I think there are definitely more elegant solutions to that problem. Maybe a robot that runs along some scaffolding. Human brick layers need scaffolding too.
The video in the article shows a rather large device laying bricks according to plan.
As a mechanical engineer, my first thought was, "How much fuel does it take to move that massive thing!"
A couple of human bricklayers can't be that expensive compared to that fuel guzzling beast. I thought we were trying to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
If you aren't in management then you start to get dumped on around 35.
I personally think it's the other way around. If you move into management you get dumped on a lot more. You move away from your core discipline that you love, and into managing other people.
Jean-Paul Sartre said, "Hell is other people."
35 is about the point when a lot of people move into management positions.
Polymaths are not "Jacks-of-all-trades". They are masters of many trades. They have incredible breadth and depth on several subjects, and are therefore incredibly rare. Due to the expanding volume of our collective knowledge, they are becoming even more rare.
I understand QE and what is meant to do. I question whether doing it for basically 5+ years was the right thing.
Think of it this way. In the 2000s a bunch of money was "created". Around 2008 we realized that money was created fraudulently and didn't really exist. There was suddenly a contraction in the money supply. The Federal Reserve responded by creating more money. However, there is a limit to how fast The Fed can create money, so it took 5 years.
Most vehicles have at least two CANs. A public one, that is accessed through the OBD port shown in TFA. They also have a "private" CAN. That network should be used for vital communications between modules, and the messages are largely proprietary.
I believe this part of the ocean does not see much shipping traffic. That's been part of the problem. There aren't any merchant ships to report debris.
He does well, but you can tell he's not a natural public speaker. There are a lot of long pauses while he gathers his thoughts.
The main reason his presentations are successful is because the material is so damn interesting. He also has a lot of very good slides prepared. Otherwise, his presentation style is lackluster.
My idea is worth twice as much as Tubeless Plumbing, I call it Sanitation.
Nobody will invest in that. It sounds too old. You have to jazz it up. Make people think it's really bleeding edge. At least call it sanitation 2.0 Maybe call it universal cross platform scalable sanitation framework 2.0 That's gotta be $100 billion right there.
My idea is even better, "Tubeless Plumbing", worth twice as much as wireless plumbing!
Not enough buzzwords. Maybe you should call it virtual plumbing instead. I figure the word virtual in the title has to be worth +$10billion VC at least.
My first experience was with a boxed set of SUSE 9 in about 2004. Total garbage! Constant driver issues. Web pages wouldn't load correctly. I must have spent 6 months messing with it.
I was able to get a copy of Windows XP Pro from my school cheaply. That was great! However, there were still some opens source apps that I brought over from SUSE. Gaim (now Pidgin) was awesome, and so was Firefox.
Eventually I bought a new computer with Windows Vista installed by default. That inspired me to try Linux once again. Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, where were you in 2004? So much better. A few graphics driver issues, but nothing "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" couldn't solve.
I expect automated agents to have access to knowledge that a typical user wouldn't have. After all, the automated agents are coded into the game. I'm surprised to learn automated agents had exactly the same inputs and outputs as a human player.
TFA mentions HCCI technology, which would be an incredible development if true. That technology has been under development for decades.
Diesel engines run lean, so there is a lot of oxygen left over that can bond with the nitrogen in the air to make NOx. Diesels have been working towards running richer in order to reduce NOx. However, this creates particulate matter since there isn't adequate time for the fuel to mix evenly with the air.
Gasoline engines historically run stoichiometric, but have to control airflow to maintain that condition at various loads. This throttling of the airflow creates pumping losses. Gasoline engines have recently been running lean through gasoline direct injection. These engines stratify the charge in order to achieve a localized zone in the cylinder that is close to stoichiometric. However, since the gasoline is injected into the cylinder late in the cycle, there isn't sufficient time for the fuel to mix with the air. This causes issues with particulate matter like a diesel.
