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That sounds like a really interesting project! It could make the solving of issues really efficient. I wonder if there are not well-know assisting tools of the same kind.


Yeah, the explanation sounds all good and professional but it deeply contrasts with my Windows experiences.

While I can believe there are serious people working on this OS, I often seriously get upset by all the crap Microsoft is putting in Windows. (There was this time where it downloaded 'Candy Crush' on its own!?). I would prefer a few easter-eggs instead.

Seriously Microsoft, please be coherent.


> Seriously Microsoft, please be coherent.

This post is 13 years old. They may have been totally coherent in 2005 but lost their way by 2018.


> They may have been totally coherent in 2005...

If anything I think they were probably less coherent. Remember: this was still the era of Steve Ballmer and - to a much lesser extent by this time - Bill Gates.

They still thought Windows Mobile was going to take over the world of handheld computing, and Silverlight was going to take over rich applications on the web, and on it goes. Vista hadn't even been released and, if you want to talk about incoherent, let's maybe start a conversation about Windows Vista.


You're right, I haven't seen it and thought it was more recent.


In fact, the title got corrected from 2015 to 2005.


> Interesting article, and I believe I have a better translation: "Today, my mom died."

Well it's not an accurate translation, 'my' create a distance between the narrator and the mother that you don't have in the original sentence.

You traduction is much more objective than what the author wrote.


Does it apply to other countries aswell ?

In France, we have a pretty specific system called "classes préparatoires" where you spend 2 years before accessing business/engineering schools. As far as I know, the ones intended for business schools give a lot of importance to philosophy, history and geopolitics. This seems to differ a bit from how other business schools are described throughout the article.

In the meantime, our business schools seem to follow and try to mimic the American ones.

Do other business school teach similar topics ?


Not everyone cares about privacy and you can't force them to. It's still a good thing to try to sensitize as much persons as possible but we can't be surprised when some of them don't feel concerned. And there are probably also some people who had already set their privacy settings before.


If this ever becomes the norm, we might see some attempt to obfuscate Terms and Conditions which might be really interesting to see.

I'm also concerned by the fact this tool could miss some important pieces of information or subtleties. How can its reliability be improved ?


This is a great question that we're working on. It obviously will never be as good as reading the whole thing, but you're right, how can it be improved?


Obviously not, he's just pragmatic.


He is building up a lie that if unleashed could destroy a person. If not the person, defensively the relationship between the kid and the mom that hired him.


I don't get how the gyroscope is used in missile guidance. How is the gyroscope mentionned in this article pointing at Kiev? How do you read it on the gyroscope and how is the position 'set' in the device?


Actually, the gyroscope will give your angular rotation. It can be achieved through different technics (MEMS gyro, mecanical gyro...) but the final goal will always be to give you your angular rotation.

You need your angular rotation and the specific forces applied to your body (given by the accelerometers) to be then able to compute your position, speed... in the earth frame called NED (North East Down).

That's the very short version. You also need to know your Lla position to correct your gravity model, the error model of your sensor to correct them... Kalman filtering is always used (in my experience).

Here is a draw that seems accurate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_navigation_system#Met...

Then if you want to go dirty hands, you will need these keywords : "inertial navigation mechanization". This PDF seems clear at first look (5s check) : http://www.ecsutton.ece.ufl.edu/ens/handouts/inertialnav_v2....

Kalman filtering can be overhelming but the course from D.Alazard is really great (still using it after 3 years in navigation field).

If you want a quick exemple, a north finder algo is very easy to understand (basic earth projection). It is also the first step of initialisation of a navigation system.


Does anyone know why the wheels are inclined this way? I guess it has much more grip on the soil this way but is there something else?


It's explained in the video. It scrubs the ground to prevent weed saplings from growing.


Thanks, I didn't pay attention to the video the moment he said that.


The tutorial is great and the other website resources seem to be really interesting. Glad it was shared here !


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