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by Qworg 10y ago
I disagree that no one wants to work - in many ways, working (being of use), is enobeling. What will replace it culturally when we don't have any work?
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by Qworg 10y ago
The key statement is "given enough time". Innovation keeps moving; you're falling behind, even as you're trying to re-implement something you've done before.
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by Qworg 10y ago
Self driving machine code is inherently unsafe, as we don't have observability for the neural networks that run the most advanced models. The safety critical portion of the code focuses around running the base functions of the car. On
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by Qworg 10y ago
C/C++ is almost the only choice on most embedded systems, which is where most safety critical code lives.
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by Qworg 10y ago
We're all better off? That's an incredibly broad statement. The laws on the books still exist for a good reason. Even if you feel that Uber is somehow exempt/makes good choices with the people it chooses to employ via the pla
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by Qworg 10y ago
A factor of 10 and at least 3-4 years of engineering work? Yeah, that's no small potatoes.
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by Qworg 10y ago
Discovery will likely find more things, no?
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Want an energy efficient datacenter? Build it underwater(spectrum.ieee.org)
199 points by Qworg 10y ago|159 comments
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by Qworg 10y ago
Make the robots like the Kiva bots and have a liftable platform. That way, they only need to support the weight of the furniture, not the people.
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by Qworg 10y ago
Cost efficient? Shipping isn't free - the last mile to doorstep is the most expensive part as well.
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by Qworg 10y ago
This is what happens sometimes, totally inadvertently.
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by Qworg 10y ago
We make up for hand weakness with hand dexterity, slow vision processing with incredibly rich feature sets and powerful cameras, and reliable actions with previsioning and prediction on every task. The human system is pretty incredible.
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by Qworg 10y ago
What is scope for Uber-likes? What is network? They're simply leveraging a brand - it is almost no moat versus a competitor, especially if they have a structural advantage. An example advantage would be an autonomous car manufacturer e
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by Qworg 10y ago
Sports cars don't determine the trajectory of your life. Also, farming is heavily automated and done by very few hands outside of truck crops. Farming truck crops is low wage, incredibly difficult work that we generally use illegal lab
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by Qworg 10y ago
Being richer doesn't correspond to having more potential. For every rich person in college (top 1% of pop), there's a cohort of roughly 30x that would do as well or better.
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by Qworg 10y ago
How do you draw the line between "alternative media" and "lies"?
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by Qworg 10y ago
Uber isn't fighting for people's rights. Not liking taxi services or the laws that protect their business isn't equivalent by any stretch.
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by Qworg 10y ago
It is interesting to see the strongly negative positions that some people take on any of these reports. It is almost like folks can have ulterior motives or know very little about how to protect sources and methods.
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by Qworg 10y ago
Even outside of the good points made by argonaut - our eyes are _amazing_ cameras. They are super high resolution, have many color bits, and work well in low light and bright situations.
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by Qworg 10y ago
Up until the last Parker patriarch gave half the ranch to his workers, it was the third largest producer in the US. Now it's fifth, IIRC. Also interesting, the paniolos were the first US cowboys AND they have unique rodeo sports (inclu
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by Qworg 10y ago
One is free and open, with many different software options and partnerships. The other is free and open, but governed by a corporation, with a single software option and no partnerships.
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by Qworg 10y ago
Are you building your own flow meters? That's a fun project in magnets/magnetometers.
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by Qworg 10y ago
Microsoft has their Bot Framework + LUIS. I've found both to be easy to work with. Disclosure: I work at Microsoft AI and Research.
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by Qworg 10y ago
Microsoft's offering is $1.50/1000 calls as well. https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/pricing
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by Qworg 10y ago
It appears you can still get Gros Michel in Malaysia and Thailand? [1] Can anyone confirm? 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Michel_banana
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Mobile Holoportation(microsoft.com)
122 points by Qworg 10y ago|43 comments
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by Qworg 10y ago
Sure. But didn't the Volvo CEO push "Level 4 only"? They certainly are saying they'll only release a Level 4 vehicle - the Tesla is still expecting a human to take over.
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by Qworg 10y ago
Reasonable. Maybe a perception that they're lower, not middle class? Much of the rhetoric from Trump voters in this election revolves around how poor they feel/hard they work.
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by Qworg 10y ago
I assume that there are a huge number of situations where "quietly pull over and let the human drive" is impossible. I'm not talking about "oh hey, here's a situation I can't handle" and more "take ov
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by Qworg 10y ago
It is so important to do the whole trip because switching costs for the driver from "totally inattentive" to "grasping the wheel and driving" are measured in seconds. Anything less than 4 is asking for trouble.

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