I have also given my Secretarial Program access to the Internet. I, represented by a secretary, go out onto the Web programmatically.
And one of the things that I do, is get the Weather Forecast. I need to be alerted if it is going to freeze, or rain, or snow.
And it is a perfect part of the job descript of an Aid and Secretary.
You can go to any site that you like. For months, I was going to my local airport to find out the current temperature and conditions.
Every hour I would retrieve the temperature from the Chico Airport, and compare it to my measured temperature from my Remote Control System.
It was just for fun, and I was proud of my accomplishment.
However, one day I received an Email from the Airport. Somehow they found out who I was, and told me that they normally do not allow automated access.
They said that they were willing to work with me if I told them more about myself.
But I did not want to inconvenience them or add to their Web Traffic Load.
So, I went over to another site that expects, and deals with, Automated Access. Here you do not have to do anything sneaky.
The site is OpenWeatherMap.org. Here, I get the weather forecast for the next four days.
Any three hour segment, wich is practically any hour, for any of the four days, for any place on earth.
I can also choose the Reply Language.
Here, I have chosen "HTML" Language. The format is not cryptic, and easy to parse. Also, for me, it is free. Large corporations have to pay money.
But all I have are three ditsey girl secretaries, that only serve one person; me.
I am not big, and the girls are happy to work for me for free. So, everything is free.
Here at the top of the page, I have put the raw data representing one paragraph of 48 paragraphs.
Then below, I have teased out the data that I want, and deemed relevent.
The girls use this to analyse for concerns, and to iterate and speak to me.
The information is gathered every hour, and the girls are told not to wake me up at night
unless the winds are going to blow the roof off, or it is going to be a hard freeze.
The criteria is soft and always evolving.
I have two candidates for the "Weather" type stuff.
Both candidates friendly. Both accommodating.
And neither ever get their information wrong. In principle, never a mistake.
I am impressed.
So, I will give the command, to go out and retrieve the local weather. And see who wins.
After viewing; Either girl knows her stuff.
But, you as the viewer, may be wondering of my criteria.
As supreme programmer, I do not have to explain my criteria. So, buzz off.
I have to give it to the Blue-girl because
the weather with rain and clouds have more "blue".
Only scorching red hot temperatures would give the nod to the other girl.
And that small percentage of time in the "weather" world would not justify it.
I like to tell the story at KHSL-TV, in the Engineering Department. My boss and I shared the same large office.
The large room showed two desks, both heaped over in paper work and open manuals. One day, I stopped and looked over the two disasters.
It only took a few seconds for a revelation to come over me. I could not contain the excitement of my solution.
I said: "Russ, we need a Secretary!" He said; "Yes, and you are not picking her out!"
This morning, I got a "Postponed" message from last night; Postponed from while I was sleeping. It said it was a 20% change of rain late this evening.
In addition, one of my weather girls was noting a 9 degree temperature drop from yesterday morning.
Every day, once an hour, Forecasts are obtained for every three hours, for three days in advance.
If the sky is clear, or broken clouds, the sun light will be expected.
Sun light especially the IR Infrared is shown to have health benefits.
This is due to IR capabilities of penetrating the skin, and affecting the mitochondria of every cell.
If the sky is relatively clear, and the day is "today", then this AI doctor comes on, and invites me to take a walk.
I normally do anyway, but the reminder is nice. Woofie likes it too. In fact, overjoyed.
The timing is of concern: The sun is low in the winter, and higher in the summer.
I may make the time of the walk dependent on the temperature and also on the suns elevation.
But at present, it is a static "11:00" o clock. At this time of the year eleven offers some side angle exposure.
At low Latitudes, the sun is overhead at noon. For me, in Chico, the sun is high at a few minutes past 12:00.
And the sun's orthogonal exposure to most of the body would be minimum.
I do not need to mention; Never use DayLight Savings Time DST. Never use for anything related to biological Health or Science.
However my Secretaries use it for scheduling. That is because scheduling unfortunately involves other people.
Other people try to politically change the fundamental and universal laws of time for this planet; Where there is physically only one time and one convention.
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Becky;
i like my newest "Doctor" AI girl in regards to IR health.
I showed her to you. You also should be interested in IR therapeutic radiation.
If you can get to an exposed area for 15 minutes, that would be great.
I have a wooden fence, that I can lean up against. And it is warm, and it helps block the wind.
And I take off my sun glasses, and close my eyes, and let the sun's warmth run over my eye lids, and warm my face.
They say it can help the retina of your eyes because they contain large amounts of mitochondria in the cells of the eyes.
I love the contrast of the cool air and the warm sun.
For eons in the past, thousands of years, millions of years, our ancestors used the sun for heath. But not now.
You, and all modern people in general, need to get out of the house. Crawl if you have to.
And besides: My pretty nurse says that I need it. And that is gospel; she is never wrong.
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The timing is impossible to get right, if the AI girl chooses only one time. Of equal importance if not greater, is setting the circadean rythem.
My eyes must be synced with the sun almost every day. If not, my body will not know what time to go to sleep, late in the evening.
And Amiloids will buildup in the brain from loss of sleep, and producing mental decline.
During deepsleep Amiloids, and wear and tear compounds, will be flushed out of the brain. Also other bodily repairs will be sacrificed by this bad timing.
11:00 oclock would be a disaster, if it were the only exposure time.
11:00 oclock would delay the circadean rythem 6 hours, and make bedtime midnight.
Here is the associated Alarm for this Event. The alarm is a minor type. It is a Notice type, that alarms every 6 minutes untill acknowledge.
Here is a video clip of Lilly in ice cold conditions.
The local temperature must be below 41 degrees. The temperature must be falling, decreasing from the last hour.
In other, more normal, conditions of temperature, the rate of change must be above 2 degrees change, either rising or falling, per hour.
In other special conditions, for example temperatures above 100 degrees, the concern is whether rising at all. Hovering is OK.
With the special condition, in this case of temperature dropping when near freezing, the instructions are to notify me now! At the present time.
This winter, after I am woke up a few times, I may change this.
I will change the notification to a "differed" or delayed notification, to when I normally wake up.
My wife grew up on an almond ranch.
Linda, even on school nights, had to wake and go out at three in the morning to put out smudge pots. Her and her Dad could not sleep through it.
They had to anticipate. In the cold. In the darkness. Just like my Lilly.
The local temperature must be below 41 degrees.