Chemical engineer here (actually my field this time!).

Calling this artificial intelligence is misleading in my opinion (not ragging on you George, the authors of the paper also call it AI). The technique is usually called machine learning (which is really just a kind of applied statistics), and it’s mostly a clever application of existing techniques. The big advancement…

I've studied HIV drug pharmacodynamics (and slowly whittling away at publishing a paper on modeling some aspects of it...) and there's another consideration against using prophylaxis. Measured rates of drug adherence in individuals undergoing prophylaxis are typically very low (unless it is post-exposure prophylaxis,…

I'm not sure how much of this control systems business is silly marketing from Boeing and how much is truly going to be implemented.

Good explanation and video! It's funny that you call forward visibility "stupid"; sometimes the simplest things can dictate overall design.

Engineer here (not aerospace, but dabbled in it in school), and the answer is: pretty much, at least with current materials and technology. It's relatively close to spherical (as opposed to an aircraft shape or something else), which is good for being a pressure vessel (stronger) and having the largest volume/surface…