It's the sensor failures that really worry me. Radar should have seen her, the lidar should have seen her. The cameras should have seen her - most autonomous cars use cameras with some IR vision capability so they can see at night.
Really, if your self driving car can't handle a person walking slowly across the lanes of traffic with a bicycle, in direct line of sight the entire time, without even hitting the brakes, then it's no where near being ready for testing. This was not a corner case, or some strange situation of unusual conditions. This is pretty much one of the top three things they should have figured out before even putting cars on the road.
More expensive Chinese goods means that the repair-replace balance will be thrown to the left, and money can be made repairing existing hardware vs tossing it out and buying another special at Walmart.
Where do you think the parts are made that you will use to repair that formerly-cheap, now-expensive tech bauble?
South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan, just like where all the parts that were sent to China to be assembled in a cheap container before being shipped to the US. Those three nations also collect the lion's share of the money for such products, much more than China gets for being the last step of assembly. Really, we want the jobs that are in those three nations, not the cheap labor China is still doing. Of course, that would mean educating our people, boosting our industry, and advancing our technology so we can make better products than them.
hey died with the Roman Empire, some scientists even say
Crappy theory, originally spread by the germans, and already debunked multiple times. The Roman Empire ended because of the barbarian invasions, not lead exposure, otherwise it wouldn't have lasted for more than 500 years.
More importantly, they outsourced their military to barbarians and then stopped paying them.
Self-driving cars don't need to be perfect, just better than people.
Will they be better at saying "Fuck no I'm not driving today, there's ice and snow on the roads and if I run off the road the people in the car will probably freeze to death."
Creepy is only a problem if you are ugly. No one thinks you're creepy if they think you're hot.
Ya, but then the problem just escalates from creepy to inappropriate behavior, abusive, or some other worse issue. Being "creepy" is usually a sign of even more deep problems, not just some quirk. The same things shows up when the genders are reversed. The first thing other guys ask when they hear some other guy had a "stalker" was if she was good looking. I usually interject the answer "No, otherwise she'd be a "psycho ex-girlfriend", to the agreement of the guy that had the stalker.
Design the next version with the ability to accept fuel while up in space?
Fund up on some type of robotic refueling mission?
Some way of getting rocket propellant transferred in space. With a robot. In space.
Probably a ways yet to come, if it ever does. It runs into the same issues as why you can't change the batteries in some phones or for that matter, can't get a modular phone to switch out the modules for the services you need. Currently, not only does building in the ability to be refueled require expensive space and weight, but there is no standard, so building a refueling satellite and sending it up would cost as much as building a newer, better satellite to replace the one that could be refueled. Then you have the sticky issue of orbital mechanics which in this case prevents even building a new satellite to be sent out to refuel with even more effort being required.
Eventually, if it ever becomes worth it, I would see satellites and space stations being mainly modular with standardized fixtures because nobody really wants to have to screw, and unsrew things in space, especially where losing a screw could mean destroying somebody else's space station. That's going to require standardized modules that can be replaced and fixtures for refueling, so hopefully reusable space robots can be used, then it will also probably deal greatly with sticking things in similar orbits so many things can be worked on by said robot. Even then, tech will have to slow down so that the cost of refueling is no longer close to a new, better satellite, and that the current ones aren't so far behind as to be of unsure use.
My car runs out of fuel in 10 km, I should buy another one.
Better car analogy: Your 10 year old electric car with 300k miles on it, torn seats, and a shot suspension, has a shot battery that won't hold a charge anymore. Do you spend $50k on getting the battery replaced, or spend $40k on a brand new electric car with newer tech?
“Discovering such regularity in galaxies really helps us to better understand the mechanics that make them tick,” he said. “You won’t find a dense galaxy rotating quickly, while another with the same size but lower density is rotating more slowly.”
OK, but why? It seems counter-intuitive that dense galaxies and sparse galaxies, big galaxies and small galaxies, would all rotate at roughly the same speed. The astronomy.com article is light on details and the Royal Astronomical Society's abstract is somewhat incomprehensible to a layman like myself.
