What happens when you train AI to land a rocket inside a real-time physics simulator?

“Computers aren’t the thing. They’re the thing that gets us to the thing.” -- Joe MacMillan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeY_5n75zPM

I think about this at least on a monthly basis.

Especially when I start to spend too much time obsessing about storage optimization, or similar. To me, sometimes, the computer is the thing. But it's really helpful to take a step back and think about the big picture.

Yess! Fav quote from the series.

Days of Heaven (1978)

I'd suggest Badlands (1973) and The New World (2005 (172 minutes version)) as the other two.

Badlands is his first movie and is very approachable.

The New World is also very approachable but can be long for some people. Personally, it's one of my all time favorite movies.and worth every minute.

I’m a huge Malick fan and agree that The New World is his masterpiece. I still remember seeing it in the cinema 20 years ago and almost levitating out of there. Just a beautiful piece of work. I’m glad there’s just about room for Malick somewhere in the film industry.

Is your Master’s Thesis available online?

Chunk Norris

> cue Gary Bernhardt's Pretzel Colon

Could you provide a reference/explanation for this? Thanks in advance!

Not GP, but Gary Bernhardt is the guy who gave the classic "Wat" [0] and "Birth and Death of JavaScript" [1] talks, and some searching turns up "pretzel colon" as the "&:" operator in Ruby [2]. I assume he's mentioned it in a screencast or something, but I wasn't able to find it.

[0] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

[1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

[2] https://technology.customink.com/blog/2015/06/08/ruby-pretze...