Only real AI can hope to cope with the infinite number of variables that arise while driving.
It doesn't have to handle everything perfectly. It just has to do better than a human.
What does a rudimentary AI do when a wind storm has blown down a tree branch in the middle of the road? Does it know that it's OK to go around the obstacle even if it means briefly driving into an oncoming lane?
I know for a fact that Teslas will NOT go around the obstacle. They will just stop. But they are not trying to be "level 5".
What does it do when a piece of newspaper blows around in traffic on the freeway?
I know several people that work/worked on Google's SDC. They have object recognition software that is trained to look for blowing/floating objects, and their system has been trained on many thousands of examples. They handle the "blowing plastic bag" problem better than humans, with earlier recognition, a faster response time, and no reflexive over-reaction.
Hell, Alexa still can't even understand a lot of basic questions I ask her.
That is a silly comparison. Natural language processing is a MUCH harder problem than navigation and lane control. Computers will be able to drive long before they can have an unstructured conversation with a human.
for me an alarm system is more about being a deterrent.
Me too. That is why I just bought the yard sign and window stickers on eBay, and didn't even install an actual alarm system. I also installed some fake security cameras. I keep a broken safe in my living room that is glued shut with epoxy and filled with bricks, and I leave a copy of "Guide to Investing in Gold" sitting on top of it. I figure if the burglars focus on that, they won't have time to steal my laptop.
Why aren't they testing this on lab animals before trying this on humans?
There are no good animal models for age related macular degeneration. Rodents don't get ARMD, and primates don't develop it until they are several decades old. Besides, if this treatment was put off for five years while animal trials were done, these women would be blind anyway, and their retinas would have likely deteriorated too far to recover. So it was now or never.
In this case, private lawsuits will provide plenty of corrective action. Despite this setback, there is a lot of promise to stem cells, and the heavy hand of government bureaucracy is likely to do far more harm than good.
Injecting ANYTHING into somebody's Eye is dangerous business.
Sure, but these women had macular degeneration and were going blind anyway. MD causes the vision to deteriorate first in the center of the visual field, and then expand outward, so the most important part of sight is lost first, leaving only peripheral vision. So it's not like 3 women with perfect vision suddenly lost their sight.
What makes you think that the complainants wanted no one to see these videos?
Because if they were reasonable people, their first step would have been to TALK to the people hosting the videos, discuss the issues, and maybe come up with a mutually agreeable solution, possibly involving compromise, instead of filing a lawsuit. The only way they could have been unaware that this was an orphaned project with no ongoing funding, is if they didn't care enough to gather that information.
Because it is not economically feasible to build an Apple Store in every town and village. Selling on-line doesn't work so well in countries where packages are routinely stolen.
Don't have anything on their phones of any particular import.
I have no PIN on my phone. I just swipe and it is ready to go. So if someone steals my phone, they will have access to my mom's phone number and my grocery list. Stuff that matters, like my digital wallet, have individual app-level PINs.
Mosquitoes and Mosquito larvae are critical food sources for numerous creatures. No mosquitoes == no larvae == starving little fish, starving bats, starving birds, starving spiders, etc.. etc.. etc...
Only a few species of mosquito transmit malaria. Most do not. The beauty of this extermination gene is that it only affects the targeted species. The population of other mosquitoes will expand to fill the niche, and the little fishes will be fine.
On one hand yay potentially end suffering on the other increase population
This is nonsense. Better health does NOT lead to increased population growth. I leads to a decrease. As parents are more assured that their children will survive and be healthy, they invest greater resources into each child's nutrition and education, and have fewer children. This has happened repeatedly many times throughout the world.
It still doesn't make much sense, I mean, which village is meant, and since when are villages allowed to make such decisions.
Indeed. It seems absurd that this decision is left up to "villagers". It seems like scientists and political leaders should be making these decisions. And maybe it should be tested first on an isolated island rather than where it could spread unimpeded across Africa and Eurasia.
Hawaii would be a good first test, since it is isolated in the middle of the Pacific, and mosquitoes aren't native to Hawaii in the first place, so there is no negative ecological effects in exterminating them.
But there IS a law about not informing investors of potential liability issues
So every company needs to officially warn their investors about global warming, rising tides, and ocean acidification? Because otherwise the investors will be unaware of these problems? Should they also have to warn them about the possibility of an asteroid strike? A global pandemic? A robot uprising?
I am a shareholder in a S&P index fund. So I should have received 500 warnings about global warming. I have received zero. Why isn't the NY AG going after the other 499?
This is not about "failure to inform investors". It is about a liberal witchhunt against a company that defied their official dogma.
Disclaimer: I think global warming is real, and what Exxon did was reprehensible. But expressing an opinion should not be a crime.
There's no law against using an email alias. Why is anyone even talking about this?
There is also no law against hypocrisy. We should not be criminalizing opinions. I hate Exxon but I hate NY AGs even more: Elliot Spitzer, and now this jerk, both happy to soil the Constitution to further their quest for the governorship.
