Inspirational interviews with Sebastian Thrun,
Stanford professor of AI,
who lead the team that won first DARPA self driving vehicles challenge,
Google director of research who started self-driving project there.
Online teacher of first MOOC (online class) attended with 120 000 people (me included :)
Co-founder of Udacity online university
where he is teaching self-driving car class (that I also attended).
Now, Sebastian is taking self-driving technology to the air,
and with support of Larry Page (Google co-founder and Alphabet CEO)
they already have working platform, see video below.
kittyhawk.aero/press/
kittyhawk.aero/heaviside/
The Future of Flight with Sebastian Thrun (Kitty Hawk) - YouTube
"most of energy in flight is spent on (air) drag, not on lift (staying in air)."
"it is 3 times more efficient than Tesla, and Tesla is very efficient"
"it is 10 times faster than car in regular traffic"
Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education | MIT | Artificial Intelligence Podcast
Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education | Artificial Intelligence Podcast
YouTube
44:00 ...average value of self-driving engineer in acquired startups is $10M!
Many of those engineers attended his Udacity class. Good investment!
www.udacity.com/course/self-driving-car-engineer-nanodegree--nd013
Kitty Hawk CEO Sebastian Thrun talks 'Artificial Intelligence – Friend or Foe?' | ETGBS 2019 - YouTube
What AI is -- and isn't | Sebastian Thrun and Chris Anderson
YouTube
Kitty Hawk CEO Sebastian Thrun's Big Bet on Artificial Intelligence YouTube
competition: Boeing, Uber with Airtbus, ...
those flying vehicles apparently need LESS energy than cars, since they fly in straight line...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Hawk_Corporation
www.linkedin.com/in/sebastian-thrun-59a0b273/
www.wired.com/story/kitty-hawk-heaviside-larry-page-flying-car/
www.cnbc.com/2018/02/12/flying-car-in-air-in-5-years-kitty-hawk-ceo-sebastian-thrun.html
www.forbes.com/sites/jeremybogaisky/2019/12/01/inside-larry-pages-kitty-hawk-returned-deposits-battery-fires-boeing-cora/#49f7140c58ab
Saturday, December 21, 2019
1.1.1.1 Cloudflare Serverless
Cloudflare Serverless with Zack Bloom - Software Engineering Dailymore on Software Engineering Daily
fast, privacy-protecting DNS resolver 1.1.1.1
1.1.1.1 — The free app that makes your Internet faster.
WARP+ extends WARP by sending all of your Internet traffic over the same optimized Internet routes which make thousands of websites 30% faster on average. WARP+ combines millions of Internet route measurements with Cloudflare’s private Internet backbone to deliver a better Internet directly to your phone.
new serverless: running JavaScript and WASM code "at the edge"
vs "classic" Lambda cloud functions in cloud data centers
vs "classic" Lambda cloud functions in cloud data centers
WARP+ extends WARP by sending all of your Internet traffic over the same optimized Internet routes which make thousands of websites 30% faster on average. WARP+ combines millions of Internet route measurements with Cloudflare’s private Internet backbone to deliver a better Internet directly to your phone.
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