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Many of the “no” comments here are very focused on the current state. The author seems to be looking at a longer time horizon of computing paradigms, for example invoking ENIAC. On…

> Any potential engineer watches this as part of their assignments in Intro to Engineering. Lecture 12 iirc. As someone who trained in chemical engineering in the 2000's, we never …

In hard sci-if settings like The Expanse, would we expect that all of the electronics in space to be a few generations behind the state-of-the-art planetside to account for radiati…

I’m not sure how effective signal jamming would be against COTS quadcopters. It’s relatively easy to provide on-loss-of-signal instructions to the navigation microcontroller. Perha…

With the release of GitHub’s Copilot, I wonder how far we are from ML identification of malicious repositories.

You may way to look into biotech incubators such as IndioBio[1] to get an idea of what it takes. [1] https://indiebio.co/

I think you have an interesting product, but I'm having serious issues with your marketing. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. How many of your estimated treatmen…

I'm less confident that a mass migration wouldn't result in millions of deaths. An example might be the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947. Only 14 million displaced, yet an e…

This reminds of the abandoned practice of women being prescribed Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) for menopause. Essentially the reasoning was "why not, it seems to improve patien…

Perhaps, ahem... "buildment"? But no, apparently "build" has been screwed up since the 1660s[1]. [1] https://www.etymonline.com/word/build#etymonline_v_18047

How would you use the new definition to calibrate instruments? My current understanding is that there is a lineage of artifacts calibrated against another artifact until one of tho…

This is the premise of the book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman. Among other things, he explains System 1 in terms of popular cognitive biases. It's a good read.

This is 2005, not 2015.

I think that this definition of terroir is romanticized. inextricably -> in a way that is impossible to disentangle or separate Science seeks to disentangle the complexities of nat…