So regardless of known error, some of the crappest applicants got accepted (so as not to hurt their feelings?). Does that increase the chance of patients' loved ones feelings becoming fatally hurt?
Posts by I&I
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Excel recruitment time bomb makes top trainee doctors 'unappointable'
First attempt by Japan's ispace biz to land on Moon ends in awkward silence
Defense against the Darknet, or how to accessorize to defeat video surveillance
UK watchdog slaps 'misleading' Voda ad: Gigafast... maybe so – but not for £23
Humanity gazes into the abyss to get its first glimpse of a black hole
Israeli Moon probe crashes at the last minute but SpaceX scores with Falcon Heavy launch
Uncle Sam charges Julian Assange with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion
Yes! Pack your bags! Blossoming planetary system strikingly similar to ours found by boffins
Never thought we'd ever utter these words, but... can anyone recommend a spin doctor for NASA?
Science says death metal fans delightful and intelligent people, great at dinner parties
SpaceX Crew Dragon: Launched and docked. Now, about that splashdown...
Don't mean to alarm you, but Boeing has built an unmanned fighter jet called 'Loyal Wingman'
Decoding the President, because someone has to: Did Trump just blow up concerted US effort to ban Chinese 5G kit?
Re: @RealFakeDonaldTrump
AI is a mind-lever, as opposed to an independent consciousness. Beware not the pawnish Terminators but (the mindset of) the chiefs of Skynet.
Push-AI gets programmed (eg by rules or training data/regimes). But pull-AI (adapt-to-thrive bots) in the political world becomes whatever thrives best in that world. Like scaremongering and threat-creation. Like human politicians, just amplified. Oh, we already have one.
Bored bloke takes control of British Army 'psyops' unit's Twitter
Visited the Grand Canyon since 2000? You'll have great photos – and maybe a teensy bit of unwanted radiation
Surrey Uni mans the space harpoons, and NASA buys more seats on Russian rockets
You got a smart speaker but you're worried about privacy. First off, why'd you buy one? Secondly, check out Project Alias
Man drives 6,000 miles to prove Uncle Sam's cellphone coverage maps are wrong – and, boy, did he manage it
China's really cotton'd on to this whole Moon exploration thing: First seed sprouts in lunar lander biosphere
Americans are just fine with facial recognition technology – as long as they get shorter queues
It's the weekend. We're out of puns for now. Just have a gander at China's Moon lander and robo-sidekick snaps, videos
Hubble 'scope camera breaks down amid US govt shutdown, forcing boffins to fix it for free
SpaceX's Crew Dragon shows up at pad 39A, nearly 8 years after the last Shuttle left
China's loose Chang'e: Probe lands on far side of the Moon in science first, says state media
Who's watching you from an unmarked van while you shop in London? Cops with facial recog tech
Virgin Galactic test flight reaches space for the first time, lugging NASA cargo in place of tourists
NASA names the date for the first commercial crew demo flight
Where to implant my employee microchip? I have the ideal location
Chinese teen braniacs are being trained to build new AI weapons
Windows XP? Pfff! Parts of the Royal Navy are running Win ME
Now Europe wants a four-million-quid AI-powered lie detector at border checkpoints
Dawn of the dead: NASA space probe runs out of gas in asteroid belt after 6.4 billion-mile trip
Re: This seems like a good argument for ion drives
I discussed this kind of application (at a space conference) with one of the major ISS designers (prior to ISS happening). He agreed it was a good application in principle, e.g. avoiding the “structural rattle” associated with (more impulsive) traditional gas-expansion attitude-control options.
But the aerospace industry is renowned for its conservatism. Who needs wheels when there is so much accumulated experience with skids? And risk assessors love accumulated experience.
One reasonable question (addressable) regards possibility of ionisation and hence structural charge.