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by icc97 9y ago
Your point 2. is actually very important and I haven't seen it discussed before. We don't know what instructions the drivers have been given, but there will be first a question in the drivers mind about if the car will react. The
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Just what my partner was told when they were caught speeding and offered a course in how to avoid speeding instead of getting points on her licence.
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by icc97 9y ago
Driving rules in the UK have changed, since at least a decade ago, so that there is no 10% margin. Speedometers are required by law to read on or under and they are more reliable now. So if you're going 36mph then you'd be fined.
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by icc97 9y ago
I'm hijacking my own post, but this is a very relevant MIT lecture on 'Technology, Policy and Vehicle Safety in the Age of AI' [0]. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDprUza7yT4
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by icc97 9y ago
As commented in another thread here [0], HAL at Duke University [1] is putting forward proposals for this. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16620439 [1]: https://hal.pratt.duke.edu/research
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by icc97 9y ago
I guess it depends on the data available, but I don't think the hyperparameters are what's needed. You just need to see what the car sensed and how it responded. Then the other car companies can try to replicate the similar circum
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by icc97 9y ago
I really don't think it's a big 'if'. As long as there is human level performance data, neural networks can be trained to match that level of performance. So it's a matter of time. It is indeed very, very hard, but
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by icc97 9y ago
As the sibling comment says, it does depend on self-driving cars matching human level performance. But with all AI/Neural Networks it is very possible to match human performance because most of the time you can throw more human-level p
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https://github.com/commaai/openpilot this is the bit that needs training as far as I'm aware.
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by icc97 9y ago
One aspect that comes from this is that now car crashes can be treated more like aircraft crashes. Each self-driving car now has a black box in it with a ton of telemetary. So it's not just "don't drink and drive", know
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by icc97 9y ago
If self-driving cars 1. don't read texts whilst driving, 2. don't drink alcohol, 3. stick to the speed limit, 4. keep a 3-4s distance to the car in front, 5. don't drive whilst tired 6. don't jump stop signs / red l
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by icc97 9y ago
That is indeed reckless, but that guy is testing open source self-driving technology. Given that all the main car companies are keeping their technology private I don't see how open-source systems are supposed to keep up without people
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by icc97 9y ago
I think you're close to the point - but I don't think it's about money. If you love someone and they're dying, being married to them especially in the 40s makes things a lot easier for handling their affairs both before
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by icc97 9y ago
Can we also ban Elsevier and get Google to replace their links with Sci-Hub links?
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by icc97 9y ago
Thanks for a great plugin. I've been trying to get a handle on what convolutions really are. Which ever description I read is usually so abstract as to be meaningless. But your plugin is a beautiful way to play with them an understand
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GIMP Convolution Matrix(docs.gimp.org)
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by icc97 9y ago
I don't remember reading this before (in the Penrose obituary), that is that he discovered Hawking radiation when trying to prove that it didn't exist: > Bekenstein realised this was key to the entropy problem. Every time a bla
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by icc97 9y ago
A quote I got from my Harvest timer this morning: > “The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.” > – Stephen Hawking
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by icc97 9y ago
This seemed a more useful quote: > Foolish stubbornness comes not from working on the same problem, but from an unwillingness to iterate on the solution. Many founders fall in love with their product rather than the problem they are tryi
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by icc97 9y ago
I agree a lot of this is a good distraction from the Model 3 problems. However I wouldn't call him an expert more of a natural. Experts use carefully chosen examples based on a lot of research. I can't see how launching his car in
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by icc97 9y ago
Perhaps we should stop trying to claim we do science or engineering and call it a craft [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_craftsmanship [1]: http://manifesto.softwarecraftsmanship.org
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by icc97 9y ago
Sal Khan has a good talk [0] about applying the methods of learning martial arts to education. That is it doesn't matter how many times you do a retake it matters that you get it correct. As opposed to setting the pass rate at 50% whic
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by icc97 9y ago
If it reduces the din of the awful noise of living anywhere near to a helipad in the south west of London, just so rich kids can come and go as they please, then it's worth it. The choppers are already there, so there's already th
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by icc97 9y ago
skeptics stackexchange is a good example. Lots of people complain that too many comments are deleted, but it's an absolute lions den of controversial issues. The mods do a very tough job and handle hate speech better than anywhere I&#x
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At least you get money out of the trolls though. Just donate some of it to a bullying campaign.
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by icc97 9y ago
I find that I've stopped buying Humble Bundle games, but I'm much more inclined to buy books now. So they've basically figured out how to extract the most amount of cash out of me possible. I am a bit skeptical about this lis
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by icc97 9y ago
I was pleasantly suprised by Kiwi IRC [0] on that list. It's the closest I've seen to being a Slack replacement. [0]: https://kiwiirc.com
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by icc97 9y ago
My major preference for Slack was replacing Skype chats, so there was no loss in terms of open source. Lots of people complain that it's just a fancy IRC client, but they don't realise how painless it is to get non-tech people to
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by icc97 9y ago
There is an awesome video from a suicide helpline first responder at DefCon [0] on possible ways to speak to a friend who is feeling suicidal. Firstly to be clear - this talk is not for talking to people who are literally about to commit su
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In the second video it talks about looking at the region of the world you're in / Google analytics to give you a good idea of browser usage. It's just a shame there isn't 'crappy backwards business/bank' s

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