HCCI is supposed to run lean like a diesel to provide good fuel economy, yet have good mixing (homogeneous charge) like a port injected gasoline engine to reduce particulate emissions. This method of combustion is low temperature, which reduces NOx formation. The struggle has been controlling the air and fuel precisely enough to get the air and fuel to ignite efficiently without the use of a spark.
While after 2003 Libya was in the process of eliminating the remnants of their nuclear and chemical programs, it wasn't the US that brought Gaddafi down, it was his own people. He was an authoritarian dictator, and his people saw an opportunity to rise up and get rid of him. The only thing the US did was that we didn't stop them from doing that.
While technically true, I think you underestimate the effectiveness of a well carried out clandestine operation.
You either have time, or you have money. It's a rare occurrence to find someone that has both. That's a very important thing to remember when setting the requirements for any new project. It has to satisfy that trade-off, because people don't want an expensive waste of time.
It doesn't matter how you measure unemployment. The data is only going to be used to compare to historical values. If the definition of unemployed were to be changed, the historical data would be useless.
This is the whole accurate versus precise argument. The author argues the number isn't accurate. However, the purpose of this data doesn't require accuracy. It requires precision, a repeatable outcome.
Get one of those fire-proof LiPo charging bags off eBay for a few bucks, then put on your oven mitts and carry it into the Apple store, smoking away*, with a pair of tongs. If you can borrow a hazmat suit, even better.
A friend of mine that used to race remote control cars told me that buried in a bucket of sand is the best place to store lithium batteries. Maybe put it in a Ziploc bag first to prevent the sand from damaging any electronics.
It means the mod system is messed up. There used to be a time where that sort of thing defaulted to level zero. Now these types of comments default at level 2.
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I think there are definitely more elegant solutions to that problem. Maybe a robot that runs along some scaffolding. Human brick layers need scaffolding too.
The video in the article shows a rather large device laying bricks according to plan.
As a mechanical engineer, my first thought was, "How much fuel does it take to move that massive thing!"
A couple of human bricklayers can't be that expensive compared to that fuel guzzling beast. I thought we were trying to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
If you aren't in management then you start to get dumped on around 35.
I personally think it's the other way around. If you move into management you get dumped on a lot more. You move away from your core discipline that you love, and into managing other people.
Jean-Paul Sartre said, "Hell is other people."
35 is about the point when a lot of people move into management positions.
Now I'm going to have Weird Al stuck in my head all day.
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh Oreo
The white stuff
Polymaths are not "Jacks-of-all-trades". They are masters of many trades. They have incredible breadth and depth on several subjects, and are therefore incredibly rare. Due to the expanding volume of our collective knowledge, they are becoming even more rare.
I understand QE and what is meant to do. I question whether doing it for basically 5+ years was the right thing.
Think of it this way. In the 2000s a bunch of money was "created". Around 2008 we realized that money was created fraudulently and didn't really exist. There was suddenly a contraction in the money supply. The Federal Reserve responded by creating more money. However, there is a limit to how fast The Fed can create money, so it took 5 years.
Most vehicles have at least two CANs. A public one, that is accessed through the OBD port shown in TFA. They also have a "private" CAN. That network should be used for vital communications between modules, and the messages are largely proprietary.
I believe this part of the ocean does not see much shipping traffic. That's been part of the problem. There aren't any merchant ships to report debris.
Is there anything that guy CAN'T do?
Make an engaging presentation.
He does well, but you can tell he's not a natural public speaker. There are a lot of long pauses while he gathers his thoughts.
The main reason his presentations are successful is because the material is so damn interesting. He also has a lot of very good slides prepared. Otherwise, his presentation style is lackluster.
My idea is worth twice as much as Tubeless Plumbing, I call it Sanitation.
Nobody will invest in that. It sounds too old. You have to jazz it up. Make people think it's really bleeding edge. At least call it sanitation 2.0 Maybe call it universal cross platform scalable sanitation framework 2.0 That's gotta be $100 billion right there.
Think of the SYNERGY!
My idea is even better, "Tubeless Plumbing", worth twice as much as wireless plumbing!
