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SpaceX's Reputation and the US Government

SpaceX is the brain child of Elon Musk, better known as the chairman and CEO of Tesla, the electric automaker.   SpaceX has lofty goals, similar in ambitions to Tesla, to become a leader in the space industry.   Elon Musk has already experienced multiple failures, but was optimistic about the last launch, which placed a Tesla roadster into orbit in outer space.   SpaceX also had 18 perfect launches last year with its Falcon 9 rocket.   But the Falcon Heavy rocket poses some new concerns, as most space craft launches do.                     SpaceX has to walk a fine political line here.   It needs to prove to NASA and the government that its products can withstand testing and safely take Astronauts to the International Space Station.   The Falcon Heavy rocket can only launch from pad 39A, and if it gets damaged, the project will be even farther behind than it already is.                   SpaceX’s competition includes Boeing, and the United Launch Alliance.   United Launch Alliance

Is your Company’s Data Actually Valuable in the AI Era?

There are many business professionals that claim that a company’s data is what will drive the artificial intelligence economy.   Companies then think that the hard part of using that data is over, they’ve been working so hard at collecting and storing this data, and now AI is here so they can put some intelligent analysis behind it to make better business decisions.   However, the data that you have now is only needed to build the basis of an AI system.   The AI system can be trained off of the data that your company has previously collected, but then this data is devalued.   Once the data has been used to reach a conclusion by the data scientists, it is archived or backed up and stored away, as it is considered used and no longer useful.                   The ongoing value of data becomes apparent when running your business’s daily operations.   The new data that is collected allows the AI system to operate, and the machine will learn how to adapt and mold itself