It's memorable and cute and funny. And you can over-intellectualize it by talking about how "an optimized flapping wing could actually require 27 percent less power than its optimal steady-flight counterpart at small scales" [1], emphasis on small scales. (Propeller-powered fruit flies would be a good airport-bar name.)
Or maybe they know that the website isn't super important if they already hve backing by the big firms and they don't yet have a product to sell.
I also don't know how "Good HTML/Javascript" translates to hyper optimization, analog computing, optical computing, or whatever skills their approach needs.
This is a joke, right? "Flapping airplanes" is a great metaphor for AI as it exists today; e.g. we basically already have what we need and more is stupid.
Planes are awesome and important, and also building ones that actually flapped is technically possible and also wasteful and pointless.
Flapping wings because ... rigid wings were too energy efficient?
Anyway, the post tells me little. Aren't the big AI labs already doing all these things?
> Flapping wings because
It's memorable and cute and funny. And you can over-intellectualize it by talking about how "an optimized flapping wing could actually require 27 percent less power than its optimal steady-flight counterpart at small scales" [1], emphasis on small scales. (Propeller-powered fruit flies would be a good airport-bar name.)
[1] https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2009/09/birds-fly-more-effi...
> "We have developed the world’s most complete megakernel framework"
Where is it? Can we see it? Test it? Play with it?
I thought this was a joke, but apparently it isn't.
The glitchiness of this website on my fairly new iOS device…
Goes to show big investment doesn’t mean shit if the engineers behind it don’t know what they’re doing.
Or maybe they know that the website isn't super important if they already hve backing by the big firms and they don't yet have a product to sell.
I also don't know how "Good HTML/Javascript" translates to hyper optimization, analog computing, optical computing, or whatever skills their approach needs.
It just comes across as jealous and petty.
The most efficient aircraft are gliders.
> most efficient aircraft are gliders
L/D, yes. Complete aircraft configuration, not always (actually, rarely).
Do you know whats even more efficient ?
Not flying...
This is a joke, right? "Flapping airplanes" is a great metaphor for AI as it exists today; e.g. we basically already have what we need and more is stupid.
Planes are awesome and important, and also building ones that actually flapped is technically possible and also wasteful and pointless.