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by sgnelson 2y ago
FYI: the author of this blog was just featured in an article in The Atlantic about the Voynich Manuscript. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/09/decodin...
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by sgnelson 2y ago
This is not a Navy recruiting ad, this is an ad to recruit shipbuilders. The vast majority of those jobs are civilian. If this author had spent about 5 minutes of research, they would have discovered this. If you're skilled enough to w
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by sgnelson 2y ago
One of the very interesting parts of the report is that the OIG recommended 4 areas that needed to be fixed/worked on. NASA agreed to 3 of them, and was working on making those areas better. The one recommendation that NASA did not a
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by sgnelson 2y ago
If you read the OIG report, it states: "Michoud officials stated that it has been difficult to attract and retain a contractor workforce with aerospace manufacturing experience in part due to Michoud’s geographical location in New Orle
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by sgnelson 2y ago
I think you drastically underestimate the influence that World War 2 had on up-skilling a technological workforce in the United States. I know a handful of people who's fathers or relatives went from farm boy to a radio technician wi
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by sgnelson 2y ago
The OIG Report itself: https://oig.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/ig-24-015.pd...
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by sgnelson 2y ago
How about a simple "The stock market is not the economy?" Too easy?
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by sgnelson 2y ago
With all those people who have "range anxiety" and thus avoid buying EV's, this is going to do a good job of selling more Teslas...
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by sgnelson 2y ago
Jimmy Carter may have been one of the most decent human beings the US has ever had as a President. I think the way that the Republican party treated (both then and now) a southern, small family farmer who served in the military and taught S
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by sgnelson 3y ago
Those few who are willing to go take a low salary to go deal with all the issues of the modern education system are just as good as those who are willing to go take a low salary and deal with all the issues of the modern education system, b
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by sgnelson 3y ago
I would add another caveat: "and for the employees" as one of the key plays by PE seems to be to just lay as many people off as they possibly can get away with.
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by sgnelson 3y ago
Because Faculty are generally paid very poorly, have many courses to teach, and what takes up more and more of their time are the broken bureaucratic systems they have to deal with. Add that at research universities, they have to do researc
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by sgnelson 3y ago
Yeah, no. You can say a lot of things about Ken White, but saying that he conflates the 1st Amendment and Free Speech is one thing he does not do. There's a ton of evidence out there where he is very specific about the differences bet
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by sgnelson 3y ago
(That's called fascism...)
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by sgnelson 3y ago
At this point, I would think an ad from IBM/Apple/etc. showing up next to a post of Elon's would be enough to prove advertisements have been placed next to a known anti-Semite. But that's just me.
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by sgnelson 3y ago
is that a "The Algorithm is bad" excuse? Because if that's part of Elon Musk's position, this whole thing becomes even more laughable (considering his complaints about the algorithm were supposedly part of the reason he
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by sgnelson 3y ago
I literally just finished reading "If Then" by Jill Lepore, which was about Simulmatics, and computational simulation of human behavior. If you haven't read it, you may want to take the time.
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by sgnelson 3y ago
I am confused by this. The guy who runs Cryptome (which is arguably a thorn in the side of the US intelligence services and US government) is telling the US government that if they don't charge him with a crime (which if convicted cou
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by sgnelson 3y ago
As to my earlier comment, I don't think anyone is saying "We shouldn't educate students" (except the parent comment that was like "only for kids whose parents care.") And for me, public schools are for the edu
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by sgnelson 3y ago
I don't think anyone is going to say "offering parents more choices is bad." But the political reality is not simply "offering more choices." The political reality typically entails using funds set aside for publi
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by sgnelson 3y ago
I'm unable to read the article, but there's a whole lot of blame to go around. Everyone is supposed to go to college, regardless if that is the right choice for them. They're told they can only do this as fresh graduates fro
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by sgnelson 3y ago
You're completely right about the DIY vs. Industrial issue. And the reality is that I need both, a DIY solution to teach students "this is how they work, these are the fundamentals, this is how to fix them/change them/op
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by sgnelson 3y ago
I imagine a lot of that will have to do with the 3d printed material used. If you're talking typical FDM style PLA, ABS, the creep on these can be pretty terrible. If you're talking something like carbon fiber reinforced nylon, i
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by sgnelson 3y ago
I wonder how this compares to the AR4 robotic arm ( https://www.anninrobotics.com ). The AR4 isn't truly hardware open source, but my understanding is that it's software agnostic. My biggest question is the full cost
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by sgnelson 3y ago
Here's a 2 second google examples of: I like this map, I hate this map. Now, maps have different purposes, and so it can be unfair to sometimes pick two different maps and critique them in comparison, but, we're going to do that
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by sgnelson 3y ago
I feel like I could make a pretty good analogy about an arsonist burning down houses and how that would be a great way to create a hyper-efficient market that would tell us the true cost of housing, insurance, construction supplies and labo
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by sgnelson 3y ago
It depends on what your definition of "efficacy" and "results" are. If all you want is to collect data on the cosmos for the sake of pure science, then absolutely human space flight is a waste of money. If your goal is t
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by sgnelson 3y ago
When I was in school, I liked "Designing better maps" by Cynthia Brewer. But this was years ago, and I'm not sure what is out there now. But let me warn you; here be dragons. If you rally get into and learn about cartograph
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by sgnelson 3y ago
Well I'm sure this maneuver will bring advertisers running back to Twitter. But at this point, I'm fairly confident Elon Musk is simply a "any press is good press" narcissist. He doesn't care what happens to the bu
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by sgnelson 6y ago
"It will come a time in US when people will come to understanding that the Internet exists, and one does not take any random thing on the Internet at face value." I have to ask, have you heard of Qanon? Do you remember what happe

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