I have over and over gripped about the same thing. Seriously, the lack of logic on ithe anti-GMP types is nothing less than amazing.
The reason why ppl scream about GMO food is that a FEW of the modifications has been to make these plants resistant to round-up. TO be honest, that is stupid that they are doing that. It will only be a matter of time before that gene is spread to weeds and make worthless. That is real. However, the question of how that gene will move is not from human intervention by from normal mechanisms.
The point is,that it does not matter HOW the gene is transfered, but the types.
The anti-GMOs need to educate themselves and focus on where the issue is (the massive wasteful use of round-up) rather than their pointing to the means which helps us in so many ways. For example, Rice is being made resistant to Salt which is a real issue for Asian rice. And Corn is being developed that can tolerate major droughts. These are all happening via GMO. And these changes are NOT harmful to the globe or the environment.
130 million miles have been logged by drivers using AP. This is the first fatality and there have been zero injuries up to this point. In addition, a number of accidents have been avoided.
So, how does this compare to the average?
In America, somebody dies every 96 million miles. In addition, there are a large number of injuries, though to be fair, injuries should probably not be looked at as much as accident rate (tesla is the safest car on the road, bar none; they make volvo look dangerous). So, at this point, we can say that there is 50% FEWER fatalities. Considering that NHTSA is investigating, I am sure that they will compare the accident rates on this and will likely find that it is much less using tesla AP, compared to the average driver.
So, yeah, I expect NHTSA will likely come up with suggestions of changes, but will allow AP to continue since the system has already proven that it is safer than the average driver.
Most Tesla owners think Autopilot means "I can watch Harry Potter while the car does all the driving for me", as has been eloquently proven in this example.
Actually, every regular driver in order to use AP, has to sign off on a paragraph that tells you that it is NOT fully safe and warns you to keep watch on the situation.
In addition, with the fact that 130+ million miles have been logged until this first fatality AND zero injuries, VS. an average of 96 million miles / fatality and large number of injuries in normal cars ( Tesla injury rate is far far less than even volvo ), it says that this is already a much safer system than allowing normal drivers.
And as to truck detection, it was a white truck that came across the road illegally, and in the sun, such that the driver and camera were blinded from seeing the truck. THe issue is the radar which are those sensors that you see in the bumpers. Those see about 2 feet in the air, which between the tires of the trailer is more than 3'. In Europe, trailers have side guards. Here in America, we are JUST getting around to doing these. Had the trailer had these, the car would have stopped. Had the driver been paying attention, then he could have stopped it.
And yet, I doubt that will be the case.
The reason is that once AP is further along, states will decide to dedicate highway lanes to them so that they can move more ppl along safer. In addition, at some point, they will then decide to allow these automated cars to move at the speeds for which highways were designed for. When I was growing up, the highways were 90 MPH, while most had been designed for 120 MPH. Here in the west, we can do an easy 120 MPH esp on a clear day. As such, these vehicles will then be allowed to go at least 100 MPH, and move alot more vehicles through.
At that point, esp since it is obvious that AP is already safer than fools on the roads, many ppl will want to switch to it. It is faster, and safer.
Well, google and tesla differ. The question is, who makes more sense?
In Tesla's case, they have 130+ million miles logged on the system with exactly 1 fatality and no injuries.
However, the NORMAL case is that a faility and numerous injuries are logged every 96 million miles in America. So, at this time, there is 50% less loss of life and a great deal less injuries.
Right there, it says that Tesla has the right solutions by saving more lives and within another year, they will have the count down even further.
actually, more than 130 million miles have been logged by drivers doing this. 1 life has been lost.
The NORMAL rate is a death at 96 million miles. So, what this means is that 50% less fatality.
In fact, Tesla has many instances of this already saving lives in situations where they would have died in other vehicles, or been injured in the Tesla.
IOW, this is already proving itself to be safer.
Now, as to Mr. Brown going on with watching TV, that is sad. OTOH, millions of drivers text and drink EVERY DAY. Both are far worse, because they do not have a system that is even looking out for them. So, again, safer.
And within another year, this system will be extended into regular roads, not just divided highways. And again, we will see lives being saved.
