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by alsodumb 4y ago
You make it seem like the commercial was the only evidence used to prove that he committed fraud. He made statements, both in media and in legal documents, that proved in the court that he commit fraud.
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We don't have to forger DJI and Autel - Skydio beat them in autonomy. Period. You seem to lack the understanding of fundamental difference between how a DJI drone flies around and how a Skydio flies around. I work on drones for researc
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Skydio is too small to design their own chipset - they use Nvidia GPU onboard. My comment was about people using neural network models for everything needed to fly a drone. I've seen models fail badly in ground based robots. They are f
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I need to find the link but there is a way to attach camera to it. Tbh most people use it only for learning ROS. I know you can learn ROS using Gazebo similations but real robot feels better and many universities use such hardware for reach
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I recommend the Roomba like Create 3 robot. It's made by iRobot, the company that makes Roombas but for education. It supports ROS2, is relatively cheap and easy to her started with. You can layer build your own systems. PS: If you can
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That's true, but I'd call the smartest robot available to consumers that is relatively affordable. Their tech blows my mind. They do all the navigation and motion planning based on just RGB cameras, running multiple neural network
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Why does Verge try so hard to show that Elon did something bad? A congressman has to change his email address? Seriously? And these are journalists making these titles? A quick Google search reveals that his Gmail address is everywhere. In
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by alsodumb 4y ago
I think Platformer essentially has a 'get clicks by hating Elon/showing Twitter under Elon' approach these days. I mean it makes sense, the tweets where they mention Elon or sources from Twitter have waaaay more interaction t
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Adding another datapoint from one of my previous comments: In response to someone saying on Twitter how Elon doesn't understand the technical stuff of rocketry, Tom Meuller, former CTO of Propulsion at SpaceX and the designer of many o
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If you are on the Copilot team now - seems like a perfect revenge story.
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Tom Mueller is a highly respected engineer, and just because what he says doesn't align with your narrative or belief doesn't mean he is singing praises. Oh by the way, Tom Mueller made that tweet after he left SpaceX.
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I get the sarcasm but Jeff and Sanjay actually code quite a bit even today with their senior fellow titles: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship...
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Everyone who actually worked for him say that he understands all the engineering intricacies. Karpathy said that. Tom Mueller publicly defended Elon on multiple occasions: https://mobile.twitter.com/lrocket/status/
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Weather monitoring. Got anything against that too?
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Because the engineers wouldn't have come anywhere close to achieving their dreams without a rich kid who made money from Paypal and was open to spending it all on hard engineering problems instead of living a good retirement life. Tom
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I mean it's well known that Tesla has a insane profit margin (in the car manufacturing market) when compared to other players. The could sell a car around 30,000$ (adjusted for inflation) if they want to - they in fact came pretty clos
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I love how the goalposts keep shifting all the time - "Tesla can never manufacture a mass production car", "Elon cannot run a hardware company", "Electric cars can only sell when subsidized". The truth is Tesla
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I think people should stop calling government contracts as government subsidies - it is misleading on so many levels. Did SpaceX get money from NASA during Falcon development? Yes! But so did Boeing, ULA, Lockheed Martin on tons of projects
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And yet every passionate international PhD student I know who really wanted to contribute to JPL's mission can't because of ITAR restrictions. I wish there was an easy way to find middle ground where international students undergo
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You are grossly underestimating how many business rely on Google and Facebook. A small example: a ton of delivery companies depend on Google maps API for localization and route planning - think Doordash, Uber, etc. Not just that, lots of tr
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by alsodumb 4y ago
Reminds me of the spike in Signal users in India when WhatsApp required all users to accept new terms. Literally everyone I know used Signal for like, five days?
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This. I've seen so many class action lass suits where at the end of the day the highest gain per Capita always ends up going to the lawyers. Fuck this guy and everyone trying to make money from this.
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SpaceX acquired them last year.
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You kind of want to make it seem like a 576 MP resolution (where did you even get this number from while people still argue about a fair comparison between human eye and a camera?) or having to move your head/eyes to visualize your sur
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Definitely agree with your second point! In theory, the reaction time and complete environment awareness should itself make an autonomous system way safer than human drivers. In some way, I am against the philosophy of using HD maps + LIDAR
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It's funny you use Radar as an example of 'good sensor' while it is well known that most or maybe almost all?) of the stationary vehicle accidents you're talking about happened because of Radars inability to detect a sta
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I think one should distinguish between 'all necessary information is already in the pixel-space' vs 'we already know how to extract all the information needed from pixel-space' The fact that (most) humans manage to drive
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"Relativity has a strong safety record relative to others in the industry, with just one OSHA safety inspection since it was founded in 2015. The inspection, spurred by an accident, did not result in a violation." Yeah sure, let&#
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The credit doesn't just go by the number of returns - it also considers the total value of the returns and the value of purchase to value of returns ratio.
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A reply to the 7th comment says "I'd say one promotion cycle for the top executives on the product, 2-3 more for the next tier of engineers/product folks to ship some cool stuff, then a year or two for the product to coast be

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