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by xiphias 10y ago
Electrek is generally an awesome blog, it's sad that this post had to be the one that got to HN
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by xiphias 10y ago
I think Bitcoin is right now the most powerful technology that can help... it got me out of despair when I understood it more. It can't help the climate short term, but at least restructure the power long term to people who hopefully h
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by xiphias 10y ago
For me just the fact that they are not looking at gas cars as something to change as fast as possible and don't talk about its health problems mean that I don't want them to provide me with EVs in the future. I have a BMW, but it&
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by xiphias 10y ago
The only reason why Paris agreement wont fail is that it now makes financial sense to use renewable energy even without caring about the environment.
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by xiphias 10y ago
Actually even the $21k fine should be nothing if he got $3M in venture capital. What's questionable is whether somebody can build safely an almost-self-driving car without a good team and with many years of experience in the field.
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by xiphias 10y ago
The only problem here is that $1000/car is nothing compared to what they need to deliver in return: a huge manufacturing plant
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by xiphias 10y ago
This not true, but also you have to look at the huge solar panel on top of the Tesla Gigafactory that decreases the footprint even more. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-carbon-foot-print-of-manuf... Also I'm biased b
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by xiphias 10y ago
The whole article is failing to point out the biggest risks that the clean-tech companies are fighting against: global warming and lung cancer. Even though all older car companies have the ability right now to take a huge financial and PR r
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by xiphias 10y ago
Researchers already passed human level image classification performance in 2015. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.01852.pdf
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by xiphias 10y ago
Google's technology was already working years ago without machine learning. If you look at the object recognition/detection benchmarks, they are already human level, so cameras should be enough (with a good enough GPU). 5 years ag
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If you write often, another way is to use triggers. They can be extremely useful for this kind of scenerio.
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by xiphias 10y ago
I'm working on Google ads where a ,,minor detail'' in an algorithm implementation can easily cost $50000/day loss. It also means that the experiment has to be stopped, everything fixed, tested, approved again, which can
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by xiphias 10y ago
Yes. It is legal to avoid all other traffic laws if it's an emergency situation (You should already know about this if you have a driving license)
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by xiphias 10y ago
I totally agree with you. This is good enough reason for me to give my money to Tesla even if a competitor is a little bit better on paper. But right now they can compete only on price (which BMW and Audi probably don't want).
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by xiphias 10y ago
Deep learning is the opposite of incremental. For a long time it was not clear whether/how we can learn multi layer networks efficiently. ImageNet changed everything.
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by xiphias 10y ago
I don't see much difference between the smartphones anymore. They're good if you don't want to zoom-in too much / use it at night / have depth of field. I'm buying new phone every 2nd year because it's get
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by xiphias 10y ago
When I go to the U.S. (from Europe) if I didn't go to a proper restaurant the quality was so bad that I couldn't even eat a little bit of it. I didn't care how big the portion was if it's sh*t fake food with no nutrients
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by xiphias 10y ago
Go to the gym, get a trainer at least for the first few times. After 5 days a week, 3 months of 1.5 hour training you will look different, and that's what matters most in dating. New fitting clothes are important as well (though your s
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by xiphias 10y ago
Google has lots of offices. I'm at the Zurich office, as this is my preference, but there are enough to choose from. I wouldn't go to Cupertino as I wouldn't like to have to drive everywhere (I prefer a bit of walking and 10
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by xiphias 10y ago
3:1 for horizontal vs vertical is quite dangerous, I guess the sport will get somewhat safer as this ratio improves, but it will take more material research probably
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by xiphias 10y ago
Most of us at Google are not working on on moonshot projects, and still have a happy life. Still, most non-moonshot projects that people are working on are growing nicely, have a long term view, and making lots of impact. Also having free g
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by xiphias 10y ago
Investor $1M Isaac Choi Where's the 4M here that the OP was writing about? She could have checked crunchbase to see that the startup doesn't have money.
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,,...Fields said, adding that ride-sharing would make more efficient use of vehicles, with less time wasted for people and less pollution.'' If he would really care about pollution he would make sure that these shared cars are ele
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by xiphias 10y ago
Tesla owners should be OK with any of these: Tesla already offers more free/cheap enough upgrades to cars than any of their competitors.
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by xiphias 10y ago
Courses are good but not enough. Definately read cracking the coding interview as you wrote and the most important is to solve hundreds of problems on hackerrank, topcoder and similar sites. I think it takes maybe half year to get there, st
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The default should be working for a big public company that offers a big salary package. Anyone can code some cool stuff in his/her free time anyways. The startups don't generally compensate for the risks, just try to keep the bes
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by xiphias 10y ago
What do you do with the extra time?
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by xiphias 10y ago
I lived in an intersection like you and now I have lots of health issues and I'm extra sensitive to smog..it makes life much harder and shortens life-span. All I can say is that it's not worth to live in a place like that...move s
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by xiphias 10y ago
It's not as easy as you think. I try to eat healthy (low sugar, no trans-fat, low saturated fat), but generally if I see ,,no sugar'' advertised on something, I know it has high saturated fat content, and if I see ,,0% fat&#x
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by xiphias 10y ago
We were playing Pokemon Go and met through looking for a pokemon together. We are all the time together since (which has multiple practical advantages)

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