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Why does deep and cheap learning work so well? http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.08225
#neural #network #nn #physics #math #why #harvard #via #mit #pdf

#birth #gift #sad #podcast
@TomLevenson Henry http://www.storycollider.org/stories/2016/1/1/tom-levenson-henry
#2016 @story_collider
#good #january #storycollider #mit #child #lue
#mitmit #luelue #sadsad

Inclusive Astronomy 2015
#astronomy #culture #race #gender #power #politics #video #mit #theory #activism #long #january #2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjY5opw4c0I&feature=youtu.be
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#asteroid #podcast #career
@sondy @SpaceNews_Inc @NAICobservatory @OSIRISREx
Dan Leone talks to Alessondra “Sondy” Springmann: NASA’s Osiris-Rex asteroid sample-return mission.
http://spacenews.com/spacegeeks-episode-4-rambling-astronomer/
#good #mit #arizona #october #2015
#sondy

#mit #museum #photo #cool #polaroid
https://goo.gl/photos/Mp7ZzuNoEo81FYka8
#october #2015 #mitmit #satellite #bob

#wind #turbine #links #ah #ahi #mit #wamit #math #windturbine #july #2015 #link #ahah #ahiahi #mitmit #physics #energy #renewable
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lFilGiNiHtAQONLUo2WaE3K-hCcgZb_kJP__BXD03y8/edit?usp=sharing

Kite Flying, Fun, Art and Science - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TQtXCy2KbQ
#kite #physics #mit #mitmit #aero #aerodynamics #malaysia #june #2015 #video

Soaring In The Wind The Science of Kite Flying - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKvryxBOCBE
#kite #malaysia #culture #mit #mitmit #video #flight #animation #june #2015 #physics #aero #aerodynamics

Drew Endy: The iGEM Revolution - The Long Now http://longnow.org/seminars/02014/sep/16/igem-revolution/
#good #biology #education #competition #team #longnow #february #podcast #2015 #saved #synthetic #mit #interesting #dna #dnadna #mitmit #global

Digital Reality | Edge.org http://edge.org/conversation/neil_gershenfeld-digital-reality
#mit #mitmit #via #viavia #marinus #ah #ahah #ahiahi

DSpace@MIT: Line-of-sight guidance techniques for manned orbital rendezvous http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/12652
#space #nasa #moon #mit #mitmit #how #howhow #orbit #apollo #pdf #pdfpdf #saved #gemini #february #2015

MIT App Inventor | Explore MIT App Inventor http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/
#via #viavia #twig #android #programming #education #mit #mitmit #february #2015

Computer for Apollo - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIBhPsyYCiM
#mit #mitmit #gnc #gncgnc #agc #agcagc #video #1960s #february #2015

the large SERVICER job [...] first performed average-G navigation, then guidance equations, then throttle and attitude output, and then the updating of displays — each part using the outputs of the ones preceding.
#gnc #gncgnc #lm #lmlm #apollo #agc #agcagc #howhow #how #navigation #control #mit #nasa #good #explanation #january #2015 #saved #evernote
Apollo 11 and Other Screw-Ups http://www.doneyles.com/LM/Tales.html

"All of the programming was done with punch cards..." page 52 Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight - David A. Mindell
#apollo #agcagc #gncgnc #mitmit #history #programming #code #1960s #moon #quote #book #paper #card
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"One day Kosmala, a programmer, went to the MIT library and looked up a series of star coordinates to align the inertial platform, which he then embedded into the code. That star catalog survived into the final version and became the basis for the astronauts' navigation to the moon." page 147 Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight - David A. Mindell - Google Books
#apollo #agcagc #gncgnc #mitmit #history #programming #code #1960s #moon #quote #book #library #swhpl #star #mapmap #astronomy #navigation
https://books.google.com/books?id=gXYItzQARVoC&pg=PA147&lpg=PA147&dq=%22one+day+Kosmala%...

Digital Apollo Home http://web.mit.edu/digitalapollo/ Digital Apollo:
Human and Machine in Spaceflight
by David A. Mindell
MIT Press, May 2008
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"The Future of Human Spaceflight"
#apollo #gncgnc #apolloguidancecomputer #moon #flight #history #pilot #december #mitmit #2014 #2008 #book

http://code.org/ | Has some tutorials that actually work on tablets | #programming #tutorial #tablet #code #howto #mitmit #december #2014 #good #phone