Is that a per-year pay package? Or does it cover a number of years?
Honest question. As that fairly basic parameter does not seem to be included in the main media articles linked. And I'm not-at-all familiar with corporate practices.
It's a one-time performance based compensation package split into multiple tranches, with options worth 1% of stock being provided as payment for each one, with up to 12 in total.
That's interesting about the sculpture scanning. The notion of capturing 3D impressions of things you've seen, and taking them away with you.
Do you get any sense of the Glasshole Factor, in public, with this device? (that is : a general feeling of distrust from people who observe you operating in public with a high tech recording device).
Just to clarify: I scan things with my iPhone, not the AVP. It takes a little longer because you're, for instance, walking all around a sculpture but it's really not a problem.
In fact, few people know about or do this and when I show them they're often quite excited and ask how they can do it too. Always fun to share.
In general, I'm only using the AVP seated and not interacting with strangers (other than the odd flight attendant asking me what I want to drink :-)
I've had people ask me about the AVP, wonder what I'm doing in there, or (rarely) take pics of me. Doesn't bother me. I'd be curious too.
I don't know how the mechanics of it would work, but some kind of local accuracy index would be very useful in such broad maps.
Because the elephant in the room with most global dataset compilations is that the accuracy varies greatly from place to place. Some countries or regions have detailed data, others have generic or unclassified blobs. Some data is older, some is newer.
An ideal tool reduces the need for detailed provenance checking upon every usage.
Over a decade ago I developed, for our small (small enough to not have any IT dept or IT management) office a bespoke extension for Outlook (yes, bad idea, I know) which translated all incoming emails and attachments into the standard file system, decanted into project folders.
It was triggered upon any opening of an Unread email, and required the user to pick a project from a list, and hit OK. Cancelling was an option (for personal emails).
There was a config tab for the admin to define the filename string, by arranging elements like date/time/to/from/subject/.., and any attachments were also placed as files.
A very imperfect approach, but under the circumstances it was a vast improvement over the prior mess of individual mailboxes bestrewn with all manner of project correspondence and files, which made intricate queries about past doings into frustrating spaghettified detanglements.
And ultimately - perhaps like a good deal of IT - at heart was uninformed management, and the reality of ordinary users with little notion of information management.
When I read that undeniably impressive anecdote, what really stands out is not the shares or the money - it's the incredible childhood you had, the smart and organised parents who raised you in a way that you'd even understand those notions at a young age, and be in a position to enable them.
The way I was raised, I could top my schoolmates academically no problem, but the concepts and methods for creating monetary wealth - beyond "I need to somehow scrape together enough to pay for the next week's needs" - weren't even part of my (or my family's) universe, until I gradually learned them by accretion from decades of my own adulthood.
It's always nice to see that RTK for-the-people is edging ever closer.
DIY kits from the likes of (no endorsement or vouching-for implied!) SparkFun and Ardusimple prove that the actual cost of basic entry to the tech is already under $2K, and probably under $1K.
It is a valuable ability for the average person to have available, because - whether we're talking about space, or time - everything benefits from accurate measurement.
Ice is very similar to concrete pavers; it's both rigid (i.e. requires a lot of force to deflect), but brittle (i.e. takes very little deflection to break).
Still, nothing will detract from the visceral wonder that I could never forget after seeing, in person, an extremely high ranked karateka (i.e. second in the world, in his style) chop a seemingly solid block of ice over a foot thick.
I suspect that, while there might be "a trick" behind these things, extreme achievements in that field are still rare and accomplished acts, as they are in any. The wonderment need not be fully extinguished.
Oh, it's absolutely hard, but like many things the apparent difficulty and actual difficulty are only loosely related, and good showmanship (perhaps a more polite term for "trick") will involve maximizing the apparent difficulty while keeping the actual difficulty manageable.
You see similar things with e.g. juggling where entertainers will do a lot of things that make it look harder. This doesn't mean that it's not difficult to juggle 7 objects.
I think that people might be using "trick" in two different senses.
There's a "trick" to legitimate breaking in that the practitioner is choosing materials and techniques that lend themselves to breaking, but that doesn't mean that the actual break is faked.
On the other hand, it's also possible to fake a break. For example, you can cut a piece of ice in half, put some water on each end of the cut, and stick them back together in the freezer so that the ice appears to be solid but actually has a weak spot.
There can also be an element of showmanship. Even if a martial artist has done a break dozens of times, during a demo they might make a show of having to hype themselves up for the break, tensing their muscles with a dramatic hiss of their breath, etc.
What is the original source, and more importantly, methodology, of the data?
It appears to reference [0], a 2017 publication, which itself references [1] a 2015 publication, which is a bit of a dead end from a layperson perspective.
Earl Boen, the late actor who voiced LeChuck in this game, would be recognised by many from his profilic career across the past several decades of television, movies and video games.
He was in everything from The Wonder Years and Seinfeld to the Terminator movies. Game-wise, his resume included entries from series like Baldurs Gate, Krondor, Zork, Star Trek, Metal Gear Solid, and as the narrator of World of Warcraft.
Honest question. As that fairly basic parameter does not seem to be included in the main media articles linked. And I'm not-at-all familiar with corporate practices.