film as s backup in case the system fails mid-game... Leon....it is not a difficult engineering feat, believe me....the accuracy bar using the eyeballs of the umpires is set so low, that it would be almost laughably easy to make a robust, redundant, accurate system that would blow whatever "accuracy index" measure you wanted to employ out of the gosh-darn water.....if accuracy is the goal, there would be no comparison....if you still want the HP umpire to continue in the same way since Cartwright or Doubleday, it has to be with the tacit acceptance of bad calls.....mark me down as a pollyanna on this issue.... |
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Post by kaybli on Jul 24, 2019 22:47:33 GMT -5
They're already using robotic umpires in the Atlantic league with great results:
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Post by noetsi on Jul 24, 2019 22:47:49 GMT -5
Utah ....EMP
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Post by utahyank on Jul 24, 2019 22:55:09 GMT -5
I doubt it would be a problem that could not be shielded....lightning can be dealt with...nearby nuclear blasts produce troublesome EMP's, but no one would care...  |
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Post by noetsi on Jul 24, 2019 23:00:21 GMT -5
I doubt it would be a problem that could not be shielded....lightning can be dealt with...nearby nuclear blasts produce troublesome EMP's, but no one would care... well the would care but probably only briefly. One of my first major research projects was on EMP. Almost nothing is known about it since the only test that generated it (Swordfish prime) was the first and only high level nuclear demonstration. There is lots of theory, but very few certainties. But given that Swordfish knocked out power thousands of miles away and that was to vacuum tubes that are far more resistant to EMP than modern electronics.. |
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Post by utahyank on Jul 24, 2019 23:11:54 GMT -5
I doubt it would be a problem that could not be shielded....lightning can be dealt with...nearby nuclear blasts produce troublesome EMP's, but no one would care... well the would care but probably only briefly. One of my first major research projects was on EMP. Almost nothing is known about it since the only test that generated it (Swordfish prime) was the first and only high level nuclear demonstration. There is lots of theory, but very few certainties. But given that Swordfish knocked out power thousands of miles away and that was to vacuum tubes that are far more resistant to EMP than modern electronics.. the technology has advanced a long way from early days, noetsi…..the early integrated circuits became leaky and failed in relatively low level radiation environments.....there was massive work in the 60's through 80's at developing Radiation Hardened Integrated Circuits....I won't go further than to say great progress has been made in that area.....you have revealed some of your work....I worked for the DOD in just this exact area of developing Hardened IC's that could function even in proximity to a nuclear blast, and I retired in 1984 and believe the work has gone forward since....regards... |
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Post by noetsi on Jul 24, 2019 23:28:13 GMT -5
It has gone forward - probably. The problem is that no one knows if the theories the work is based on are true. EMP is not like lightning and some feel the machines that were created to test EMP generate different results than a real EMP burst based on a high level nuclear blast. Its impossible to be sure unless we detonate one.
I suggest about 50 miles over Fenway would be a good test ...
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Post by anthonyd46 on Jul 25, 2019 2:11:58 GMT -5
The Twins must be thinking, “What do we have to do to win a series from these guys? We hit 12 homers in three games and still lost!” Another chapter in the Yankees vs Twins history. This is is the 50th win for the Yankees vs the twins in the 2010 decade. They have exactly 25 of them at Target field and 25 of them at Yankee stadium compared to 11 and 10 losses respectively. The Yankees have not lost a season series to the twins since 2001 when the Twins won the season series 4-2. The last time the twins even tied the season series was 2006 when the teams split 3-3. There have been two years even when the Yankees beat the twins 10 times in one season. www.mcubed.net/mlb/nyy/min.shtml |
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Post by greatfatness on Jul 25, 2019 7:24:16 GMT -5
No it doesn’t.
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Post by kaybli on Jul 25, 2019 8:36:36 GMT -5
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Post by chiyankee on Jul 25, 2019 8:53:09 GMT -5
Edwin and the Parrot are heading to Boston.
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Post by chiyankee on Jul 25, 2019 8:57:48 GMT -5
The Twins must be thinking, “What do we have to do to win a series from these guys? We hit 12 homers in three games and still lost!” Another chapter in the Yankees vs Twins history. This is is the 50th win for the Yankees vs the twins in the 2010 decade. They have exactly 25 of them at Target field and 25 of them at Yankee stadium compared to 11 and 10 losses respectively. The Yankees have not lost a season series to the twins since 2001 when the Twins won the season series 4-2. The last time the twins even tied the season series was 2006 when the teams split 3-3. There have been two years even when the Yankees beat the twins 10 times in one season. www.mcubed.net/mlb/nyy/min.shtmlThe Yanks dominate the Twins in NY & Minnesota. |
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Post by anthonyd46 on Jul 25, 2019 14:28:29 GMT -5
Another chapter in the Yankees vs Twins history. This is is the 50th win for the Yankees vs the twins in the 2010 decade. They have exactly 25 of them at Target field and 25 of them at Yankee stadium compared to 11 and 10 losses respectively. The Yankees have not lost a season series to the twins since 2001 when the Twins won the season series 4-2. The last time the twins even tied the season series was 2006 when the teams split 3-3. There have been two years even when the Yankees beat the twins 10 times in one season. www.mcubed.net/mlb/nyy/min.shtmlThe Yanks dominate the Twins in NY & Minnesota. What I find crazy about that is it's not like the twins are a last place team yearly a lot of those years they won their division etc. |
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