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NVIDIA, Disney Research and Google DeepMind release Newton, an open-source, extensible physics engine to advance robot learning and development. Compatible with MuJoCo Playground o…

4) They have enormous fines to payout 5) This was mostly backoffice not consultants

Apparently mostly back office

Getting that sort of range is not common. Most of it is line of sight. Sat comms work far at sea where VHF is useless. With ARES, you are relying on an inconsistent volunteer netwo…

I took their in-person class in Ada, OK back in the day. Highly recommended the training material. https://www.advancedpilot.com/ They have a great test bed for validating their sc…

note that words have special pronunciation such as kehBEC not keeBEC. Pilots also pronounce numbers differently Tree (3) or Fow Er (4) https://skybrary.aero/articles/icao-phonetic-…

All pilots, private and commercial, have to learn this. I taught it to my kids driving to school when they were in elementary school.

Your comment belittles the hard work Vint puts in every day. He could easily retire but is still amazingly energetic and engaged. Downvoted.

AFAIK, Philip is not really retired. He does a lot of expert witness work these days https://philip.greenspun.com/software/expert-witness

He teaches occasionally at Harvard, usually a short course. This is covered under the subsection "Teaching might be the answer."

Ham radio transmissions are not allowed to be encrypted per FAR 97.113(4). [1] I suspect this is also a violation of FAR 97.113(3) "Communications in which the station licensee or …

I’ve seen Dan Bricklin in the local Whole Foods on several occasions. I want to yell out: “see that guy! He changed the world!” but then I let him pick an avocado in peace.

So is the only reason to change filters to avoid blockage and reduced airflow but not filtering capacity?

My comment isn’t about importance to society, it is about innovation for future contributions to society. I believe that ad tech has fueled more recent and greater potential contri…

That’s a very cynical comment. I recommend you examine the research and open source contributions Google has made to ML that have nothing to do with ads.

But ad optimization has led to many other technical innovations in ML and scalability. I don’t think the same can be said about law school. Disclosure: work on ad tech at Google. O…

As of April 29, Google Meet is now free, which is seemingly direct competition to Zoom, especially with the emphasis on security. https://blog.google/products/meet/bringing-google-…

AdWords has a rich API that allows reports to downloaded in CSV format https://developers.google.com/adwords/api/docs/appendix/repo... Disclosure: I work on the team that builds th…

I’m deeply worried about the US food supply in 4-6 weeks time, not because of availability but because of a lack of healthy people to process, transport and distribute the food. Gi…

One of the books that most influenced my coding was Software Tools by Brian W. Kernighan, P.J. Plauger [0]. Even though I never used Ratfor, the clear descriptions were immensely u…

Google Cloud has $10b / year of revenue and hardly existed five years ago.

Marc Lipsitch, a Harvard epidemiologist, estimates that 40-70% of the adult world-wide population will be infected. [0] Assuming a conservative 1% mortality rate, that would mean 3…

Well stated. The author also misses two other critical points: (1) accuracy is a poor measure of quality for non-numeric, classification type problems, (2) increasing model complex…