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In 2018, MIT professor, Steven Barrett, made a demo plane that flies on ionic engine. It flew for 60m inside the gym. It was said to be the first flight

When diving into new innovation, it's important to determine what featuers of the technology has fundamentally shifted. When it was cars, the arrival of gasoline changed the landscape completely. It

Source: The Atlantic Look at the graph here. The average price started off at $600 in 1980, now getting dropped to $360 of 2013 (the latest data in 2019 prepandemic

Planes are expensive as we all can guess. The cost can easily start close to $2 million as an entrant. The causes you can list endlessly: over regulation, lack of

In the last post, we've taken a look at Amazon driver experience. They are assigned by the block of neighbourhood. They are assigned by dots. Choosing the route of delivery

As we dived in last in Canada Post delivery, the route is often fixed and rarely change in the system (even though new guys have to cover different routes, the

Today, traveler salesman problem gives up with the capacity of 22 cities. That is the theoretical limit. The commercial limit with reasonable execution time must be somewhere around 10. What

I recently encountered the idea of traveler salesman problem with one of the foreseen advancement in the quantum computing era. To be honest, I heard of it as calculating the

I touched previously on Airplane Cost is Too Much on the historical narrative around airplanes getting stuck at high price. That post was made to draw contrast with automobiles that

I spent some time digging down into flight industry. As someone who's immersed into AI/software, everything else looked stagnant except for the buzz about Uber's flying cars. So what