No, the point is, to be testing the system and mapping. Those of us driving these are basically mapping the roads, intersections, etc. Sadly, we are ALSO dealing with issues that were not figured out ahead of time. We got a different Tesla model for a loaner and it has AP. So I tested it just yesterday on a road with lots of hairpins and edges which fall 100'. Needless to say, I was on edge during the whole time of driving it. Then I found out later that this is really only ready for divided highways (the 30 second explanation of AP from Tesla did not include that bit; oh well). I decided to test this and re-ran the road. This time, it did a decent job on the lane, and dealing with several difficult issues. IOW, it updated information about the road and made it so that the car can deal with it decently. So, I just helped out some other Tesla driver down the road.
Now, as to Mr Brown, those of us in the Tesla community do feel a lose for his family and friends. However, nearly everybody doing this is aware of the risk (while I did not have full info, I AM aware of the risk). And to be fair, I am guessing that he would likely feel that he did something useful with his life.
There are 2 different downturns.
The normal recession that occurred in 2001, which was the internet bubble bursting. W, GOP, Dems, CLinton, etc had NOTHING to do with that. It was simply happening because the market had overdone the internet companies. Then you have the mini recession that occurred after 9/11. Technically, you can blame W for it, but, I would not. I would say that the economy was still weak and it was simply prolonged by 9/11.
The great recession of 2007 has MANY causes, of which a lot was the policies that W/GOP pushed. Some of it WAS from CLinton since he signed in bills from both GOP and Dems that allowed their friends to have carte blanche with banking. Of course, I find it interesting that the GOP is opposed to re-installing even some of those that was put in place from the 30s due to the great depression.
And W's biggest screw-up would be difficult to figure out. He allowed AQ/Talibahn to continue controlling Afghanistan and left it a REAL mess. Iraq was certainly a huge one. His allowing corporations to take earnings out of the nation and not be taxed is equally BS. His inability to get OBL spoke volume about his ineptness.
His lies about Iraq to allow invasion.
His screw up with NASA and Constellation.
It goes on and on and on. And it explains why he is in the bottom 10 for presidencies.
Of course, he DID do one thing smart, which was heavily subsidizing oil/nat gas drilling to get it going. Now, we just need to roll those back, OR roll them over to geo-thermal.
wow.
First off, Do yourself a favor and look at Unemployement Rate and
GDP for America. This shows that the great recession started in 2007. It was declared official once the GDP by ALL economists, not just most, when GPD was negative and not just in freefall. However, the fact that unemployment started rising in 2007, says it all.
Regardless, I am a registered Libertarian and am on the sidelines of the fucking mess that you and the dems make. However, it is easy for me to look at your mess and honestly point out the fuck-ups that your 2 political parties have been.
Yeah, that late 90s economy was horrible and balancing the budget was even worse.
Yeah, those Clintons really are disastrous compared to the GOP budgets of 00, and the GOP economy of 2007, combined with all of the quick military excursions and getting OBL that W/GOP did.
I can see why you GOP types are always AC anymore. Spineless like your leaders.
I suspect that she is listing all this stuff to enable her to INCREASE the number of h1b .
For somebody that speaks of supporting the middle class, she is looking to gut the jobs by offspring and increasing immigration.
and yet, your fuehrer is going to lose at the next election. After all, he is as inept as you are spineless. When you can stand up and show a spine, then lets talk.
The development of commercial space stations, as well as commercial spacecraft such as the SpaceX Dragon and the Boeing Starliner, constitutes NASA’s long-term strategy of handing off low-Earth orbit to the private sector while it concentrates on deep space exploration. The policy was first instituted by President George W. Bush and confirmed and doubled down on by President Barack Obama.
Whittington is such a political hack. W and his admin NEVER wanted private space to replace NASA's launch systems. Far from it. Because Constellation was not properly funded by the GOP, it was decided to get Private space to HELP with ISS. So COTS was developed as a side show. That is why the GOP stopped human launch development so that it would NOT compete against their jobs programs.
It was under O that private space was pushed for a replacement, which is why the GOP, and ppl like Whittington, fight against private space.
Whittington, it is really too bad that you are such a bad writer and a political hack that you put your politics over facts.
SIMD are used for parallel same processing of different data. Imagine processing a graphics and you want to lighten it by 10%. Then this simply divides the work across the ram with individuals CPUs, but all adding 10% to the value.
Likewise, if doing weather processing, or geo-graphical, or simulations of lightrays. They all involve the same calulations but applied to different data. Hence SAME INSTRUCTION; Multiple (or different) DATA.
Roughly, those CPUs all operate in lock-step.
MIMD, is like having 1000 different CPUs in a box, or for that matter, 1000 different boxes. The 768K data region is what the chips can see. So, you can have 5 chips working on 100K, while the rest is split amongst 995 other chips.
bingo.
