essdas

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by essdas 3mo ago
This statement is a logical fallacy and one as accomplished as Walter Bright surely knew that while writing it.
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by essdas 3mo ago
I vaguely recall the Scott Manley video (longtime follower of his channel) - wasn’t he assuming that the chips can be run hot, and because the T^4 factor it results in much better radiative cooling? I don’t know if the “chips can be run hot
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by essdas 7mo ago
In their present sensor stack - unlikely in my opinion. It isn’t possible to drive when you can’t see and their cameras are frequently blinded during sunset and sunrise. Humans cope by moving their head, sunglasses, visors to block the sun
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by essdas 7mo ago
> most quickly scales to 0.1% of the population. Unfortunately it doesn't scale further Data suggests that they’re already available to ~2% of the US population.
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by essdas 1y ago
Plenty in there to pick apart. Pointing out just one: Things that humans have that Teslas don’t: 1. Binocular vision 2. A brain that understands the world
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by essdas 2y ago
Yes - no more links to Twitter/X. PS: Twitter was the only social media website I used for the last decade. Unfortunately it’s a cesspool now.
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by essdas 5y ago
Exactly. And to add to what you say, adversarial problems in data science are much harder than the regular ones which data scientists deal with and the hubris that I often see with data scientists won't cut it here. You need a differen
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by essdas 6y ago
It's similar in India. In Mumbai, I have a fiber-to-home 150 Mbps up/down connection. I pay the equivalent of $9 per month. FUP is 3.3 TB per month. For mobile data, I have a plan that gives 2 GB per day for the cost of <$3 per
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by essdas 6y ago
The truth is much worse than this suggests: This recent article in The Morning Context gives a lot more detail as to why this company is absolutely unethical: https://themorningcontext.com/indias-whitehatjr-is-startup-h...
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by essdas 6y ago
It would certainly be interesting, however in the absence of hard data perhaps some anecdotal evidence is better than no information: Case 1 ------ 10 years x 280 deliveries per year x 2 deliveries per day (pick up + drop) = 5600 deliveries
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by essdas 6y ago
1. They don't make the food, they only transport it. Payment of taxes or GST on food delivered is between the food maker and the food receiver – dabbawala is not involved. 2. Article claims roughly 200,000 deliveries per day. 3a. Cost
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by essdas 10y ago
I think the BBC has completely missed the sentiment on the ground. There is widespread support for this. Every single person I've spoken to in the long queues near ATMs have expressed that they don't mind the inconvenience because
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by essdas 11y ago
Lots of questions asked. Only 4 questions answered.