Why I’ll never embrace the metric system.
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When looking at this remember that the Mars Climate Orbiter crashed due to mismatched metric/imperial units.
But that was not a problem with the unit systems involved. That was a problem with technical management oversight. I was on a program that built metric parts on English-measured machine tools, well within tolerances. Our parts were to a higher standard than European-produced parts.
Totally agree. Sensors all give raw units that must be converted anyhow. Any mismatch shoulda been caught in unit testing or integration test.
Perhaps AI will fix the management problem.
AI cannot think. It is hard enough to manage something when thinking.
True, but AI can dig and spot patterns. Could it be trained to spot failure patterns that humans tend to miss?