I like the sounds of this chip. If done inexpensively (though they worked with IBM so it might not be), this could be a major chip.
I could imagine a number of these for a server. Wow.
no, but with this low energy usage (a single AA powering it), I think that this COULD have an impact on tablets and phones. That ability to shut down cores, while scaling up, is darn useful.
look up SIMD vs MIMD. In a nut shell, your GPU has a large number of 'CPU's that do the same thing. These are 1000 CPU, each capable of doing the same thing, OR doing their own thing.
why doubt it? After reading this, it sounds like a great set-up. With a 1000 CPUs of MIMD, it sounds like the right core for controlling access to massively parallel systems. And a single AA to run it? Sounds like a pretty decent chip to me.
that is not accurate by a LONG shot. Look at this map of CA's water.
What you see is that the Colorado river is supplying LA and San Diego. NONE of this goes to Ag. Right now, LA/SD are pulling 2-5x the amount of water that they are entitled to. In particular, between the 2 cities, both are pulling down the reservoirs at a frightening rate. As it is, Colorado has never even used our part of the water, so, LA/SD usage is WAY OUT OF LINE.
My understanding is that normally, your usage of Colorado is about 20-30% of our water, when it should only be around 5%. And right now, you folks are way up high.
So, to allow the reservoirs to re-build up, LA/SD really needs to get off Colorado water and instead, move to coastal water. SD has a plant that is going up, but we need many more. And then LA should start paying for their water, as opposed to getting it freely.
And as to nukes, I am hopeful that GOP will work with O on this during lame duck. Both O and GOP like nukes and we desperately need them. In particular, southern Cal is stealing a lot Colorado water and pulling down the reservoirs fast. Instead, coastal Cal up to 200 miles inward should be coming from the ocean. The only way to do that inexpensively is via nukes.
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I have over and over gripped about the same thing. Seriously, the lack of logic on ithe anti-GMP types is nothing less than amazing.
The reason why ppl scream about GMO food is that a FEW of the modifications has been to make these plants resistant to round-up. TO be honest, that is stupid that they are doing that. It will only be a matter of time before that gene is spread to weeds and make worthless. That is real. However, the question of how that gene will move is not from human intervention by from normal mechanisms.
The point is,that it does not matter HOW the gene is transfered, but the types.
The anti-GMOs need to educate themselves and focus on where the issue is (the massive wasteful use of round-up) rather than their pointing to the means which helps us in so many ways. For example, Rice is being made resistant to Salt which is a real issue for Asian rice. And Corn is being developed that can tolerate major droughts. These are all happening via GMO. And these changes are NOT harmful to the globe or the environment.
130 million miles have been logged by drivers using AP. This is the first fatality and there have been zero injuries up to this point. In addition, a number of accidents have been avoided.
So, how does this compare to the average?
In America, somebody dies every 96 million miles. In addition, there are a large number of injuries, though to be fair, injuries should probably not be looked at as much as accident rate (tesla is the safest car on the road, bar none; they make volvo look dangerous). So, at this point, we can say that there is 50% FEWER fatalities. Considering that NHTSA is investigating, I am sure that they will compare the accident rates on this and will likely find that it is much less using tesla AP, compared to the average driver.
So, yeah, I expect NHTSA will likely come up with suggestions of changes, but will allow AP to continue since the system has already proven that it is safer than the average driver.
Most Tesla owners think Autopilot means "I can watch Harry Potter while the car does all the driving for me", as has been eloquently proven in this example.
Actually, every regular driver in order to use AP, has to sign off on a paragraph that tells you that it is NOT fully safe and warns you to keep watch on the situation.
In addition, with the fact that 130+ million miles have been logged until this first fatality AND zero injuries, VS. an average of 96 million miles / fatality and large number of injuries in normal cars ( Tesla injury rate is far far less than even volvo ), it says that this is already a much safer system than allowing normal drivers.
And as to truck detection, it was a white truck that came across the road illegally, and in the sun, such that the driver and camera were blinded from seeing the truck. THe issue is the radar which are those sensors that you see in the bumpers. Those see about 2 feet in the air, which between the tires of the trailer is more than 3'. In Europe, trailers have side guards. Here in America, we are JUST getting around to doing these. Had the trailer had these, the car would have stopped. Had the driver been paying attention, then he could have stopped it.
And yet, I doubt that will be the case.
