martedì 6 settembre 2016

Elon Musk News - “Sunday morning: to bake or not to bake cookies -- that is not even a question. Definitely bake.”

World's First AI Supercomputer Is Delivered to OpenAI 🖥💡🚚

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"SUNDAY MORNING: TO BAKE OR NOT TO BAKE COOKIES -- THAT IS NOT EVEN A QUESTION. DEFINITELY BAKE."  August 16th 2016


Here are the top 3 stories in this issue of Elon Musk News:
  1. NVIDIA CEO Delivers World's First AI Supercomputer to OpenAI
  2. SpaceX Successfully Lands the Falcon 9 Rocket on a Droneship
  3. Tesla Model S and X with 100 kWh battery pack and '~380 miles of range' approved by European authority
Early Sunday morning SpaceX successfully landed another rocket on their drone ship 'Of Course I Still Love You'. It was an impressive landing in tricky conditions, but perhaps the most striking aspect is how SpaceX's booster landings are now starting to feel commonplace.
This issue also also contains two articles about OpenAI. As there isn't often news on OpenAI, I highly recommend reading both articles. They give good insight into what's happening at the non-profit cofounded by Elon Musk.
Most of all, thanks for being part of this newsletter, and enjoy issue 35!
Sincerely,
Zachary K.D.

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"Sunday morning: to bake or not to bake cookies -- that is not even a question. Definitely bake."

— Elon Musk
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Why Elon Musk says we're living in a simulation

A new video by Vox outlines Elon Musk's argument for humankind living in a simulation.
The general idea of our reality boils down to three possibilities — humans go extinct before we are able to run a simulation of this size, humans choose not to run ancestor simulations, or we are currently participating in such a simulation. According to Musk, "There's a one in billions chance we're in base reality." Simulation or not, the vast room for debate on the topic has led to the conversation being banned in a hot tub by Elon Musk and his brother.

One of Elon Musk's Many Hobbies Include Baking Cookies

Musk sent out a tweet Sunday morning asking his 4.77 million followers whether or not he should bake, cookies that is. Turns out it was a rhetorical question, as there was never any doubt Musk wouldn't be baking cookies on a Sunday morning.

SpaceX

SpaceX Successfully Lands the Falcon 9 Rocket on a Droneship

SpaceX has successfully completed its eighth mission of 2016. Its Falcon 9 rocket sent up the JCSAT-16 satellite and then the rocket's booster safely landed back on Of Course I Still Love You, the droneship in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, in the very early hours of Sunday morning.
Sunday morning's GTO mission — lift-off was at 1:26 a.m. — was considered very challenging due to the orbital height the Falcon 9 was expected to hit. The satellite reached a 36,000 kilometer (22,369.4 mile) apogee, or the highest point in orbit. As Materials Engineer Michael Hammersley explained on the webcast, "a low earth orbit mission — which can return to either land or the drone ship — is easier than a GTO mission which can only land on a drone ship. That's because a GTO mission requires a lot more speed than a low-earth mission, that means it requires more propellant."

SpaceX Is About to Start Testing the Rocket Engine that's Going to Mars

A series of reports indicate SpaceX is revving up the engine for its Mars-bound rocket for testing in the coming months. The Raptor, an engine three times more powerful than the one currently driving Falcon 9, looks like it's en route to McGregor, Texas for "developmental tests," according to Ars Technica.
The Raptor won't power the Falcon 9, or even the company's "next generation" rocket, the Falcon Heavy (which will be the largest rocket in existence when it finally debuts later this year). Instead, the Raptor will probably be incorporated within the rocketry architecture for the Mars Colonial Transporter. Elon Musk described the Raptor engine as having a thrust of about 230 metric tons, or around 500,000 lbs.

