Oh man I forgot about the whole Naval Academy thing until you reminded me. They actually said he graduated from Annapolis at age 19, which is flat-out impossible. 17 is the minimum age for admission, and it takes 4 years. You can’t test out or graduate early. There’s literally no way to graduate from the Naval Academy…

Which uhh...which of those words do you think is glamorous or sexy? I mean “extremely” does have “extreme” in it, but this isn’t the 90's.

Look at the dork-ass layup my man throws in after successfully pulling off that move.

Not downplay the serious and real fear people felt, but this....

Read this in the voice of The Continental.

Former midshipmen here. There’s just absolutely no way I can see the game ending any time soon. Your article doesn’t display any indication that you understand how deeply Army-Navy is buried in the cultural psyche of these places. Literally every time I turned left or right for an entire year I had to alternately say…

So when Thomas inevitably shatters a wheel during one of these stunts, does Sir Topham Hatt have to put him down?

All the scenarios you describe can be addressed by machine learning techniques, with sensors riding in shadow mode. So basically you run through the same detection/reaction cycle but with a human driver making decisions and the autonomous system going “here’s what I would have done”. And that in turn gets evaluated.…

If you dont believe me (not you specifically), then just look at Tesla, which arguably has the best Self Driving features on the market. They are still based on ‘If X, do Y’ as you can tell from this article.

So you’re the guy that reads the directions on a box of toothpicks, eh?

WTF, no opinion on diagonal staples? So much better, and less chance of tearing.

When my wife and I moved to Hawaii for grad school, we couldn’t afford to send anything with us, or put anything in storage. We would only keep what we could fit in our suitcases or convince family to look after. Trying to decide what to keep with *weeks* to prepare was hard. I can’t even imagine trying to do it at a…

A clarification: treading water is *not* the best position for long-term water survival. It’s what you should use if you need to keep your eyes up and looking around. But it uses far more energy than a dead man’s float, which is the best way to conserve energy if, for example, you fell off your ship in the middle of…

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer,…

I don’t have any good poop stories, but my dad was a Marine for 30 years and had some good ones. One of the first I remember him telling me was when he was about to take his first jump in a parachute. Just as they started pushing guys out the door he felt something pushing out his backdoor. He clenched down tight. …

Guy I shared an office with in grad school had a twinkie he saved from his first day until his defense, about 6 years or so. We opened it...oh my god the smell. Like sawdust mixed with rancid bananas. We cracked it in half (yes, cracked) and the cream inside had the consistency of spray-on foam insulation. He…

Uhh, Shawshank Redemption is a rare example of The Magical Caucasian, thank you very much.

See, now I’m jealous that as a man I’m getting all these lame-ass handshakes when I could be getting hugs.

Crumbs-n-cheese

A good first step, but this: