On: The diminishing returns of productivity culture (2...

[goodpoint]

> machine listening techniques could be deployed in a modern mech-engineering to predict physical failures in advance

It has been done for decades.

[nonrandomstring → goodpoint]

Yes, I remember reading something about its use on bridges and giant steel structues to listen for bad welds when the wind blows.

I guess for auto stuff there's so many embedded sensors in a modern engine there's little need these days.

[sokoloff → nonrandomstring]

There’s still plenty of bearings and pumps that wear or make noise without setting a code or having the computer tell you what to do.