I designed flight controllers to detect pitot static probe failure under a military contract. That tech would have saved Air France 447.
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i designed algorithms to differentiate humans floating in the sea from flotsam under a Navy contract. That would save refugees.
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The US military needs to be abolished. But the reality of the modern world is it is also the repository for funding research.
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And while that money *could* and *should* be invested through actual science agencies, the reality is it was not.
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And the only way to develop that tech was through military contracting. So that needs to change but it doesn't invalidate that work.
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