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Chemical plant designer at large. Contactor of 82/95 of the elements. Movie buff.
Also, the constellations came in at a reasonable price for the capability they offered. FF(X) has no chance.
December 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Also, the constellations came in at a reasonable price for the capability they offered. FF(X) has no chance.
It's big but it's 4 sets of smaller plants that appear to be relatively standalone. That being said, they have a lot of traversed buildings that look like they are used for warhead casting and machining - not something that's done in significant quantities at other RDX plants.
December 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
It's big but it's 4 sets of smaller plants that appear to be relatively standalone. That being said, they have a lot of traversed buildings that look like they are used for warhead casting and machining - not something that's done in significant quantities at other RDX plants.
Great way to end cruise missile and OWA drone warhead production for the next decade! It helps that those units should actually comically explode in a ball of flames the way NAFO thinks refinery strikes work.
December 10, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Great way to end cruise missile and OWA drone warhead production for the next decade! It helps that those units should actually comically explode in a ball of flames the way NAFO thinks refinery strikes work.
For Bachmann RDX you need a lot of equipment to regenerate the solvent used. Go look at how much land Holston Army Ammunition Plant uses for a feel.
December 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
For Bachmann RDX you need a lot of equipment to regenerate the solvent used. Go look at how much land Holston Army Ammunition Plant uses for a feel.
HE plants are hard to build as well. You need nitric acid plants, complicated waste treatment facilities, very large storages and difficult to scale post processing units to make milspec high explosives.
December 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
HE plants are hard to build as well. You need nitric acid plants, complicated waste treatment facilities, very large storages and difficult to scale post processing units to make milspec high explosives.
Imposing USN DC requirements and changing all the mission systems is either a case of:
1) Mismanagement of the tender because they do not know what they want - letting the contractor ride them for variations, or;
2) understanding 1), but not having enough experience to manage fleecing FFM.
1) Mismanagement of the tender because they do not know what they want - letting the contractor ride them for variations, or;
2) understanding 1), but not having enough experience to manage fleecing FFM.
November 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Imposing USN DC requirements and changing all the mission systems is either a case of:
1) Mismanagement of the tender because they do not know what they want - letting the contractor ride them for variations, or;
2) understanding 1), but not having enough experience to manage fleecing FFM.
1) Mismanagement of the tender because they do not know what they want - letting the contractor ride them for variations, or;
2) understanding 1), but not having enough experience to manage fleecing FFM.
They could buy FFGs with smaller radars, fewer VLS cells and worse endurance without compromising DC.
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
They could buy FFGs with smaller radars, fewer VLS cells and worse endurance without compromising DC.
Part of the issue with any of these MOTS options is that they are intended to mitigate the risk of poor requirements leading to bad design. The USN not knowing what they want within a given time and budget is fundamental to Navy procurement.
November 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Part of the issue with any of these MOTS options is that they are intended to mitigate the risk of poor requirements leading to bad design. The USN not knowing what they want within a given time and budget is fundamental to Navy procurement.
'My built in the USA, intended to be the most numerous class of frigate built by a western navy ship must be MOTS' - A statement by dreamed up by the deranged.
November 27, 2025 at 8:40 AM
'My built in the USA, intended to be the most numerous class of frigate built by a western navy ship must be MOTS' - A statement by dreamed up by the deranged.
The Navy should just issue an RFP for what they actually want instead of wasting everyone's time with a procurement strategy that does not let contractors efficiently meet performance requirements.
November 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The Navy should just issue an RFP for what they actually want instead of wasting everyone's time with a procurement strategy that does not let contractors efficiently meet performance requirements.
Granted, but why cancel the program before the successor is awarded? The USN needs the numbers.
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Granted, but why cancel the program before the successor is awarded? The USN needs the numbers.
Ultimately the issue is that the US has decided to subsidise drug development by upcharging early adopters. You need an alternative model of drug development to fix this.
Ptograms like PEPFAR try to address the implication of everyone else spending less per capita on healthcare than the US does.
Ptograms like PEPFAR try to address the implication of everyone else spending less per capita on healthcare than the US does.
November 26, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Ultimately the issue is that the US has decided to subsidise drug development by upcharging early adopters. You need an alternative model of drug development to fix this.
Ptograms like PEPFAR try to address the implication of everyone else spending less per capita on healthcare than the US does.
Ptograms like PEPFAR try to address the implication of everyone else spending less per capita on healthcare than the US does.
FDA certification is the US Dollar of pharmaceutical manufacturing validation.
FDA approval comes with the FDA coming in-person to inspect every facility involved with manufacturing the therapeutic, with prescribed requirements for quality that are audited regularly. ICH approval is similar.
FDA approval comes with the FDA coming in-person to inspect every facility involved with manufacturing the therapeutic, with prescribed requirements for quality that are audited regularly. ICH approval is similar.
