choonway

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by choonway 6y ago
It is more efficient to use mirrors and reflect the light energy to the destination instead of using it to charge batteries / transmission lines and transport it physically. Perhaps a concentrator on the moon or something?
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by choonway 6y ago
Building a dyson swarm, or even a fraction of it would be the real game changer. Distance from sun to moon - 148,000,000 km. Radius of earth - 6,370 km fraction of light emitted by sun falling on earth (pi 6370^2) / (4 pi*(148e6)^2) =
93.
by choonway 6y ago
yep. should be focusing on the monkey, not the pedestal. but it's hard to convince unenlightened bureaucracy.
94.
by choonway 6y ago
that way, you can launch your missiles and conventional torpedos from the same launcher. torpedoes are generally more survivable than antiship missiles.
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by choonway 6y ago
Numbers mean nothing. I give you a million road sweepers and you won't end up with any product at all. Talent is gravitating towards US - that's an undeniable fact.
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by choonway 6y ago
used CATIA - it's like C compared to the host of the fad languages out there.
97.
by choonway 6y ago
what about making sure the person who did it to you does not profit from it?
98.
by choonway 6y ago
how about daydreaming? does that work too?
99.
by choonway 6y ago
imagine thousands of years ago, if you were very rich, you would stay away from rivers because of the risk of flooding - but you still needed a source of water - so you hire people to carry water from the streams to your home. how would you
100.
by choonway 6y ago
The reason why you want to go in person to college is to meet your peers in ability and get to know them up front. Otherwise, you can just pick up a book and start reading.
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by choonway 6y ago
If you have to know, it's the engineering equivalent of trying to divide by zero in Math.
102.
by choonway 6y ago
What I'm watching is not on anyone's list.
103.
by choonway 6y ago
So what's stopping Asian-Americans from setting up their own university?
104.
by choonway 7y ago
von neumann’s original papers mention that his studies on CA were an abstraction due to the limitations of 1940’s technology. His main concern was really automatic replication of real world physical objects. In this respect, 3D printers off
105.
by choonway 7y ago
they did the same thing with slaughterbots when deep learning was making the news.
106.
by choonway 7y ago
That part about what claims sciences can make - has been addressed in statistical significance. No need to invoke philosophy. The dark truths are even darker than that. It is what will get you deplatformed. Paul has a very nice article on t
107.
by choonway 7y ago
really? ethics? so.. which standards of ethics do you think leaders should adhere to? so many to choose from...
108.
by choonway 7y ago
I thought what the philosophers were saying was quite cool, until I realized most of them said things that sounded nice without any link to the foundations of the hard physical sciences. When I made that link on why we behave the way we do,
109.
by choonway 7y ago
If I was the interviewer... Me: Really? what metrics do you make that optimality claim on?
110.
by choonway 7y ago
It really is that thin. I'm sure he's talking about new stuff that you can't find by googling.
111.
by choonway 7y ago
You know, I take most articles like this as a signal to say, “hey I’m still alive”, rather than to dispense some secret knowledge. There’s no need to take it too seriously.
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by choonway 7y ago
I think Tesla, SpaceX is an indication of how much investor faith and strength of stomach is required in order to make things work. But honestly, how many VCs would rather invest in something else than see 2 rocket launches fail in a row an
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by choonway 7y ago
the only way for all of this to work out (for all parties involved) is if there is another superpower nation with nuclear weapons with laws that punishes these sort of behavior and all the tech talent flows there.
114.
by choonway 7y ago
When the time comes, they could just order a cheap machine from China to replace it.
115.
by choonway 7y ago
But why? The universe is so vast and under-populated it's hard to make a case why growth would be constrained.
116.
by choonway 7y ago
same goes for CATIA V5...
117.
by choonway 7y ago
Nope. It's just pattern recognition.
118.
by choonway 7y ago
That is just explaining the mechanism, but not delving into the reasons. An experiment would be to compare 2 pairs of people, one with similar tastes, and the other with opposite tastes in music, and measure their performance in cooperative
119.
by choonway 7y ago
require facebook to report bribery and leave it to the AG to file charges.
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by choonway 7y ago
If the 10nm is a broken process and Intel didn't announce it, aren't they open to shareholder lawsuits for failure to disclose material facts?

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