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by randcraw 7y ago
I think the problem applies to non-PhDs students as well. I'm seeing a lot of interest from recent non-PhD grads in subjects other than CS wanting to steer their career toward data mining. My concern is that this re-focusing will pro
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by randcraw 7y ago
I believe you. But truck guys don't discuss the style of their truck, how pretty it is. They brag about how they abused it or carried unreal loads or took it where no road legal vehicle should ever go. Even if the Cybertruck kicks as
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by randcraw 7y ago
At 6000 pounds and a high CoG, this thing is going to handle worse than most ladder frame trucks. And that's bad. It's also going to have truly awful front and rear visibility. Long windshields are invariably difficult to live w
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by randcraw 7y ago
The G-Wagon is a very high end luxury SUV with a huge profit margin. As such, MB can afford to sell only a handful. But at the advertised price, the Cybertruck offers no such margin. It'll surely will be a money-loser for Tesla whic
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by randcraw 7y ago
In the US, for many folks, their vehicle is an identity statement. Generally minivans, sedans, and econoboxes are the exceptions, but the marketing here for most other car models tries hard to sell some demographic that they can claim some
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by randcraw 7y ago
As one living in the US, I think renting a truck is quite viable, as is renting a trailer for your sedan/ minivan/ SUV. Oddly, we don't seem to do it much. I recently bought a pickup knowing that the number of days in the ye
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by randcraw 7y ago
In fact the 2019 Honda Ridgeline has more American content than any other pickup, US brands included. https://news.pickuptrucks.com/2019/06/2019-honda-ridgeline-i...
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by randcraw 7y ago
"With up to 3,500 pounds of payload capacity and adjustable air suspension, Cybertruck is the most powerful tool we have ever built, ..." https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck Payload is bed capacity not tow capacity.
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by randcraw 7y ago
Several of Musk's numbers don't add up. No pickup has a bed capacity of 3500 pounds. That's 1.75 tons. Even full sized US pickups top out at 3/4 ton, unless they're super duty which adds greatly to weight and low
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by randcraw 7y ago
The risk with making your product mostly a fashion statement is that you may appeal to too few people or to many people but not enough for them to fork over $45K for the limited utility. Unlike the Raptor, the Cybertruck has no machismo.
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by randcraw 7y ago
That's OK. My 2019 Ridgeline gets 30 MPG highway, about 20 MPG city. That's an advantage of living in the US -- our gas mileage formula is more intuitive.
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by randcraw 7y ago
Interesting. Honda did the same thing with their late entry into the pickup market, the Ridgeline. The first generation (2006-2014) was a polarizing design. (But I liked it.) The second gen (2017-present) looks more mainstream and is a
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by randcraw 7y ago
That market probably includes me. I bought a new Honda Ridgeline this year -- a truck that many consider not to be a 'real' truck since it doesn't go offroad or haul 7000+ pound loads. The Cybertruck will surely suffer the
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by randcraw 7y ago
Yes. Existing truck owners will not buy this truck. They will be afraid they will be laughed at by other truck owners like themselves. Trucks are very much a product that identifies you as "one of us" vs "one of them".
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by randcraw 7y ago
Counterpoint: Maybe the departure of Steve Ballmer added $850B to Microsoft?
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by randcraw 7y ago
This reflects VERY badly on the nation of Equador. It reveals that their promise of sanctuary to Assange was meaningless. Worse, it calls into question ANY claim of diplomatic privilege by Equador toward anyone and their private communica
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by randcraw 7y ago
I suspect Amazon has learned that some feature labels are easy to recognize and correlate (dress color, size, style, etc) and others are hard and lead to useless results (an electronic device's: computer, format, port type, protocol, e
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by randcraw 7y ago
IMHO, this study suffers from two big blunders. First, nobody is proposing that AV use will ever be FREE. Why didn't they charge a fee for every trip? Making a new service free when the current service costs money is a poor way to as
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by randcraw 7y ago
Agreed. Deep learning has revolutionized AI and anyone hoping to contribute to AGI is going to have to master DL first, and probably a lot more AI like a variety of probabilistic methods. That's a challenging learning curve that'
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by randcraw 7y ago
I think belief in conspiracies serves the same end as wishful thinking -- we can blame others for creating the evils of the world. Us-vs-them thinking also serve our need for being surrounded by 'friends', something you can do on
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by randcraw 7y ago
I think the rise of lies has little to do with humans being hardwired to resolve questions using emotions over reason. We prefer lies because we want a complex world to be simple, predictable, and manageable. Obviously it's not, so t
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by randcraw 7y ago
I've attended seven colleges/universities over 40 years, big and small, public and private, in-person and online. In all in-person large schools, lecture to passive students runs 90% of classes. The essential problem is, any clas
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by randcraw 7y ago
Biological signals are very noisy. By contrast, CS signals are much cleaner. Only when CS delves into large volumes of social data do signals complicate. But even then, the cooked events of digital data is much cleaner than the raw signa
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by randcraw 7y ago
I think most of the charm of the Old Internet lay in the state of social networking at that time. In 1993-1995, WiReD magazine was ablaze with new fresh ideas and grand possibilities made possible by connecting inquiring minds in creative
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by randcraw 7y ago
StackExchange consistently has the most technically informed content of any site I know. And the most focused / on-topic comments, which limits its social appeal of course.
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by randcraw 7y ago
Yes to this. At the Very Big Pharma where I work about 20 years ago we took some baby steps toward adopting an engineering approach toward bio-based systems engineering. Systems biology and in silico modeling of disease had long promised
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by randcraw 7y ago
But it's only people who live (and think) in clean room environs like computing that imagine biology is amenable to engineering. It's really not. Unlike every kind of engineering and physical science, biology is wildly more compl
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by randcraw 7y ago
This is the point. If you don't use the additional info somehow -- like eating or exercising differently based on info like BG fingersticks -- merely adding more info achieves zero. That should be the takeaway lesson from this study
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by randcraw 7y ago
Yeah, it's be nice if they offered an illustration of how they'd approach an amenable problem.
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by randcraw 7y ago
No, I don't think so. In the abstract the authors propose that ANNs may be useful to model the brain in three ways: 1) objective functions (brain-mediated physiological outcomes), 2) learning rules (how patterns are recognized and kno

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