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Wonderful! This quote sums it all up for me: ”I didn’t have other projects that were this front-facing, customer wise. And I discovered I immensely enjoyed it”. Wow, does it show :) By the way, the quote was not a TL;DR - it was an invitation to read a great story. I am glad I did.

Robots and drones should likely become effective tools in firefighting. Just having the ability to get reconnaissance with different kind of sensors should be really valuable.

I wrote a CMS in Standard ML. My only excuse was that I did not know better. The only other language I knew was Prolog. Should have done it in bash instead, would have been easier.

Disagree to agree here. It should really be how things can work. We have the opportunity and possibly the unity to get together on a vision for mankind for the first time in history. Obviously there are challenges, but if all people got to vote in their respective democraties for a global push to space - I would be surprised to not see it approved.

Fantastic and really inspiring, with a great presentation and narrative to boot! I am impressed and a bit thrilled :)

Assuring to see that Trump has more sense than the FAA and Boeing, although he is a bit late to the party.

I thought that was up to the FAA, but maybe it is an executive order.

It appears that vertical speed was really unstable after take-off and that it did not gain much altitude. Possibly a result of flaps and slats misconfiguration?

https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1104676048317362177...

Of course it can, but only on the margin as this article suggests. The real potential is in figuring out where to put them, what to put in the spots, and most importantly, who to choose to build them and support them given the aforementioned variables. There may also be some advances to be made in the actual design, but I do not believe machine learning is going to help so much there.

Well, the throttle control was one issue, but it is far from certain that it would have saved the engines. The main issue was still the ice that went in to the engines to begin with. The full report is available here:

https://www.havkom.se/assets/reports/English/C1993_57e_Gottr...

Spot on. Note also that the person taking on that second PhD took up a spot that could have been useful for someone else. Odd duck indeed.

I believe China is about to tank as hard as the Russian empire. There is going to be a revolution. What the trigger will be remains to be seen, but it can be just about anything. Most likely it will be something within that we see as inconsequential.

Expected more from an eulogy from Bill, but that was not to be. Co-founding is obviously hard. Successful business or not.

> Finding only the things they have brought with them.

Well, finding out that may also be exactly what makes the experience valuable in the long run.

Data scientist is a misnomer except when there is a relevant Ph.D. and that was never the bar for a programmer.

No. It is pretty widely accepted that America (i.e. US) is dependent on the global economy.

What happens on Mars stays on Mars

I always feel uncomfortable when researchers miss the creed ”Correlation does not imply causation”. Media jump every time - but that’s their job. In this case it is a really vague study based entirely on subjective measures and the researchers don’t pause for a moment to consider causation in subjects response to visual stimuli. There are so many shortcomings to this, mostly from the press. What is reported in the news regarding the “cure” for dyslexia is base on what 1 of the 30 subjects in the study says. I am not a believer, but I encourage more research on Dyslexia. At least the experiments in this study seem easily reproducible although I don’t expect repetitions will shed much light on the cause or cure of the condition.

Would be really interesting to hear more about this. Without too much details of course.

I live in Sweden and have not visited an ATM for months. Even public toilets have a card reader attached.

I would like to have a way to easily display the balance of the card though, or just the last few expenses, preferably on the card it self.

If it is imaginable I believe it is possible. Within our current understanding of physics not doable, but that's just theory.

No, just no.

This kind of articles makes me cringe. The fact that the journalist is obviously aware of the limited scope in the research by stating the caveats makes it unresponsible publishing.

This is nice, thanks!

Starting a venture in China is not that easy as a European compared to a Chinese. The strategy may work if one can get good support. The reverse is also true, it is no that easy to open a business in Europe as a Chinese.

Jui jitsu can go both ways.

Let's Encrypt is great, but Start SSL has also shaped up considerably. A while back their process and the GUI was a real stumbling point. Today however it is a breeze to get it going. (Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with Start SSL)

That landing was amazing to see. The landing they did on land was more spectacular, but having seen their failed landings on the barge earlier it feels so good they succeed at last. Godspeed SpaceX!

Great that they reverted back from the adaptive function keys of the 2014 model. They don't work that well in practice.

The vision and neurology section at the start was all messed up, but the review of approaches used in different games was great! Oh nostalgia :)

Seriously. That was a rather good presentation. Doing an interview for TV without much experience and come across without stumbling is not that easy.