Month: January 2012

Destroy Hollywood

reason #67 to destroy hollywood: they have corrupted the federal government to ignore due process.

If the United States fails at helping protect and restore Megaupload consumer data in an expedient fashion, it will have a chilling effect on cloud computing in the United States and worldwide. It is one thing to bring a claim for copyright infringement it is another thing to take down an entire cloud storage service in Megaupload that has substantial non infringing uses as a matter of law.

Ancient Hairdressing

the most amazing hairdresser in the world.

The depth of her knowledge blew me away. She is fully conversant in the archaeology (including unpublished artifacts), ancient literary sources and published scholarship of Roman hairstyling, and not just Roman but Etruscan and Greek as well.

Her work in this field is unique because her experience as a stylist gives her particular insight into how hair works and what can be accomplished with what tools. She upends a number of assumptions — that Roman women must have used wigs to achieve their more elaborate hairstyles, that they used hairpins — and injects a whole new simplicity and accuracy to the very vocabulary of ancient hairdressing.

Moving past legacy “colleges”

we graduated over 23000 students from 190 countries. Peter and I taught more students AI than all AI professors in the world combined. This one class had more educational impact than my entire career. I won’t be able to teach 200 students again, in a conventional classroom setting.

education getting disrupted while it is distracted with nonsense like building sports temples. excellent news.

Evacuated Tube Transport

This sounds like a save the world kind of technology. For a 1T investment, 2h for New York – Beijing. This, combined with a global grid, would get us most of the way to a kardashev level 1 civilization.

2017-09-06:

CASIC will build a maglev transportation system with a top speed of 3700 km/h. The network would consist of 2 tubes per line—each tube is strictly 1-way only—with built in maglev systems, and would be powered in large part by the solar panels on top of the tubes. Given the high speeds and high-traffic density of T Flight capsules at any time, operations would be highly automated, and possibly AI-aided.

2018-03-04:

A maglev line would use partly or fully evacuated tubes or tunnels. Reduced air resistance could permit vactrains to travel at very high speeds with relatively little power—up to 8000 km/h. China has slashed air pressure in a test track tube to 2.9 kilopascal, 33x lower than normal air pressure.