The reason is that once AP is further along, states will decide to dedicate highway lanes to them so that they can move more ppl along safer. In addition, at some point, they will then decide to allow these automated cars to move at the speeds for which highways were designed for. When I was growing up, the highways were 90 MPH, while most had been designed for 120 MPH. Here in the west, we can do an easy 120 MPH esp on a clear day. As such, these vehicles will then be allowed to go at least 100 MPH, and move alot more vehicles through.
At that point, esp since it is obvious that AP is already safer than fools on the roads, many ppl will want to switch to it. It is faster, and safer.
Well, google and tesla differ. The question is, who makes more sense?
In Tesla's case, they have 130+ million miles logged on the system with exactly 1 fatality and no injuries.
However, the NORMAL case is that a faility and numerous injuries are logged every 96 million miles in America. So, at this time, there is 50% less loss of life and a great deal less injuries.
Right there, it says that Tesla has the right solutions by saving more lives and within another year, they will have the count down even further.
and how did he cause Mr. Brown to NOT pay attention?
actually, more than 130 million miles have been logged by drivers doing this. 1 life has been lost.
The NORMAL rate is a death at 96 million miles. So, what this means is that 50% less fatality.
In fact, Tesla has many instances of this already saving lives in situations where they would have died in other vehicles, or been injured in the Tesla. IOW, this is already proving itself to be safer.
Now, as to Mr. Brown going on with watching TV, that is sad. OTOH, millions of drivers text and drink EVERY DAY. Both are far worse, because they do not have a system that is even looking out for them. So, again, safer.
And within another year, this system will be extended into regular roads, not just divided highways. And again, we will see lives being saved.
No, the point is, to be testing the system and mapping. Those of us driving these are basically mapping the roads, intersections, etc. Sadly, we are ALSO dealing with issues that were not figured out ahead of time. We got a different Tesla model for a loaner and it has AP. So I tested it just yesterday on a road with lots of hairpins and edges which fall 100'. Needless to say, I was on edge during the whole time of driving it. Then I found out later that this is really only ready for divided highways (the 30 second explanation of AP from Tesla did not include that bit; oh well). I decided to test this and re-ran the road. This time, it did a decent job on the lane, and dealing with several difficult issues. IOW, it updated information about the road and made it so that the car can deal with it decently. So, I just helped out some other Tesla driver down the road.
Now, as to Mr Brown, those of us in the Tesla community do feel a lose for his family and friends. However, nearly everybody doing this is aware of the risk (while I did not have full info, I AM aware of the risk). And to be fair, I am guessing that he would likely feel that he did something useful with his life.
There are 2 different downturns.
The normal recession that occurred in 2001, which was the internet bubble bursting. W, GOP, Dems, CLinton, etc had NOTHING to do with that. It was simply happening because the market had overdone the internet companies. Then you have the mini recession that occurred after 9/11. Technically, you can blame W for it, but, I would not. I would say that the economy was still weak and it was simply prolonged by 9/11.
The great recession of 2007 has MANY causes, of which a lot was the policies that W/GOP pushed. Some of it WAS from CLinton since he signed in bills from both GOP and Dems that allowed their friends to have carte blanche with banking. Of course, I find it interesting that the GOP is opposed to re-installing even some of those that was put in place from the 30s due to the great depression.
And W's biggest screw-up would be difficult to figure out. He allowed AQ/Talibahn to continue controlling Afghanistan and left it a REAL mess.
Iraq was certainly a huge one.
His allowing corporations to take earnings out of the nation and not be taxed is equally BS.
His inability to get OBL spoke volume about his ineptness.
His lies about Iraq to allow invasion.
His screw up with NASA and Constellation.
It goes on and on and on. And it explains why he is in the bottom 10 for presidencies.
Of course, he DID do one thing smart, which was heavily subsidizing oil/nat gas drilling to get it going. Now, we just need to roll those back, OR roll them over to geo-thermal.
wow.
First off, Do yourself a favor and look at Unemployement Rate and GDP for America. This shows that the great recession started in 2007. It was declared official once the GDP by ALL economists, not just most, when GPD was negative and not just in freefall. However, the fact that unemployment started rising in 2007, says it all.
Secondly, causes of it is many. You like to list just a few minor ones while ignoring what REAL ECONOMISTS have to say. I am guessing that you have a political science or even just tech background and have not really had any economics and refuse to even accept what the professionals have to say, unless it agrees with you.
Regardless, I am a registered Libertarian and am on the sidelines of the fucking mess that you and the dems make. However, it is easy for me to look at your mess and honestly point out the fuck-ups that your 2 political parties have been.
