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Authors: Laurence Dahners
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shrugged, but Allan spoke in Ell’s ear, “Your AI camera is not calibrated for such work but the chroma of the pixels in the image is slightly bluer on the current image.”
Ell pumped her fist excitedly, “Yes!”
Amy said, “So what does it mean?”
Ell said, “It means we’ll let this experiment run until tomorrow to see if we get even more blue. We want to be sure!” When she turned to talk to Amy, she saw Janey standing in the door. Ell leapt to her feet in enthusiasm, picked up the seven year old and spun her around in a little dance. Janey participated exuberantly in the dance despite not understanding the root cause.
When Ell put Janey down, Amy rolled her eyes, “Now, one of my children has gotten the other too excited to do her homework!” and gave Ell a mock frown as she shepherded Janey to the door.
Ell was still bouncing on her toes when Allan said, “You have a call from Roger Emmerit.”
Buoyantly Ell said, “Put him on!” as she waved “bye” to Amy and Janey. “Roger! You getting’ any Physics done back there at NCSU?”
“A little. My paper got accepted at the APS meeting in Las Vegas.”
“Really! That’s great! You know that I’m at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas now don’t you?”
“Um, yeah. That might have had something to do with my submitting the paper to that particular meeting.”
“Aw, shucks, you really know how to impress a girl! When will you be out here?”
“Five weeks, will you be in town?”
Ell’s heart bounced a little at the sound of hope in Roger’s voice, “Sure, and I’d be delighted to buy a ‘broke ass grad student’ dinner while you’re here too. What’s the exact date?”
They spoke a few more minutes about the details, and then broke the connection. Ell danced excitedly around her room a little more, then went back to examine her experimental setup again.
***
Millie smiled at her class, “OK, now you know how to fall. So, this week, we begin some throws. First we line you up by size, eh? Tall ones over at this end, short at that end.” She worked her way through the line until she was satisfied with their alignment then had them count off in twos.
To her relief, despite being nearly the same height Amy and Ell had managed not to stand next to each other. Ell found herself paired with a slender redheaded man, just a little taller than herself. “Hello, I’m Raquel.” She put out her hand.
They shook, “Gary,” he said, wondering what it was going to be like throwing a girl? Lord, she’s pretty! And so slender! What if I hurt her?
Millie brought one of the smaller women out and demonstrated an O Goshi throw in slow motion, then had the woman throw her, demonstrating the landing. Soon her pupils were throwing one another as she went around giving critiques. “Raquel! You mus’ not treat Gary like expensive dish! Throw him, throw him!”
Gary found himself flying through the air. Then it was his turn. “You OK with this?” he asked thinking she was so slender she surely would be easily hurt.
She grinned at him. “Sure, do your worst, Gar’.” He heaved her over his right hip, dismayed when she landed with a loud thump.
Millie’s eyes narrowed as she watched. Raquel lands perfectly, but she slaps her hand down very hard. It is as if she wants to make it seem like she is coming down harder than she really is, Millie thought. After a moment she shrugged, no rule against that.
***
Bemused, Ennis said, “She did what?”
Axen said, “Fixed nine bugs in the flight control software. I only knew about four of them. Issues where we’ve ‘worked around’ a problem for so long that no one really thinks about them as bugs anymore. But it turns out that part of the problem with crosswind takeoffs has been a software bug that has a feedback loop in it that doesn’t damp aileron control properly. Now I can easily get the simulator’s AI to take off in crosswinds above tolerance. We’ll have to try it
Ell pumped her fist excitedly, “Yes!”
Amy said, “So what does it mean?”
Ell said, “It means we’ll let this experiment run until tomorrow to see if we get even more blue. We want to be sure!” When she turned to talk to Amy, she saw Janey standing in the door. Ell leapt to her feet in enthusiasm, picked up the seven year old and spun her around in a little dance. Janey participated exuberantly in the dance despite not understanding the root cause.
When Ell put Janey down, Amy rolled her eyes, “Now, one of my children has gotten the other too excited to do her homework!” and gave Ell a mock frown as she shepherded Janey to the door.
Ell was still bouncing on her toes when Allan said, “You have a call from Roger Emmerit.”
Buoyantly Ell said, “Put him on!” as she waved “bye” to Amy and Janey. “Roger! You getting’ any Physics done back there at NCSU?”
“A little. My paper got accepted at the APS meeting in Las Vegas.”
“Really! That’s great! You know that I’m at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas now don’t you?”
“Um, yeah. That might have had something to do with my submitting the paper to that particular meeting.”
“Aw, shucks, you really know how to impress a girl! When will you be out here?”
“Five weeks, will you be in town?”
Ell’s heart bounced a little at the sound of hope in Roger’s voice, “Sure, and I’d be delighted to buy a ‘broke ass grad student’ dinner while you’re here too. What’s the exact date?”
They spoke a few more minutes about the details, and then broke the connection. Ell danced excitedly around her room a little more, then went back to examine her experimental setup again.
***
Millie smiled at her class, “OK, now you know how to fall. So, this week, we begin some throws. First we line you up by size, eh? Tall ones over at this end, short at that end.” She worked her way through the line until she was satisfied with their alignment then had them count off in twos.
To her relief, despite being nearly the same height Amy and Ell had managed not to stand next to each other. Ell found herself paired with a slender redheaded man, just a little taller than herself. “Hello, I’m Raquel.” She put out her hand.
They shook, “Gary,” he said, wondering what it was going to be like throwing a girl? Lord, she’s pretty! And so slender! What if I hurt her?
Millie brought one of the smaller women out and demonstrated an O Goshi throw in slow motion, then had the woman throw her, demonstrating the landing. Soon her pupils were throwing one another as she went around giving critiques. “Raquel! You mus’ not treat Gary like expensive dish! Throw him, throw him!”
Gary found himself flying through the air. Then it was his turn. “You OK with this?” he asked thinking she was so slender she surely would be easily hurt.
She grinned at him. “Sure, do your worst, Gar’.” He heaved her over his right hip, dismayed when she landed with a loud thump.
Millie’s eyes narrowed as she watched. Raquel lands perfectly, but she slaps her hand down very hard. It is as if she wants to make it seem like she is coming down harder than she really is, Millie thought. After a moment she shrugged, no rule against that.
***
Bemused, Ennis said, “She did what?”
Axen said, “Fixed nine bugs in the flight control software. I only knew about four of them. Issues where we’ve ‘worked around’ a problem for so long that no one really thinks about them as bugs anymore. But it turns out that part of the problem with crosswind takeoffs has been a software bug that has a feedback loop in it that doesn’t damp aileron control properly. Now I can easily get the simulator’s AI to take off in crosswinds above tolerance. We’ll have to try it
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