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It is a great book though. For technical stuff you have to look for papers unfortunately.

What do you mean, the warhead (the reentry body) or the last stage? Because the warhead is passive.

I'm gonna get a lot of hate for this but... people who work on scientific computing or engineering and value their time choose Matlab and Mathematica over Python. Source: I've used Matlab and Python extensively, Mathematica a little (never Julia so I don't know)

I gave Python a good shot but gave up. A beautiful language but what a waste of time trying to get any simulation going.

Good ole' Autonetics.

BTW you can see some of these at the Air and Space Museum in DC, and a smaller set at the Computer Science Museum in ... Palo Alto? Mountain View? (that area)

What?

What's impressive about Anduril? Please.

Oh yeah. You'd get shot.

Well, you deserve it

Taxachusetts strikes again

Seriously. It's very irritating.

I think there are a few that are more technical if that's what you mean:

* Stages to Saturn

* Digital Apollo

* The Apollo Guidance Computer

The last one may be too boringly technical. Some parts can be a slog even for me who breathe that stuff.

I remember noticing them all over Paris and some in Italy about a year ago when I visited. I was very amused!

Well. Maybe. It's possible. Certainly not "bullshit, not a chance", but I still doubt those satellites and launches have paid for themselves already.

> A high-paying job in finance or tech is not what rich means.

> Rich means ownership and rent-seeking.

Huh? No it doesn't.

Exactly I have seen, and been into, similar organizations with just as talented people, who just didn't go anywhere due to poor leadership.

I don't understand why you spend time arguing with these privileged white kinds who never knew a hard life or arbitrary government oppression. (They could easily be Chinese government trolls too)

The rest of the world is clearly tripping over each other to come here, particularly from those wonderful Marxist utopias. (Me being just one little example). Just let them whine.

I do think Starship will eventually be a success but it's annoying to see people counting it as if it's already working. That said, SpaceX is burning money like a bonfire on that project, so they better hurry.

No! We haven't! I'm nitpicking but we saw the upper stage prototype.

Besides, I believe their landing method is to catch the booster with the mechazilla which should be quite a show.

Ayep. Well said. It could be but it isn't yet. However SpaceX does have a good track record in that regard.

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That's awesome

Welp. The second shoe finally dropped.

I can confirm I saw it done a few times.

What are you up to these days, Just hacking at D?

But more seriously, what it's the status of the borrow checker?

Also what's the status of the new C array proposal?

Precisely. "Oh poor guy, he's not so bad with the bs altruism, it's just all the evil cryptos who want him to take the fall"

Wow, NYT is really trying to prop up SBF any way they can. Disgusting.

So... it _is_ rude. Just under the justification of being ND

Nice drop in the bucket.

They do?? Sauce?

Yes, because unlike an simple average you have a model for both what you are trying to measure and the measurement.

For example, one basic model for your example could be if you are trying to measure a constant with some initial uncertainty, say it's Gaussian with a standard deviation, and noisy measurements with say also an uncertainty with Gaussian distribution and some standard deviation. You can tune the initial uncertainty (a number) around the constant you are trying to estimate , and the uncertainty in the measurements (another number than may or may not change).

In this example a Kalman filter won't behave as an average. If the measurements are good (low uncertainty) they will converge quickly, if they are bad the estimate will jump around and take longer to converge.

Anyway, I made a mess, I'm not good at explaining...

And by the way, it's not true what people are suggesting here that Kalman filters are for moving things. They are used to estimate constants _all the time_ but yes, they're more popular for moving things.