India just landed on the Moon for less than it cost to make Interstellar | The Independent::undefined

    • @[email protected]
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      -131 year ago

      Overrated movie. I’ll take real science and progress any day over imaginary nonsense that’ll never happen.

      • @[email protected]
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        301 year ago

        A world with only “real” science and progress but without any entertainment would be quite boring.

        • @[email protected]
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          291 year ago

          And fiction has been key to inspiring the next generation of scientists/engineers. So many NASA people have claimed to be inspired by Star Trek just to pick one.

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            91 year ago

            Hey, but I managed to write software to calibrate µCT-scanners! That is clearly way more inspiring than all this fictional stuff. Right! Right. Right?

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              61 year ago

              You bet your bippy that’s inspiring! An un-calibrated scanner just doesn’t hit the same way.

              Based on the way specialized code is used, your calibration software will still be in use when they open the first scanning facility on the Moon.

              Hope you accounted for the Y10K problem!

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                21 year ago

                Thing is that AI can help. My SO worked in a firm that does skill extraction from CVs and job ads. They do really cool stuff to match job ads with CVs using EU skill tags! It’s a really good tool to do specific things, so I really hate all the latest articles about LLMs.

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                  1 year ago

                  I do find myself ignoring this kind of article, too, usually. I really enjoy discovering a totally new domain where the technology is implemented in a totally new way, going well beyond language applications even.

                  I dream of a ‘language’ model that specializes in general machine to machine communication. It almost surely exists already, but in my line of work, machine interfacing is an endless nightmare. A ‘protocol droid’ would be such a help.

          • scmstr
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            11 year ago

            TOS ran 1966-june3rd1969, Russia first landed unmanned in 1959, and the human race through NASA and the Apollo program first landed on the moon on june 20th 1969

            Isaac Asimov was a biochemist born in 1920, started writing published sci-fi in 1939 and full on scifi novels in 1950 (seriously, this stuff was wayyyyy ahead of its time). Died in 1992.

            Gene Roddenberry was born in 1921, died in 1991.

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        111 year ago

        The black hole simulation for interstellar resulted in 3 highly regarded scientific papers.