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by skgoa 9y ago
This is how it works in Germany. Tuition is (almsot) free, but you get an allowance (up to aprox €850 IIRC) every month, if you and your parents don't have a high income. In most German states you a) only have to pay back up to €10k of
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by skgoa 9y ago
That's like saying that a half empty glass counts as a certain kind of full glass.
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We mostly use C and not C++ in the automotive industry BTW.
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by skgoa 9y ago
They made a little PR thing. That's far from "releasing" anything.
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by skgoa 9y ago
comma was a scam. The car Hotz used for his "demonstration" already comes with the functionality he "demonstrated" from the factory. He just added wires and a joystick to his dashboard.
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Plus the whole sphere and its housing is going to take up a lot of volume.
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by skgoa 9y ago
As someone who plays dota, this bot really isn't that impressive. The hero they chose is seen as a very difficult one to master for humans, precisely because judging distances, current life, current mana, damage etc. is so difficult to
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by skgoa 9y ago
Yeah, the more I learn about this the less I'm impressed. Seems like they wanted to steal DeepMind's/Blizzard's thunder and hacked together a demo that isn't quite as advanced as they made it out to be.
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by skgoa 9y ago
And when you start looking at professional level software (e.g. CAD), very often you will find that there is literally no FOSS alternative in existance. If it exists, it will most likely be a buggy mess that has far fewer features and a hor
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by skgoa 9y ago
Keep in mind that the electric section of the overall car marjket is just 1-1.5% right now. It's just not a significant market right now. Making an electric car is only good for building know-how. In the industry, the Chevy Bolt is exp
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by skgoa 9y ago
Which is exactly what most gasoline engines do, too.
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Yes, but those systems are engineered in the exact same processes. Just with less testing and fewer documents.
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by skgoa 9y ago
> Software dev is generally a scattershot haphazard endeavor that involves trying dozens of angles until one of them works. Maybe in an agile web startup. SW engineering in a big industry project is a very deliberate process. You start b
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by skgoa 9y ago
In addition to keeping their stuff in their car, people also want: * Reliable transportation that is there for them instantly 24/7. A fleet service can not possibly offer this, since they would have so much capacity in reserve for peak
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by skgoa 9y ago
In software terms, it's an inhouse beta. None of the people who have received "access" to it are unrelated to Tesla. In automotive industry terms, it's low-rate initial production. Every car manufacturer does this in the
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by skgoa 9y ago
arXiv is just a repository for papers to make them available before they are published/peer-reviewed. Just because a paper is on arXiv does not make it bad, but it doesn't mean that it is high quality either. Typically the people
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by skgoa 9y ago
It has been pretty much the same with pretty much every Apple product since Job's return. The initial version is a good implementation of the basic idea, but it always has a few drawbacks and is too expensive for the limited use cases
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by skgoa 9y ago
That last article is not true. They are actively working on it right now. In fact they are incredibly proud of a recent breakthrough: having reduced the required rare earths to 90% of what is currently available on the market. Source: the h
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by skgoa 9y ago
The electric B-class used Tesla drivetrains. Mercedes are switching to their own electric drivetrains.
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by skgoa 9y ago
When I overhear random people on the train, my coworkers during coffee break etc. discuss bitcoin, I know that the bubble is about to burst. This predictor has never failed.
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by skgoa 9y ago
Working at a startup does not make you an expert. Especially when your opinion goes against what pretty much everyone else in the field thinks.
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by skgoa 9y ago
Yes, let's just listen to one company's exec bashing his competitors... I also find it hilarious how he completely glosses over the fact that the Falcon 1 was supposed to be their product and utterly failed in the market.
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by skgoa 9y ago
The point of this kind of startup is not to sell the tech, but to assemble a team of highly capable, experienced engineers. The big corporations will then buy out the startup just to get the talent. This is called acqui-hiring.
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by skgoa 9y ago
The real issue being that it is set to ON by default and that it tends to reset itself randomly after updates.
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by skgoa 9y ago
Would be a good argument if Tesla wasn't known for having deficient AI.
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by skgoa 9y ago
You are right, I misremembered that.
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by skgoa 9y ago
> I hope you similarly mock those Christians or Hindus you come across. What makes this belief system so much more worthy of scorn, even if Yudkowsky actually were afraid of this When said person is trying to argue that his believe syste
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by skgoa 9y ago
I wouldn't even say there was a burst of progress. There was simply a long time of incremental progress before the respective technology crossed over into practical viability. It's only at that point that people generally start to
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by skgoa 9y ago
Ah, Yudkowsky... The autodidact "AI theorist" who does not understand simple math and philosophy concepts, is afraid of being resurrected and punished by a future super AI, has not added anything to human knowledge despite collect
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by skgoa 9y ago
Yeah, this reminds me of the annual claims regarding what programming languages are the most popular based solely on github repos or stackoverflow questions. The methodology is completely inadequate for producing an answer that can be trust

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