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by d_sem 1y ago
My experience working in an automotive supplier suggest that Tesla engineers must have always knowns this and the real strategy was to provide the best ADAS experience with the cheapest sensor architecture. They certainly did achieved that
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by d_sem 1y ago
I'm being facetious, but life in the rust belt post industrial automation is kinda close. Google Maps a random Detroit east side neighborhood to see what I mean.
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by d_sem 1y ago
Shoutout to the Henry Ford Museum located in Dearborn, Michigan which is a treasure trove of 19th and early 20th century technology. A true celebration of, what I would consider, the most physically transformative era in human history thus
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by d_sem 1y ago
It has never been easier to realize your own open source hardware platform. Those dedicated to freedom can chose to offer alternatives. The challenge is we don't live in a post job society and people need to make money to survive. Unti
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by d_sem 1y ago
New information that challenges one's context can often appear weird at first. Its a common reaction. Regarding psychohistory: It's worth considering the era in which the books where written. The 1st half of the 20th century saw m
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by d_sem 1y ago
When I see data like this i'm reminded of the history of automotive manufacturing in the 20th century and the several waves of technological changes that re-wrote the role local labor played in building cars. The question isn't, w
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by d_sem 1y ago
If we accept the premise that people will increasingly become emotionally attached to these models, it begs the question what will be the societal response to models changes or deprecation. At what point will the effect be as psychologicall
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by d_sem 2y ago
This is a perfect lesson in why strong communication skills are important in engineering organizations. It's leaderships responsibility to learn from engineering what is technically feasible but its also engineering's responsibili
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by d_sem 2y ago
It's likely you haven't come across these use cases in your professional career, but I assure you its very common. My entire career has only seen projects where you need dozen to hundreds of CPU's in order to have a short fee
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by d_sem 2y ago
because there is no information transmitted once you've measured one of the entangled particles. The other particle never knows the first one was measured. Consider the analogy that in a box there are two apples. A Red delicious and a
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by d_sem 2y ago
Reminds me of the late Neil Postman, who gave space to consider that technological trends have secondary effects that can potential make life worse. As an avid user of wireless headphones I think its worth briefly entertaining the side effe
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by d_sem 2y ago
In what way is it very well trained for?
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by d_sem 2y ago
One example is to provide it a list of objects and ask it what would be the most plausible way to stack them without damaging the objects while also being stable. Optionally, you can ask the model to generate a rational for the solution pro
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by d_sem 2y ago
And yet I can provide modern LLMs unique never before asked scenarios that require the ability to reason about real world phenomenon and they can respond in ways more thoughtful than the average person. Much of human education is feeding bo
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by d_sem 2y ago
Some data retention requirements are mandated by law and it is necessary to develop robust systems that can stand the test of time. I've seen 15 and 25 year retention periods for data in safety related applications. Things my interns l
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by d_sem 2y ago
What is happening in the Bay Area is large corporations are using 3rd party exchanges that make following the price guidelines a requirement to participate. The 3rd party is paid to set the regional prices. And they all win through fee&#x27
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by d_sem 2y ago
I feel this is right up the late Professor Neil Postman's ally. There are many interesting talks of his. Notably, a talk in 1993 hosted by Alan Kay, where Neil playfully gave an argument against computers in front of Apple computer eng
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by d_sem 2y ago
It was a common theme in Apple WWDC conferences in the late 80's. Alan Kay has an interesting talk about agents. I think it could be argued that the low hanging fruit aspect of agents where fulfilled by microservices and web based busi
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by d_sem 2y ago
Car dominated societies inevitably will expose their inhabitants to micro plastics through synthetic tire rubber dust. There is basically no possible way to avoid them without regulation.
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by d_sem 2y ago
This comment contrary to my suburban experience, where massive school closures, police being called when kids play unattended, and ageing demographics meant fewer children per sq mile and the collapse of children only culture.
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by d_sem 2y ago
What you are really doing: You: If these tools are not ideal, what is a better tool? Parent: I won't tell you. I just simply criticize online and provide no technical guidance, instead I gatekeep my definition of quality tooling. I thi
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by d_sem 2y ago
Python is not a terrible language. It's widely used in reputable organizations by highly informed and capable software engineers to great effect. Generic language criticism in 2024 is an anti-pattern that intellectually hinders new eng
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by d_sem 2y ago
Leary also said "Drop Out" was a period where you abstain from mind altering drugs. So the order was. Turn On = expand your consciousness Tun In = learn/integrate from your alternative views generated by your altered state. D
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by d_sem 2y ago
This brings up a classic distinction between a "Software Engineer" and a "Programmer". Without getting into a diatribe about semantics: my industry selects for people with software engineering skills. The ability to simp
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by d_sem 3y ago
Anecdotally this was also what was told to me by (now retired) electronic engineers who worked in automotive embedded systems in the 80's/90's. The term flash was related to the process of UV exposure to erase memory. This wa
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by d_sem 3y ago
You are missing the context of age demographics. For example: in the United States of America about 63% of the population is over the age of 32 which represents roughly 200 million Americans which graduated Highschool before the year 2010.
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by d_sem 3y ago
Depends on the industry you are interested in entering. My myopic view of the world has seen the general trend from C to C++ for realtime embedded applications. For example: in the Automotive Industry all the interesting automotive feature
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by d_sem 3y ago
I don't know if its mindset or my owner ignorance, but I find myself using Copilot and other language model tools as a teacher, a debugger, a reviewer, and and idea brainstormer. I find each use case to enhance my ability to think more
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by d_sem 3y ago
Parenting the next generation it vitally important to the continued existence of the human race.
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by d_sem 3y ago
The absurdism to having a replica Cray-1 for the sole purpose of watering my plants is too amazing to not entertain.

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