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by tokipin 3y ago
These articles always miss the most important point. People are buying EVs because they're better. That's the whole point of Tesla making attractive vehicles, aesthetically and functionally. That market pull allows for an S-curve
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by tokipin 4y ago
This is somewhat along the lines of my current theory, which is that night owls vs early birds is about sensitivity to the environment. The reason night owls stay up late is not because it's late, but because it becomes quiet enough th
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by tokipin 4y ago
That's roughly my thinking on Toyota's strategy if we give them the benefit of the doubt. They want to own a larger piece of the ICE pie as it shrinks. This is a great strategy. What they might not appreciate is that the oil pie w
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by tokipin 5y ago
Like many things, it's about how far into the diminishing returns you want to go. At some point it's more effective to apply further investment to other parts of the ecosystem.
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by tokipin 5y ago
Well, that's an appeal to authority. It also assumes the companies wouldn't be successful with a different hiring approach. In reality the issue is way too complicated to really break down. These companies operate at a large scale
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by tokipin 5y ago
> they're prepared for tasks being assigned to them that exercise those skills and by the end of the half they'll have a deep understanding rather than just a wrote understanding. I think it's entirely possible to memorize
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by tokipin 5y ago
My guess is they are mid-layer activations in the brain that your consciousness (attention?) is connecting to, or which are being directed to the lower layers and interpreted as input.
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by tokipin 5y ago
Dashcams were common in Russia and it happened in the YouTube era, so there were plenty of videos of the event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpmXyJrs7iU
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by tokipin 5y ago
As the company grows the types of people that are attracted and unattracted by the company change, as do those that are accepted and rejected by it. For example, risk averse people are attracted to mature companies, and they don't like
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by tokipin 5y ago
Here's a video from someone who observed a design review for Starship[1]. From the sound of it, Elon is in the thick of it in the R&D engineering. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1nc_chrNQk&t=380s
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by tokipin 5y ago
I would agree if their increase in data was linear, but it is increasing by orders of magnitude, which should have qualitative consequences for what they're able to accomplish as they claw their way through 9s. I don't see how it&
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by tokipin 5y ago
I predict the opposite. Tesla sold half a million cars last year and will sell nearly one million this year. The data they have access to is increasing by orders of magnitude. I bet there is a point, let's say 20 million cars total, wh
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by tokipin 5y ago
Despite their stated intentions, the hiring pipelines are for specialists. The leetcode tests are good at selecting for specialists, since the nature of those tests (irrespective of the subject matter) matches the specialist skillset. It&#x
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by tokipin 5y ago
Overwatch is a frustrating game to play because they almost have it right. It's almost there, if they could just tweak a couple things. A good example is the overtime system. One of the worst ideas in games I've run into. For one,
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by tokipin 5y ago
Yep, this happend to me with a LinkedIn trial. I had my credit card changed but somehow LinkedIn was able to charge the new number, which defeated the entire point. Trying to contact LinkedIn revealed they don't have any humans to cont
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by tokipin 5y ago
Some skeptics remain skeptics up until the point that they've been proven blatantly and obviously wrong and people stop accepting their arguments, so for some "skeptics" at least it's more of a stubborn mindset backed by
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by tokipin 6y ago
It seems more like a classic case of refactoring except that the original infrastructure is paper-based, in which case the ideal digital redesign would be one that mimics the paper-based one precisely so that "regression testing"
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by tokipin 6y ago
I think people are deceived by Swift's syntax. It looks simple by syntactic sugar, but it's not actually any more approachable than other systems languages like C# or Java. Given that a lot of work in ML is exploratory, it doesn&#
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by tokipin 6y ago
One of my theories is that this (or similar virus-like mechanism) is how some memories are transferred to offspring. The reasons are: * Prodigies which happen to be good in a field related to what their parents are good at. Often the wordin
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by tokipin 6y ago
I think it follows a general theme where some people have a "tricks"-based mindset. Some people look at Tesla and think it's just tricks. Such as the idea that people are buying Teslas because of the drivetrain - which would
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by tokipin 6y ago
The Elon Musk biography has Musk's side of the story in the appendix. Paraphrasing, but basically he saw the tooling for Windows software development (Visual Studio etc) as being more coherent/batteries included/practical, in
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by tokipin 7y ago
The biggest issue I've seen in online courses is production values. In fact I think crap production values and the lack of a quality bar is why platforms like Coursera have done poorly compared to their potential. The most obvious issu
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by tokipin 8y ago
The bots were using their ultimates pretty liberally. Maybe their "bot meta" is very group-intensive, so if they see one hero there's a good chance there are other heroes nearby? Other possible reasons: Opportunity cost of n
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by tokipin 8y ago
As a naive example, if in a CPU you are doing some specific 3-step algorithm which would normally require 3 clock cycles, you can instead bake that algorithm into a circuit along with the memory it needs that will run in 1 cycle. In Elon&#x
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by tokipin 8y ago
Musk commented about LIDAR in a prior earnings call[1]. Tl;dr he believes that LIDAR is a short-term crutch that distracts from the real long-term challenge, which is the machine learning, not the sensors. [1] https://www.youtube
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by tokipin 8y ago
> Most people who participate in the threads do so for complex social reasons that are not particularly different than the reasons that some people buy Starbucks, some people buy from an indie shop, and some people hit the Timmie’s drive
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by tokipin 8y ago
Yep thanks I just remembered that's what it was ("it had a J in it"). Woops. Not sure why I've had them confused for Digi-Key the last few years. Maybe the Digi-Key branding is just more memorable.
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by tokipin 8y ago
They have (had?) a local warehouse I think off 101 in the Bay Area, don't remember exactly where. You could walk in with a list of parts and they would grab them for you right there.
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by tokipin 8y ago
> It could be the iPhone 1, or it could be a distant memory, or it could just be another car. I think your mistake is thinking that this is a roll of the die. Just because something is difficult to discuss doesn't mean there aren&#x
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by tokipin 8y ago
> Then I contrast that with the pie-eyed faith of the “Musk is saving the world for us,” fanboys and it makes me tired. There are things that the fanboys understand that critics don't. It will make more sense to everyone once people

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