Clifford Richardson
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Clifford Richardson
@CorvusCrypto
exabyte scale data strategy by day job. safety critical aviation/marine systems by passion. Not involved in crypto; short for Corvus cryptoleucus :D
Stockholm, Sweden Katılım Eylül 2013
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I think people are naturally on edge. There's also a lot of "pull weight" comments, but idk, these things tend to be a lot more complicated than anyone tries to make it seem. Ignoring the whole Gripen vs F35 debate, there are plenty of other systems where the US and Sweden for example have had a lot of collaboration to introduce tech that supplements and enhances the capabilities of even US hardware (specifically Sweden has been excellent at ECM hardware supply to allies). I can't speak to other countries because I don't know, but I do know that there are a lot of defense systems we manufacture here, but I believe the focus had never really been against ballistic systems precisely because the agreements split some areas of expertise and we could just rely on US systems being deployed as per agreements. I just don't think despite people wanting this to be black and white that it is and certainly many people involved in defense at higher levels are more level headed and do think longer than just a few months or years
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Calm down. The U.S. has missile intercept systems at a couple points in Europe, like Romania & Poland, as well as ships in the Mediterranean with the capability.
But as long as we’re talking…if you guys want to get serious & build a system, we’d appreciate it.
Piers Morgan@piersmorgan
So not only has Iran brazenly lied about its ballistic missile range capacity, but this means it can probably hit the UK with them - and we have zero, I repeat ZERO, defence against these missiles. Very worrying.
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@QuanquanGu Ironically this proves we are pretty much likely to be in a simulation ourself. Can't wait for that existential dread
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100%. Once intelligence and compute scale enough to simulate worlds,
most observers will exist inside simulations, not base reality.
Elon Musk@elonmusk
I had dinner once with a top physicist and a top computer scientist and asked what they thought the probability was that we were in a simulation. They answered simultaneously at 0% and 100% respectively. It was like a double-slit experiment, but with humans.
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Some in Stockholm this feedback about a month ago and criticisms were dismissed that we weren't using agents "right". I wonder if now we can address this now that Andrej has said it. Sad reality is you do need a figure head to sorta get people on track to some ideas or problems.
Andrej Karpathy@karpathy
I'm not very happy with the code quality and I think agents bloat abstractions, have poor code aesthetics, are very prone to copy pasting code blocks and it's a mess, but at this point I stopped fighting it too hard and just moved on. The agents do not listen to my instructions in the AGENTS.md files. E.g. just as one example, no matter how many times I say something like: "Every line of code should do exactly one thing and use intermediate variables as a form of documentation" They will still "multitask" and create complex constructs where one line of code calls 2 functions and then indexes an array with the result. I think in principle I could use hooks or slash commands to clean this up but at some point just a shrug is easier. Yes I think LLM as a judge for soft rewards is in principle and long term slightly problematic (due to goodharting concerns), but in practice and for now I don't think we've picked the low hanging fruit yet here.
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@flightradar24 Note that ground speeds tend to be higher on both takeoff and landing at high DA airports like Denver.
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It appears #LH481 rejected its takeoff at high speed (highest received ground speed was 173 kt) in Denver. flightradar24.com/DLH481/3ed67f57
Josh Spear@SpearJosh
Looks like we have an aircraft incident at DEN, a Lufthansa A350 appears to be deplaning near the end of Runway 7. #COwx @9NEWS @CBSNewsColorado
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@vanessajossi Nah it's covered in the xc training along with diverting because your CFI wanted to stop at Raisin Cane's at an airport about 20 min.away
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@PaulGibb18 @MCCCANM Don't worry NextGen will surely be completed next year with the NOTAM overhaul
GIF
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Seeing some people get worried.
Relax. This happens regularly. NM has big military test ranges & 3 Air Force bases. It was probably scheduled.
The jet doesn’t just rely on GPS for navigation. Over the ocean is one thing, over land w/ other Navigation Aids is no big deal.
Thenewarea51@thenewarea51
American Airlines AAL2341 experiencing GPS jamming near Albuquerque, New Mexico. ACARS via FlightDeck
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@Xaraphim It's a .. [checks notes] .. BIPLANE.
Only amateurs and applied aero flunkies fall for this shit.
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@officialetienne @Xaraphim Open wings make the air spill over the tip of the wing. By spilling over the air spirals and creates more drag on the wing. Looped (boxed) wings reduce this effect since there is no wing tip for the air to "spill" over.
Not a new design just very hard to build and stabilize
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@PIC_Colleen Also the folks at SNA were generally amazing. So we're the chaps that ran LAXs class B mini route transition
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@PIC_Colleen Favorite and least favorite. Favorite were the folks at Camarillo (CMA) and least favorite was an older naval controller working point mugu approach who always required the weirdest made up procedures to confirm stupid things like that he has me radar contact. Roger ain't enough?
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I think everyone has favorite controllers. I know I do. There’s this one gentleman who works Miami approach and departure. Very recognizable voice. Very clear enunciation. Always wanting to help you with vectors. Always wishes you a good day. I don’t know who you are sir, but I always feel happy when I hear you working. ⭐️
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One thing I always appreciated with the FAA is pragmatism. I mean the fact they allow contact approaches to be a thing is such an empowering thing. Sure it's rare that it's useful but it is definitely a tool worth having when used properly
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Just blip the sides with some primer after the body dries and we'll be good to goooooo
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@GonZoFreak_ This is a world i had no idea that existed. You can just buy entire MCP and FMS mockups now? Lmao what! That's awesome
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now that said there are tradeoffs. Bandwidth being one of them. So yknow... not like you should treat everything as a safety-critical subsystem :D
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"Avionics is hard."
Not really. You just make all allocations static, and all timing windows fixed and move on. It's our own fault in other industries making things hard with reliance on dynamic behaviors :P
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@MingtaKaivo @tunguz nah this is just his shtick. He's XGB-maxxing. He knows just like any reasonable person where the boundary of gradient boosting or decision tree use ends :P
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@tunguz depends what you're inferring. a full transformer for classification or sentiment is overkill. for next-token generation with multi-hop reasoning, there's nothing smaller that holds. the problem is people deploy one architecture at everything.
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We really need to dial down the sensationalism before we have official information. ADS-B data is often not as accurate as you think it is and it is NOT radar data. Go Arounds due to obstruction or danger happens more than you think, but you don't hear about all the times people successfully execute go arounds at smaller class C airports because it's not as widely monitored by hobbyists.
Wait for more info, get the facts, then evaluate what went wrong (if anything, remember that a go around call like this is a normal part of handling air traffic if separation cannot be guaranteed)
Breaking Aviation News & Videos@aviationbrk
An Alaska Airlines 737 and a FedEx 777 nearly collided as they attempted to land on intersecting runways at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, according to radar data. The incident happened around 8:17 p.m. Tuesday as the Alaska flight arrived from Portland, Oregon, and the FedEx plane arrived from Memphis, Tennessee. Air traffic control told the Alaska plane to go around seconds before it touched down while the plane was just 150 feet in the air, according to air traffic control audio. Meanwhile, the FedEx plane continued its landing on the intersecting runway. Preliminary data from Flightradar24 shows the Alaska plane cleared the FedEx plane by just 300 to 325 feet. The Federal Aviation Administration said, "An air traffic controller instructed Alaska Airlines Flight 294 to perform a go-around at Newark International Airport because FedEx Flight 721 was cleared for the final approach to an intersecting runway. The FAA is investigating."
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