California earthquake alarm sounded – 92 years late
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Seems like a very broken system to me...
It doesn't seem that implausible for a program to be reading through a dataset and issue a notice for a measurement above some value. If the dataset encoded years in just two digits, it (almost) makes sense that the program would report it 100 years off.
Imagine:
with open(file) as f:
for record in f:
year, month, day, time, magnitude = record.split()
if magnitude > 5:
raise_alarm()lol who knew it would be so easy to get into AI. I can use my templating skills (or mail merge for that matter)
Y2K rears its head yet again?
Global alerts are pretty infrequent, so it doesn't hurt to sign up for this if it's something you have a passing interest in.