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"chances are that if 700 passengers are flown annually, up to 10 of them might not survive the flight in the first years of the operations." most remarkable also the question who is to blame if a dead and burned space tourist corps comes crashing down from the sky into your car.

This calls for some we serious simulations by the Petkow code it seems to me ...

I still would need some serious input data...

Funny article .... Reminds me a bit of Luzi :-) And look at this phrase: am I in good or bad company ? "Sergey Brin, a founder of Google, rarely leaves home without his Vibram FiveFingers nylon shoes." In the article it is mentioned as a sign of particularly bad taste :-)

But there should be a second article on sandals! And finally one on the synthesis: socks with sandals... :-)

This is too funny...

How I wish I would have been tougher with the guy when he showed up here ....

you should have told him that we're very into it, if they could only make a small deposit in our account and we'll send them a lot of money later

Interesting historical perspective. Progress since the late '80 really seems to be fairly slow. ?: Do we need to wait for the singularity until speech recognition works without flaws?

"I thought I would give it a try on my android sexy seems to work pretty well and I'm speaking more less at normal speed" Actually I was speaking as fast as I could because it was for the google search input - if you make a pause it will think you finished your input and start the query. Also you might notice that Android thinks it is "android sexy" - this was meant to be "on my Android. THIS seems to work...". Still it is not too bad - maybe in a year or two they have it working. Of course it might also be that I just use the word "sexy" randomly... :-\

The problem is that we don't yet understand how speech in humans actually works. As long as we merely build either inference or statistical language models we'll never get perfect speech recognition. A lot of recognition in humans has a predictive/expectational basis to it that stems from our understanding of higher lvl concepts and context awareness. Sadly I suspect that as long as machines remain unembodied in their perceptual abilities their ability to either properly recognize sounds/speech or objects and other features will never reach perfection.

funny how "basic physics" can still be fashionable

funny how a curve can change (pre)History !

Reminds me of this: http://xkcd.com/687/ :)

xkcd must be the new calvin and hobbes, where luzi usually has an example for any given situation

All the satellite-related systems (except for the rocket to launch it) are DIY programs -- designed so that regular people may also have the chance of developing and eventually launching their own.

I was saying that mainly because of some flaws - the piggy-pack installation, no dedicated stage, the limited control, ... It is so far very funny, but once he can fill all the gaps, it should be an excellent initiative - although careful about the debris if anyone has its own ;p

his quote: "when art becomes practical, we call it technology; when technology becomes useless, we call it art" ... this is probably the later one ....

Crazy and funny

Funny farewell video

Read the first entries, are really funny. The ones tagged as "Informative" contain references that might be useful for us.

This is an article on the problems of defining a scientific term. Or better how people can argue when trying to agree on a definition. Rather funny than important

Funny pictures

Funny study about the correlation between chocolate consumption and Nobel laureates. Let's all eat chocolate then! :)

why Lindt chocolate ...??

"Dr. Messerli reports regular daily chocolate consumption, mostly but not exclusively in the form of Lindt's dark varieties."

For a Few Dollars More ... Except for this debatable purpose, this challenge seems interesting. They've made a presentation at ESTEC one month ago about that topic : http://www.kiss.caltech.edu/study/asteroid/20120314_ESA_ESTEC.pdf By the way, KISS is a funny name for a space institute.

Metamaterials that absorb seismic waves rather than steer them, might be a better way to protect some buildings, say engineers

what are seismic metamaterials?

must look funny ... They calculate the properties of such a metatmaterial and how it might be constructed with a basic repeating unit in the form of a concrete cylinder some 18 metres in diameter, with four perpendicular holes in its sides (see picture). These cylinders, perhaps varying in size to absorb a range of seismic wavelengths, would need to surround the foundations of a building in cylindrical shells some 60 metres across. That needn't be prohibitively expensive but it would be a big structure that could only be constructed around isolated buildings (thereby somewhat negating the supposed benefit that other buildings in the earthquake 'shadow' might also be protected).

hello, funny bug on diigo ! I shared this link on 16 Dec and Sante on 22 Dec, but my share disapeared...

Optimization of locomotion on a range of different bipeds with nice visualisation and funny movie (definitely watch at 3:25 !!) Also simulations at lower/higher gravity

And http://www.diyspaceexploration.com/what-are-cubesats/ Do It Yourself satellites!

Think it's a really interesting project!

There's also http://www.nanosatisfi.com started by some Austrian guy it seems

Funny rant about being a system guy. A lot of truth hidden in between the lines.