Tesla

Tesla Model S and X with 100 kWh battery pack and '~380 miles of range' approved by European authority

The long-rumoured 100 kWh battery pack that will bring the Tesla Model S and X to a new level of performance is finally coming. After first being revealed by a 'Tesla hacker' through a cryptic message to Elon Musk 5 months ago, the new battery pack has now been approved by RDW, the Dutch regulator and European authority used by Tesla to approve its vehicles in for European roads.
The news hints at an imminent release of three new versions of Tesla's battery pack: 100D, P100D, and P100D with Ludicrous upgrade. A Dutch blogger found the reference to the new battery pack while looking through RDW's open database.

The electric vehicle shopping experience: new study gives reason to Tesla for its direct sales model

Sierra Club, a not-for-profit environmental organisation, conducted a study in 308 dealerships and stores from 13 different automakers across ten states with zero-emission vehicle mandates in order to evaluate the state of the electric vehicle shopping experience.
The study paints a negative (borderline disastrous) picture of the electric vehicle shopping experience, especially outside of California, for almost all automakers except for Tesla, which gives weight to the automaker's direct sales distribution model through company-owned stores.

Hyperloop

Imagine A Hyperloop That Uses Underwater Tunnels To Replace Cargo Ships

Before you ever board a hyperloop for a half-hour trip from San Francisco to L.A., it's possible that the ultra-fast transit system might help deliver the things you buy. Hyperloop One, the Los Angeles-based startup that ran a demo near Las Vegas earlier this year, is working on cargo transportation on land—and it also wants to transform shipping ports.
The underwater system would let cargo ships drop freight into massive hyperloop tunnels submerged 10 miles offshore. "You can see it as almost analogous to what oil companies do now: They bring their tankers in, connect with risers offshore, collect or distribute their oil without ever coming into port, and then leave," says Blake Cole, a marine engineer at Hyperloop One.

You could soon be travelling from Chennai to Bangalore in just 30 mins with Hyperloop technology

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, which is based on the idea of mass collaboration and crowdsourcing, will open conversations with government authorities to begin assessing opportunities for bringing Hyperloop to India, Joel Michael, the chief global operations director of the Los Angeles based company told ET by email.
"Imagine Chennai to Bengaluru in less than 30 minutes for a fraction of the cost of air travel today," said Michael, who along with HTT Chief Operating Officer Bibop Gresta, will travel to Indore next week to attend the i5 Summit.

Dubai could be the first to hop on Hyperloop One's global shipping train

Hyperloop One tells TechCrunch it might be building its crazy fast transportation system at the Jebel Ali port in Dubai if all goes according to plan. And it could be the first place to build an actual Hyperloop for commercial use, says CEO Rob Lloyd. "It's got the infrastructure, regulatory movement and kind of capital in place needed to build it already,"

OpenAI

NVIDIA CEO Delivers World's First AI Supercomputer to OpenAI

The world's leading non-profit artificial intelligence research team needs the world's fastest AI system. That's why NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang last week hand-delivered the world's first AI supercomputer in a box — the NVIDIA DGX-1 — to OpenAI in San Francisco.
"I thought it was incredibly appropriate that the world's first supercomputer dedicated to artificial intelligence would go to the laboratory that was dedicated to open artificial intelligence," Huang said. OpenAI's researchers will put the first production DGX-1 — packing 170 teraflops of computing power, equal to 250 conventional servers — to work on artificial intelligence's toughest problems.

This Supercomputer Will Try to Find Intelligence on Reddit

The OpenAI researchers are feeding message threads from the popular website Reddit to algorithms that build a probabilistic understanding of the conversation. If fed enough examples, the underlying language model will be good enough to hold a conversation itself, the researchers hope. And the hardware will make it possible to feed many more snippets of text into the model, and to apply more computing power to the problem.

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sabato 3 settembre 2016

Elon Musk News - Tesla Model 3 reservations reached over 400,000 based on cash flow 🚗3⃣💰

"Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."

