bobsil1

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by bobsil1 9y ago
Eh, Benchmark shafted most of the Epinions founders, who sued and settled.
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by bobsil1 9y ago
Heard of slimy high school debaters doing this at the local college library, to block opponents from getting evidence against their case. Private prep school kids, sadly.
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by bobsil1 9y ago
We May
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by bobsil1 9y ago
Yup. 0.6% Earth pressure.
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by bobsil1 9y ago
Lieutenants. Elon.
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by bobsil1 9y ago
Tunnels are needed on Mars, as are EVs, batteries, solar and reusable methane rockets. Mars atmosphere is too thin for heavy aircraft.
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by bobsil1 9y ago
Flip side, he can't be barred from using his skills as long as you document clean room procedures.
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by bobsil1 9y ago
Bio creatures can also fly at low speeds, powered by bugs. Planes get nowhere close. Passive sensing lets your eyes see stars and comets: long range, power efficient, avoids sensor conflicts with other objects.
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by bobsil1 9y ago
Mass drivers in physics sense = things which move mass. Car, rocket, orbital rail gun, etc.
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by bobsil1 9y ago
Quality? You mean interior finish? Elon is about mass drivers, the guts are what you pay for.
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by bobsil1 9y ago
They're more like candy samples.
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by bobsil1 9y ago
Ah, the Indian head wobble.
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by bobsil1 9y ago
>when you let algorithms optimize the shape of the legs and back of a chair; they start to resemble animal bones Evolutionary algorithm evolves biomechanics…
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by bobsil1 9y ago
Run many small fan motors out of phase.
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by bobsil1 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13992454
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by bobsil1 9y ago
Parking lots we don't need after autonomous cars.
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by bobsil1 9y ago
Parachutes generally need 1K feet to be effective, and VTOL cabs will operate at fairly low altitudes. Maybe there are special ops low-altitude parachute designs that can be adapted for airframes.
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by bobsil1 10y ago
We come up with this risible excuse every time we want to do something awful: sport fishing, chicken slaughter, baby circumcision. "They're dumb / they can't feel pain."
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by bobsil1 10y ago
The board can change the bylaws, issue new shares to get a majority of each class, wash out founders with a forward and reverse split. Preferred shares have all kinds of rights not given to founders. 50.1% of shares outstanding means nothin
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by bobsil1 10y ago
Yep, seeing all kinds of redneck camera mods.
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by bobsil1 10y ago
The key is board majority, not common shares majority. Because board can change the rules.
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by bobsil1 10y ago
Realtime video object recognition at 10^-5 the power draw of CNNs. Roughly simulating the # of neurons in a human brain for $700 rather than $70M.
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Did Uber steal the driverless future from Google?(bloomberg.com)
2 points by bobsil1 10y ago|0 comments
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by bobsil1 10y ago
Binary search :)
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by bobsil1 10y ago
I could be wrong on exact details, but: Playground Idealab
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by bobsil1 10y ago
"It's not in the cloud. It's on my Mac at home."
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by bobsil1 10y ago
Use a password manager. "I have no idea, sir."
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by bobsil1 10y ago
Use free Cloudflare caching maybe?
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by bobsil1 10y ago
Low-power video object recognition for military drones, security cams, etc.
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by bobsil1 10y ago
Asynchronous, analog, spike-based, co-located memory. Closer NN sim than von Neumann architecture, orders of magnitude more power-efficient. One human brain-equivalent NN on classic architecture costs ~$70M and uses ~100 houses worth of pow

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