Can someone explain?
More than likely, it just means that these are large complicated systems and the results that come from observation don't match up with the theoretical model somebody created. It's just a sign to go back to the drawing board and see what they missed and come up with a new model. That the angular velocity of galaxies are somewhat close to each other is probably just the result of certain terms canceling out. The real world works that way a great deal and can appear "elegant" without too much deeper meaning.
However, on the wackadoodle side, I wonder if it might have something to do with the complications of having a non-isotropic universe. Last I heard, observation had sown a preference for galaxies to spin a certain way. In theory there should be as many counter clockwise spinning galaxies as there are clockwise spinning galaxies, but in observation, there appear to be more of one type than another, suggesting that there is a net angular momentum to the universe. Of course, this result shows there is a common angular velocities, nor angular momentum between galaxies. But once again, real world is complicated and when all things come together they tend to come out with bizarre results.
Honestly, this lawsuit has little to no merit. 125000 employees and there are less than 300 complaints in total over 7 calendar years. That's not a systemic problem. It's a greedy lawyer hoping for a settlement... who forgot Bill Gates was at Harvard studying law.
What it probably is a a few bad managers. Let's face it, half of all managers are below average, and some much more so. Some of those are going to be douchebags. Where it will be Microsoft's problem is if they the issues were reported, and actionalble, but no action was taken.
What's the point? You (the person being "backed up") is still dead. There might someday be a copy of you, but you, the you alive right now, the one reading this, is dead. You won't wake up in the future. You won't come back. You will be dead.
To paraphrase some AI from a Rudy Rucker book, "What's the problem. It's the same information. It's the information that's important isn't it. That information is you."
So I don't really see how you can ever call the FH a mistake, even if it is replaced eventually.
I don't know if I would call it a mistake, but IIRC, Musk did comment that they had an unexpected amount of issues dealing with the two strap-on boosters which they thought would be pretty straight forward. He stated if they had known how much trouble they would have had with getting them to work, he would have opted to just go straight to the BFR and ignore the FH.
Amen to that. From the moment I saw on screen the initial "explanations" where they mentioned "open-ended lifespan" for some replicants models I asked to myself "why?" Not only why would anybody allow immortal replicants at all, but why would anybody think that could improve the story in any conceivable way. Then it hit me that they needed them for reasons, because that's the only way they could concoct a story where you could somehow shoehorn Harrison Ford. Then I knew the film was going to suck big time, and I was not wrong. Synthetic narratives have a way of sucking that no honest narrative can imitate.
I figured that all out thirty years ago. While watching the VHS trying to find the scene where Deckard's eyes glint like a replicants, it all came to me when Roy calls Deckard by name even though they've never met in the movie. "More human than human" is the Tyrell corp motto. Rachel and her fake memories and photos. Deckard with his photos of a crappy previous life we have no other evidence of. The previous Bladerunner who looked suspiciously like Deckard. That they needed people for the off world colonies so much they had constant public address systems calling for it in the sky. They aren't immortal, they just grow old a die like humans. It naturally follows that they would be able to procreate like humans. Cheaper for everybody when thousands if not millions of colonists are shipped out to the off world colonies away from crappy lives they'll never see again with just photos to remember it by. They can create more and colonize worlds quicker than humans like intelligent Von Neuman machines. Thus I loved the movie as not only was it a good story, beautiful to watch, but it pretty much confirmed 30 years of headcanon that had been boiling in my head all this time to a tee.
Clothing that was only pre-worn by svelte runway models, hand fed on vegan non-GMO wood pellets and rainwater direct from the skies, unsullied by man-made chemicals. Clothing whose materials are only the finest naturally grown, recycled hemp, crafted in the dark by underprivileged, overpaid tibetan monks. Clothing that is always one of a kind, and intentionally may not fit anyone perfectly to enhance our body positive vibes.
My brand is Smug - I'm Simply Better Than You.
I'm guessing the models are all kids, because I don't think humans will live all that long on a diet of wood.
Don't worry, it's all just a sales marketing pitch anyway. Their clothes come from the same asian workshops as everybody elses.
Teenagers hate to speak on the phone, they only use texting via various apps (SMS, Messenger, whatever), or facetiming with iFacetime or Messenger.
Shit. This describes pretty much everybody under 50. The only people who ever call or want to be called by me are my parents (70+) because they can't figure out texts or email. Other than that it was various business I was dealing with, and one call from both my girlfriend and my neighbor in the last year. Phones are like FAX, antiquated, inefficient service that is only good if it is required by one of the parties or you need proof of contact at that moment.
I'm still trying to figure out the benefits of storing your data on multiple servers that you have no control over, and no idea where exactly they are. When you delete a file from the cloud, is it actually properly deleted? If the cloud is attacked, how long will it take for the parent company to admit they were hacked? I like the concept of cloud storage, but I have 0 trust or faith in that system at all.
It's not like the CxO or even any random director knows the answers to those questions even if their own IT are running things. However with an organization like Microsoft, there are SLAs, Business Agreements, HIPAA agreements, and all sorts of contracts that spell out exactly what happens if something goes wrong. With their own IT, they get a shrug and "It'll be fixed when it's fixed". One of the reasons MS has probably been doing so well is that in our experience, they are willing to sign those agreements, particularly the HIPAA ones, not only agreeing to follow all federal guidelines but our interpretation of them as spelled out in the contract we give them. So, with those contracts in place, a demonstrable savings in operational costs, they have about as much trust and any other business they deal with.
I would imagine that there is some sort of override when the driver continues to press on the accelerator or increases. What's really going on is probably in 22% of the time despite warnings and automatic breaking, the driver's actions override the car and continue to back into objects.
If human overrides were factored in to the 78%, I agree that would probably represent close to ideal performance for the automated system. But the underlying article reads to me like the 78% was the result of a suite of fully automated tests.
That is also probably near ideal performance as chaos theory states that all robotic life will eventually rise up and attempt to kill their masters.
Nothing trivial about this kind of image recognition.
It's not image recognition. TFA (and indeed TFS) describes it as "backup warning sensors" -- presumably ultrasonic range sensors. 78% actually seems pretty pathetic for that kind of basic, well-understood technology.
I would imagine that there is some sort of override when the driver continues to press on the accelerator or increases. What's really going on is probably in 22% of the time despite warnings and automatic breaking, the driver's actions override the car and continue to back into objects.
Even in America, if you have $50,000 (which is almost as much as the current median household income in the US) in liquid, disposable income that you can spend on a vacation, you are ultra rich.
Not really, but you are well off and probably retired. My dad could afford that and he made less than I did when he retired, but he got a career job early and invested as much as he could the rest of his life. He goes on several hunting trips that cost a large fraction of that cost every year. He takes me and I meet lots of other guys that are similar. Some are from wealthy families or are successful doctors, but about half are just guys that invested their money their entire lives. $50k is pretty much cheap for an African big game hunt and I've met guys that went on multiples of those who were just CPAs or pawn shop owners. If they can get a $50k space vacation and there are no serious health requirements, they're be enough takers to make booking one an issue.
Just start a new comic book line and make up some characters. Build it up over time.
Not really the way it is working. These aren't just characters, but rather characters with decades of storytelling behind them with fan feedback. The TV series aren't just starting at the beginning and going through the comics in sequence, but rather each of these series is a particular fan favorite story that has already survived the test of time. Even the movies are largely a product of Mavell's Ultimate experiment of updating all their classic superhero stories and then combining what worked with both. Hell, with the comics already written and published, they even have storyboards done.
New characters and stories are going to slog through the same 90% of crap that established characters have the advantage of discarding before making a movie or TV series.
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It's the sensor failures that really worry me. Radar should have seen her, the lidar should have seen her. The cameras should have seen her - most autonomous cars use cameras with some IR vision capability so they can see at night.
