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Re:Bye Aerospace Unveils 8-Seat All-Electric EFlyer 800 on Friday April 23, 2021 @12:50PM (#26916618)
Kindof. Currently used for emergency recovery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_air_turbine
Atom Electric boards work just fine: https://www.amazon.com/Atom-Longboards-Electric-Longboard-Sk... https://www.amazon.com/Atom-Longboards-Electric-Longboard-Sk...

The $600 one might be underpowered depending on your use case but hard to beat the Amazon return policy if you don't like it.

Re:MakerBot's bold bet that 3D printers would become common on Saturday December 03, 2016 @08:00AM (#13095493)
Unfortunately, I don't think teaching logic will get you what you want here. Fake news may be false, bit it is often (mostly) logically consistent - this is part of the power.
Re:China Will Resurrect the World's Largest Plane on Sunday September 11, 2016 @10:17AM (#12473453)
Pretty much this. Incredibly hard to design from scratch; cheaper to buy an existing design and start from there.
Re:AI development is going to get even faster on Monday August 22, 2016 @09:14PM (#12340627)
(One challenge: though neural networks generalize very well, we still lack a decent theory to describe them, so much of the field proceeds by intuition. This is both cool and extremely bad. “It’s amazing to me that these very vague, intuitive arguments turned out to correspond to what is actually happening,” says Ilya Sutskever, research director at OpenAI., of the move to create ever-deeper neural network architectures. Work needs to be done here. “Theory often follows experiment in machine learning,” says Yoshua Bengio, one of the founders of the field. Modern AI researchers are like people trying to invent flying machines without the formulas of aerodynamics, says Yann Lecun, Facebook’s head of AI.)

One of the most interesting aspects of the field - we don't have robust ways of predicting what will work without trying it.

Re:Online, collaborative LaTeX editor on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @08:50AM (#12128589)
Same. Very useful.
Not sure if this has been done before

Seems similar to TinyPress: https://tinypress.co/

Re:Drowning in a Sea of Information on Monday June 20, 2016 @11:29AM (#11938634)
I would love to see a writing format with something like the following structure: 1) A TLDR of Twitter length 2) A paraphrase of the key concepts and point argued in the article 3) The actual full-length article

This way you could ramp up at each stage and decide if it's valuable to keep reading.

Most of what I've seen is in English but there are some second-level services popping up that promise an API for chatbot translation, e.g. Cyrano (http://cyrano.unbabel.com/).
Re:Metal foam obliterates bullets on Sunday April 10, 2016 @08:29AM (#11465878)
Dragon Skin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Skin) claimed to withstand multiple hits without loss of performance, although there was some controversy around it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYaSRIbPWkM&nohtml5=False