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published Mar 30th 2017, 5:37 pm, by Dana Hull (Bloomberg) — Space Exploration Technologies Corp. re-flew a rocket that had previously been in orbit for the first time ever, a significant milestone in Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk’s mission to employ reusability as a means to reducing the cost of

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published Mar 28th 2017, 8:28 am, by Matt Levine (Bloomberg View) — Neural networks Consider a quant searching for factors that might push a stock over a benchmark index. Today an analyst has to manually select factors like price-earnings ratios to test. A quant using deep learning gives the neural

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The Era of Private Enterprise Space Transportation is upon us.  Can flying cars and the Jetsons be far behind?  A Falcon 9 rocket roared into the sky on Saturday from Vandenberg Air Force Base, in California carrying ten communications satellites — a return by SpaceX and its billionaire leader, Elon

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published Sep 28th 2016, 11:34 am, by Elaine Ou (Bloomberg View) — SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made a splash at the International Astronautical Conference in Mexico with his plans for an Interplanetary Transport System, along with a disturbingly inspirational ultimatum: “There are really two fundamental paths. One path is we

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©2015 Bloomberg News NMTI016KLVRE (Bloomberg) — Billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched an unmanned Falcon 9 on a resupply mission to the International Space Station but narrowly missed a second attempt to recover the rocket’s first stage. The rocket, carrying its Dragon cargo spacecraft and 4,300 pounds (1,950 kilograms) of supplies and

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