amarka

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by amarka 1mo ago
What's wild to me is that today there are more companies with more than 100 unsupervised self driving cars out on the road that DID NOT exist (as a company) back when Tesla CEO told investors they're a year away from FSD.
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by amarka 1mo ago
True story, for example take Tesla's promise of self driving which was delivered back in 2015.
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by amarka 2mo ago
Maybe if you think really hard you’ll come up with other (more useful) examples.
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by amarka 2mo ago
“ one way that humans have historically accessed the ineffable” that’s my question, what about the other ways that have been automated away. Is there something special about mathematics or is it the authors first encounter with obsolescence
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by amarka 2mo ago
Apologies is this is a simpleton question, but how does this differ than most of the mechanical work previously done by hand, but is now automated?
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by amarka 2mo ago
"the slowness is a feature" - I grew up in eastern block of Europe in the 80-90s, this type of sentiment has a real "the party loves you, this is for your own good" vibe.
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by amarka 5mo ago
Every copy is better than the original, true story.
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by amarka 5mo ago
Ohh sure, its users use it for all sorts of things https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/elon-musks-xai-s...
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by amarka 8mo ago
Or in my context: > Give a person code, and you help them for a day. Teach them to code, and you frustrate them for a lifetime.
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by amarka 8mo ago
While the author’s (banker and a data scientist) experience is clearly valuable, it is unclear whether it alone is sufficient to support the broader claims made. Engineering conclusions typically benefit from data beyond individual observat
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by amarka 1y ago
Let me fill you in on a secret: one of the reasons behind US’s dominance is that even though “there are other countries” that could do the hard science, the US is one of the only ones that did. Now the US is at risk of becoming just another
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by amarka 1y ago
From the article: “ The White House, which was responsible for the assessments, said the information will be housed within NASA to comply with the law, but gave no further details.” It doesn’t seem like the admin believes the reports are bi
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by amarka 2y ago
Not sure if this is accurate. It seems they’re refusing to take the risk.
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by amarka 2y ago
They are indeed some of the best floors to roll on.
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by amarka 2y ago
I can’t believe Justin Trudeau would lowball your friend like that.
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by amarka 2y ago
I get about 21 hours from mine, it's running Windows but powered off.
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by amarka 4y ago
Ahh yes the "we'll rewrite this code from scratch" argument; known well to work every time!
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by amarka 4y ago
Not sure if the last sentence is in jest or not, but here's a list of crashes for just one of their plane models: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...
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by amarka 6y ago
The road to hell is littered with "free ice cream this way =>" signs.
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by amarka 6y ago
Indeed it's totally worthless data, like what are you going to do, dissect people into groups that you could heavily target and try to sell them gizmos or swing an election? Pfft, not worth the effort. There are no companies or state a
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by amarka 6y ago
What's worse is that I heard rumors they don't allow slave labor either. Labor laws, ugh, they're the worst.
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by amarka 7y ago
Waymo can do inner city driving better than Tesla and GM can do highway driving better than Tesla. I love the competition amongst the different platforms, as a consumer it's a win for us. I could care less on which brand does it better
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by amarka 7y ago
Why should I trust Denise Minger over Colin Campbell? I read Capbell's China Study and I'm definitely interested in counter points to his findings, but it seems like Minger is a food blogger (and recent book author) while the othe
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by amarka 8y ago
My understanding is that the majority of his personal net worth is from Tesla (+Solar City) and SpaceX. Would that limit his ability to personally fund Tesla?
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by amarka 8y ago
dsnuh - I haven't seen anyone argue against "[software+hardware] would beat a human behind the wheel", its just that developing the tech to achieve this feat with the same level of accuracy as the top 10-20% of current CDL dr
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by amarka 8y ago
That's a really good point. I also wonder if the cyclist accident changed the mood and/or culture at Uber when it comes to autonomous vehicles. I have to be honest that it would absolutely gut me inside to know that my software ca
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by amarka 8y ago
I think you trade one complexity (fixed vs variable routes) for many other complexities (larger vehicle with more demands). Think of the complexity of getting a driver license for a passenger sized car vs a commercial driver license, there&
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by amarka 8y ago
I don't mean to be sarcastic here, but I hear developers (myself included) throw out "it would be much easier to..." or "this should only take an hour to automate..." all day long. If it was an easy and profitable p
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by amarka 8y ago
I agree that there's a case for improved efficiency, but I'm not sure if the economies of developing all the tech from scratch adds up. One accident can endanger the entire company, a problem they're still reeling from with t
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by amarka 8y ago
What do you mean by "most economical sense to automate"? It seems like everything about automating a truck would be more expensive (cost of 1 truck = 5-6 cars), the insurance and maintenance on the truck and hardware, the potentia

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