Or the lack thereof.
From Canada's National Post, November 14:
FIRST READING: Trudeau’s $9 million bet on edible crickets runs into trouble
The world's largest cricket factory, funded in large part by federal monies, enters extended retooling
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Aspire Food Group, which cut the ribbon last year on a 150,000-square-foot edible cricket factory in London, Ont., has just laid off two thirds of its workforce and significantly cut back shifts, saying they need to make “some improvements to its manufacturing system.” Speaking to the trade publication AgFunderNews, Aspire CEO David Rosenberg said the company “will be running the production line four times a week instead of two shifts a day every day. We’re 150 people down to 50 and we plan on hiring back up in July.”This is despite very generous grants from the Trudeau government. In June 2022, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada announced a grant of “up to $8.5 million” to build a “commercial facility to produce cricket protein.”What resulted was a factory billed by Aspire as the “world’s largest cricket production facility.” As per a CBC profile published at its grand opening, the factory was to house four billion crickets at any one time, and churn out 13 million kilograms of edible crickets each year.
Just two years after the Trudeau government put up nearly $9 million to help build the world’s largest edible cricket factory, the facility is dramatically cutting staff and production in what they say is an extended retooling.Aspire’s signature pitch – and one of the main reasons they attracted federal government attention – is that crickets have a lower environmental footprint than meat or dairy....
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Still a few bugs in the system, eh?
....one of our visits to the origin story of the "Bugs in the system" line was in August 2023's "Still A Few Bugs In The System: "ChatGPT's odds of getting code questions correct are worse than a coin flip"":
....Famously, the very first instance of a computer "bug" was recorded at 3:45 pm (15:45) on the 9th of September 1947. This "bug" was an actual real-life moth, well, an ex-moth, that was extracted to the number 70 relay, Panel F, of the Harvard Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator.
This "bug" (which is a two-inch wingspan of 5 cm) was preserved behind a piece of adhesive tape on the machines' logbook with the now immortalized phrase "[The] first actual case of a bug being found".
So the first "computer bug" was, in fact, a literal bug.
The cause of the bug's appearance appears to have been down to members of the programming teams' late-night shift, which included the pioneering computer scientist, and former U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. A team member left the windows of the room open at night. This was more than enough to let in the moth, which was attracted by the lights in the room and the heat of the calculator to nestle in the 'gubbins' of the Mark II Harvard, where it met its unfortunate end....
Our headline is an homage to an homage to an homage. If interested see 2017's "Still a Few Bugs In the System: 'DeepMind Shows AI Has Trouble Seeing Homer Simpson's Actions'"
Which was itself stolen from a computer reference in Doonesbury, 1970:
