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by yo-scot-99 7y ago
how would a bank evaluate the risk -- do they generally have an internal team or farm it out to a consultancy? they don't have the history or contacts like VC or google's invesment funds. meanwhile, they are playing footsie with
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by yo-scot-99 7y ago
this tech is interesting but so poorly understood that it's just using the (public) roads as one large alpha test. given a NN there is no way to verify what safety ranges are there. for instance if each camera slightly changed exposu
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by yo-scot-99 7y ago
also donating to reality-based candidates; even those who want to break up larger companies at least align themselves with a bit more with science and scepticism in things as they are. And to be honest as an employee if you end up in Faceb
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by yo-scot-99 7y ago
Let's just drive multi-ton vehicles instead [1]. Highway driving might be easier to visually parse but higher speeds and probably less controlled kinematics (i.e. does the software know how to adjust for the cargo) give one pause: [1
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by yo-scot-99 7y ago
there's 200-300k cars out there with just cameras + radar and their bet is the software catches up to the rhetoric. Adding lidar is next to impossible on the current fleet and adds to the cost if they start now. It is an early desig
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by yo-scot-99 7y ago
A couple of meta questions for the HN community: 1. What percent of HN readers have a NYT subscription? 2. There are far more comments here than the source -- is that appropriate? Should the comments ride along w/ the article (for fut
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by yo-scot-99 7y ago
I read it more as a "here's the keys to the kingdom" and referenced the redirectMethod which even has a step-by-step guide to replicate it. The author is from a search engine marketing consulting firm so it would seem to be
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by yo-scot-99 7y ago
the positions for Vision/Perception at zoox all mention nn's: https://jobs.lever.co/zoox i bet even simple questions like "how does this scenario change decisions when the lighting / sensor rotation
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by yo-scot-99 7y ago
The Telsa autonomy investor day (which applied to the cars not the people) spent most of their time explaining their NN chip, ghost riding to correct predictions etc. Definitely gave the impression that the network was doing a lot of the
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by yo-scot-99 7y ago
> Paul was always good at seeing the big picture. This reminds me of a day at Asymetrix - a startup founded by Mr Allen. Somehow we got a very early incarnation of Mosaic and I remember showing everyone how to bounce over to each lab w