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Chris Anderson (in London)

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Chris Anderson (in London)

@chr1sa

Occupy the skies Past in drones, airtaxis and media. Present in AI+Science. Also nerdy autonomous car racing hobby at @DIYRobocars Photo by @chrismichel

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about.me/andersonchris

Joined November 2008

Chris Anderson (in London)
@chr1sa
Apr 26, 2021
It's now been almost a year since the New York Times put together this technically impressive yet totally wrong interactive article about how long it would take to get a Covid vaccine.
Chris Anderson (in London)
@chr1sa
Feb 11, 2018
Best view of the @intel drone swarm performance at the Olympics
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Chris Anderson (in London)
@chr1sa
Nov 15, 2017
Turns out that fungus doesn't take over the ant's brain, as thought, but rather creates an internal network of fungus cells that controls the limbs. "The ant ends its life as a prisoner in its own body. Its brain is still in the driver’s seat, but the fungus has the wheel."
Ed Yong is not here
@edyong209
Nov 14, 2017
I've been writing about the zombie ant fungus for years but it turns out to be even creepier than I had thought. theatlantic.com/science/archiv…
Chris Anderson (in London)
@chr1sa
Mar 25, 2024
Ukrainians put 8,000 cellphones connected to microphones on 6-foot poles around the country to detect incoming Russian drones. They detected 84/84 and shot down 80 of them with AA guns. Cost: $500ea --- Gen James B Hecker, Commander US Air Forces, Europe
Lessons on Low-Cost Deterrence and Drones From Ukraine
From youtube.com
Chris Anderson (in London)
@chr1sa
Oct 23, 2019
But if you think of WeWork as a massive transfer of wealth from Saudi Arabia to an Israeli entrepreneur via an ethnic-Korean Japanese visionary it's really a heart-warming story of cross-cultural trade worthy of the Model UN
Chris Anderson (in London)
@chr1sa
Feb 18, 2021
This is the open source flight code that the NASA Mars drone is running github.com/nasa/fprime
Chris Anderson (in London)
@chr1sa
Sep 9, 2020
Blade Runner 2049 is the only thing that really captures the Bay Area today
Chris Anderson (in London)
@chr1sa
Sep 8, 2024
All laws should have a sunset provision that they expire in ten years unless someone is willing to actively defend them and get them renewed
Populism Updates
@PopulismUpdates
Sep 7, 2024
Tell me your most radical position that cannot be placed on the left-right political spectrum
Chris Anderson (in London)
@chr1sa
Apr 20, 2023
Elon: It's going to blow up, the only question is where. Anything above the tower is a win. What happens: Clears the tower, makes it through Max-Q, gets to 39Km New York Times:
Chris Anderson (in London)
@chr1sa
Feb 8, 2019
Hearing from tech startups getting priced out of Oakland warehouse space because of soaring demand for indoor hydroponic pot farms. Yes, because it's 2019 and everything is nuts *techies are being gentrified out of neighborhoods by drug dealers*
Chris Anderson (in London)
@chr1sa
May 29, 2024
Replying to @balajis
I don't love the mixing of desktop and mobile OS's. Feels like apples and oranges
Chris Anderson (in London)
@chr1sa
Mar 19, 2023
Another extraordinary night with ChatGPT4 writing ML code. This flow works best: "Write code to train x with dataset y" "I'm getting this error. Fix it" "Another error" (etc for a while) "Now improve the performance" "Now wrap it in a GUI" Weeks of work done in 2 hours
Chris Anderson (in London)
@chr1sa
Dec 31, 2024
How can @BostonDynamics compete with @UnitreeRobotics? The Chinese firm's robot dogs cost less than 1/10th as much and, as recent videos have shown, are capable of way more nimble and speedy movement. I'm getting PTSD flashbacks to 3DR competing with DJI in drones. It was near
Chris Anderson (in London)
@chr1sa
Jul 28, 2018
It's time for schools to teach Python, not Java, as their main intro to computer science. Along with being easier to learn and *actually* able to run anywhere on anything (like Basic back in the day), it's the dominant language of AI and computer vision economist.com/science-and-te…