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TESLA MODEL 3 RESERVATIONS REACHED OVER 400,000 BASED ON CASH FLOW 🚗3⃣💰  August 9th 2016


Here are the top 3 stories in this issue of Elon Musk News:
  1. Tesla Model 3 reservations reached over 400,000 based on cash flow from customer deposits
  2. No complaint from SpaceX as Air Force skips competition for pair of NRO missions
  3. Hyperloop One is designing a high-speed way to travel underwater
The YouTube channel ColdFusion recently released a video titled 'The Story of Elon Musk'. The production quality is excellent, and it covers all the major milestones in Elon's life. They also have videos on Tesla, SpaceX, Powerwall, and Hyperloop which are all excellent. You can find it in the Elon Musk News section below.
Thanks for being part of this newsletter, and enjoy issue 33!
Sincerely,
Zachary K.D.

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"Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."

— Elon Musk
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The Story Of Elon Musk

The YouTube channel Cold Fusion recently released a video about Elon Musk. It is very well done, and highly recommended if you are just starting to learn about who Elon Musk is, and what he's done.

SpaceX

No complaint from SpaceX as Air Force skips competition for pair of NRO missions

The Air Force said it chose ULA due to the timing and complexity of the integration of the satellites to the rockets, unique requirements, and the need to have a certified launch vehicle by the award date. ULA is "currently the only responsible source," the notice said.
But SpaceX, which sued the Air Force in federal court in 2014 for the right to compete for national security missions, said it understood the Air Force's decision. "These particular missions had very specific technical requirements," John Taylor, a SpaceX spokesman said in an email to SpaceNews. "We worked closely with the DoD and the USAF on this action and decided jointly it was the right approach."
Read the full article | Photo from United Launch Alliance

SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets preparing for JCSAT-16 and Amos-6 launches

SpaceX is lining up its next two missions, with Falcon 9 hardware currently in pre-launch preparations for launch. In Florida, the Falcon 9 tasked with the JCSAT-16 launch is preparing for a Static Fire test on August 10, while at SpaceX's test center in Texas, the Amos-6 first stage is on the stand ready for its own engine firing ahead of shipping to the Cape.

Tesla

Tesla Model 3 reservations reached over 400,000 based on cash flow from customer deposits

While it's understandably suspicious that Tesla doesn't want to update the official Model 3 reservation tally and it still refers to the 373,000 number reported in May, the company could be waiting to reach a certain round number before updating, like 500,000.
As mentioned, based on the reported cash flow from customer deposits, it's difficult to imagine Tesla holding less than 400,000 reservations for the Model 3 at the moment, likely inching closer and closer to 500,000.

Media take SEC filing risks, turn into Tesla 'Gigafactory Doomed' story

You might have read headlines over the weekend claiming that Tesla announced possible delays and higher cost for its Gigafactory in Nevada. Big Media Titans Reuters and CNBC pushed the headlines as if it was breaking news Friday night after Tesla released its 10-Q SEC filing for the second quarter 2016.
Some even claimed that Tesla released the news on Friday night in an attempt to bury it, something not unusual in the industry. The only problem is that it's not breaking news. Not even close. It's actually at least 3 months old.

Car and Driver predicts Tesla Model 3 will be 2 years late, here's why they are wrong

Tesla says it will arrive in late 2017, but in its latest issue, the popular automotive magazine Car and Driver claims the Model 3 will not arrive until late 2019, 2 years late. Car and Driver, and many others, might expect that it will be pushed further, but that's simply based on the fact that Tesla had delays before, and therefore, it should have delays again.
While some healthy skepticism on Tesla hitting the "late 2017" target is good, I think assuming that anyone would have a better idea than Tesla on when the Model 3 will hit the market is foolish.

Tesla Model X saves man's life

"A little past Highlandville it just hit where it was the most excruciating pain I've ever had." He didn't realize he was having a pulmonary embolism. Neally says he was writhing in pain, and totally distracted from driving. "I just knew I had to get there, to the ER," says Neally. So he trusted the self-driving Tesla to stay on the road, until it got near a hospital. Josh was able to drive himself the last couple of blocks to the ER.

