lucasjung

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Bigger Than Facebook(realclearmarkets.com)
5 points by lucasjung 14y ago|0 comments
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by lucasjung 15y ago
This is true in some organizations, but in other places the difference between "technician" and "engineer" literally is an engineering degree. I currently work at such an organization: you can't have the title "engineer" unless you have an
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by lucasjung 15y ago
> Interesting to note that computer/math degree holders don't fare far better than recent humanities and liberal arts graduates. Journalism majors perform even better. ... if you only look at the unemployment numbers. Scroll down and
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by lucasjung 15y ago
He's still wrong: human error is a factor in the overwhelming majority of aviation mishaps (I don't have stats handy, but it's something in the neighborhood of 85% IIRC). This must be understood in the context that while it is almost always
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USB flash drive with mechanical lock & hardware encryption(kickstarter.com)
2 points by lucasjung 15y ago|0 comments
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by lucasjung 15y ago
> Ok, i apologize if i have misjudged your intentions, that you weren't trying to insult me. I went a little overboard there, i'm sure your friends and you are competent people deserving of your statuses. An I apologize as well, as my
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by lucasjung 15y ago
> It is quite clear that you are a person who likes to revel in appeal to authority arguments and casually throw off insults. Throwing a textbook, or your phd buddy's anecdotes in my face does not negate what i say. I did not cite the
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by lucasjung 15y ago
> There's quite a difference between firescout and ng's helicopter. The latter gives superhuman performance (there are videos on his homepage, andrew ng stanford). You have absolutely no idea what the performance and handling character
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by lucasjung 15y ago
> It seems like you are not well versed in ai. Not especially. I audited a course as an undergrad, and hardly remember anything from it now, but I have a layman's understanding of the basics. > There was a debate about whether "ha
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by lucasjung 15y ago
I hardly think it's pessimistic to say, "this problem is really hard, and it's going to take years to solve." I'm confident that they will be solved, which some of my peers might even consider a naively optimistic attitude. > The que
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by lucasjung 15y ago
Nothing you say addresses my broader point that there are currently too many situations in aviation where the complexity of the decisions involved exceeds our current capacity for automation. A billion dollars was spent by the eu in the 80
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by lucasjung 15y ago
It's not circular reasoning: it's a conclusion based on observation. Several groups tried to solve each problem. All of the groups that tried to solve problem A have thus far failed (although some have made measurable progress) while some
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by lucasjung 15y ago
As I've mentioned elsewhere, I'm directly involved in the test and evaluation of one of the current attempts at "sense and avoid" technology. It is a long way from being safe for fully autonomous use. It is my understanding that the DAR
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by lucasjung 15y ago
> If your plane engine quits - what would a human do? This depends on a lot of factors. Some of them are things that a computer can probably be programmed to consider properly (e.g. specific cause of failure). Other factors require j
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by lucasjung 15y ago
Occasionally it will disengage, leaving the pilot in full control. IIRC, when in full-auto it will automatically wave off (add power and climb out to go around and try again) when it disengages unless the pilot actively takes over; so it w
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by lucasjung 15y ago
Under current tax laws they would most likely only do this in states where they already have shipping centers (Nevada and ...?) because opening such a store would create a nexus, requiring them to collect use taxes on all of their online sa
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by lucasjung 15y ago
> The same is not true for many other types of goods, such as clothes. Shops are performing a useful function in letting consumers see, touch and try what they buy. I used to feel the same way, but now I feel that this experience is hi
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by lucasjung 15y ago
I never claimed that human pilots are superior to automated flight control systems in every aspect. In fact, I have stated explicitly that computers perform some tasks better and more safely than humans. I was simply making the point that
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by lucasjung 15y ago
> the flight environment is trivial in comparison with urban traffic. Having experienced plenty of both, I can tell you that this is utterly false.
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by lucasjung 15y ago
> Why hasn't it been made mandatory that all aircrafts should have a standardized transponder ? In some parts of the world, it may be. For example, I don't know if Europe allows for aircraft without transponders. Even in the U.S. you
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by lucasjung 15y ago
> it could have an inert atmosphere This would be very costly to implement, and probably very heavy. That being said, inert gases are used in places where arcing is likely (e.g. radar waveguides). > or it could be unpressurized
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by lucasjung 15y ago
I have a master's in aeronautical engineering, and one of my major areas of study was stability and control, which is what your Segway and F-15 examples fall under. Automated flight control systems definitely do not exercise "judgement:" th
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by lucasjung 15y ago
> In just a couple of years the DARPA challenge yielded cars that can drive themselves in complex urban environments. I imagine with sufficient smart people working on it, flying airplanes in relatively uncluttered sky would yield resul
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by lucasjung 15y ago
Automated systems as they currently exist have fixed responses to fixed inputs. If an automatic system encounters a set of inputs it wasn't programmed for, it has no capacity to determine a best course of action for those inputs. Dependin
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by lucasjung 15y ago
Automation is incapable of "judgement;" automation consistently and reliably responds to inputs according to pre-defined instructions. That's why automation works really well in some situations but not others. The more complex the task, t
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by lucasjung 15y ago
There are actually a few levels of automation available to hornet pilots, ranging from (in layman's terms) "a little help staying on-speed and on glideslope" to "fully automatic." Some pilots hardly ever use them, some pilots use them as m
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by lucasjung 15y ago
I fly for a living, and I currently work in developmental flight test. One of the programs I am working on is a UAV. It's going to be a very, very long time before we see autonomous airliners. I'll talk about specific technical hurdles, b
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by lucasjung 15y ago
The author provides some system solutions that I agree with, but which I doubt would be implemented any time soon on a large scale. That leaves me asking other questions: What can I do, as a parent, if I see that my children are not bein
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by lucasjung 15y ago
I have a kindle, and I very much like the convenience of being able to manage my library by easily moving books on and off of the kindle wherever I am. However, any time I buy a book from Amazon I first check if a DRM-free alternative is a
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by lucasjung 15y ago
I have heard that the airliners are generally all equipped with GPS units rated for precision approaches. I'd have to look at some approach plates to see how the mins for GPS approaches stack up to the ILS approaches for the same runways (

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