Not enough buzzwords. Maybe you should call it virtual plumbing instead. I figure the word virtual in the title has to be worth +$10billion VC at least.
well.. thats worth... oops used the wrong word there that deserves a market cap of atleast 20 billion dollars.
With a few more buzzwords I bet I can get it to $100 billion!
Cloud composting here I come!
I have a much better startup idea than this. Wireless Plumbing! Think about it!
I figure it should be worth at least twice as much as Essential.
My first experience was with a boxed set of SUSE 9 in about 2004. Total garbage! Constant driver issues. Web pages wouldn't load correctly. I must have spent 6 months messing with it.
I was able to get a copy of Windows XP Pro from my school cheaply. That was great! However, there were still some opens source apps that I brought over from SUSE. Gaim (now Pidgin) was awesome, and so was Firefox.
Eventually I bought a new computer with Windows Vista installed by default. That inspired me to try Linux once again. Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, where were you in 2004? So much better. A few graphics driver issues, but nothing "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" couldn't solve.
I expect automated agents to have access to knowledge that a typical user wouldn't have. After all, the automated agents are coded into the game. I'm surprised to learn automated agents had exactly the same inputs and outputs as a human player.
TFA mentions HCCI technology, which would be an incredible development if true. That technology has been under development for decades.
Diesel engines run lean, so there is a lot of oxygen left over that can bond with the nitrogen in the air to make NOx. Diesels have been working towards running richer in order to reduce NOx. However, this creates particulate matter since there isn't adequate time for the fuel to mix evenly with the air.
Gasoline engines historically run stoichiometric, but have to control airflow to maintain that condition at various loads. This throttling of the airflow creates pumping losses. Gasoline engines have recently been running lean through gasoline direct injection. These engines stratify the charge in order to achieve a localized zone in the cylinder that is close to stoichiometric. However, since the gasoline is injected into the cylinder late in the cycle, there isn't sufficient time for the fuel to mix with the air. This causes issues with particulate matter like a diesel.
HCCI is supposed to run lean like a diesel to provide good fuel economy, yet have good mixing (homogeneous charge) like a port injected gasoline engine to reduce particulate emissions. This method of combustion is low temperature, which reduces NOx formation. The struggle has been controlling the air and fuel precisely enough to get the air and fuel to ignite efficiently without the use of a spark.
While after 2003 Libya was in the process of eliminating the remnants of their nuclear and chemical programs, it wasn't the US that brought Gaddafi down, it was his own people. He was an authoritarian dictator, and his people saw an opportunity to rise up and get rid of him. The only thing the US did was that we didn't stop them from doing that.
While technically true, I think you underestimate the effectiveness of a well carried out clandestine operation.
The Mitchell Interchange in Milwaukee, Wisconsin also had this technology.
This sounds a lot like this story posted earlier.
-Admiral Ackbar
-Ash Williams
You either have time, or you have money. It's a rare occurrence to find someone that has both. That's a very important thing to remember when setting the requirements for any new project. It has to satisfy that trade-off, because people don't want an expensive waste of time.
However, there are a few exceptions.
It doesn't matter how you measure unemployment. The data is only going to be used to compare to historical values. If the definition of unemployed were to be changed, the historical data would be useless.
This is the whole accurate versus precise argument. The author argues the number isn't accurate. However, the purpose of this data doesn't require accuracy. It requires precision, a repeatable outcome.
Get one of those fire-proof LiPo charging bags off eBay for a few bucks, then put on your oven mitts and carry it into the Apple store, smoking away*, with a pair of tongs. If you can borrow a hazmat suit, even better.
A friend of mine that used to race remote control cars told me that buried in a bucket of sand is the best place to store lithium batteries. Maybe put it in a Ziploc bag first to prevent the sand from damaging any electronics.
It means the mod system is messed up. There used to be a time where that sort of thing defaulted to level zero. Now these types of comments default at level 2.
As POTUS would say, so sad.