Aron

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by Aron 8y ago
I'm not the biggest fan of Tesla, but they might be the most impressive company of this decade Out of curiosity, why do you think you included 'not the biggest fan'?
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by Aron 9y ago
So if this was the movie Gravity, we could just scoot voyager over to see it as it passes by.
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by Aron 9y ago
Article also discusses the required preparation for safely eating said shark.
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by Aron 9y ago
> "If people live a lot longer it will be disastrous for the environment" This one has been around FOREVER but he was surprised to hear it this year? doubtful. I think Sam actually picked safe examples for his contrarian essay.
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by Aron 9y ago
I hope all the loud voices that are against this move have codified their predictions in a way that they can look back and see if they were accurate.
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by Aron 9y ago
"A debt is just the perversion of a promise...." That entire quote reads as completely incoherent to me. I feel like I would have to learn entirely new brands of logic and language to decipher it.
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by Aron 9y ago
A rush for the exits at 10 global transactions per second, or about the rate of Visa transactions in a Manhattan city block at lunch time.
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by Aron 9y ago
Government policy would cave-in if the private companies lacked innovation and told them it was impossible. You need existence proofs like Tesla, who are highly leveraged to making EVs work and don't care a wit about preserving the old
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by Aron 9y ago
I think if you have good natural instincts about artificial intelligence you realize that Hinton really is the god in this space. If you don't, you get distracted by LeCunn and Schmidhuber and whatever lesser minds. The capsule theory
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by Aron 9y ago
I'm mostly only interested when they pass us on per capita income. It is notable though that some of their megacorps are achieving valuations akin to our largest. Maybe some day they will have a global brand.
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by Aron 9y ago
I remember writing the RBM in straight CUDA back in ~2008. Back then we had to do our tensor work uphill both ways against the gradient.
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by Aron 9y ago
Gah -- reminds me of the press at the time talking about detectable radiation on the West Coast of the US. Yeah -- you know what else is detectable radiation? Stars from light-years away. I was shocked to see Germany respond so strongly to
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by Aron 9y ago
He wasn't saying that air resistance is currently a problem. The current problem is that the robots don't move fast enough for air resistance to be a problem. He's basically pushing the question 'Going faster is obviousl
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by Aron 9y ago
My memory of this was that Google PR thought that humanoid robots might end up leading to associations with automation and job destruction. Also, it was never clear to me how much influence the PR position had vs. other reasons.
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by Aron 9y ago
Can anyone give an intuitive explanation for why standard CNNs are unable to learn geometry?
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by Aron 9y ago
People generally don't give money away for nothing, and spend it carefully, so when someone figures out how to get a lot of people to pay them for something, I figure that's pretty high evidence they've done something helpful
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by Aron 9y ago
I agree with this 90 year old codger, and that's why Tesla should stay profitless for another 10 years. The real prize is ahead.
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by Aron 9y ago
Entrepreneurs are good so I guess we need more rich kids. I'll assume that was the conclusion.
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by Aron 9y ago
Think about it, if you have even the remotest capability in reading DL research and simultaneously a decently impressive ability to gab, you can sell a startup idea to GM/Ford/etc. for billions on no real insight. Of course some o
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by Aron 9y ago
I agree that cobalt is a fairly small proportion of the total cost of the vehicle. Tesla should be able to weather many multiples in the increase in cobalt price. I'm more worried about the dreadful notion of a complete supply disrupti
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by Aron 9y ago
The competition is starting your own company and cashing in on many millions or billions from it. I think it's perfectly reasonable for the highest achievers to have that in mind as the alternative to compare against and hold some ambi
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by Aron 9y ago
This site is pretty good at sniping comments that would pass a 'is this reddit quality?' discriminator on generic NLP but I think the underlying idea is interesting under the context of 'what now brown cow?' Elon Musk ha
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by Aron 9y ago
disaggregation is the key in everything. If 90% of the world decelerates at -1% a year but 10% accelerates at 10%, then for a few years it looks pretty close to flatline but the extrapolation of that is garbage. You have to have exact facto
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by Aron 9y ago
If all people benefit from something then it's hard to find a problem with it. That's presumably not the case for someone who is a high level producer comparing a UBI world to a non-UBI world and seeing only an outflow.
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by Aron 9y ago
Come on Apple. Buy Tesla. Let's go. OBVIOUS.
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by Aron 9y ago
Is this the only reference to this on HN? I'd be surprised but I didn't see it. Hinton is a powerhouse and he's been wanting to make progress on this for years.
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by Aron 9y ago
I've been trying to figure out whether Tesla has its head in the sand on the cobalt issue. Just today they had their quarterly conference call and they again played the same game of naming every element in the battery as if they were o
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by Aron 9y ago
I'm curious how that's wrong.
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by Aron 9y ago
"Capital expenditures were $1.1 billion in Q3. The majority of capital expenditures were attributable to Model 3 and Gigafactory 1 production capacity increases. "
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by Aron 9y ago
They aren't stopping at 500\week. They are admitting it's broken.

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