Not at all. It is better than 90% of the world lives. My co-workers spent an hour commuting everyday. My commute was two meters from my bunk to my desk. I had heat in the winter, AC in the summer, no rent to pay, no utility bills, and a nice computer with big dual monitors. What more could I ask for?
What did you do for fun?
I wasn't in prison. I could go out anytime to anyplace, as long as I had my cellphone. During normal working hours, when other people were at the office, I didn't even need to take the cellphone.
Did you never have friends visit?
I didn't have friends. Friendship is overrated. If you feel a need for male bonding, that is fine, but I always considered that a waste of time, and a distraction from my life goals. I have only had one really close friend in my life, and I am married to her.
What did you do with all the money you saved?
I bought a house, funded my 401k, and saved enough to get married and start a family without financial stress.
There are methods way faster than a Taylor series. Ramanujan's series adds 8 digits per iteration, so getting to 16 would take two steps rather than 10^15 (a significant reduction). Chudnovsky's method converges even faster.
I found with my kids, they actually just seemed to want to less stuff than a lot of kids their age.
My kids are the same. I asked them what they wanted for Christmas, and they said they already had nice laptops and phones, and didn't really need anything else. When I was a kid, my "wanted" list filled several pages.
I am extremely skeptical about that. "Server grade" and "enterprise grade" are mainly marketing terms used to sell the same drives at triple the price. Several large scale longitudinal studies, by Google, Backblaze, and others, have found no reliability advantage to using "server grade" drives.
IMO, most countries have hours of work laws that mean an employer isn't in a position to ask employees to work 24x7 in the first place.
They are not asking him to stay at his desk for 24 hours everyday. They are saying he should be available to work 24/7. I have had plenty of jobs with that requirement. I typically received a middle-of-the-night call once every month or two, but when they came, I was expected to deal with the issue. And, yes, I was paid well.
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Only real AI can hope to cope with the infinite number of variables that arise while driving.
It doesn't have to handle everything perfectly. It just has to do better than a human.
What does a rudimentary AI do when a wind storm has blown down a tree branch in the middle of the road? Does it know that it's OK to go around the obstacle even if it means briefly driving into an oncoming lane?
I know for a fact that Teslas will NOT go around the obstacle. They will just stop. But they are not trying to be "level 5".
What does it do when a piece of newspaper blows around in traffic on the freeway?
I know several people that work/worked on Google's SDC. They have object recognition software that is trained to look for blowing/floating objects, and their system has been trained on many thousands of examples. They handle the "blowing plastic bag" problem better than humans, with earlier recognition, a faster response time, and no reflexive over-reaction.
Hell, Alexa still can't even understand a lot of basic questions I ask her.
That is a silly comparison. Natural language processing is a MUCH harder problem than navigation and lane control. Computers will be able to drive long before they can have an unstructured conversation with a human.
Do you know what Google's actual numbers are for take-over on the speedway?
I don't know about Google, but my Tesla can drive on US101 from south San Jose to Palo Alto without me touching the steering wheel or brake even once.
Instead of developing their own tech, Uber should team up with someone further along, such as Tesla, or Google, or ???.
for me an alarm system is more about being a deterrent.
Me too. That is why I just bought the yard sign and window stickers on eBay, and didn't even install an actual alarm system. I also installed some fake security cameras. I keep a broken safe in my living room that is glued shut with epoxy and filled with bricks, and I leave a copy of "Guide to Investing in Gold" sitting on top of it. I figure if the burglars focus on that, they won't have time to steal my laptop.
Only if there are regulations and laws in place that you can base a lawsuit on.
In a civil lawsuit, the plaintiff does not need to show that the defendant broke any law.
Why aren't they testing this on lab animals before trying this on humans?
There are no good animal models for age related macular degeneration. Rodents don't get ARMD, and primates don't develop it until they are several decades old. Besides, if this treatment was put off for five years while animal trials were done, these women would be blind anyway, and their retinas would have likely deteriorated too far to recover. So it was now or never.
In this case, private lawsuits will provide plenty of corrective action. Despite this setback, there is a lot of promise to stem cells, and the heavy hand of government bureaucracy is likely to do far more harm than good.
Injecting ANYTHING into somebody's Eye is dangerous business.
Sure, but these women had macular degeneration and were going blind anyway. MD causes the vision to deteriorate first in the center of the visual field, and then expand outward, so the most important part of sight is lost first, leaving only peripheral vision. So it's not like 3 women with perfect vision suddenly lost their sight.
What makes you think that the complainants wanted no one to see these videos?
Because if they were reasonable people, their first step would have been to TALK to the people hosting the videos, discuss the issues, and maybe come up with a mutually agreeable solution, possibly involving compromise, instead of filing a lawsuit. The only way they could have been unaware that this was an orphaned project with no ongoing funding, is if they didn't care enough to gather that information.
Back in 2013, Google said their SDCs would be available in 3 years, which means that they were ready LAST YEAR. So BMW is way behind.
Why even have 3rd party dealers / distributions?
Because it is not economically feasible to build an Apple Store in every town and village. Selling on-line doesn't work so well in countries where packages are routinely stolen.
Why, I have such wonderful things as a living room, *and* a spare bedroom.
So do I. But I didn't need them when I was 25 and single.
