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Which brings me to Boston. Ever heard of Route 128<\/a>? To my surprise, neither have any of my students at Duke<\/a> or the entrepreneurs I\u2019ve met in Silicon Valley. I\u2019m surprised because it wasn\u2019t so long ago that Silicon Valley was considered a poor cousin of Boston\u2019s tech center\u2014a cluster of technology companies located along this freeway which partially rings the city. Starting in the 1960s and on through the 1980s, Route 128 was, if anything, more closely associated with tech than Silicon Valley. Today few young technology workers even know where Route 128 is located, let alone its importance in the tech world. Silicon Valley has simply left Boston\u2019s tech center behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.S. defense official told TWZ<\/em> yesterday that Yemeni militants have or are suspected to have brought down six MQ-9s<\/a> since March 15. Fox News<\/em> reported today<\/a> that U.S. officials have acknowledged the loss of another Reaper, the seventh one since the beginning of last month. Back in March, an unnamed U.S. defense official told Stars and Stripes<\/em><\/a> that the Houthis had downed 12 Reapers since October 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the pipe organ is a big box of whistles<\/a>. Each pipe sits on top of a hollow wind chest that is filled with compressed air provided by a bellows or blower. Each \u2018stop\u2019 at the organ console represents a set of pipes (a rank) of a particular tone color, with a different pipe for every note on the keyboard. Pulling the stop activates a slider under that specific set of pipes on the windchest, making them available as a sound-source. The wind chest also contains a series of valves (pallets) connected to the keyboard by a mechanical linkage. These pallets govern the flow of air to each pipe, and even though a stop may be on, no pipes will sound until a key is depressed and its respective pallet opens. This allows the compressed air to pass up through the pipe for that note, creating sound<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reading<\/a> obituaries can boost creativity by exposing you to distant ideas, fueling the associations that lead to unexpected breakthroughs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And\u2026 Not every address is relevant<\/a>. Some benches are on streets<\/a>. But we probably don’t want to imply that the bench is inside<\/em> or belongs to a specific nearby house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In China, doing business there meant providing \u201cbenefit\u201d to its new and growing industries<\/a>. \u201cBenefit\u201d was a loosely defined term that generally meant transferring technology, helping create a supply chain and ordering parts and components made in China. For some, it meant providing kickbacks. (This is not suggesting Airbus engaged in kickbacks, but corruption is a matter of public record. Such was suggested to me when I was doing business in China between 1989 and 1993.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Informants weren\u2019t just deployed to sabotage group activities and implement Zersetzung<\/a><\/em> plans, but also to gather intelligence on individuals and groups (around 160km worth of Stasi archives survived the end of the GDR). Most intelligence was used to evaluate relationships and activities (which then led to an extension of intelligence gathering to previously untargeted individuals and groups), and as a basis for planning Zersetzung<\/em> operations. Obviously plans for actions and activities were also reported, but these were acted upon only in rare and serious cases \u2013 if intelligence were used to disrupt the activities in any obvious way then suspicion could be drawn to the informant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSubsidence<\/a> has become a huge challenge,\u201d said Mehdi Pirhadi, a member of Tehran city council. He warned the \u201cmassive land sinking will destroy infrastructure and threaten lives\u201d unless it was addressed urgently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This interactive tool allows you to toggle between 5 different maps of Milwaukee<\/a> from different points in its history. Much changes between them. Two of the most dramatic changes to explore are the demolition of many neighborhoods to create freeways and the creation of much of the modern-day lakefront via infill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zhaoxin<\/a> is a Chinese x86 CPU designer. The KaiXian KX-7000 is Zhaoxin\u2019s latest CPU, and features a new architecture dubbed \u201c????\u201d. ???? is a road in Shanghai called \u201cCentury Avenue\u201d, following Zhaoxin\u2019s practice of naming architectures after Shanghai landmarks. Zhaoxin is notable because it\u2019s a joint venture between VIA Technologies and the Shanghai municipal government. It inherits VIA\u2019s x86-64 license, and also enjoys powerful government backing. That\u2019s a potent combination, because Zhaoxin\u2019s cores are positioned to take advantage of the strong x86-64 software ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between 1960 and 1967, the almost forgotten Lebanese Rocket Society, led by its founder Manoug Manougian, competed with the great powers of the Cold War to create a space program in Lebanon. Founded as a student association within the Haigazian College in Beirut in November 1960, the Rocket Society<\/a> operated without any official funding from the state or the university. Relying on the dedication of a few professors, seven students, and a modest donation from the Lebanese entrepreneur and Parliamentarian Emile Bustani, what the burgeoning Society lacked in resources, it made up for in ingenuity, drive, and vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regardless of how one feels about DeepSeek\u2019s open-source R1 model, it is a clear indication<\/a> that innovation is moving rapidly around the world, with or without leading U.S. tech. If U.S. platforms are absent, companies will turn to strategic competitors like Huawei to fill the gap. This is why leadership in AI depends not just on what we restrict\u2014but on what we enable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you or someone you love has lost the ability to speak, you can sign up to our Patient Registry today<\/a> and help shape the future of communication. (3\/3)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first time in US Gov history, 25 people<\/a> are retiring online only, to inform scaling to everyone. This is a big win for retirees to get their full check faster, and testament to how quickly @USOPM is working towards the President\u2019s software modernization Exec Order ????<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The budget contains some notable<\/a> changes for the US space agency. Overall, NASA is asked to take a 25 percent cut in its budget, from about $25 billion to $18.8 billion. Ars has previously reported<\/a> on some of these proposed cuts, most notably to its science budget. These include a $2.265 billion reduction in Space science and a $1.161 billion reduction in Earth science. Perhaps the most notable cancellation here is the Mars Sample Return mission, which the budget proposal says will be achieved by human missions to Mars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

100x better models<\/a> running on 100x better chips running in data centers with 100x more chips is a total increase of 1,000,000x. A million times more artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the story of the people who made music visible<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Altair<\/a> was created by a small company called MITS, which initially stood for Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry. In 1974 MITS had been selling calculator kits via mail order. Later in the year they started working on a computer based on the then-new Intel 8080 8-bit CPU<\/a>. About this time they were contacted by Popular Electronics magazine who was looking to do a feature on a computer project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So why are American SOF used almost exclusively at the tactical level?  Because the people employing them, the staffs of major commanders, don\u2019t understand operational art<\/a>.  Some service schools claim to teach it but they don\u2019t.  They reduce it to processes, as Second Generation war does with everything.  But an art reduced to process results in crap.  One U.S. military school goes so far as to say that all you have to do is write a paragraph where this is a noun, that is a verb, and presto!  You know what to do at the operational level.  That\u2019s operational art for dogs.  As General Hermann Balck said, \u201cIt is an art; only a few can do it, most can never learn.  The world is not full of Raphaels either.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The MNP<\/a> is the world\u2019s first purpose-built drone carrier.  And it costs only about $135 million, approximately one-hundredth of the price of a Ford-class American aircraft carrier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBomb, bomb, bomb, that\u2019s all my generals<\/a> know how to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the core questions discussed in the breakouts and in the halls was how to broaden the geospatial<\/a> audience. How can we better communicate geo data\u2019s utility, in all industries and domains? Many tactics and case studies were debated, but the one I kept coming back to is that of DuckDB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are so many solutions<\/a> to this problem. We don\u2019t need to list them all here. I documented some<\/em> of them<\/a> one time, but there are many more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately, SpaceX’s simplified Starlink<\/a> deployment architecture has fewer parts and eliminates the need for a carrier structure. This allows SpaceX to devote a higher share of the rocket’s mass and volume capacity to the Starlink satellites themselves, replacing dead weight with revenue-earning capability. The dispenser architecture used by Amazon is a more conventional design, and gives satellite engineers more flexibility in designing their spacecraft. It also allows satellites to spread out faster in orbit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We paid $50 million for half of GEICO in 1976, what turned out to be half of GEICO, $50 million. We now own 100%, but 50% of $2 billion that we earned in the first quarter is $1 billion, which on a $50 million investment\u2026 The only thing I’d like to add is in addition to the underwriting profit, GEICO provides $39 billion of float<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It improved coverage but not care<\/a>. It was the result of complete regulatory capture from health insurance companies (requiring 85% Medical Loss Ratio) and medical record\/billing vendors (requiring Meaningful Use).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Which brings me to Boston. Ever heard of Route 128? To my surprise, neither have any of my students at Duke or the entrepreneurs I\u2019ve met in Silicon Valley. I\u2019m surprised because it wasn\u2019t so long ago that Silicon Valley was considered a poor cousin of Boston\u2019s tech center\u2014a cluster of technology companies located along this freeway […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15576"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15576"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15603,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15576\/revisions\/15603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}