If you look at Google's self driving cars, they use lidar and cameras to build up a 3D model of the world around them. Tesla is either planning to do that just with cameras, or hopes it doesn't need to.
Lidar can tell a poster from an actual object. Cameras alone... It will be like those Road Runner cartoons where Wylie Coyote paints a fake tunnel mouth on a wall.
Some people over at the TMC forums have been extracting data from Tesla cars, so we know quite a bit about the current state of their system.
They have cameras that do black and white plus a red channel. I guess red for road signs. They have neural networks looking at the images. They are quite primitive though, and have some severe limitations.
For example, they only look at one frame at a time. That means no depth perception. You need either two cameras or two frames separated by time for that, and in the latter case it doesn't work while you are stationary.
It really looks like they underestimated the difficulty of doing full self driving with just cameras and no lidar. The level of AI needed to navigate around a car park with just cameras and ultrasonics, for example, seems beyond anything anyone is doing right now. They could fudge it but then Tesla cars will be easy to hurd and prone to getting stuck without a driver. Wouldn't want your kids getting robbed by thrives with spray paint.
Okay, so it's nothing to do with agile, it's that this person is from another country. A country you didn't mention for some reason.
But the real issue seems to be this individual hasn't made any effort to understand the culture they work in. I'm also impressed by how homogenous Texan culture seems to be - in British culture a person's reaction to friendly advice can be anywhere on the spectrum, it's an individual thing.
It's surprising how much some of these relatively niche people make. Sargon, aka Carl Benjamin, makes $9000/month just from Patreon, plus YouTube ad revenue when he can get it.
Some of the people playing video games for a living on twitch make a good living too. I'd love to see some real stats but I doubt they are available.
Okay okay, but how specifically did the agile culture and your group's culture coming together result in this situation where collaboration is impossible etc? You say it's due to "diversity", but I can't see how these two cultures meeting lead to the situation you describe.
Can you give some specific examples of differing behaviour that lead to this outcome, for example?
Okay, let's agree to disagree, but how does it relate to the original point? First team were a bunch of guys being "jocks" or want of a better word, and the second team was more about communication and interaction yet somehow was also terrible at communication and interaction.
How is this related to diversity? Do you mean cultural diversity, as in trying to integrate the "jocks" and the agile team somehow created a hostile environment? I'm not seeing how diversity is the cause of the effect.
We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:...
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools...
The first and second sentences say it's about values (social / cultural.values) including helping others develop software.
I guess you mean first and third, but even so... They seem to be saying that they value people interacting rather than following a process or using a tool, but doesn't say anything about social or cultural values. Just that people interacting is a better development strategy than processes.
"Working software over comprehensive documentation"
"Whatever works" isn't a cultural thing?
I think you are reading way too much into this. Whatever works is an engineering thing. And they didn't even say that, you took their utilitarian, pragmatic statement and repeated something you heard that sounds a bit like it.
Thanks for proving my point. An article from a major, respected publisher and some specific, factual points about it. In response, troll mods, rage and accusations.
You can criticised "SJWs" for being outraged, ranting and trying to censor things that contradict their narrative. Look in the mirror, look at your response to this. Not a reasoned argument, not a rebuttal of any of the points I made or that the article made. Just rage at the imaginary ghoul behind the screen.
The article makes specific criticisms of the way Damore interprets the studies, including from the authors of one of the key ones he cites who says unambiguously that Damore's conclusions are not justified based on his research.
That's not belittling, that's rebutting with specific arguments.
As usual, trying to go against the approved narrative invites -1 troll mods, and comments like yours that appear to not have even read TFA but get modded up because they support the established view that Damore was right.
We absolutely do need a movement to stand up for men's rights, and that movement is feminism. As you say, it's just unfortunate that a lot of the language has come from academia and is easily misunderstood or deliberately misrepresented.
The really sad thing is that MRAs are setting those legitimate causes back, and fighting against any attempts to address them.
Tell people that all their problem's are someone else's fault is a very effective and easy lie to sell. It presents a simple solution too: get rid of those people. But if it ever gets acted upon it always fails to deliver, because the problems are never that simple. MRAs and populists like to pretend that things were great back when men were men and women were in the kitchen (usually the 1950s), but the reality was that they sucked for a lot of people.
The reaction to the recent wave of sexual harassment allegations is seen by some as an attack on masculinity itself.
It might actually be Russia doing it. These days their main foreign policy objective seems to be to destabilize other countries and drive wedges between nations.
Do you have any actual evidence of this? Like a series of examples that show a "systemic employment bias against men", or that there are significant numbers of people saying "He looked at me the wrong way! Reeeeeeeeeee!"?
Is it diversity, or is that other team just really shit?
You don't say how they added to your team's diversity exactly, but you do explain the toxic Scrum culture and how it caused problems. I don't think the Agile development methodology is related to any particular ethnic, gender or cultural group...
I'm an alpha, dominate personality
Could this be the issue? The "alpha" personality type is insecure (because it is constantly challenged by other alphas and at risk of losing its top dog status) and generally doesn't fit into teams very well.
Most people don't even think of themselves in alpha/beta terms, which are restricting and inflexible.