You can't see a movie
I could go during normal working hours when other people were in the office. That way I get the lower matinee price.
And how did you even meet your wife?
We met at a hack-a-thon. But by then I had a different job.
the regular shlop to do laundry ...
My gym had a laundry room. So I could wash/dry while I exercised. They also had WiFi, in case my laundry took longer than my workout.
Don't have anything on their phones of any particular import.
I have no PIN on my phone. I just swipe and it is ready to go. So if someone steals my phone, they will have access to my mom's phone number and my grocery list. Stuff that matters, like my digital wallet, have individual app-level PINs.
Mosquitoes and Mosquito larvae are critical food sources for numerous creatures. No mosquitoes == no larvae == starving little fish, starving bats, starving birds, starving spiders, etc.. etc.. etc...
Only a few species of mosquito transmit malaria. Most do not. The beauty of this extermination gene is that it only affects the targeted species. The population of other mosquitoes will expand to fill the niche, and the little fishes will be fine.
On one hand yay potentially end suffering on the other increase population
This is nonsense. Better health does NOT lead to increased population growth. I leads to a decrease. As parents are more assured that their children will survive and be healthy, they invest greater resources into each child's nutrition and education, and have fewer children. This has happened repeatedly many times throughout the world.
It still doesn't make much sense, I mean, which village is meant, and since when are villages allowed to make such decisions.
Indeed. It seems absurd that this decision is left up to "villagers". It seems like scientists and political leaders should be making these decisions. And maybe it should be tested first on an isolated island rather than where it could spread unimpeded across Africa and Eurasia.
Hawaii would be a good first test, since it is isolated in the middle of the Pacific, and mosquitoes aren't native to Hawaii in the first place, so there is no negative ecological effects in exterminating them.
Same AC here, I don't actually understand all of the notation in the link you gave as it is displaying here, I'll have to look it up.
The Unicode on that page is borked. There is a really good discussion on this Stackoverflow page including Chudonovsky's method.
But each iteration of that looks like quite a bit of calculation too.
You could do a few iterations of Chudnovsky in a week. A quadrillion iterations of Taylor's series would take a thousand lifetimes.
But there IS a law about not informing investors of potential liability issues
So every company needs to officially warn their investors about global warming, rising tides, and ocean acidification? Because otherwise the investors will be unaware of these problems? Should they also have to warn them about the possibility of an asteroid strike? A global pandemic? A robot uprising?
I am a shareholder in a S&P index fund. So I should have received 500 warnings about global warming. I have received zero. Why isn't the NY AG going after the other 499?
This is not about "failure to inform investors". It is about a liberal witchhunt against a company that defied their official dogma.
Disclaimer: I think global warming is real, and what Exxon did was reprehensible. But expressing an opinion should not be a crime.
There's no law against using an email alias. Why is anyone even talking about this?
There is also no law against hypocrisy. We should not be criminalizing opinions. I hate Exxon but I hate NY AGs even more: Elliot Spitzer, and now this jerk, both happy to soil the Constitution to further their quest for the governorship.
That seems like a miserable existence.
Not at all. It is better than 90% of the world lives. My co-workers spent an hour commuting everyday. My commute was two meters from my bunk to my desk. I had heat in the winter, AC in the summer, no rent to pay, no utility bills, and a nice computer with big dual monitors. What more could I ask for?
What did you do for fun?
I wasn't in prison. I could go out anytime to anyplace, as long as I had my cellphone. During normal working hours, when other people were at the office, I didn't even need to take the cellphone.
Did you never have friends visit?
I didn't have friends. Friendship is overrated. If you feel a need for male bonding, that is fine, but I always considered that a waste of time, and a distraction from my life goals. I have only had one really close friend in my life, and I am married to her.
What did you do with all the money you saved?
I bought a house, funded my 401k, and saved enough to get married and start a family without financial stress.
There are methods way faster than a Taylor series. Ramanujan's series adds 8 digits per iteration, so getting to 16 would take two steps rather than 10^15 (a significant reduction). Chudnovsky's method converges even faster.
I found with my kids, they actually just seemed to want to less stuff than a lot of kids their age.
My kids are the same. I asked them what they wanted for Christmas, and they said they already had nice laptops and phones, and didn't really need anything else. When I was a kid, my "wanted" list filled several pages.
Thanks goodness for the advent of the Commodore 64.
We used to dream of having a C64. My family was so poor, we had to write our BASIC programs on a Timex/Sinclair ZX80.
Server grade at least give you some clues.
I am extremely skeptical about that. "Server grade" and "enterprise grade" are mainly marketing terms used to sell the same drives at triple the price. Several large scale longitudinal studies, by Google, Backblaze, and others, have found no reliability advantage to using "server grade" drives.
IMO, most countries have hours of work laws that mean an employer isn't in a position to ask employees to work 24x7 in the first place.
They are not asking him to stay at his desk for 24 hours everyday. They are saying he should be available to work 24/7. I have had plenty of jobs with that requirement. I typically received a middle-of-the-night call once every month or two, but when they came, I was expected to deal with the issue. And, yes, I was paid well.