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by tokipin 10y ago
The timing may be calculated but that's about it. If a product isn't going to work out, that's one thing, but Musk doesn't waste time on vaporware. Notice that Tesla never put a silly will-never-be-an-actual-product car
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by tokipin 10y ago
i'm guessing that the data is just plain too different (probably no more mobileye sensors, for example) and not worth adapting to the older ML models (which itself would require extensive testing) when the new system is going to end up
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by tokipin 10y ago
i don't think they ever believed the previous sensors were capable of "full autonomy". the reason they didn't throw in all these sensors sooner is that it would have been a premature optimization considering their lack o
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by tokipin 10y ago
hey now, the blame for Guantanomo not being closed falls directly on congressional republicans, not on Obama's lack of trying. this is the case for most of his failed endeavors (nominating court justices ring a bell?). there's ple
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by tokipin 10y ago
According to your logic, Elon's been "in the right place at the right time" how many times? That you think that's due to luck, when it's clear he's a polymath with great design talent and work ethic, says more
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by tokipin 10y ago
I think in those cases, it was a matter of a better-designed, clearer-headed product taking space from a not-so-well-designed product. That's not what would happen here, because Tesla is already the creme de la creme. In fact, Tesla ex
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by tokipin 10y ago
The idea is to have our eggs in more than one basket so that the next mass extinction event doesn't take us all out or set us back hundreds of years. Whether life on mars is fun or not is a separate question. (I do agree with you. We c
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by tokipin 10y ago
The biggest thing for me is speed. I don't know who Apple thinks it's fooling with their slow ass animations. Windows 10 is way snappier. And I think the OS X windowing/dock system is inferior. It's way harder than it sh
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by tokipin 10y ago
I don't think there is a cutoff point in company size or whatever above which writing suddenly needs to become sterile. What you have is actually more a cultural thing I think. People thinking that a "professional" message
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by tokipin 10y ago
The specifics probably weren't in his plan, but in various interviews he's talked about the consumption of energy (vehicles) and the generation of energy (solar) as being two sides of the same coin. Elon is the one that told his c
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by tokipin 10y ago
On that note, the stars all have a 'stellation' along what appear to be the same axes. What is this effect? On the surface of the Earth my assumption was that the stellation/twinkling is an atmospheric thing. In this case is
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by tokipin 10y ago
you're probably thinking of "Introduction to Astronomy" by Ronen Plesser. that course was awesome.
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by tokipin 11y ago
I think it's because he knows the presentation in and of itself is unimportant vs the takeaways delivered, so he doesn't bother wasting time on it specifically since it has low ROI given his speaking capabilities. And I suspect he
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by tokipin 11y ago
Most cars have grills because they need the ventilation to cool the engine. I think they're mostly something we've gotten used to. When electric cars become more common those gas car grills will probably start looking clunky.
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by tokipin 11y ago
People used to repair televisions but at some point it became cheaper to just buy a new one due to the tech/manufacturing being sufficiently evolved and commoditized/cheap, as well as the issues involved with repairing more comple
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by tokipin 11y ago
Nice observation. Another way to put it is that induction is harder than deduction. A related factor is that larger companies tend to be more specialized (formalized processes, specialists, focused teams/departments, and so on), meanin
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by tokipin 11y ago
Not to my knowledge. It's very easy to fall into twisted Escher boxes and ego traps when talking about these things so I try to only entertain them lightly (says my ego), and I don't know if this kind of thing is discussed in &quo
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by tokipin 11y ago
When it comes to these things people are going to reinvent a vocabulary that already exists: Jung's psychological functions. What Jung called extraverted intuition (Ne) is going to be the main "product" function in tech, with
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by tokipin 11y ago
This is in the "to be optimized" bracket. If they can get any kind of consistency landing even heavily strained rockets, they can reframe/readjust/redesign as necessary (like adding more support in areas etc).
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by tokipin 11y ago
To give an extreme example of overfitting, let's say you have a test set which has these examples: B -> 11, H -> 5, M -> 11. Well, you can solve these easily. Just make a function like this: function solve(letter) {
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by tokipin 11y ago
No need to kid. Self-described "FP" languages are a pain in the ass for the type of programming scientists do. I don't even know what kind of programming those languages aren't a pain in the ass for.
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by tokipin 11y ago
the obvious solution is batteries, which improve all sources of power generation including traditional ones by serving as support during peak times. in principle you only need <average energy used per house> stored per house during ni
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by tokipin 11y ago
i think the key is that christianity had the historical accident of being connected to western development, so it was forced to tone down its shenanigans. a present example is how it is being forced to accept homosexuality. unlike dogma see
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by tokipin 11y ago
well there's a few thousand religions out there in the world, even if you use granular criteria for what you consider to be different religions. and thats not even counting human history.
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by tokipin 11y ago
it's a simple idea in theory, but the reality of these things is a different beast, in particular that these tests form a filter not just in terms of degree, but also in terms of kind. this is why Google is Google and is extreme in bot
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by tokipin 11y ago
There's so many failures to it. The company apparently thinking the professional scene drives the player base, the company apparently thinking it's responsible for 100% of the balance of the game, not realizing "the meta&quot
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by tokipin 11y ago
Anectdotally, I've found that if I drink some electrolyte drink before sleep (Gatorade etc) I seem to sleep better. I haven't managed a consistent sleep pattern/environment to really test it though.
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by tokipin 11y ago
I think part of the issue is that Twitter is a great tool for people in media/news as well as PR/celebrities etc, and because of the role these groups play in society they have been doing what amounts to a lot of free advertisemen
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by tokipin 11y ago
[edit]oops. obviously, i meant apples to apples :D
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by tokipin 11y ago
for some it's not about introversion/extroversion but simply the fact that whatever part of their brain deals with speech is the same part that deals with thinking through those kinds of problems, so they can't do both at the

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