mikejb

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by mikejb 6y ago
Talking about data collection is a slippery slope. Surprisingly little of a Tesla ride gets transmitted, so whilst it seems like "A huge fleet of cars out there is collecting driving data", only a tiny amount of it is used to trai
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by mikejb 6y ago
I think the primary fallacy in the theory is confusing companies like Waymo with companies like Tesla, and mingling their (in)capabilities. Both have a very different approach in trying to get to self-driving, and when combining what both c
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by mikejb 6y ago
That's pretty clever! How the tables have turned since hiybbprqag
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by mikejb 6y ago
> when the hardest Soduku problems in the world succumbed to a brute force search to my lame program in less than a few something something ms, I kind of shrugged at the fancy methods. I think you're coming off as dismissive, which
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by mikejb 6y ago
> Or just like a ton of other companies like Magic Leap, they went for a moonshot and are discovering that it would have been better to iterate instead. Waymo started with the iterative approach, and threw it out of the window after they
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by mikejb 6y ago
I agree. I think one key element Tesla is lacking (currently) is handling pedestrians. No Tesla driving demo I could see included any humans outside their cars.
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by mikejb 6y ago
I'm not sure what your source of information is, but I'd love to see the train of thought that has lead to this comment.
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by mikejb 6y ago
> You can take sensible precautions and not catch it. A bit nitpicky, but significant: you can take sensible precautions and reduce the risk of transmission - but there's no reasonable strategy to not catch it.
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by mikejb 7y ago
> The best proof is that even with billions spent, the best contenders got marginal improvement over what Mercedes had in 1990 with discreet algorithms and no neural/fuzzy logic Can you elaborate on that? I haven't found much o
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by mikejb 7y ago
It wasn't disclosed on whether stolen IP was used - Uber had (still have?) to cooperate with Waymo, inspecting their hardware and software stack. The pedestrian ultimately got hit because a lot of fallback systems failed: They disabled
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by mikejb 7y ago
Levandowski started a Church, around the time shit started to fall around him. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of his money is hiding there.
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by mikejb 7y ago
Is his church bankrupt, too? I'd start there.
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by mikejb 7y ago
Interestingly enough, Waymo (back than Chauffeur) attempted the Tesla approach - and threw it out once they saw how people behave when the car "drives itself*". W.r.t."self driving winter", I think Waymo are aiming to pr
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by mikejb 7y ago
I may be misunderstanding you, but in case I was misunderstood: I didn't mean to say that the virus is harmless. It may have longer-term effects, and just because it is more deadly when certain conditions are met, we shouldn't jus
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by mikejb 7y ago
> the German man [...] said he had a mild fever in the weekend and slept it off, and came to work on Monday, which must mean he had recovered. Unfortunately, this isn't a valid assumption. Lots of people come in to work sick - just
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by mikejb 7y ago
IIUC, porn is used as an example to highlight that these are very personal details that are being sold, and porn preferences are things people often fear more of leaking than - for example - their financial data. John Oliver, in his work on
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by mikejb 7y ago
It should be noted though that the airplane type is only marginally * relevant in this incident (I'm saying that because many have other associations when a B737 gets mentioned in an "incident" context). * The only relevance
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by mikejb 7y ago
Nuclear weapon detonations (particularly when tested underground, which is done mostly to avoid atmospheric contamination) can be identified through seismic arrays. The system is pretty reliable, and beyond the obvious task of distinguishin
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by mikejb 7y ago
"to act" has also other meanings than just be on stage or in front of a camera. Similary, an "actor" has also other meanings than just an individual being on stage or in front of a camera.
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by mikejb 7y ago
It's pretty much agreed on - the public acknowledgement of the conclusions by individual countries is plainly a game of politics.
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by mikejb 7y ago
> But pretty much all western countries are being threaten by Iran now. Are they? If I remember correctly, Iran threatened the US / Trump specifically (more so since Trump threatened to attack cultural sites). Were there any threats
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by mikejb 7y ago
The US military is (by now) a terrorist organization where the plane crashed, so even Iran Air Flight 655 would be considered a "terrorist attack".
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by mikejb 7y ago
That's probably why they said "preliminary information indicates". And the rumors of a missile was probably the reason why they felt the need of putting out a statement in the first place.
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by mikejb 7y ago
The amount of trust put into any conclusion at this point should be minimal, and whilst I understand and partly share the lack of trust in embassy statements, I posted this to counter the blind "looks like it was shot down, someone on
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by mikejb 7y ago
What I learned is that the stellar decades-long safety record of an airplane can be ruined by a single fuck-up during service - even when servicing another airplane [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flig
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by mikejb 7y ago
The Ukrainian embassy reported preliminary information indicates engine failure, and excludes a rocket or terrorist attack as cause. [1] Particularly at this time, I wouldn't trust random sources on the web to provide accurate informat
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by mikejb 7y ago
> Regarding the missile theory: if it was a missle, it was probably accidential. The majority of passengers on board were Iranian citizens. Unless it was a non-Iranian missile, or a rogue actor. (At this point, it's all speculation)
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by mikejb 7y ago
This is not correct. The details of gun ownership rights depends on the individual European state, but it's absolutely possible for a civilian to own guns. In fact, some do. It's just not engrained in the general culture or connec
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by mikejb 7y ago
> Same way no one gives a shit about Yemen. There is an undeniable discrepancy on how we receive and perceive information about individual subjects; Where our attention is directed, and from where it's deviated - what I'm surpr
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by mikejb 7y ago
The guardian is a British newspaper, so there's an understandable focus. An additional factor may be the insurance situation: Some countries require travel organizers to set up insurance for these cases, ensuring that customers can sti

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