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They're both right. There IS a bubble in AI. Some company(s) are going to lose tons of money. And TSMC will make a fortune selling them all those proverbial shovels.

Okay but, I have to ask quantum computers... "What would you say... you do here?"

You are dealing with roughly 35-40% of the country and imaging that they're more like 10%. The way you address it is either: A. Embrace and adhere to federalism (ie, go hard on states rights and give up on trying to mandate things at the federal level because you'll never get consensus)...

Convince me that it is better for the State of Iowa to fund THREE marginal theater arts programs when we could close two of them and focus on improving the remaining one. We don't have three marginal medical schools, or three marginal veterinary schools. We have one of each and they're in the...

FYI, the 1992-1995 maintenance was essentially a total rebuild. It took so long because they had to find enough live oak of sufficient size.

True, but I will maintain to the last that I don't think the Intrepid museum is a good long term venue for an exhibit like the shuttle. Apollo sure, gemini or mercury absolutely; those easily fit in the hangar deck, and Intrepid recovered some of those missions. But the measures they had to go...

Maintenance on the Intrepid would entail dislodging it from the river and towing it to Brooklyn (I'm not sure if Bayonne is still an option). Worst case it might have to go all the way to Norfolk. If it has to leave the Hudson, you wouldn't want the Enterprise or its shelter on the deck.

But they did get something, and credit to MoF Seattle for being appreciative of what they got.

I want to know how much money New York put on the table. No offense to Intrepid, it's a fine museum, but it's not an appropriate venue for a shuttle, even Enterprise. The permanent structure they've had to build ruins the carrier deck view.

The mistake was in giving one to New York when there was going to be one in DC. A California-Texas-Florida-DC distribution made more sense.

I suspect that it took as long as it did to get an update on the situation because the engineers were optimistic that they COULD fix it. Failures you CAN'T recover from tend to be pretty obvious up front.

The left was warned repeatedly, throughout the 2010's, and even before, that they were pushing their luck. There are no free speech absolutists anymore. That bridge has burned.

😐 You and I have different conceptions of what constitutes worthlessness and economical. I suspect we also think about this problem on very different timescales. You're thinking about humanity over a timescale where we deplete earth's supply of fissile material. I'm thinking about humanity...

The issue is reluctance to make a decision, and interest in reprocessing. As I see it there are two issues: 1. "Spent" fuel still contains plenty of uranium that can be economically recovered through reprocessing. 2. Deep boreholes are economical, practical, but very difficult to retrieve...

A large(ish) payload like solid fuel rocket. The hard part isn't getting the sample off Mars, or on a transfer orbit back to Earth. The hard part is delivering the capacity to do that, TO MARS. Starship's capacity is such that even a monster like the Trident II becomes a plausible ascent vehicle.

To do what? Evade detection? This is what LLMs DO. It isn't that the tool is bad, it's that the tool is being used for something it's totally inappropriate for. LLMs do not reason. They do not comprehend the things they comment on, there is no train of thought occurring behind the scenes...

Almost certainly. On geologic timescales, plants have been locked in a race to the bottom for a very long time. So far as evolution is concerned, the totality of human contribution to atmospheric CO2 concentration is barely even enough to induce plants to shift their priorities towards...

It's not as simple as "x material better than y". For a given weight, CF has a MUCH higher tensile strength than steel. The trick is in how you use that, since a rocket is a combination of both tension and compression loads.

At high subsonic into transonic speeds, pressure waves start forming around the vehicle. They're somewhat like the shock diamonds that form in the engine exhaust. These waves create regions of high and low pressure around the vehicle, creating wave drag. In these waves, stable regions can...

A better analogy would be food dye in water. The way LLMs work, you couldn't make a rule that works the way you want it to without the rule lobotomizing the model. We've seen models that are like that, where as soon as the conversation triggers the protection, it simply reverts to the...