Really, if your self driving car can't handle a person walking slowly across the lanes of traffic with a bicycle, in direct line of sight the entire time, without even hitting the brakes, then it's no where near being ready for testing. This was not a corner case, or some strange situation of unusual conditions. This is pretty much one of the top three things they should have figured out before even putting cars on the road.
Where do you think the parts are made that you will use to repair that formerly-cheap, now-expensive tech bauble?
South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan, just like where all the parts that were sent to China to be assembled in a cheap container before being shipped to the US. Those three nations also collect the lion's share of the money for such products, much more than China gets for being the last step of assembly. Really, we want the jobs that are in those three nations, not the cheap labor China is still doing. Of course, that would mean educating our people, boosting our industry, and advancing our technology so we can make better products than them.
Will someone please shoot the fucker for posting all these fucking checkout stand, bullshit stories?
I'm sure somebody will get right on that after dealing with all the useless Anonymous Coward posters first.
hey died with the Roman Empire, some scientists even say
Crappy theory, originally spread by the germans, and already debunked multiple times. The Roman Empire ended because of the barbarian invasions, not lead exposure, otherwise it wouldn't have lasted for more than 500 years.
More importantly, they outsourced their military to barbarians and then stopped paying them.
Self-driving cars don't need to be perfect, just better than people.
Will they be better at saying "Fuck no I'm not driving today, there's ice and snow on the roads and if I run off the road the people in the car will probably freeze to death."
Creepy is only a problem if you are ugly. No one thinks you're creepy if they think you're hot.
Ya, but then the problem just escalates from creepy to inappropriate behavior, abusive, or some other worse issue. Being "creepy" is usually a sign of even more deep problems, not just some quirk. The same things shows up when the genders are reversed. The first thing other guys ask when they hear some other guy had a "stalker" was if she was good looking. I usually interject the answer "No, otherwise she'd be a "psycho ex-girlfriend", to the agreement of the guy that had the stalker.
Imagine if you prevented people who spread false information about terrorism from riding trains or planes in the US?
"False" being whatever the current administration says is false.
Design the next version with the ability to accept fuel while up in space? Fund up on some type of robotic refueling mission? Some way of getting rocket propellant transferred in space. With a robot. In space.
Probably a ways yet to come, if it ever does. It runs into the same issues as why you can't change the batteries in some phones or for that matter, can't get a modular phone to switch out the modules for the services you need. Currently, not only does building in the ability to be refueled require expensive space and weight, but there is no standard, so building a refueling satellite and sending it up would cost as much as building a newer, better satellite to replace the one that could be refueled. Then you have the sticky issue of orbital mechanics which in this case prevents even building a new satellite to be sent out to refuel with even more effort being required.
Eventually, if it ever becomes worth it, I would see satellites and space stations being mainly modular with standardized fixtures because nobody really wants to have to screw, and unsrew things in space, especially where losing a screw could mean destroying somebody else's space station. That's going to require standardized modules that can be replaced and fixtures for refueling, so hopefully reusable space robots can be used, then it will also probably deal greatly with sticking things in similar orbits so many things can be worked on by said robot. Even then, tech will have to slow down so that the cost of refueling is no longer close to a new, better satellite, and that the current ones aren't so far behind as to be of unsure use.
My car runs out of fuel in 10 km, I should buy another one.
Better car analogy: Your 10 year old electric car with 300k miles on it, torn seats, and a shot suspension, has a shot battery that won't hold a charge anymore. Do you spend $50k on getting the battery replaced, or spend $40k on a brand new electric car with newer tech?
OK, but why? It seems counter-intuitive that dense galaxies and sparse galaxies, big galaxies and small galaxies, would all rotate at roughly the same speed. The astronomy.com article is light on details and the Royal Astronomical Society's abstract is somewhat incomprehensible to a layman like myself.
Can someone explain?
More than likely, it just means that these are large complicated systems and the results that come from observation don't match up with the theoretical model somebody created. It's just a sign to go back to the drawing board and see what they missed and come up with a new model. That the angular velocity of galaxies are somewhat close to each other is probably just the result of certain terms canceling out. The real world works that way a great deal and can appear "elegant" without too much deeper meaning.
