2021-07-30 Nerd Roundup
Force fields, better ways to search for aliens, Winning Ticket Hypothesis, guitar hero kills thousands, and water can actually be a metal, a golden metal. All this week on Nerd Roundup!
Model-Driven Development strikes back! Bezos has a secret plan to beat Musk and Space-X to the moon, and you can't tell people anything
| STORY | BUT WHY? |
| Initial load on Mondays and final additions made Wednesday morning | |
| NR shoot every Thursday at 11am on Google Meet. Link on 3rd tab | |
| Title | But why? |
| Heuristics for Effective Software Development: A continuously evolving list.* | A lot of qualitative statements. not much in the way of discernment functions. Many times causes coders' brains to explode |
| The Navy needs a new way to write software | So close ... yet so far away |
| sysML | related: sysML |
| You can't tell people anything | Making people feel like they're getting value is one thing. Actually providing long-term value is another. People engaged in transactional learning are sucked into doing the first thing because they have no way to measure the second |
| Maker of dubious $56K Alzheimer’s drug offers cognitive test no one can pass | Do you need to buy my product? Here, take my completely unbiased test to give you an answer! |
| Inside the simple computer program that could explain why the Universe exists at all | Wolfram's Theory of Everything. What a smart guy! If you don't believe it, just ask him, he'll tell you. |
| Harvard astronomer revolutionizes search for alien life with new project | Cool idea of crowd-sourcing and AI to find any sort of unusual pattern instead of just narrowing things down to one avenue |
| Why is China smashing its tech industry? | This strategic overview makes sense to me. Wonder if it'll pan out to be true? |
| Eyes wide shut: How newborn mammals dream the world they’re entering | Whoa. Wild stuff. Nerd comments were amazing too. |
| Comments from HN | related: some nerd comments |
| It takes two neurons to ride a Bicycle (pdf) | Computers riding bikes? Neat idea, and totally awesome graph as a result |
| Water as a metal | That is some really crazy experimentation. Water as a metal. Who knew? |
| Five totally badass weapons you've probably never heard of | Some really wild-looking weapons in this list. That one looks like a guitar |
| Blue Origin has a secret project named “Jarvis” to compete with SpaceX | Ah! So THIS is the master plan! I wonder how that fits into Bezos' offer of $2B to cover NASA taking on the Blue Origin risk for a lunar lander? |
| Directed Energy: From Counter-Drone To Force Fields? | Woot! Force fields! "...AFRL’s prediction that DEW could be used by 2060 to create “force fields” to protect bases by repelling incoming drones and munitions — or even eventually improved to develop a kind of “nuclear umbrella.”..." Looks more like using DEW to immediately spot and kill threats. Not a force field, but perhaps the same effect |
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