Enjoying the fruits of my labor now that I finished my 12-legged 'Carpentopod' table project. See
https://t.co/NdDNDVp4xo for project info, or see it live at @EHVMMF this 13 & 14 Sept.
This robot is controlled by a fungus.
The fungus' mycelia senses the environment and emits "action potential–like spiking voltages" to control the motors and valves.
Men will much rather go into the mountains like a hermit to record long geopolitical monologues on Youtube and risk being utterly and totally wrong about their predictions than go to therapy
If every market participant is systematically managing risk using the same models, doing "what the model says" can actually cause markets to crash.
Watch J. Doyne Farmer break down how risk control models like VaR can actually lead to a market meltdown.
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The Pale Blue Dot is an iconic photograph of Earth taken by NASA's Voyager 1 Spacecraft on February 14, 1990.
When Voyager 1 was 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) miles from the sun, far beyond Neptune, mission managers commanded it to look back toward home for a final time. It snapped a series of 60 images to create the first "family portrait" of our solar system.
The picture known as the Pale Blue Dot shows Earth within a scattered ray of sunlight. Voyager 1 was so far away that Earth was just a point of light about a pixel in size.