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jk4930
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About jk4930
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Comment #44093353
Would you send another Lisp program to space, just for the joy of it?
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Comment #41969127
I'd have to use it first to comment on it, but thanks so far. Article makes a good impression.
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Comment #41919356
In the same spirit, why 2 + 2 = 4. https://us.metamath.org/mpeuni/mmset.html#trivia https://us.metamath.org/mpeuni/2p2e4.html
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Comment #37312962
Just want to add that I prefer Ada over C++ despite it having less mind share, tools, and libraries because its productivity is so high. (Not saying that I dislike C++.) And, specu…
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Comment #27909311
First, congrats on launching. Second, "AWS GovCloud for ITAR compliance," can the USG access my data (EU company) then?
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Comment #22635287
Euro here. Would you send me an email (in profile)?
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Comment #19250566
Sent you an email (from my sometimes blocked alumnus account, if it doesn't appear, let me know).
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Comment #19147477
"Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures" and they have some overlap with the AGI (AI at human level and beyond) folks as well. http://www.bicasociety.org/
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Comment #18695658
It depends on the specific professor. There are stressful and relaxed ones. It trickles down from the professors to their assistants to their PhD students. Here's my ad-hoc list of…
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Comment #18280901
Would you send me an email (see profile) please?
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Comment #17687138
Follow Peter Thiel into the future: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/11/28/no-death-no-ta...
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Comment #17259934
jk at ptscientists dot com
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Comment #17204912
"6. (Mar's Law) Everything is linear if plotted log-log with a fat magic marker." https://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html
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Comment #16655862
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/03/id-rather-be-fat-shamed-...
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Comment #16225496
Space burials [1] are a thing. When I investigated this, I found that in Germany the cremation industry is against separating remains, i.e. don't bury a part on Earth and another o…
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Comment #16220872
Other than that it's GTO, we didn't publish orbital parameters or spacecraft/payload specs AFAIK.
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Comment #16220576
Considering that there's little time left, your payload (and business model) has severe constraints. Unless you have something pre-developed and nearly ready to launch (e.g. at a u…
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Comment #16219999
I work with a former GLXP team (PTScientists from Germany). We left the prize in early 2017 and will launch in 2019. We're actually grateful for the GLXP. It opened doors, it did s…
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Comment #15962019
Pragmatic approach, I like that and am willing to play with it. Combining it with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_path_method could yield interesting results.
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Comment #15043529
https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
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Comment #15001499
Great, let's check it out. I'll send you an email over the weekend.
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Comment #15001438
I work with PTScientists.com/ (a GLXP team until end of 2016). You keep launch costs low by ride-sharing (secondary payload). One revenue source is to sell payload space to third p…
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Comment #15001419
Would you be interested in bringing Empire to space? To the Moon is possible but difficult and short-lived. I'd prefer the ISS, bandwidth is okay, it would run for months, just nee…
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Comment #14837202
Healthy young child discovers Ethereum, gets pumped with massive shot of many tokens, feels good and changes - AUTISM. Many such cases!