I used to work in a team of six men (5+me). It was hell. People constantly jockeying for position in the hierarchy, unable to back down from bad ideas and lose face. Endless bickering and low level bullying to try to get one-up on each other.
I've also worked on all-male teams that were fine.
I've worked in mixed teams and they have all been fine. There isn't a hierarchy, people just recognize each other's skill and ask for help when they know that someone else has a better handle on something than they do. The lack of macho "I must be self sufficient, can't ask for help, must be the alpha" bullshit really makes the teams stronger and more dynamic.
If there is a big codebase I'm unfamiliar with, or an unusual circuit I'm not quite sure about, I can just ask instead of wasting time struggling with it. If I make a mistake I can tell the group and talk about solutions. There is a no-blame culture and people just want to get stuff working and make it as good as possible, not exert their alpha maleness over each other.
The ultimate proof is that in countries that addressed these issues, like Iceland and Norway, the gap went away. All the supposedly biological stuff about girls liking pink dolls and boys liking cars fell away too, especially in maths and engineering. Boys in those countries tend to be better communicators too.
As you say, it's not a conspiracy, it's just unintentional systemic bias.
Probably not, since the lawsuit wasn't actually thrown out at all. The headline is a lie. The judge simply declined to allow it to become a class action because the class was too broad, but the actual claim that women were systematically paid less will still go ahead and be tested in court.
My company takes feedback and it's worked well so far. Working hours changed (Friday afternoons off!), parking issues were sorted out, even the free coffee improved.
If your company can't handle feedback it's probably a symptom of deeper problems.
Headline: "Air Pollution Harm To Unborn Babies May Be Global Health Catastrophe, Warn Doctors"
First sentence of TFS: "The research was conducted in London, UK"
From TFA: "The study analysed all live births in Greater London over four years"
Admittedly, London is a fairly dirty city that has been violating EU pollution limits forever. Even so, according to this it's similar to New York and other first world cities.
It's quite common to provide a meal and maybe some exercise facilities at European companies. It's considered a fairly standard perk. Smaller places order food in, larger places have their own kitchen and staff.
Child care and some medical services are also starting to appear, especially in Japan where the government really wants people to have more children.
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If you look at Google's self driving cars, they use lidar and cameras to build up a 3D model of the world around them. Tesla is either planning to do that just with cameras, or hopes it doesn't need to.
Lidar can tell a poster from an actual object. Cameras alone... It will be like those Road Runner cartoons where Wylie Coyote paints a fake tunnel mouth on a wall.
Some people over at the TMC forums have been extracting data from Tesla cars, so we know quite a bit about the current state of their system.
They have cameras that do black and white plus a red channel. I guess red for road signs. They have neural networks looking at the images. They are quite primitive though, and have some severe limitations.
For example, they only look at one frame at a time. That means no depth perception. You need either two cameras or two frames separated by time for that, and in the latter case it doesn't work while you are stationary.
It really looks like they underestimated the difficulty of doing full self driving with just cameras and no lidar. The level of AI needed to navigate around a car park with just cameras and ultrasonics, for example, seems beyond anything anyone is doing right now. They could fudge it but then Tesla cars will be easy to hurd and prone to getting stuck without a driver. Wouldn't want your kids getting robbed by thrives with spray paint.
In other words treat human beings as disposable tools to be discarded the moment they no longer suit your needs.
Wouldn't it be great if instead of laying them off they retrained them to build renewable products and invested heavily in the future?
Okay, so it's nothing to do with agile, it's that this person is from another country. A country you didn't mention for some reason.
But the real issue seems to be this individual hasn't made any effort to understand the culture they work in. I'm also impressed by how homogenous Texan culture seems to be - in British culture a person's reaction to friendly advice can be anywhere on the spectrum, it's an individual thing.
It's surprising how much some of these relatively niche people make. Sargon, aka Carl Benjamin, makes $9000/month just from Patreon, plus YouTube ad revenue when he can get it.
Some of the people playing video games for a living on twitch make a good living too. I'd love to see some real stats but I doubt they are available.
Okay okay, but how specifically did the agile culture and your group's culture coming together result in this situation where collaboration is impossible etc? You say it's due to "diversity", but I can't see how these two cultures meeting lead to the situation you describe.
Can you give some specific examples of differing behaviour that lead to this outcome, for example?
Okay, let's agree to disagree, but how does it relate to the original point? First team were a bunch of guys being "jocks" or want of a better word, and the second team was more about communication and interaction yet somehow was also terrible at communication and interaction.
How is this related to diversity? Do you mean cultural diversity, as in trying to integrate the "jocks" and the agile team somehow created a hostile environment? I'm not seeing how diversity is the cause of the effect.
We are uncovering better ways of developing ...
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools ...
The first and second sentences say it's about values (social / cultural.values) including helping others develop software.
I guess you mean first and third, but even so... They seem to be saying that they value people interacting rather than following a process or using a tool, but doesn't say anything about social or cultural values. Just that people interacting is a better development strategy than processes.
"Working software over comprehensive documentation"
"Whatever works" isn't a cultural thing?
