What laptop is that? Usually the documentation not only states that you shouldn't get it wet, but also that if you do get it wet, you should not attempt to dry it using a microwave oven. Are you sure you read all of the documentation?
Not only that, but this specific probe's landing was an experiment in preparation for a future mission in 2020. The main thrust (no pun intended) of the mission was to position the mothership which will be gathering most of the data.
It's disappointing the probe failed, but the information gathered and the root cause analysis of the experiment should provide good data for the next mission.
Maybe it's "Hello again 17 inch MacBook Pro"? One can dream, right?
(Typing this on my 2010 17 inch MacBook Pro, I would probably have bought two new ones already if only they still made them but I guess they don't want my money)
That's exactly what they are doing. They call it "Fleet Learning". Even when driving manually, the system is constantly monitoring and learning from the experience. All this data is transmitted to Tesla and incorporated into future software updates.
I don't know how this learning process works technically, but with the old sensor package lots of Tesla drivers have confirmed that they have seen the system get better and better over time.
The new sensor package will initially lack a lot of features (even some features that were already working with the old sensors, like automatic braking). Those will already be working in test mode in the background just like you described, and be activated some time around the end of the year after gaining enough data to validate them. Full automomy would come around 2017, which is Tesla-speak for 2020.
The processor may not be exactly "neuromorphic" but it's certainly running a neural net using a massively parallel NVIDIA processor.
I wonder how this is going to stop him, though. Do they really think he doesn't have a backup plan? Do they think he has all the wikileaks information on his personal laptop in the embassy without anyone else outside able to access it?
I bet he has plenty of friends with access to the Wikileaks servers who can bring out the information on a prearranged schedule even if they made him disappear from the planet entirely. I can't possibly imagine him being that stupid.
No, Venus was first, and had a thriving civilisation. At first, they never bothered to explore the rest of the solar system because it didn't make economic sense. When it became clear that their planet was rapidly warming up and would soon become uninhabitable, they made a last ditch effort to migrate to earth. The colony did not survive, but their bacteria and some other simple life forms did. The rest is history.
I don't know why I'm even bothering anymore, but here I go again:
1. As an airline pilot, I can confirm that Tesla's autopilot is way more advanced than airplane autopilots. Of course, when the airplane is sufficiently high, we can let go of the controls and have a chat with the cabin attendants because there's really nothing we can fly into. However, when doing an automatic approach and landing on autopilot, our hands are on the controls and we're watching the instruments like a hawk, ready to take over at any time because the system does occasionally malfunction. And then I'm not even talking about early autopilots that could just maintain an altitude and a heading. So the Tesla autopilot's function fits very comfortably within generally accepted boundaries of what constitutes an autopilot.
2. Yes, I know people are morons and don't know what an airplane autopilot actually does or how limited it really is. But do you really think they would behave differently if it was called "advanced driving assistance" or something like that? People don't buy a car, discover a button labeled "autopilot", and go "o, nobody told me what that does but since it's called autopilot I'll just go ahead and trust it with my life". No, they try it out, see how well it drives, and then gradually start to trust it more and more until they start watching movies while driving. THAT is what's causing the accidents. Hell, there are even youtube videos of Mercedes cars with nobody in the driver's seat with cans strapped to the steering wheel to fool the sensors. How is that possible if their system is not called "autopilot"? And the Mercedes system works nowhere nearly as well. The only reason Mercedes doesn't have hundreds of automated crashes is because they are not good enough for people to trust them. People try it out as a gimmick and then stop using it because it's too scary. Maybe in slow stop and go traffic, but that's it. Tesla is the only car right now that drives well enough for people to trust it, and that's what is causing them not to pay attention anymore until the system eventually messes up and crashes the car. The name has nothing to do with it, they could call it anything they wanted and people would still behave the same way.
"Autopilot" is a concise and perfectly applicable term for what the system does. If Tesla did anything wrong, it's the many demonstrations with their hands in the air showing off the system and exaggerating its capabilities. Leave the name alone, that's not where the problem is.
The moon has a fair amount of disadvantages for a permanent base. Hard to find water and CO2, for example, which are pretty abundant on Mars. The soil is very abrasive because the hard edges of small grains are not weathered since there's no atmosphere. Nights are 15 earth-days long, as apposed to around 25 hours on Mars. No protection at all from micrometeorites, versus at least a little bit of atmosphere burning up the smallest meteorites on Mars. Etcetera. It's not like all these people planning a Mars base have never thought about maybe making one on the moon first. Apparently they have their reasons.
It would be cool, though, if SpaceX would send their spaceship to the moon first as a kind of test run to check whether everything is working properly. In a nonchalant way, because the moon is easy. That would be fun to see.
So, I want to see a particular movie tonight, let's see, it's not on Netflix... iTunes will only sell it but not rent it... what other services are there... ah, found it, Bittorrent.
Why does the MPAA keep trying so hard to push us into piracy? Jeez, I actually switched from being a pirate to wanting to rent movies fair and square, and then I get all this "not available in your area" bullshit. OK, you got your chance, bye!
I could definitely see the ISS being turned into a hotel, with the current bits being preserved as a museum attached to the much larger accommodation and entertainment sections. And maybe a few new labs for scientists.
Kind of funny how people call Apple users "worshippers" and "fanboys" while at the same time pretending Samsung's exploding phones are just a minor problem that people shouldn't make such a fuss about, on the same level as a touch display glitch.
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What laptop is that? Usually the documentation not only states that you shouldn't get it wet, but also that if you do get it wet, you should not attempt to dry it using a microwave oven. Are you sure you read all of the documentation?
Well, crickets are pretty promiscuous...
Only it should have made that sound a bit longer.
It's strange, though, because Italians are usually pretty good at delivering disc-shaped things.
To be fair, Samsung did get sued for making a parody of the iPhone.
An Italian probe named after Schiaparelli... Maybe the probe's visual system got confused because it thought it had identified canals on the surface.
Not only that, but this specific probe's landing was an experiment in preparation for a future mission in 2020. The main thrust (no pun intended) of the mission was to position the mothership which will be gathering most of the data.
It's disappointing the probe failed, but the information gathered and the root cause analysis of the experiment should provide good data for the next mission.
That's what she said.
It doesn't even have wheels. Not that that matters much now after the apparent crash landing.
Maybe it's "Hello again 17 inch MacBook Pro"? One can dream, right?
(Typing this on my 2010 17 inch MacBook Pro, I would probably have bought two new ones already if only they still made them but I guess they don't want my money)
That's exactly what they are doing. They call it "Fleet Learning". Even when driving manually, the system is constantly monitoring and learning from the experience. All this data is transmitted to Tesla and incorporated into future software updates.
I don't know how this learning process works technically, but with the old sensor package lots of Tesla drivers have confirmed that they have seen the system get better and better over time.
The new sensor package will initially lack a lot of features (even some features that were already working with the old sensors, like automatic braking). Those will already be working in test mode in the background just like you described, and be activated some time around the end of the year after gaining enough data to validate them. Full automomy would come around 2017, which is Tesla-speak for 2020.
The processor may not be exactly "neuromorphic" but it's certainly running a neural net using a massively parallel NVIDIA processor.
I wonder how this is going to stop him, though. Do they really think he doesn't have a backup plan? Do they think he has all the wikileaks information on his personal laptop in the embassy without anyone else outside able to access it?
I bet he has plenty of friends with access to the Wikileaks servers who can bring out the information on a prearranged schedule even if they made him disappear from the planet entirely. I can't possibly imagine him being that stupid.
Those were from Alpha Centauri.
No, Venus was first, and had a thriving civilisation. At first, they never bothered to explore the rest of the solar system because it didn't make economic sense. When it became clear that their planet was rapidly warming up and would soon become uninhabitable, they made a last ditch effort to migrate to earth. The colony did not survive, but their bacteria and some other simple life forms did. The rest is history.
