I am not sure about UFO sightings because it seems unlikely to me that aliens would approach us like this.
However, given the huge amounts of exo planets discovered everywhere around us in the last year or two, I consider it highly unlikely that we are alone.
Biomolecules are remarkably fast (picosecond timescales) at dissipating excess heat into the solvent, like heat from an excited vibrational mode. In order to cause serious damage through unfolding, I think, you would need much higher intensities than a few milliwatts from a cellphone. Serious local heating requires visible, UV light and above. Sunlight, however, does massive damage to all parts of your skin, including base pair changes in your DNA beyond epigenetics but your body has repair mechanisms, which recover changes and/or destroy damaged cells. Proof of cellphone induced damage would be remarkable.
If I got hit by a bus tomorrow - dying in the streets - I would not want to think about how I put 2.2 M$ in my savings account.
To get you started... you could try to think about the cliche "how to be the person selling shovels in the gold rush".
Write an online course on how you parametrized RNNs to predict Bitcoin markets. I got it to work well on predicting a certain low frequency event well with not too much effort. This resulted in 2~3 trade opportunities per day, making only very few $ each trade. So no luck in the gold rush but maybe not a bad shovel to sell?
Switch professions, maybe? 2.2M$ are not uncommon if you can wait a few years... Become a medical doctor and freelance across the country? Enter the middle management in any 200+ B$ company? Marry into a rich family? Low tier drug dealer in Europe (short prison times)? All of the above require working long/stressful hours over years. This brings me back to my first point: forget about the 2.2M and do s.th. you enjoy doing.
I had similar fears in my last appartment building (12th floor) after a deadly fire in the neighbouring tower. I ended up buying a long rope at a climbing outlet and some used climbing gear. There are also more expensive fire proof rope ladders but the rope worked for me.
I have checked eBay for WW2 sirens. They're cheap, and I proposed installing one outside as an alarm.
This was quickly rejected by the councillor who informed me that sirens are used for the flood alarms (we're 200m from the Thames).
Instead I've resorted to DIY fire safety. MDF fire panels installed as best as possible around the riser, as that is the most likely source of fire. It will buy me a little time, and I will not be relying on containment to save us... I'll be going down the fire escape regardless of instructions.
I've been through a few incidents where my building should have been evacuated but wasn't due to incompetence or disinterest. In one case, several of my employees who were unable to negotiate stairs (due to injuries) were accidentally left trapped and unevacuated in an elevator lobby during a minor fire. They picked up the emergency phone and the response from the police was literally "WTF do you think I can do about it?"
The response from my employers fire safety people when we complained was threatening to write a discipline referal for me because I didn't send people to fire training. (Three of the folks working for me were firemen who were delivering the training!)
Don't assume that anyone has their shit together. Understand how to evacuate from your home and office and bug out when shit happens. Don't be like those poor people in WTC who followed instructions.
If I understand correctly, the product is the database and its Tensorflow API?
I am wondering how this compares to the TALOS-N [1] server from Ad Bax (NIH) with 9000+ proteins in its DB? This, too, uses machine learning to 'fit' a predictor for secondary structure (dihedral angles) for backbone and side chain torsions based on chemical shifts.
And yes, the product right now is Keras and Tensorflow database integration + the interactive database interface. The tools around are currently under stringent testing.
I am worried about the dust this type of paper might produce when it is shredded or ripped, similar to the dust from rockwool insulation materials made from stone fibres. If I remember correctly, the persistence time of rockwool dust (current generation not 1970s) in your lungs is about 4 weeks, during which it is /may be cancerogenic?
I was puzzled when I first saw cross tab communication in impress.js for their slide control tab (slid.es) and I am still wondering about the proper use case of this feature today. Isn't this a security nightmare?
- operation costs (power+cooling) over 3 years = 1500EUR
- cost of 2 hardware admins 160k/year
- renting local rack space 15EUR/U
This equals about 145 servers for 3 years for us for 1 Million. The setup is highly optimized for _one_ set of data crunching tasks, not DB. We do not need much ram, or network but require a specific CPU/GPU ratio.
This is by far the most expensive item in your estimate, and I'm sure that you don't suddenly need to hire another pair of admins when you buy a single Xeon blade.
Once you factor this fact in your estimates, you'll realise that the unit cost of each server is, unlike your estimate, negligible.
However, given the huge amounts of exo planets discovered everywhere around us in the last year or two, I consider it highly unlikely that we are alone.