Tesla Model S P90D with Ludicrous mode runs a quarter-mile in 10.8 seconds [Video]

After Tesla released a new version of its flagship sedan last year, the Model S P90D with Ludicrous mode, Motor Trend reported that it managed to run a quarter-mile in 10.9 seconds – making the Model S one of the rare '10- second cars' and probably the first production 4-door sedan to make it.

Hyperloop

Hyperloop One designing underwater Hyperloops for cargo transportation

Hyperloop One, a Los Angeles-based startup developing the technology for the Hyperloop high-speed transportation system, is interested in building a Hyperloop that can travel underwater.
Peter Diamandis, a Hyperloop One board member and CEO of the X-Prize Foundation, told Business Insider that the startup is interested in using Hyperloop to transport cargo to ports 10 miles off shore. "We've been talking to a lot of the port authorities around the world about re-engineering their ports in this kind of fashion," he said.

OpenAI

How Hackers Use AI to Trick You Into Clicking Sketchy Links

OpenAI, an Elon Musk-backed project studying the way artificial intelligence will affect us in the future, said in July that the technology can pose a risk. "An early use of AI will be to break into computer systems," OpenAI wrote. "We'd like AI techniques to defend against sophisticated hackers making heavy use of AI methods."

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giovedì 25 agosto 2016

I terremoti si possono prevedere? Il confronto tra scienza ed "eresia", ora online, gratuito.


Sette anni fa, in quella notte tremenda del 6 aprile 2009, ero a L'Aquila. Realizzai molti video, molte inchieste, molte interviste. Alcune mi valsero premi, altre finirono agli atti della Procura. Rimasi diversi mesi. Mi occupai anche di un ricercatore indipendente che, attraverso i suoi rilevatori di gas radon, sosteneva di poter prevedere l'epicentro, l'intensità e il momento di un sisma. I media lo trattavano come un ciarlatano, ma incontrai moltissime persone che giurarono che quel ricercatore aveva salvato loro la vita. Il suo nome era Giampaolo Giuliani. In seguito aprì una fondazione e ora lavora tra gli Stati Uniti, Taiwan e l'Italia.
Dal vostro desiderio di capire, e dall'assenza di qualunque informazione ufficiale in merito, nacque un documentario molto "On The Road", realizzato con una piccola videocamera. Ma con qualche donazione (e con quella piccola videocamera), riuscii a portare la scienza ufficiale, l'INGV, a dialogare con il mondo "eretico" dei ricercatori indipendenti: Antonio Piersanti, direttore di ricerca all'Istituto di Geofisica e Vulcanologia di Roma, venne in quel piccolo laboratorio di Coppito e si confrontò con Giampaolo Giuliani.
Il risultato fu un'indagine divisa in quattro parti. Nella prima, Giuliani racconta la sua storia e la storia degli eventi di quella tragica notte del 6 aprile. Nella seconda, Piersanti spiega i terremoti dal punto di vista della scienza e vi mostra il centro di elaborazione dati dell'INGV. Nella terza, è di nuovo Giuliani a portarvi nel suo laboratorio, per spiegare nel dettaglio come funziona la sua "tecnica di previsione dei terremoti". Infine, nella quarta parte, in quel piccolo laboratorio di Coppito arriva anche Piersanti, per realizzare un confronto che a quei tempi era giudicato impossibile. E, se me lo consentite, anche oggi. Un modus operandi che dovrebbe essere preso ad esempio su come affrontare le questioni controverse, in luogo della censura e in luogo della sterile divisione tra i sostenitori di tesi diverse.
Il documentario, confezionato e distribuito un DVD, è disponibile oggi gratuitamente su Youtube (di seguito i link). Ne avanzano ancora un centinaio di copie – forse meno – originali. Se qualcuno volesse averle, può fare una donazione libera, includendo anche un ragionevole costo di spedizione, e lo riceverà a casa (qui per donare con carta di credito, qui perdonare con PayPal, qui tramite bonifico , qui tramite ricarica Postepay e qui tramite bitcoin).
Un terremoto si può prevedere? Scienza e ricercatori indipendenti a confronto

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