In Germany we have "Retard-Tabletten" (Tabletten = pills), which are not intended to stop (or accelerate) cognitive decline, but release the active ingredients with a delay.
If you work with engines or planes you should be familiar with it's non-slur meaning. You retard ignition timing (you also "pull back" ignition timing) and you retard the throttles. Airbus planes tell you specifically to "retard".
Also, AFAIR Bill Gates personally and in person intervened and paid a visit to Munich's mayor Christian Ude.
Here is an interview with Christian Ude in which he mentiones that Bill Gates was unable to understand how reying on Microsoft products would make a city "dependent":
> Funnily enough, during the conversation, he kept making new financial offers, including what Microsoft would add to the price, for the school department, for example. They continually became cheaper by a million, another million, another million, and later a dozen million. That's how important the symbol of the renegade state capital of Munich, internationally perceived as an IT stronghold, was to Microsoft.
This was Ballmer though, not gates. Maybe Gates had a separate visit.
The problem is that a lot of code works in general, but fails in edge cases. I would hate to be the guy who's job is only to find out why verbose AI generated code fails in one particular condition.
I am pretty sure we will see programming languages that are custom made for AI popping up soon. I cannot predict how it will look like, but it may be a mix between an extremely well documented language with lots of safeguards (like Kotlin or Java) combined with natural language like instructions.
> The Me262 was the first operational jet fighter, again with Ohain's engine.
I think "Ohain's engine concept" would be more correct.
Ohain worked at Heinkel and developed the HeS 011 engine. However, the Me 262 was equipped with the Junkers Jumo 004, which was based on Ohain's design, but developed without him. The first test flights were actually done in 1942 with two BMW Typ P 3302 turbines (later called BMW 003).
"Granted a patent for his turbojet engine in 1936, Ohain joined the Heinkel Company in Rostock, Germany. By 1937 he had built a factory-tested demonstration engine and, by 1939, a fully operational jet aircraft, the He 178. Soon after, Ohain directed the construction of the He S.3B, the first fully operational centrifugal-flow turbojet engine. This engine was installed in the He 178 airplane, which made the world's first jet-powered aircraft flight on August 27, 1939."
