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THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE MACHINE Book 6

By Lenore Bickerstaff · 4 parts · 16 h 52 min · English

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Two machines built in the same forty years by people who never worked on both. One burns methane and oxygen in a chamber that would melt if the propellant were not routed through its walls first; the other decides, millions of times a second and unreviewed, which of a billion items a person sees. The first is Merlin, then Raptor, then a stainless vehicle taller than the Statue of Liberty caught in midair by the tower that launched it. The second runs from a convolutional network reading handwritten checks in New Jersey to a ranked feed to open model weights downloaded by the million. This is an account of both at the level of the whiteboard, and of the engineers who could not agree on what either one was for. Covers Elon Musk, Space Exploration Technologies, and AT&T Bell Laboratories.

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  1. Part 01

    3:48:00

  2. Part 02

    4:17:59

  3. Part 03

    4:41:58

  4. Part 04

    4:03:50

Books in this series

  1. THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE MACHINE Book 1

    4 parts · 17 h 19 min

  2. THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE MACHINE Book 2

    4 parts · 15 h 36 min

  3. THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE MACHINE Book 3

    4 parts · 14 h 23 min

  4. THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE MACHINE Book 4

    4 parts · 15 h 1 min

  5. THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE MACHINE Book 5

    4 parts · 14 h 43 min

  6. THE PEOPLE INSIDE THE MACHINE Book 6

    4 parts · 16 h 52 min