I think you are reading way too much into this. Whatever works is an engineering thing. And they didn't even say that, you took their utilitarian, pragmatic statement and repeated something you heard that sounds a bit like it.
Sorry, I don't buy it.
Thanks for proving my point. An article from a major, respected publisher and some specific, factual points about it. In response, troll mods, rage and accusations.
You can criticised "SJWs" for being outraged, ranting and trying to censor things that contradict their narrative. Look in the mirror, look at your response to this. Not a reasoned argument, not a rebuttal of any of the points I made or that the article made. Just rage at the imaginary ghoul behind the screen.
The article makes specific criticisms of the way Damore interprets the studies, including from the authors of one of the key ones he cites who says unambiguously that Damore's conclusions are not justified based on his research.
That's not belittling, that's rebutting with specific arguments.
As usual, trying to go against the approved narrative invites -1 troll mods, and comments like yours that appear to not have even read TFA but get modded up because they support the established view that Damore was right.
We absolutely do need a movement to stand up for men's rights, and that movement is feminism. As you say, it's just unfortunate that a lot of the language has come from academia and is easily misunderstood or deliberately misrepresented.
The really sad thing is that MRAs are setting those legitimate causes back, and fighting against any attempts to address them.
Tell people that all their problem's are someone else's fault is a very effective and easy lie to sell. It presents a simple solution too: get rid of those people. But if it ever gets acted upon it always fails to deliver, because the problems are never that simple. MRAs and populists like to pretend that things were great back when men were men and women were in the kitchen (usually the 1950s), but the reality was that they sucked for a lot of people.
The reaction to the recent wave of sexual harassment allegations is seen by some as an attack on masculinity itself.
It might actually be Russia doing it. These days their main foreign policy objective seems to be to destabilize other countries and drive wedges between nations.
Do you have any actual evidence of this? Like a series of examples that show a "systemic employment bias against men", or that there are significant numbers of people saying "He looked at me the wrong way! Reeeeeeeeeee!"?
forced diversity has a real cost to our team
Is it diversity, or is that other team just really shit?
You don't say how they added to your team's diversity exactly, but you do explain the toxic Scrum culture and how it caused problems. I don't think the Agile development methodology is related to any particular ethnic, gender or cultural group...
I'm an alpha, dominate personality
Could this be the issue? The "alpha" personality type is insecure (because it is constantly challenged by other alphas and at risk of losing its top dog status) and generally doesn't fit into teams very well.
Most people don't even think of themselves in alpha/beta terms, which are restricting and inflexible.
You're saying there are innate differences due to gender.
That's an odd way to interpret it. Seems like the GP is talking about life experiences, which are not genetic.
I used to work in a team of six men (5+me). It was hell. People constantly jockeying for position in the hierarchy, unable to back down from bad ideas and lose face. Endless bickering and low level bullying to try to get one-up on each other.
I've also worked on all-male teams that were fine.
I've worked in mixed teams and they have all been fine. There isn't a hierarchy, people just recognize each other's skill and ask for help when they know that someone else has a better handle on something than they do. The lack of macho "I must be self sufficient, can't ask for help, must be the alpha" bullshit really makes the teams stronger and more dynamic.
If there is a big codebase I'm unfamiliar with, or an unusual circuit I'm not quite sure about, I can just ask instead of wasting time struggling with it. If I make a mistake I can tell the group and talk about solutions. There is a no-blame culture and people just want to get stuff working and make it as good as possible, not exert their alpha maleness over each other.
The research you are thinking of probably doesn't say what you think it says.
The ultimate proof is that in countries that addressed these issues, like Iceland and Norway, the gap went away. All the supposedly biological stuff about girls liking pink dolls and boys liking cars fell away too, especially in maths and engineering. Boys in those countries tend to be better communicators too.
As you say, it's not a conspiracy, it's just unintentional systemic bias.
Probably not, since the lawsuit wasn't actually thrown out at all. The headline is a lie. The judge simply declined to allow it to become a class action because the class was too broad, but the actual claim that women were systematically paid less will still go ahead and be tested in court.
Reactionary much?
Actually the study was done in London on babies born there. The harm was local.
My company takes feedback and it's worked well so far. Working hours changed (Friday afternoons off!), parking issues were sorted out, even the free coffee improved.
If your company can't handle feedback it's probably a symptom of deeper problems.
Headline: "Air Pollution Harm To Unborn Babies May Be Global Health Catastrophe, Warn Doctors"
First sentence of TFS: "The research was conducted in London, UK"
From TFA: "The study analysed all live births in Greater London over four years"
Admittedly, London is a fairly dirty city that has been violating EU pollution limits forever. Even so, according to this it's similar to New York and other first world cities.
The cost of living in the US is a joke. And by living we include healthcare.
UK legal minimum is 5 weeks, and most of Europe is similar. 3 weeks is a joke, not nearly enough.
It's quite common to provide a meal and maybe some exercise facilities at European companies. It's considered a fairly standard perk. Smaller places order food in, larger places have their own kitchen and staff.
Child care and some medical services are also starting to appear, especially in Japan where the government really wants people to have more children.