Clinton dropped the deficit all 8 years, which was 2 years of Dems. Otoh, W and the GOP ran massive deficits and destroyed the economy all 6 years .
Exactly right about the h1b. Get rid of them and increase green cars is right way.
Yeah, that late 90s economy was horrible and balancing the budget was even worse. Yeah, those Clintons really are disastrous compared to the GOP budgets of 00, and the GOP economy of 2007, combined with all of the quick military excursions and getting OBL that W/GOP did. I can see why you GOP types are always AC anymore. Spineless like your leaders.
I suspect that she is listing all this stuff to enable her to INCREASE the number of h1b . For somebody that speaks of supporting the middle class, she is looking to gut the jobs by offspring and increasing immigration.
and yet, your fuehrer is going to lose at the next election. After all, he is as inept as you are spineless. When you can stand up and show a spine, then lets talk.
The development of commercial space stations, as well as commercial spacecraft such as the SpaceX Dragon and the Boeing Starliner, constitutes NASA’s long-term strategy of handing off low-Earth orbit to the private sector while it concentrates on deep space exploration. The policy was first instituted by President George W. Bush and confirmed and doubled down on by President Barack Obama.
Whittington is such a political hack. W and his admin NEVER wanted private space to replace NASA's launch systems. Far from it. Because Constellation was not properly funded by the GOP, it was decided to get Private space to HELP with ISS. So COTS was developed as a side show. That is why the GOP stopped human launch development so that it would NOT compete against their jobs programs.
It was under O that private space was pushed for a replacement, which is why the GOP, and ppl like Whittington, fight against private space.
Whittington, it is really too bad that you are such a bad writer and a political hack that you put your politics over facts.
Huh? Acquiring small companies is not an issue. Mergers of large ones is. And Google is the smallest in the gig arena.
SIMD are used for parallel same processing of different data. Imagine processing a graphics and you want to lighten it by 10%. Then this simply divides the work across the ram with individuals CPUs, but all adding 10% to the value.
Likewise, if doing weather processing, or geo-graphical, or simulations of lightrays. They all involve the same calulations but applied to different data.
Hence SAME INSTRUCTION; Multiple (or different) DATA.
Roughly, those CPUs all operate in lock-step.
MIMD, is like having 1000 different CPUs in a box, or for that matter, 1000 different boxes. The 768K data region is what the chips can see. So, you can have 5 chips working on 100K, while the rest is split amongst 995 other chips.
bingo. I like the sounds of this chip. If done inexpensively (though they worked with IBM so it might not be), this could be a major chip. I could imagine a number of these for a server. Wow.
no, but with this low energy usage (a single AA powering it), I think that this COULD have an impact on tablets and phones. That ability to shut down cores, while scaling up, is darn useful.
look up SIMD vs MIMD. In a nut shell, your GPU has a large number of 'CPU's that do the same thing. These are 1000 CPU, each capable of doing the same thing, OR doing their own thing.
Totally easy to add external ram. In fact, it supports 12 independent memory modules. The 768 KB is in place of cache memory. Basically, it is a working table in which any of the CPUs can access any part of it.
why doubt it? After reading this, it sounds like a great set-up. With a 1000 CPUs of MIMD, it sounds like the right core for controlling access to massively parallel systems. And a single AA to run it? Sounds like a pretty decent chip to me.
that is not accurate by a LONG shot.
Look at this map of CA's water.
What you see is that the Colorado river is supplying LA and San Diego. NONE of this goes to Ag. Right now, LA/SD are pulling 2-5x the amount of water that they are entitled to. In particular, between the 2 cities, both are pulling down the reservoirs at a frightening rate. As it is, Colorado has never even used our part of the water, so, LA/SD usage is WAY OUT OF LINE.
My understanding is that normally, your usage of Colorado is about 20-30% of our water, when it should only be around 5%. And right now, you folks are way up high.
So, to allow the reservoirs to re-build up, LA/SD really needs to get off Colorado water and instead, move to coastal water. SD has a plant that is going up, but we need many more. And then LA should start paying for their water, as opposed to getting it freely.
And as to nukes, I am hopeful that GOP will work with O on this during lame duck. Both O and GOP like nukes and we desperately need them. In particular, southern Cal is stealing a lot Colorado water and pulling down the reservoirs fast. Instead, coastal Cal up to 200 miles inward should be coming from the ocean. The only way to do that inexpensively is via nukes.