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SpaceX Merlin (& Raptor ) Engine R&D, GPU-Powered

Adam Lichtl and Stephen Jones of SpaceX talk about simultating combustion in very large rocket engines. They use graphics processing units (GPUs) from nVidia for this task. While not directly mentioning Raptor, the limits they are pushing are clearly the result of the need to understand ever larger combustion systems, and they wouldn't be pushing as hard if this was only for the Merlin engine, which is already operational as well as reliable.

The man who invented the self-driving car (in 1986)

Long before Big Tech got behind the wheel, Ernst Dickmanns unleashed a driverless Mercedes onto the roads of Europe.

Speed of Light Visualized

Wonder of Science @wonderofscience

The speed of light visualized on a world map. Credit: @physicsJ

ASCII fluid dynamics

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New Podcast

Friday Episode

Last Friday I had Alex Tamkin on my show. He is a third-year PhD student in Computer Science at Stanford, advised by Noah Goodman and part of the Stanford NLP Group. His research area is machine learning, especially applied to natural language processing. Recently, he has been thinking about curiosity, abstraction, and transfer in unsupervised learning.

Topic: NLP, AI Ethics & PhD Life 🧠

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Book of the Week

Machine Learning Bookcamp

In Machine Learning Bookcamp you’ll learn the essentials of machine learning by completing a carefully designed set of real-world projects. Beginning as a novice, you’ll start with the basic concepts of ML before tackling your first challenge: creating a car price predictor using linear regression algorithms. You’ll then advance through increasingly difficult projects, developing your skills to build a churn prediction application, a flight delay calculator, an image classifier, and more. When you’re done working through these fun and informative projects, you’ll have a comprehensive machine learning skill set you can apply to practical on-the-job problems

📕 Use the code "podengineered20" to get a 40% discount!

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Visualize Ideas

“The mind freed from passions is an impenetrable fortress—a person has no more secure place of refuge for all time.”
– Marcus Aurelius

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Favourite Animation

incre.ment @incre_ment

#つぶやきProcessing void setup(){size(600,600);}float t,i,p,a;void draw(){t+=.01;clear();translate(300,300);for(i=0;i<99;i++)for(a=0;a<TAU;a+=TAU/99){fill((p=(i+10*t)/99)*255+255*sin(9*a)+128);push();rotate(PI*p);circle(999*p*p*p*cos(a), 999*p*p*p*sin(a)+150,9*p);pop();}}

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Meme of the Week

Well, it looks good. Doesn’t it?

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Closing Remarks

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