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by OnlineGladiator 7y ago
This was the approach Anki (which recently shut down) took for robotics. I actually had a similar idea, but whenever I went to the drawing board to make robot toys I could never make anything that was both fun and affordable - using videog
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by OnlineGladiator 7y ago
> It's gonna take a while but it will without a doubt happen Vehemently disagree. The assumption that technology will continue to improve to be useful for everything is inherently flawed. We don't know what the hard limits ar
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by OnlineGladiator 7y ago
What most people think of when they think of robots though are machines that can adapt to their environments - usually humanoid, but definitely dynamic. Dishwashers and washing machines are essentially mechatronic, and while they have senso
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by OnlineGladiator 7y ago
That just brings up another classic robotics joke. A robot is anything that doesn't work well, yet. Once it works, you give it a new name - like dishwasher.
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by OnlineGladiator 7y ago
My point is robots aren't nearly as advanced as people think.
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by OnlineGladiator 7y ago
Everybody thinks robots are inevitable until they meet the robots that are supposedly inevitable. There's a fun joke template for robotics. "How many PhD's does it take to do <generic task>?" So now instead of o
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by OnlineGladiator 7y ago
FWIW, just watching you interact with your critics on here has done a lot for you to earn my respect. I hope I've been too quick to judge and that OpenAI is able to make me reconsider my stance in the future.
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by OnlineGladiator 7y ago
> Why does Tesla get a pass in terms of pitching that their system is something that it isn't except in the obligatory fine print? Because we're talking about legality, not morality. I have said in my original comment I hate h
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by OnlineGladiator 7y ago
I'd love for Tesla to be transparent about this as well, but the onus is on the driver to understand how their car works. Maybe we need higher standards for getting a driver's license.
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by OnlineGladiator 7y ago
If you're referring to Tesla's Autopilot, Tesla's legal stance has always been very clear - you are driving the car and it is your responsibility to pay attention. Now their marketing is very different and confuses people an
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by OnlineGladiator 7y ago
I think he's more likely referring to Elon Musk's predictions about Autopilot and Tesla. Elon Musk has been promising "full self-driving" capability for years now (by which I mean he has already missed his first public
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As much as I'd love to give OpenAI the benefit of the doubt, I have to agree that they are purposefully being misleading to generate more interest rather than be as straight-forward as possible about their accomplishment. After the co
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by OnlineGladiator 7y ago
I'm looking at option 3 as the logical choice. I admit I don't know, but you really think the added cost of the fingerprint sensor is significant on an $800 phone that's really meant as a flagship device to help keep Android
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The way this comment was initially italicized through so many breaks was truly surprising and took me a few seconds to figure out. By the time I clicked reply you'd already updated it though. For those reading this, it connected ever
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by OnlineGladiator 7y ago
And the human perception of higher pitched noises is that they're much more noticeable and much more obnoxious. And when the kid across the street is flying his drone, I can hear it in my living room through my double-paned window. I
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by OnlineGladiator 7y ago
I agree with some of what you said, but this is likely to weigh at least 10x as much as the drones I'm talking about when you include a payload of even a few pounds. There is another comment on here from someone in the trial city ta
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by OnlineGladiator 7y ago
That's doubtful. I can hear drones buzzing when they're over 500 feet away, and they're loud enough to be annoying (and those aren't carrying payloads so they are significantly lighter). Are they really using hundreds
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by OnlineGladiator 7y ago
I would love to see the iterations that led to that final design, because there's almost nothing conventional about it. I know they spent a surprising amount of time just on the hook. https://www.wired.com/story/w
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by OnlineGladiator 7y ago
I actually don't think the fact that HN is owned by YC makes much difference. It's not like the YC companies control what makes it to the front page any more than you or I do. And this might be the only place on the internet I a
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by OnlineGladiator 7y ago
> Driving school 2017 is a great place to work for and it is a great place to I'm genuinely curious what it is you're trying to say. So it sounds like Driving School might be a company, but a quick Google search didn't tu
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by OnlineGladiator 7y ago
That's kind of my point. It was probably poor planning, although it's possible something very unlikely went wrong. But it's not really that cutting edge of technology anymore so either the engineering team was underwhelming
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by OnlineGladiator 7y ago
If they had reason to believe it wouldn't be ready, why did they choose to remove the fingerprint scanner? If both options were available there'd be an order of magnitude fewer complaints.
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by OnlineGladiator 7y ago
Well shit :) I didn't mean it as a gotcha, just that people will mangle quotes to support whatever idea they're trying to argue. Ironically it seems I have accidentally done the same thing.
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by OnlineGladiator 7y ago
Van Gogh was utterly miserable though. I don't think he'd consider his life a success. To frame it with someone I know much better, what about Nikola Tesla? Profoundly accomplished, objectively made enormous contributions to eng
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by OnlineGladiator 7y ago
If that's the case you're right and I'm completely wrong about that quote. I don't pretend to be a Buddhist so you're more likely to be right than me. I have not bothered to verify this as of this writing. Another
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by OnlineGladiator 7y ago
I agree with your point that it's all about perspective, but you can easily spin it negatively. "Life is suffering" -Buddha "Tedium is the worst pain" -Grendel I realize that first quote is meant to be encouraging,
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by OnlineGladiator 7y ago
I think it's easy to understand sarcasm when you know who you're talking to, such as a group of friends or coworkers. But when you're part of a huge online community like hn that discourages humor, it's pretty easy to u
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by OnlineGladiator 7y ago
What's really sad is you need the lawyers to let the public know something went wrong. If people had listened to the engineers (admittedly internal vs external communication are completely different) then we never would have had this