jowday

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by jowday 5y ago
Why would I want an education in something I’m not motivated to do past, say, high school?
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by jowday 5y ago
I have, but the chance of getting that when you pay for an education is low enough for it to be an anomaly in my experience.
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by jowday 5y ago
Afaict dojo is just a training asic integrated into a cluster, just like other big tech companies have had for years. If anything at all it’ll just mean a lower cloud or compute bill for Tesla. It’s telling that Elon is the one that likes
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by jowday 5y ago
They’re not tackling it with an end to end model - all of the ML at Tesla is used for perception (and some prediction - I think there’s a cut-in prediction head running), which then feeds into traditional robotics algorithms, like I describ
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by jowday 5y ago
The “fleet learning” pipeline Elon described at Autonomy Day doesn’t actually exist in practice. They have some hardcoded heuristic triggers that capture snippets of data to be annotated by human labelers to train perception models off of.
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by jowday 5y ago
They're cutting up the original 3 hour long Livestream into separate videos for each presentation.
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by jowday 5y ago
You're wrong on that. LIDAR is used for object detection in every self driving car company that uses LIDAR. There's tons of research on it. Previous generations of LIDAR were not great at classifying small objects and road debris
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by jowday 5y ago
They use radar for way more than that given that Autopilot has it's capabilities limited in the new cars without radar vs. the old ones with radar.
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by jowday 5y ago
Point clouds from the next generation of LIDAR are looking less and less sparse. https://youtu.be/COgEQuqTAug?t=11601
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by jowday 5y ago
Anecdata but both of the people I know that worked on Autopilot quit within 18 months of starting, citing extreme overwork and Musk micromanaging things. This lines up with that.
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by jowday 5y ago
If it's anything like my experience switching between Alphabet-owned companies, it's a lot like switching teams at Google. A couple of chats with a manager and you transfer to that team. Managers almost always take internal transf
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by jowday 5y ago
Because they advertised it as "100% cheese". It's a fine for misleading advertising, not for putting wood pulp in the cheese.
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by jowday 5y ago
It sounds like the fine is for labeling it "100% cheese", not for putting wood pulp in the cheese? Most brands openly list that their grated cheeses contain wood pulp as "cellulose powder" or something similar. I think t
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by jowday 6y ago
Yeah, I know. Maybe a better wording is "the limited functionality of a system like autopilot." My point is Full Self Driving implies it's "the real deal": A self driving car you don't have to pay attention to
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by jowday 6y ago
What do you think "full" means? In my mind, the "full" implies "in all situations", in contrast to the limited functionality of autopilot.
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by jowday 6y ago
They're not going for a full ML approach. That's just more Elon marketing language. Tesla reverse engineers have gotten their hands on the FSD beta and inspected the internals - they use ML for perception and scene understanding,
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by jowday 6y ago
The beta is way more aggresive than any other autonomous system I've seen. I'm not sure where you're getting the impression it errs on the side of caution.
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by jowday 6y ago
You're not familiar with JG Ballard are you?
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by jowday 6y ago
+1 I'm not confident L3 actually exists. The only real levels are 2 and 4.
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by jowday 6y ago
Here's a Tesla hitting a highway wall from last week. https://youtu.be/XgzpAN4qsmg
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by jowday 6y ago
That's how this industry works, unfortunately. It's widely accepted that the disengagement stats companies are required to report to government agencies are essentially meaningless. There's no real standardization in how any
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by jowday 6y ago
The article is terrible at describing it - and really, the entire level scale is terrible - but there is a real important distinction between level 2 and level 3. Level 2 means that the car automates several different parts of the driving t
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by jowday 6y ago
I think his work is a great jumping off point. After watching Century of the Self, I started reading pretty heavily into Walter Lippman, Edward Bernays, and the general development of neoliberal thought. Most all of what I read backed up hi
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by jowday 6y ago
The final book even concludes with the narrator/protagonist suggesting the reader re-read the books to grasp their true meaning. IMO, two reads minimum are necessary.
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by jowday 6y ago
They're deploying AVs way (1-2 years, at least) behind their own schedules, by their own admission. Ask anyone inside of the industry (including Musk) and they'll tell you that the problem is the long march of nines I mentioned ea
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by jowday 6y ago
Check judge2020's reply to bmcahren - you have the same software running, the FSD beta just uses more features from it.
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by jowday 6y ago
The transition from low quality to high quality driving will be sublinear, not linear or greater than linear. This has been the case at every other self driving company. You get big gains from working on low hanging fruit early on in the pr
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by jowday 6y ago
Its almost definitely COBOL right? That's always the langauge featured in this type of story.
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by jowday 6y ago
I only say renting because he made a big deal of selling all of his property a while back.
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by jowday 6y ago
Isn't the actual listed location of residence more a formality for a billionaire like Musk? I presume he'll still rent residences in LA and the Bay Area considering he'll be back and forth for business related to Tesla and Sp

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