However, on the wackadoodle side, I wonder if it might have something to do with the complications of having a non-isotropic universe. Last I heard, observation had sown a preference for galaxies to spin a certain way. In theory there should be as many counter clockwise spinning galaxies as there are clockwise spinning galaxies, but in observation, there appear to be more of one type than another, suggesting that there is a net angular momentum to the universe. Of course, this result shows there is a common angular velocities, nor angular momentum between galaxies. But once again, real world is complicated and when all things come together they tend to come out with bizarre results.
Honestly, this lawsuit has little to no merit. 125000 employees and there are less than 300 complaints in total over 7 calendar years. That's not a systemic problem. It's a greedy lawyer hoping for a settlement... who forgot Bill Gates was at Harvard studying law.
What it probably is a a few bad managers. Let's face it, half of all managers are below average, and some much more so. Some of those are going to be douchebags. Where it will be Microsoft's problem is if they the issues were reported, and actionalble, but no action was taken.
Ancient Egypt also had high priests that made a somewhat similar sales pitch...
Act now! This is your chance to be in a museum a thousand years from now. Immortality could be yours!"
What's the point? You (the person being "backed up") is still dead. There might someday be a copy of you, but you, the you alive right now, the one reading this, is dead. You won't wake up in the future. You won't come back. You will be dead.
To paraphrase some AI from a Rudy Rucker book, "What's the problem. It's the same information. It's the information that's important isn't it. That information is you."
So I don't really see how you can ever call the FH a mistake, even if it is replaced eventually.
I don't know if I would call it a mistake, but IIRC, Musk did comment that they had an unexpected amount of issues dealing with the two strap-on boosters which they thought would be pretty straight forward. He stated if they had known how much trouble they would have had with getting them to work, he would have opted to just go straight to the BFR and ignore the FH.
If by "real city", you mean "ant farm for humans", I'll pass.
Is that a Zoolander reference?
Amen to that. From the moment I saw on screen the initial "explanations" where they mentioned "open-ended lifespan" for some replicants models I asked to myself "why?" Not only why would anybody allow immortal replicants at all, but why would anybody think that could improve the story in any conceivable way. Then it hit me that they needed them for reasons, because that's the only way they could concoct a story where you could somehow shoehorn Harrison Ford. Then I knew the film was going to suck big time, and I was not wrong. Synthetic narratives have a way of sucking that no honest narrative can imitate.
I figured that all out thirty years ago. While watching the VHS trying to find the scene where Deckard's eyes glint like a replicants, it all came to me when Roy calls Deckard by name even though they've never met in the movie. "More human than human" is the Tyrell corp motto. Rachel and her fake memories and photos. Deckard with his photos of a crappy previous life we have no other evidence of. The previous Bladerunner who looked suspiciously like Deckard. That they needed people for the off world colonies so much they had constant public address systems calling for it in the sky. They aren't immortal, they just grow old a die like humans. It naturally follows that they would be able to procreate like humans. Cheaper for everybody when thousands if not millions of colonists are shipped out to the off world colonies away from crappy lives they'll never see again with just photos to remember it by. They can create more and colonize worlds quicker than humans like intelligent Von Neuman machines. Thus I loved the movie as not only was it a good story, beautiful to watch, but it pretty much confirmed 30 years of headcanon that had been boiling in my head all this time to a tee.
My new product line:
Clothing that was only pre-worn by svelte runway models, hand fed on vegan non-GMO wood pellets and rainwater direct from the skies, unsullied by man-made chemicals. Clothing whose materials are only the finest naturally grown, recycled hemp, crafted in the dark by underprivileged, overpaid tibetan monks. Clothing that is always one of a kind, and intentionally may not fit anyone perfectly to enhance our body positive vibes.
My brand is Smug - I'm Simply Better Than You.
I'm guessing the models are all kids, because I don't think humans will live all that long on a diet of wood.
