All good points. I gave him a little rope as he has been speaking about these things lately, including in his annual …report? But yeah these comments do seem a little self serving.

Maybe he’s just got a big tailwind and I am overestimating him

This is uncommonly off the mark for Gates. There’s a sort of lack of nuance in these remarks. Too much confidence.

Maybe I’m getting old but I think I had this opinion always: I don’t understand why drivers don’t, eh, slow down?

Now imagine if they did that every time all of our data was compromised.

Immediate corporate death to all companies that have leaked data. I don’t care how good the defences are, let the corps get stack ranked.

Should be at the top.

Yep that’s exactly what happened lol

Doc Ellis vibes

Gross and cool

Agreed except the office hours/study groups. I worked full time at uni and could not go to these as often as I wanted.

My partner was a grad student in Italy and I liked how they administered an oral exam for each student. Pretty easy to separate wheat from chaff that way I think, and quickly

At the end of the day it’s just people managing people, right? Surprised that low level managers haven’t drawn a line. Really speaks to the lack of solidarity and the lack of job security.

I would like it if we don’t post Elon musk stuff

Cool! Such a leap from the 2016 competition organised by CSIRO:

https://www.csiro.au/en/research/technology-space/robotics/UAV-Challenge

Was leading the computer vision team for the robotics club at my uni for this one. Really interesting task; a bunch of subproblems related to sending drones like this out.

I bet Zipline has the state of the art in this kind of thing.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/this-meal-just-cost-me-78-at-newark-airport

Do they have one for not sipping your loud ass water bottle every five SECONDS LIKE WE ARE IN THE SAHARA