November 26, 2025 at 7:11 AM
FDA certification is the US Dollar of pharmaceutical manufacturing validation.
FDA approval comes with the FDA coming in-person to inspect every facility involved with manufacturing the therapeutic, with prescribed requirements for quality that are audited regularly. ICH approval is similar.
FDA approval comes with the FDA coming in-person to inspect every facility involved with manufacturing the therapeutic, with prescribed requirements for quality that are audited regularly. ICH approval is similar.
That's not correct. If a therapeutic is under patent there is no equivalent product because the generics are denied FDA/ICH certification until the patent expires. Criticising the Gates foundation for only funding certified therapeutics is missing the point.
November 26, 2025 at 7:04 AM
That's not correct. If a therapeutic is under patent there is no equivalent product because the generics are denied FDA/ICH certification until the patent expires. Criticising the Gates foundation for only funding certified therapeutics is missing the point.
That's what an internet search engine is for. To index everything.
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
That's what an internet search engine is for. To index everything.
How do you determine that automatically and indefinitely keep ahead of everyone trying to exploit the maliciousness detector?
November 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
How do you determine that automatically and indefinitely keep ahead of everyone trying to exploit the maliciousness detector?
Determining what to prune without sacrificing valid data points involves first creating a complete model and identifying the 'bad' bits. Google is getting worse because there is more internet than they can efficiently index and model. More aggressive pruning will make the problem worse.
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Determining what to prune without sacrificing valid data points involves first creating a complete model and identifying the 'bad' bits. Google is getting worse because there is more internet than they can efficiently index and model. More aggressive pruning will make the problem worse.
The original post is nonsense because lots of more easily exploited Uranium deposits exist globally. They aren't exploited because the value of Uranium is so low. To match nickel exports, Uranium demand would need to rise 5x. Copper, 10x, Coal 91x, LNG 92x, Iron Ore 120x and so on.
November 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The original post is nonsense because lots of more easily exploited Uranium deposits exist globally. They aren't exploited because the value of Uranium is so low. To match nickel exports, Uranium demand would need to rise 5x. Copper, 10x, Coal 91x, LNG 92x, Iron Ore 120x and so on.
Almost all uranium is extracted as a contaminant from copper-noble metal mines in Australia. It forms a small part of revenue at those mines because the total addressable market for Uranium is insignificant compared to the other elements in mixed ores.
November 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Almost all uranium is extracted as a contaminant from copper-noble metal mines in Australia. It forms a small part of revenue at those mines because the total addressable market for Uranium is insignificant compared to the other elements in mixed ores.
It seems like a fundamental data science and governance issue, not an issue of implementation.
The need to retain the search that can find relevant and accurate information in using KGs will need to be reconciled with the volume of information that can be encoded within an LLM.
The need to retain the search that can find relevant and accurate information in using KGs will need to be reconciled with the volume of information that can be encoded within an LLM.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
It seems like a fundamental data science and governance issue, not an issue of implementation.
The need to retain the search that can find relevant and accurate information in using KGs will need to be reconciled with the volume of information that can be encoded within an LLM.
The need to retain the search that can find relevant and accurate information in using KGs will need to be reconciled with the volume of information that can be encoded within an LLM.
This thread proposes mapping data with relational knowledge is no longer suitable for the web (KGs).
Lots has been said on how statistical approaches (LLMs) will struggle to replicate the advantage knowledge graphs have as they can derive relationships from explicit or implicit rules.
Lots has been said on how statistical approaches (LLMs) will struggle to replicate the advantage knowledge graphs have as they can derive relationships from explicit or implicit rules.
November 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
This thread proposes mapping data with relational knowledge is no longer suitable for the web (KGs).
Lots has been said on how statistical approaches (LLMs) will struggle to replicate the advantage knowledge graphs have as they can derive relationships from explicit or implicit rules.
Lots has been said on how statistical approaches (LLMs) will struggle to replicate the advantage knowledge graphs have as they can derive relationships from explicit or implicit rules.
The graph is really the story here. Google had a very elegant ontology for mapping a semi-fixed corpus.
Now, corpus isn't fixed and the ontology doesn't work because of malicious SEO and the increase of traffic causing page rank indexable websites to be too expensive.
Now, corpus isn't fixed and the ontology doesn't work because of malicious SEO and the increase of traffic causing page rank indexable websites to be too expensive.
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The graph is really the story here. Google had a very elegant ontology for mapping a semi-fixed corpus.
Now, corpus isn't fixed and the ontology doesn't work because of malicious SEO and the increase of traffic causing page rank indexable websites to be too expensive.
Now, corpus isn't fixed and the ontology doesn't work because of malicious SEO and the increase of traffic causing page rank indexable websites to be too expensive.
To be fair, the Chinese are actively anti-intellectual but still seem to be headed in the right direction.
November 5, 2025 at 11:46 AM
To be fair, the Chinese are actively anti-intellectual but still seem to be headed in the right direction.