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Humanoid robots are trash.

Humanoid Robots Have a Serious Design Flaw, And We Need to Fix It

Watch Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot doing training routines, or the latest humanoids from Figure loading a washing machine, and it’s easy to believe the robot revolution is here.

From the outside, it seems the only remaining challenge is perfecting the AI ( artificial intelligence) software to enable these machines to handle real-life environments.

Humanoid robots won’t be attending the robot revolution.

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Building the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator and using it on Iran.

TWZ: Los Alamos Scientist’s Insights On The GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator

This interview convinces me that Gary Stradling is a smart guy with a good attitude.  Good thing he is on our side.

This is very sophisticated work. It is not casual, and it’s not speculative. These are real experts who are doing the work. Careful, technical, quantitative work to be able to deliver this kind of war-fighting capability to the services.

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The problem with RV quality.

 

WSJ: Even Warren Buffett Hasn’t Fixed the RV Industry’s Serial Breakdowns

WSJ: Even Warren Buffett Hasn’t Fixed the RV Industry’s Serial Breakdowns

Forest River, owned by Warren Buffett’sBerkshire Hathaway, is one of the RV industry’s Big Three, along with Thor and Winnebago. Over the past decade, those companies have reported more recalls than Detroit’s Big Three automakers, even though they make far fewer vehicles.

That’s lucky.  My Wolf Pup was made by Forest River.

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NHTSA rule will make cars worse.

How Proposed Pedestrian-Impact Safety Standards Will Soften Automotive Design

This is the type of over-regulation I talked about in the Modern life should be better  post.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) wants new regulations so that pedestrians don’t get hurt when they get hit by a car.

Imagine how difficult it will be to implement this rule without limiting the driver’s field-of-view or reducing the car’s efficiency.

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Modern life should be better.

Donald Trump’s Energy Department Saved Your Appliances

With the internet and smart phones, we are living in the future.  It’s fantastic.  At the same time, many appliances and other mundane technology is getting worse.  Regulations put in place by government bureaucrats make our lives worse.

President Clinton’s vice president, Al Gore, was directed to reduce federal regulations.  Every president has tried to deregulate, but President Trump may get it done.  Eventually, this will be a big deal.

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