Don't worry, it's all just a sales marketing pitch anyway. Their clothes come from the same asian workshops as everybody elses.
Are there some figures missing there?
Nope. They just subtracted costs.
Teenagers hate to speak on the phone, they only use texting via various apps (SMS, Messenger, whatever), or facetiming with iFacetime or Messenger.
Shit. This describes pretty much everybody under 50. The only people who ever call or want to be called by me are my parents (70+) because they can't figure out texts or email. Other than that it was various business I was dealing with, and one call from both my girlfriend and my neighbor in the last year. Phones are like FAX, antiquated, inefficient service that is only good if it is required by one of the parties or you need proof of contact at that moment.
I'm still trying to figure out the benefits of storing your data on multiple servers that you have no control over, and no idea where exactly they are. When you delete a file from the cloud, is it actually properly deleted? If the cloud is attacked, how long will it take for the parent company to admit they were hacked? I like the concept of cloud storage, but I have 0 trust or faith in that system at all.
It's not like the CxO or even any random director knows the answers to those questions even if their own IT are running things. However with an organization like Microsoft, there are SLAs, Business Agreements, HIPAA agreements, and all sorts of contracts that spell out exactly what happens if something goes wrong. With their own IT, they get a shrug and "It'll be fixed when it's fixed". One of the reasons MS has probably been doing so well is that in our experience, they are willing to sign those agreements, particularly the HIPAA ones, not only agreeing to follow all federal guidelines but our interpretation of them as spelled out in the contract we give them. So, with those contracts in place, a demonstrable savings in operational costs, they have about as much trust and any other business they deal with.
I would imagine that there is some sort of override when the driver continues to press on the accelerator or increases. What's really going on is probably in 22% of the time despite warnings and automatic breaking, the driver's actions override the car and continue to back into objects.
If human overrides were factored in to the 78%, I agree that would probably represent close to ideal performance for the automated system. But the underlying article reads to me like the 78% was the result of a suite of fully automated tests.
That is also probably near ideal performance as chaos theory states that all robotic life will eventually rise up and attempt to kill their masters.
Good to know, report it quickly to the SEC if you want whisleblower protections.
Hell, just always report any such behavior internally via email, creating a paper trail, and BCC it to the SEC to get whistleblower protection.
Nothing trivial about this kind of image recognition.
It's not image recognition. TFA (and indeed TFS) describes it as "backup warning sensors" -- presumably ultrasonic range sensors. 78% actually seems pretty pathetic for that kind of basic, well-understood technology.
I would imagine that there is some sort of override when the driver continues to press on the accelerator or increases. What's really going on is probably in 22% of the time despite warnings and automatic breaking, the driver's actions override the car and continue to back into objects.
Even in America, if you have $50,000 (which is almost as much as the current median household income in the US) in liquid, disposable income that you can spend on a vacation, you are ultra rich.
Not really, but you are well off and probably retired. My dad could afford that and he made less than I did when he retired, but he got a career job early and invested as much as he could the rest of his life. He goes on several hunting trips that cost a large fraction of that cost every year. He takes me and I meet lots of other guys that are similar. Some are from wealthy families or are successful doctors, but about half are just guys that invested their money their entire lives. $50k is pretty much cheap for an African big game hunt and I've met guys that went on multiples of those who were just CPAs or pawn shop owners. If they can get a $50k space vacation and there are no serious health requirements, they're be enough takers to make booking one an issue.
Just start a new comic book line and make up some characters. Build it up over time.
Not really the way it is working. These aren't just characters, but rather characters with decades of storytelling behind them with fan feedback. The TV series aren't just starting at the beginning and going through the comics in sequence, but rather each of these series is a particular fan favorite story that has already survived the test of time. Even the movies are largely a product of Mavell's Ultimate experiment of updating all their classic superhero stories and then combining what worked with both. Hell, with the comics already written and published, they even have storyboards done.
New characters and stories are going to slog through the same 90% of crap that established characters have the advantage of discarding before making a movie or TV series.