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by rjdagost 8y ago
"Standard battery" does not necessarily mean "base model". You can't even make a reservation for a $35K Model 3 (I just tried), but I was able to do so in the past.
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by rjdagost 8y ago
The problem is, you do not know how many of the existing deposits are for the base model that has been postponed indefinitely. No one (except Tesla) knows how much of the Model 3 demand is for a product that Tesla can sell without bankrupt
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by rjdagost 8y ago
I agree strongly with the ease of model saving / reloading in Keras. I found this basic functionality to be exasperatingly difficult and cumbersome in TensorFlow.
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by rjdagost 8y ago
No one is saying "no bugs" NASA level code is required. Basic SQA must however be conducted- factory automation software is not something where you can settle for low quality as you seem to imply. Something tells me you've
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by rjdagost 8y ago
That is just not true. One of your primary advantages as a retail trader is that your positions (being much smaller) don't move the market anywhere near as much as if you're a big institutional investor. So you can pursue strate
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by rjdagost 8y ago
Some people are content with what they have in life and are not driven by a need to always strive for more. For these people, feeling like you "belong", in a place with your family and friends are nearby is more important than be
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by rjdagost 8y ago
Here's a link to the transcript and the audio: https://insideevs.com/tesla-q4-conference-call-entirety-vide... The relevant portion with the stock analyst starts about 46:00 in.
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by rjdagost 8y ago
During their most recent earnings call, there was a very interesting back and forth between Elon, JB Straubel, and a stock analyst. The stock analyst pressed them to distinguish their proposed vision of a fully integrated factory from the
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by rjdagost 9y ago
I wouldn't get too carried away with this announcement. For FedEx, this is a minuscule pilot project and (more importantly) a cheap way to generate positive publicity.
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by rjdagost 9y ago
There are a number of reasons why problems can slip through clinical trials, even with proper clinical trials design. Some side effects are extremely rare, so rare that even with “large” clinical trials groups the problems don’t occur. Or
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by rjdagost 9y ago
Democrats are not traditionally states' rights proponents. And yet they will wrap themselves in the banner of states' rights when it suits their agenda (gay marriage, drug laws, etc.). It is run of the mill political expediency-
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by rjdagost 9y ago
Tesla has repeatedly boasted that the Model S is the "safest car ever made". It has been a focal point of their marketing for some time. So when there's evidence to the contrary it makes for great headlines- I wouldn't
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by rjdagost 9y ago
A lot of real world computer vision is implemented on embedded devices with limited computational resources (ARMs, DSPs, etc.) so understanding how a lot of commonly used algorithms can be efficiently implemented in embedded systems is impo
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by rjdagost 9y ago
This makes me wonder how slow service will get once a large volume of Model 3's are on the road.
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by rjdagost 9y ago
If you adjust incomes for cost of living, the notion of which states are "behind" has much less correlation to political voting patterns. Here's a comparison from the Bureau of Economic Analysis: https://www.fool
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by rjdagost 9y ago
This projection that electric cars will soon become cheaper than gas cars assumes an exponential decay in cost. All exponential trends ultimately cease due to some physical limiting factor. We're seeing Moore's law sputter to a
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by rjdagost 9y ago
You’ve told us vague things about wide areas of mathematics, but you haven’t told us what problem your start-up is solving using these branches of mathematics or how it is a better allocation of investor dollars than focusing on ML. I’ve wo
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by rjdagost 9y ago
You've got the podium here- tell us specifically what we're missing by focusing on AI/ML. I am curious.
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by rjdagost 9y ago
It sounds like there are some valid methodological criticisms that can be made of this criminal prediction paper. But I don't like the rush to condemn the paper as "pseudo science" just because it has implications that the O
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by rjdagost 10y ago
We can glean some info from the videos posted to Twitter. The receiver is a big bulky cover around the phone- no way that will fit in my pocket. The transmitters are the size of a microwave oven. Notice that she is very careful to hold t
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by rjdagost 10y ago
The day before the election, Nate Silver took a lot of heat from the left because he rated Trump's chance of success as being much higher than most other prognosticators. The day after the election, he took a lot of heat from the same
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by rjdagost 10y ago
No- HR's goal is to protect the company's best interests. Sometimes this coincides with an employee's own best interests, and sometimes this goes against it.
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by rjdagost 10y ago
Why does it seem like every time someone gets offended about something there are calls for people to get fired? There are other ways to address workplace conflicts than to put heads on sticks. As reported in this article, none of these in
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by rjdagost 10y ago
Remind me- is Tesla a for-profit corporation or are they a non-profit organization? Making a profit is sort of the main point, though obviously not the only point. They've been around since 2003 so it's not like they're a s
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by rjdagost 10y ago
I admire what Tesla has been able to achieve from a technological and a marketing point of view but I wouldn't call their business "fundamentally solid". Tesla stock has been one of the most heavily shorted equities for some
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by rjdagost 10y ago
The F series is their big profit center, but they do still make money on their other vehicles.
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by rjdagost 10y ago
Say what you will about their "antiquated" business practices, but Ford consistently does one thing that Tesla never does: it turns a profit
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by rjdagost 10y ago
As an algorithm developer and manager I have thought of business ideas similar to what Algorithmia is pursuing. There are a few reasons why I think “algorithms as a service” will not work so well. In most products / services that rel
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by rjdagost 10y ago
I actually do subscribe to the WSJ. You don't break stories like the Theranos sham with Buzzfeed style clickbait. Some things are worth paying for
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by rjdagost 10y ago
Sure, there is already significant interest in some specialized industries (long haul trucking, transportation around large scale mines, and others), and that interest will grow incrementally as the technology matures. But the article is m

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