I don't know why I'm even bothering anymore, but here I go again:
1. As an airline pilot, I can confirm that Tesla's autopilot is way more advanced than airplane autopilots. Of course, when the airplane is sufficiently high, we can let go of the controls and have a chat with the cabin attendants because there's really nothing we can fly into. However, when doing an automatic approach and landing on autopilot, our hands are on the controls and we're watching the instruments like a hawk, ready to take over at any time because the system does occasionally malfunction. And then I'm not even talking about early autopilots that could just maintain an altitude and a heading. So the Tesla autopilot's function fits very comfortably within generally accepted boundaries of what constitutes an autopilot.
2. Yes, I know people are morons and don't know what an airplane autopilot actually does or how limited it really is. But do you really think they would behave differently if it was called "advanced driving assistance" or something like that? People don't buy a car, discover a button labeled "autopilot", and go "o, nobody told me what that does but since it's called autopilot I'll just go ahead and trust it with my life". No, they try it out, see how well it drives, and then gradually start to trust it more and more until they start watching movies while driving. THAT is what's causing the accidents. Hell, there are even youtube videos of Mercedes cars with nobody in the driver's seat with cans strapped to the steering wheel to fool the sensors. How is that possible if their system is not called "autopilot"? And the Mercedes system works nowhere nearly as well. The only reason Mercedes doesn't have hundreds of automated crashes is because they are not good enough for people to trust them. People try it out as a gimmick and then stop using it because it's too scary. Maybe in slow stop and go traffic, but that's it. Tesla is the only car right now that drives well enough for people to trust it, and that's what is causing them not to pay attention anymore until the system eventually messes up and crashes the car. The name has nothing to do with it, they could call it anything they wanted and people would still behave the same way.
"Autopilot" is a concise and perfectly applicable term for what the system does. If Tesla did anything wrong, it's the many demonstrations with their hands in the air showing off the system and exaggerating its capabilities. Leave the name alone, that's not where the problem is.
Oops, not metals, I meant percholarates. (I knew there was something toxic in the Martian soil, but was too lazy to google what it was).
If you take all the toxic metals out.
Also, Russian astrologers are called kosmonomers.
The moon has a fair amount of disadvantages for a permanent base. Hard to find water and CO2, for example, which are pretty abundant on Mars. The soil is very abrasive because the hard edges of small grains are not weathered since there's no atmosphere. Nights are 15 earth-days long, as apposed to around 25 hours on Mars. No protection at all from micrometeorites, versus at least a little bit of atmosphere burning up the smallest meteorites on Mars. Etcetera. It's not like all these people planning a Mars base have never thought about maybe making one on the moon first. Apparently they have their reasons.
It would be cool, though, if SpaceX would send their spaceship to the moon first as a kind of test run to check whether everything is working properly. In a nonchalant way, because the moon is easy. That would be fun to see.
You don't even get that for murder
He did make a killing on the stock market
The US froze his assets. That's why he couldn't post bail.
Actually, it would be an ideal place for the "any" key!
Why change the # to £ (...) Then again with the way the £ is falling (...)
Yeah, pretty soon it will be on the tilde key between z and shift.
So, I want to see a particular movie tonight, let's see, it's not on Netflix... iTunes will only sell it but not rent it... what other services are there... ah, found it, Bittorrent.
Why does the MPAA keep trying so hard to push us into piracy? Jeez, I actually switched from being a pirate to wanting to rent movies fair and square, and then I get all this "not available in your area" bullshit. OK, you got your chance, bye!
I could definitely see the ISS being turned into a hotel, with the current bits being preserved as a museum attached to the much larger accommodation and entertainment sections. And maybe a few new labs for scientists.
Kind of funny how people call Apple users "worshippers" and "fanboys" while at the same time pretending Samsung's exploding phones are just a minor problem that people shouldn't make such a fuss about, on the same level as a touch display glitch.
Worshipping Samsung a little too much, perhaps?