• From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@g...>
• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
• Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 13:39:33 -0700

Hi Roger,

> Tim asked about my use case.
> I have two different XML vocabularies for aeronautical navigation data.
> I want to convert XML instances of one to equivalent XML instances of the other.

Which airline do these belong to? Please, let me know so that I will
never fly these anymore.

Call me conservative, but I firmly believe we shouldn't be
experimenting/automating/"optimizing" critical areas in which human
lives can be dependent on. Who is to take responsibility when
something bad happens: the machines, the AI, the ML ?

Supporting facts about too much "automation" that led to hundreds of
deaths that could be avoided:

1. The recent Boeing 737-Max crashes

2. The similar Air France crash (flight from Rio to Paris)  several
years ago (http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2015/06/25/air_france_flight_447_and_the_safety_paradox_of_airline_automation_on_99.html)


Maybe it isn't accidental that ADA is still considered (as maybe the
only)  safe language in use at the Department of Defense?


Cheers,
Dimitre (who takes full responsibility of his own work)


On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 8:58 AM Costello, Roger L. <costello@m...> wrote:
>
> Thank you Tim, Rick, Andreas, and Stephen for your excellent replies!
>
>
>
> Tim asked about my use case. I have two different XML vocabularies for aeronautical navigation data. I want to convert XML instances of one to equivalent XML instances of the other. Here is a tiny example of the kind of conversion needed for the aeronautical navigation data:
>
>
>
> Both XML vocabularies specify data about magnetic variation, such as the magnetic variation at an airport. Here is an XML instance from one vocabulary:
>
>
>
> <MAG_VAR>W014404</MAG_VAR>
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>
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> Here is the equivalent XML instance in the other vocabulary:
>
>
>
> <magneticVariation>
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>     <magneticVariationEWT>West</magneticVariationEWT>
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>     <magneticVariationValue>14.7</magneticVariationValue>
>
> </magneticVariation>
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>
> If an AI/machine learning/data analytics engine were given lots and lots of examples, would the engine be able to determine the mapping/conversion between the two representations of magnetic variation?
>
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>
> /Roger
>
>

• Follow-Ups:
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