https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/the-brains-b...

Bad writing? Maybe the article was edited or processed to show more ads?

100% agree.

The author seems to be arguing that it’s someone else’s duty to point out what’s interesting. I suppose a essayist or columnist needs to believe something along those lines.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36097819

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Reminds me of mandates to get more on the engineering blog: makes an organic, authentic good into something performative.

There are a lot of great covers of the tune. I love Dean Wareham's. Every time he plays it, he seems to find something new.

His cover tends toward melancholy. Peter Hook's, a little angry, sometimes triumphant. There's a cover by Day Wave that's almost happy. Several ambient covers that range from, I dunno, anhedonic to transcendent.

E = \frac{1}{2} m (\dot{q}^2 - \omega^2 q^2) + \int \Gamma (s) ds + \frac{\sum_{n=1}^{N} (T_{\text{amb}} - T_n) \cdot \text{W}_{\text{AR}}}{\sum_{i=1}^{N} \text{SP}_i \cdot \text{AU}_i}

E: Effective rate of innovation

m: Mass

q: State space coordinate

q': Time derivative of state space coordinate

ω: Frequency

Γ(s): Gamma function

T_amb : Ambient temperature

T_n : Individual temperature

WAR: Wins against replacement

SP_i: story points

AU_i: total active users

or in production:

function calculateInnovationRate(I) { const { a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k } = I; const L = 0.5 * a * (b * 2 - d * 2 * c * 2); const G = e.reduce((acc, x, idx) => acc + x * f[idx], 0); const N = h.reduce((acc, x, idx) => acc + (g - x) * i[idx], 0); const D = j.reduce((acc, x, idx) => acc + x * k[idx], 0);

  return L + G + (N / D);
}

LOL

The alternative scenario, where the Mig-25 really was generations ahead, plays out in the movie Firefox from 1982 where the US is so far behind they have to steal a Soviet Mig-31 superplane. Good for laugh today, but once upon a time…

The rumor I heard is Soviet intelligence infiltrated American industry and stole what they thought were plans for America’s next generation air superiority fighter. What they’d obtained were the plans for Plymouth’s Roadrunner Superbird, thus the Mig-25’s uncanny resemblance. Proof: https://robbreport.com/motors/cars/1970-plymouth-superbird-a...

The Mig-25 seems like a good example of a Soviet aircraft considered better than its US contemporaries, at the time. Misunderstanding and misinformation let the US to think they were far, far behind the Soviet Union. Viktor Belenko cleared that up! It was a plane good at just one thing, with downsides that would never let it through a (non-CIA-directed) US procurement process. On the plus side, competition, fear, and rivalry, drove the US to some amazing research, engineering, and innovation.

As a child at a local military airshow, the F-15 was awesome, dangerously beautiful. Shamed even the X-wings and Tie fighters I'd just seen on the big screen. Many years later, I had a similar feeling watching an Su-27 at Farnborough; Sukhoi captured some aesthetic that Mikoyan-Gurevich never seemed to get right, and did it better than any western contemporary.