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by randcraw 4y ago
These coats should change the pattern they generate every second, like Rorschach from Watchmen. That'd not only be cool, but should guarantee anonymity since the current photo of you doesn't match the last photo of you.
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The Upside of Feeling Small(bbc.com)
3 points by randcraw 4y ago|0 comments
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by randcraw 4y ago
I read his earlier book, “Confessions of a Bookseller”. Recommended, esp if you love used book shops and those in their orbits.
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by randcraw 4y ago
In judging GPT, we should be drawing a line in the sand between a poor writer (e.g. a college student) and an excellent one (a professional, ideally a domain expert). GPT is impressing us now only because we have very low expectations for
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by randcraw 4y ago
As someone inexpert in SD car vision systems, I believe lidar (or an equivalent) likely will be necessary to enable level 3 in confusing spaces like tight urban traffic or bad weather. Light cameras, even in stereo, don't support reli
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by randcraw 4y ago
While the gray (especially the matte finish) might cause less specular reflection, any color that makes the car stand out better against the background would improve a light camera's ability to detect and track the object. Given a typ
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by randcraw 4y ago
Customization also makes your car much easier to identify. If another driver is annoyed by you on the road and later recognizes your chariot parked somewhere, a distinctive look will make it a lot easier for them to do you damage.
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by randcraw 4y ago
Reflectors glow only when somebody else lights them up. Background-colored cars makes it a lot easier for two unlit fools to connect. Head on. Black suffers from this somewhat, but less since backgrounds on the road are rarely black until
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by randcraw 4y ago
It's grey primer with clearcoat over it. How could that be a good thing? It's also as invisible as possible against the background of an asphalt road. Also a bad thing. Unless headlights come on automatically in fog or twilight
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by randcraw 4y ago
Why do new cars drive like wet putty? Electric steering makes spirited driving as joyless as a 40 year old Buick. It's like steering a jellyfish. And sport mode only manages to stiffen the jelly.
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by randcraw 4y ago
This article does invite the question, "How best can a society maximize the potential of their untapped best and brightest?" The first step is identifying them. Obviously an IQ test is a seriously dumb threshold. Untold numbers
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by randcraw 4y ago
> Why would society want to encourage geniuses to work less thanks to welfare? So Einstein doesn't have to waste his time pushing papers in the patent office.
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by randcraw 4y ago
Or depraved indifference.
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No, this is what happens when each step in the sales chain is not held accountable. The only cure for this is to demand each middleman validate and be held responsible for maintaining product integrity. Only when malefactors are identifie
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by randcraw 4y ago
> Believe it or not, we may also soon be able to cure practically every disease, including cancer... Only someone totally oblivious to the limitations of doing science in the real world could claim this. I work for a big pharma whose ma
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by randcraw 4y ago
I think clever is also used differently among Brits than Yanks. Brits equate it with intellect and imagination. Americans see cleverness less charitably, as an self-serving tactic in a game that leads to winning. A clever person in the S
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by randcraw 4y ago
If a thing is clever, doesn't that define it as essentially superficial and insubstantial? And isn't cleverness that serves only to elevate the author, pretentious? Given the meandering focus of the piece and the author's p
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by randcraw 4y ago
HN's content is entirely nonfiction, which demands a focused and discuplined style of writing: claim, defense, conclusion. Because its goal is to entertain, fiction frees the author to meander, muddle, or mislead — all of which impede
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by randcraw 4y ago
I think the rise of meander is more likely a sign of inattention and the inability to focus. An essay is much more powerful and memorable if it can state a clear thesis and defend it memorably and undeniably. In today's writing, perha
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by randcraw 4y ago
Agreed. Curiously that meander makes the implicit point that the author never made explicitly, that cleverness is shallow. It's all about witty one-liners that lead no deeper than eliciting a smirk and a mote of respect for the joker
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by randcraw 4y ago
This trick works only if keyless services on your Honda were enabled. Thus this vulnerability is trivial to avoid, even without a patch.
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by randcraw 4y ago
If video game creators fit the bill, check out "Masters of Doom" or "Blood Sweat and Pixels". And for a few more in that vein: https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2019/11/07/th
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by randcraw 4y ago
Or better yet (than Truck), check out "Mountains Beyond Mountains", about Paul Farmer's quest to defeat infectious disease where it's needed most and available least around the world.
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by randcraw 4y ago
But "screen time" tells you nothing. Is this video games? Conversation with friends? Browsing through one-liner/tweet forums? Watching documentaries? News? Films? TV shows? Porn? Is this happening in public? While dri
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by randcraw 4y ago
But an AI must “understand its reasoning” in order to revise it efficiently to learn from its mistakes. If revision is impossible, the only way to correct its reasoning is to re-train the system from scratch. But in doing that, you can on
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by randcraw 4y ago
In 1963 Marvin Minsky called it “The Credit Assignment Problem” — which, among a multitude of variables, were most important in solving an AI task?
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by randcraw 4y ago
You do wonder about Newton... But for the presence of better infrastructure (esp home networking, wifi, and 'fast enough' cellular), could Newton have become the Next Big Thing in computing after Macintosh? I suspect that Jobs&#
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by randcraw 4y ago
Jeff Duntemann's book on Turbo Pascal is still one of my favorite texts of all time. He combined his enthusiasm for the subject with a deft hand at explaining concepts intuitively. And of course, there was Peter Norton's Guide to
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by randcraw 4y ago
Or to Computer Literacy bookstore. Each time I attended a conference in the Bay Area I made sure to drop into their store in San Jose to spend hours poring over the multitude of recent books on all the new stiuff happening in computing. I
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by randcraw 4y ago
I like the epitaph author David McCullough chose to sum up his life. “He always did his best”.

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