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Where are the performance spec sheets?
by InDubioProRubio 2y ago
Where are the performance spec sheets?
- InDubioProRubio 2y agoWhy downvote? Its a great design, by an ai, it should compete with human designs in all the specs?
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- dgacmu 2y agoI didn't downvote you, but it seems like a pretty nitpicky question to ask at the "we demonstrated that the thing worked and didn't melt" stage. It shouldn't have to compete - yet. Your question doesn't get at the more interesting one, which is, "will it eventually?"
- InDubioProRubio 2y agoOn contrair el capitan: It is trained on human designs and design processes. It has knowledge on physics and flow mechanics + propulsion simulations baked into it. It should outcompete a human, who gains that intuition by try and terror.
- dgacmu 2y agoThere's a saying from Rod Brooks that I quite like: "Simulations are doomed to succeed." The hard part is making sure the simulation captures enough of the relevant factors and that the physics/etc simulation is accurate enough.
- greesil 2y agoI suspect they're happy it didn't just blow up.
- 0xfae 2y agoThe second line of the article: "The engine with 5 kN (500 kg / 1124 lbf) of thrust, generated the expected 20,000 horsepower"
- echoangle 2y agoSpecific impulse would also be nice, thrust itself isn’t very impressive
- jameshart 2y agoI think the impressive thing here is more that they asked the computer to design an engine which produced a desired amount of thrust, and it did so. The thing being demonstrated isn’t ‘we made this engine, look how impressive its specs are’, it’s ’our computer can make working engines to spec’