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muizz
ayokan.me
Safe, everyday, autonomous flight requires a robust, multi-layered approach for avoiding and maintaining separation from other aircraft.
1️⃣ Route design - establishing a ‘highway in the sky’
2️⃣ Flight plans - anticipating and avoiding other traffic
3️⃣ Air Traffic Control Services -... See more
Wiskx.comfor an idea to shape society it must be communicated. There are many technical challenges to communicating ideas, and one of the more important ones is applying a gears-level understanding of how people evaluate ideas.
Samo Burja • Intellectual Legitimacy | Samo Burja
How Japan ignored climate critics and built a global natural gas empire
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Every six hours, somewhere in the world, an LNG shipment controlled by a Japanese company leaves a port. However, these tankers are only the tip of the iceberg
A thread... See more
coordination and Infrastructure Tales
So beautiful
Learning from catastrophe
technologyreview.comCraft and coordination
Excerpt:
Take the average modern jetliner, with its 7 million components and 170 miles’ worth of wiring—an immensely complex system in and of itself. There were over 25,000 jetliners in regular service in 2014, according to Downer. Together, they averaged 100,000 flights every single day. Now consider that in 2017, no passenger-carrying commercial jetliner was involved in a fatal accident. Zero. That year, passenger totals reached 4 billion on close to 37 million flights. Yes, it was a record-setting year for the airline industry, safety-wise, but flying remains an almost unfathomably safe and reliable mode of transportation.
Your goal is NOT to prove you're smart. It's to make problems go away. https://t.co/3HwRLyqCyO
Switching brain state costs energy
"Stable" brain states exist in local energy minima, so there is an energy barrier to overcome to switch from one state to another
Nice summary of relevant papers and work by @DaniSBassett here:
https://t.co/wanGBIwpoX https://t.co/SVnpKl3ATc
On the efficacy of multitasking
Order is important. Better to perform tasks requiring lower activation energy before more demanding ones. Build into it. Switching is expensive.
Over the last 6 months we’ve been developing our first operational vehicle - The Poseidon Seagull https://t.co/Btw9eyLjRM
David Zagaynovx.comExtrovert-Introvert Fog
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“It is a highly valued function of society to prevent changes in the rules of the many games it embraces... Deviancy, however, is the very essence of culture.