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  1. None of the last three CEOs of Boeing going back to 2005 have had a background in engineering or even aviation. They've all been pure businessmen/marketers/accountants/"finance bros". I guess this is what you get when the leader lacks an appropriate background
  2. Fly private? Not that it would be cheap ... but I think you might be able to get away with "only" 3-4x a commercial flight. ..
  3. I’d say it’s a strange culture but it’s it like ours isn’t
  4. Looks like Russia hit one of the Patriots 😔
  5. Ovechkin's contract is up so we can tell him whatever we want, but he can take his talents wherever he likes at this point. So if we want him to remain on the team, we'll have to accommodate him. Like I keep harping on, we should have restarted the rebuild 5 years ago after it was apparent the team was done after the Cup run and Ovechkin was under contract. Would have been a much better position now. As it is, I don't know how much Ovechkin is going to play past 40, so it will be a tough to complete a rebuild before he seeks greener pastures. Having him break Wayne's record wearing anything but a Caps uniform would be an embarassment for this franchise. I'm hoping even he sees how its just not possible for the Caps to be competitve again while keeping to slap bandaids on the team.
  6. Probably meant Russian counteroffensive. Every offensive after the initial attack has been billed as "counter offensive" because it followed an offensive from the other side. I don't think Zelensky getting assassinated would help. It would just make it seem like Ukraine was a lost cause.
  7. Some of the image processing/signal processig does require some fairly heavy math. But things like understanding ANNs, which are used frequently all over the place, for classifiers (also speech recognition) isn't really that hard. Its basically just a big matrix multiplication. And after that, getting the right labelled data, tweaking parameters and testing the model. A lot of grunt work The challenges are just having the right data and the economic cost of storage/retrieval. That's why there's been such a big resurgence after it was dormant since the early 90s. We now have the dat, processing power and storage The basic models haven't changed all that much since backpropogation was discovered I 1986. yeah, they came out with CNNs (convolutionalneural networks). But those are really just an extension to account for image offset/rotation/scale. Its mostly a case of "we now have the hardware"
  8. Not sure how I come up with these ideas
  9. Yeah I seriously doubt Lutin is going to test NATO without trying to destabilize first … Latvia would be an obvious target
  10. This is Silicon Valley we're talking about. Everyone's pre-revenue for like at least 10 years, than another 10 years to turn a profit (if they last that long)
  11. Scratch another Russian AWACS ... https://kyivindependent.com/russian-a50-plane-shot-down-over-azov-sea-military-says/
  12. A really long tunnel? I hear Russia is pretty good at construction ...
  13. I think technically its only nuclear attack, but I see the point Edit: It was all attacks, not just nuclear https://policymemos.hks.harvard.edu/files/policymemos/files/2-23-22_ukraine-the_budapest_memo.pdf?m=1645824948 Unfortunately we are entering the era of realpolitik and "treaties are only pieces of paper"
  14. Stats aren't exactly easy to pull for all years, but from what I could find in the US in 2012 there were 10,322 fatalities due to drunk/impaired driving and 13,384 in 2022, both according to NHTSA. So the answer is most likely, no. I suppose this makes sense. The perpetrators are probably people who drink habitually so much (i.e. alcoholics) they aren't going to bother with ride shares. vs. the people who go out at most few times a month. But I would note, it decreased heavily from its peak in the 70s/80s, where they were closer to 20k per year. And this was with a smaller population. Car safety tech may have been partially responsible, because all fatalities went down, not just due to alcohol impaired crashes
  15. Yeah and I mean ride shares have been around for over 10 years now so if you really want to go out and wasted, don't drive. If you can afford drinking you can afford an Uber/Lyft
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