There is no such thing as too much knowledge or experience

There is no such thing as too much knowledge or experience

Amazingly people over 50 take fewer sick days than other age groups. Highly experienced people do not get bored because they find new ways of doing things, train the existing stuff, advise hiring managers, and solve problems nobody even knew existed. Experienced people do not cost that much more – but they more than make up for the higher pay by higher productivity, not only their own, but of the entire team.

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U.S. Air Force Unveils Drone-Killing Microwave Weapon

U.S. Air Force Unveils Drone-Killing Microwave Weapon

The Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base unveiled the weapon Thursday morning in a live demonstration with local reporters, who watched the system effortlessly knock a hovering drone out of the sky with an invisible and inaudible electromagnetic wave. The system is aimed at protecting military bases from multiple-drone attacks, which the Air Force has identified as its No. 1 priority for emerging “directed energy,” or microwave and laser, defense systems. The Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base unveiled the Tactical High Power Microwave Operational Responder (THOR) on June 20, 2019(KRQE screenshot)

AFRL spent $15 million to develop THOR, which could cost about $10 million to produce if the U.S. Department of Defense chooses to deploy it, Hammett said.

Source: taskandpurpose.com

DEC64 (2014)

DEC64 (2014)

DEC64 is intended to be the only number type in the next generation of application programming languages. It used decimal floating point, much like the EDSAC, so the language could be used for both scientific and business applications. A decimal number type was considered for the 432 but rejected in favor of conventional binary floating point.

Source: dec64.com

Olivia: An open source chatbot build with a neural network in Go

Olivia: An open source chatbot build with a neural network in Go

Clone Olivia’s REST Api from the master branch of Github repository

Then go inside the project and install the dependencies

The REST Api is now listening on the port , to change it just set it inside the environment variable

The app will automatically check for file which contains the save of the neural network. By default when you clone the repository from Github you have a stable save. If you want to train a new model just delete this file and rerun the app.

Source: github.com

The Perils of the Human Imagination

The Perils of the Human Imagination

In previous books such as Civilizations (2001), Ideas (2003) and The World: A History (2007), he focused on global history through biomes or ecosystems – communities of living things rather than countries – and this geographical perspective has led some readers to view him as a materialist. But he has “always thought that ideas are literally primordial”, he writes here, and regarded world history as the history of the human imagination. In the comic-book history of ideas that is promoted by rationalists today, Isaac Newton is revered as one of the authors of “the Scientific Revolution”.

Source: www.newstatesman.com

The US Air Force has a new weapon called THOR that can take out swarms of drones

The US Air Force has a new weapon called THOR that can take out swarms of drones

This week, the US Air Force unveiled a new tool that can be stationed at bases around the world: a high-powered microwave system called Tactical High Power Microwave Operational Responder (THOR), which is designed to protect bases against swarms of drones. The Air Force Research Laboratory at the Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico, developed the system, which uses short bursts of high-powered microwaves to disable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The Air Force began testing THOR against short-range targets earlier this spring, while another system, the Counter-Electronic High-Power Microwave Extended-Range Air Base Air Defense (CHIMERA) is designed to hit things at medium to long ranges.

Source: www.theverge.com

DEC64

DEC64

DEC64 is intended to be the only number type in the next generation of application programming languages. It used decimal floating point, much like the EDSAC, so the language could be used for both scientific and business applications. A decimal number type was considered for the 432 but rejected in favor of conventional binary floating point.

Source: dec64.com

Cheesegraters and Crystals

Cheesegraters and Crystals

It led me to Apple’s page on the design of the Pro and this language:

The lattice pattern on Mac Pro is based on a naturally occurring phenomenon in molecular crystal structures. In materials science books, the hcp crystal structure, in which atoms arrange themselves like the spheres we’ve been looking at, is usually shown in an oblique view, like in the drawing at the lower right. The fcc structure isn’t as obvious because it’s harder to visualize cubic arrangements in our layers of balls.

Source: leancrew.com

Bill Gates on making “one of the greatest mistakes of all time”

Bill Gates on making “one of the greatest mistakes of all time”

As Gates told Hartz, “I have a fairly hardcore view that there should be a very large sacrifice made during those early years, particularly if you’re trying to do some engineering things that you have to get the feasibility” or proof that a project can be performed successfully. In fact, Gates is still kicking himself for taking his eyes off the ball and allowing Google to develop Android, the “standard non-Apple phone form platform,” as he describes it. But yes, I have a fairly hardcore view that there should be a very large sacrifice made during those, those early years, particularly if you’re trying to do some engineering things that you have to get the feasibility.

Source: techcrunch.com

The Gorgon Stare, a military drone-surveillance technology

The Gorgon Stare, a military drone-surveillance technology

There are many avid documenters of this new technology, but no one seems to understand its many facets quite like Arthur Holland Michel, founder and co-director of the Bard Center for the Study of the Drone, which catalogs the growing use of drones around the world. Now, Holland Michel has written Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All, a book of startling revelations about drone surveillance in the United States. Holland Michel has lived and breathed drone technology for the last six years, but nothing quite shocked him like the technology of Wide Angle Motion Imagery (WAMI).

Source: longreads.com