Hi! Huge DJI customer and fan here. Since the Phantom to the Mavic and Mini, plus the microphones and gimbals too (with the Osmo's), so I might be a bit biased towards them. But looking at recent US bans of tech (from Huawei to TikTok) it seems a bit irrational what they're doing. DJI is one of the great innovators of our time. What they did with consumer drones and then with professional ones, is quite amazing. Not only that, but they also bought one of the great companies doing colour and cameras - Hasselblad. So when it comes to drones, there's no way anyone could do better than them. It's a shame that the US is going down this path, even when manufacturers offer ways to assure governments that nothing is fishy. It also seems weird that we've outsourced to China all manufacturing for the past few decades and now realising that we need them and can't compete with their prices and innovation, so let's just purely ban. My fear is that the EU/UK will follow the US and ban too DJI.

This is the best example of how ignoring warning don't result. Never ever dismiss any security warning, especially critical security flaws. Prioritising financial concerns over security threats will result in more financial pain than anything else. SolarWinds was one of the most recent clusterfcks in tech and security. Neglecting cybersecurity should be a criminal thing. This is just an escalation of failures; from dismissing employee warnings, management inaction (or action towards profit vs security), public image contradicting internal practices, to focusing on immediate costs vs long-term impact for everyone else. It's clearly a lesson to be learned.

I've been fascinated by the usage of Transformers in Time Series for predictions / forecasting - even did a post about it here. SOFTS uses a centralized STAR module, improving efficiency and reducing reliance on channel quality, whereas ARIMA uses probabilistic modelling and Transformers use attention mechanisms. SOFTS and Transformers are both designed to handle large, complex datasets and capture intricate dependencies within the data, unlike ARIMA. It's a brand new world now, but the ability to bring context and unstructured data to time series is just awesome.

What a great flashback! I was a huge DRDOS fan and used a lot as replacement of MS-DOS. The directory passwords were a must! But Microsoft DOS was bundled in everything, so it was hard for people to have choice. It's not like we had Google back then to find alternatives. None of my friends had computers when I was a kid, so I had to find what I wanted in Magazines and BBS's, then later on Gopher and IRC. But DRDOS story shows the dominance of Retail vs OEM and obviously how MSDOS won.

Retro time! Twice in this edition! :) This is the perfect story of when business and legal meet cultural significance. Mrs Pac-Man was something in my youth, it was a symbol for early gender presentation in the gaming world. I mean, it had an influence for sure, but not sure if turned more women toward gaming than streaming. Now the thing that annoys me is the Pac-Mom, which doesn't respect the culture and the game itself. We live in a weird world nowadays, where we even try to reshape retro culture. What's next? Make Lara Croft less sexualised?