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Re:Line Scan Photos from MUNI Heritage Weekend in San Francisco on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @03:30PM (#49806873)
Beautiful pictures!
Sanjoy lectured in a class I took at MIT. He was a fantastic lecturer.
Space launch is hard
According to Figure, their robots had already been deployed in production
And MIT's!
Many trucks have auxiliary power units (APUs) -- essentially small generators -- to power the AC and other house loads at rest stops. Some states have anti-idling laws.
Re:Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging on Thursday February 19, 2026 @10:15PM (#47083225)
Best of luck with your treatment.
Re:Voith Schneider Propeller on Thursday February 19, 2026 @07:06AM (#47072929)
The coolest recent development in marine propellers is toroidal propellers which are now commercially available and seem to perform significantly better than standard propellers: https://www.sharrowmarine.com/
Re:US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @02:04PM (#46530938)
Interesting! I am familiar with this space as we developed a software tool [0] to optimize packaging based on 3D packing technology we developed. If it is relevant to you, happy to chat!

[0] https://www.pack-studio.com/

Re:US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @12:56PM (#46529832)
What industry?
Re:Dude, where's my supersonic jet? on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @06:20PM (#46520286)
Having done Dallas<>Sydney a few times, going from 17 hours to ~8.5 hours would be huge.
Re:Floor796 on Sunday December 28, 2025 @10:50AM (#46411894)
This is an internet masterpiece
Re:MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies on Friday December 19, 2025 @05:00PM (#46331454)
No need to apologize! It was totally rational to assume that these two events were unrelated. It is a wild sad story and we'll likely learn about the motive over the coming weeks. This story hit me particularly hard as I live about a 3 minute walk from the victim's house in the Brookline area.
Re:MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @05:34PM (#46295579)
Could this be related to the Brown shooting?
Wow -- That's very rapid weight loss. Congratulations.
nincompoops... learned a new word today
Re:Why Today's Humanoids Won't Learn Dexterity on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @10:05PM (#45445699)
We have some great work digitizing touch and grasp: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1234-z
"...man this is gonna crash hard when reality sets in."

Given the amount of money invested and the expectations, the crash will be of cataclysmic proportions

Send them to BOS and we're talking
Re:New treatment eliminates bladder cancer in 82% of patients on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @12:55PM (#44890888)
Sorry for your loss.
Maybe you can retro a fan into your current fridge. Nice little project!
You should buy a fridge with a fan in the cooling chamber. My Samsung fridge has a nice fan and associated ducting to circulate air and keep temperatures ~uniform.
~$50k at MIT. Barely livable but livable. You can also complement this stipend with internships and other opportunities.
Different perspective... As an NSF grad student I didn't feel underpaid -- I felt extremely lucky that I got to do cutting-edge research while being paid a low but decent, livable salary. Of course, I could have made more money going into industry -- but at least we have a choice with institutions like the NSF willing to support risky projects that move humanity forward.
Re:What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing? on Monday June 30, 2025 @10:59AM (#44424171)
the pervasiveness of LLMs looks to really erode the critical thinking of entire future generations

Exactly the threat of AI. With regards to jobs, we'll have a shock but we will adapt as with any other wave of automation.

Wasn’t the Gulf War approved by Congress abd formally declared?
Re:Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes on Saturday May 17, 2025 @11:40AM (#44015075)
Nice to see that this project came from the University of Puerto Rico! The university has a cluster of activity in astronomy thanks to the legacy of the Arecibo telescope.

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