You use Linux and most FOSS software under some kind of license restraint, depending entirely on the license. The most free licenses are usually GNU.... and variants of BSD. Linux is only mildly constrained. Free licenses are, yes, free! Use of the code underneath may indeed be constrained.
I write this on a Linux laptop. Its license is different than the Windows 10 VM that's running on this VM, which is different still than the Windows 2016 also running on this machine.
Licenses aren't invoked.... you're constrained by them, and others may have recourse as regards how you use that license. The Windows licenses I use are vastly different, both in actual monetary cost and constraints compared to the GPL licenses used for the FOSS software I'm using. I don't "own" either. I'm a licensee of all. Modification and subsequent dissemination of the mods are all part of the above mentioned licenses.
You never owned Microsoft software. You have always licensed it, like it or not. If you use Linux or macOS, you also license that software.
The difference is that iterative/successive versions cost nothing with Linux, and often nothing with Apple (unless you buy closed-source, paid-for software).
With free software, you may pay support costs, or usage counts. And as major organizations try to wrest control back (often to the "cloud"), you may or may not pay depending on the services rendered, or the "seats" used.
Al though Microsoft does indeed support some free models, there are many models that are not free.
Summary: No, this is your father's Microsoft, despite the CNet hype. They have stockholders to pay, and it's not coming out of their pockets, indeed it's coming out of yours.
People don't discriminate. They drink a coke with lunch, eat a sandwich, then have pasta or something with rice. A beer, perhaps later.
Each of these has too much sugar. Let's say they have a nice meaty steak, then have potatoes. Oops. Add these carbs up. NOT the calories. It's the sugary and starchy (often with grains) part that few people understand.
In today's culture, you need to actively watch the carbs, because carbohydrates are everywhere. Groceries devote aisle after aisle to carbs. Chips/crisps, cereals, rice, processed frozen foods, all of these pack it on. Add the skew of genetic propensity to high-efficiency fat storage (read the insulin sensitivity literature, please) and they've packed in on. Secrete insulin, and wear what you eat. It's that simple. What triggers insulin (rather than ketosis)? Carbohydrates. That moderation-in-all-things bullshit is a simple answer, and it's wrong. Example: ketosis stops cold with alcohol consumption, because most bodies would MUCH rather get fuel from blood alcohol (ethyl) than from either fat or sugars.
Stop saying calories. Start saying carbs and fat, and you'll get to the heart of the matter. "Calories" is a sloppy cover for energy exchange. It's a dog-whistle word. Read the book. Discover why I'm so adamant.
You completely missed the entire chemistry behind insulin, insulin reaction, ketosis, and more.
The obesity epidemic is the direct result of sugar/starch/carb addiction. It's like nicotine or crack-- but worse. Cheap carbs are the basal cause of the epidemic. Sugar feeds a serotonin release caused by a chemical pathway to the brain. It's addiction.
Calories aren't useful for most people, but carbs are necessary for all. You've been hypnotized by the BRIBED research. Read the book in the citation. Read its bibliography. Understand how the cereals and sugar industry have skewed "nutritional pyramids" and other fantasies of logic. KCals are a horrific reference point. Read the book. I have other citations available as well.
Although I agree with your post's subject, I think the argument here is the degree to which things can be successfully hacked. I believe they also mischaracterize macOS... as it's a Darwin branch of BSD and much tinier in size (the kernel, not the kexts) than Linux or Windows 10/2016.
In this ideological world surmised by someone who I believe has an agenda of their own (the cited paper). Any kernel with popularity is going to get bashed and hacked and crunched and messed with; this is inevitable. The author cites no evidence that a non-monolithic kernel with a comparable number of installations is going to be any more secure. Nada.
A nano kernel is the answer? If one is deployed, it's not very useful and has to be aided by other apps, a design forced largely by the chipset makers. If you look at motherboards 20, then 10 years ago, you'll note that the amount of discrete components is shrinking rapidly, replaced largely by SoCs.
Worse, kernel design has been somewhat forced by the whimsy of the Intel/AMD/NVidia cabals. In 2008, a decade ago, we had laptops, desktops, and servers. There were some portable devices, but diffuse and there were numerous architectural battles going on for how they would turn out.
They turned out like this: crazed IoT, myriad phones, laptops, desktops, pre-made servers, DIY architecture servers, based on Intel/AMD/NVidia, along with a minor share of IBM chips, and a superfluity of ARM versions, some of which are compatible.
If you're a developer, learning machine language is not high on your list for most. And so porting your valuable app to a target device is now what 1) enables that hardware architecture with functionality and 2) common OS support provides a foundation for your app to run. The chicken-and-egg problem is that a new family of devices needs a common substrate for apps to work. No apps, no functionality, no sales.
The argument about the # of CVEs justifying a monolithic kernel or something other than a monolithic kernel is more or less moot.
All this said, Intel and AMD and to a lesser extent ARM licensees are in deep crap because there are very serious fundamental architectural problems with their current designs. How many CVEs make up for that?
It's not about calories, it's about net carbs after fiber. Counting calories works well for high-output individuals, who in the US, are about 2 in 10. The rest of the people need to count carbohydrates by the gram or other measure.
Calories isn't so much of a figment, rather, it doesn't portray the accuracy of a nutritional diet. See https://www.amazon.com/Case-Ag... for questions. His other books are equally as well annotated, chapter and verse.
Truly and sincerely, it's not the calories, it's the carbohydrates net of fiber content.
Sounds like a truism, but what you said is a falsehood.
Too many of my friends and colleagues are dying of sugar/carb addiction. They don't have to be huge, just not monitoring their blood A1C score (blood sugar).
It's not a fad diet. People consume a huge amount of starchy foods, sugary beverages, and worse, get no exercise. Type 2 diabetes is almost the epidemic that opoids are!
Often, people do this too late. The damage to their pancreas is already done, the effects of fat uptake because of enormous insulin dumps to battle the constant sugar cycles eventually takes its toll. Some people are even more reactant genetically; they don't need to have huge fat uptake to become insulin resistant.
The Lancet's study isn't an observation-- instead, people took a freaking survey-- people never lie on polls and surveys!! Right?? (looking at you, 538.com).
Consider that there is a class of people who are believers, believing what they're told, as a matter of their circumstances. There are many people who are destitute, perhaps poor, and they struggle. I won't correlate this to IQ or ego, just cite it as an observation.
They believe in magical things. They do it in groups, even mobs. There are those that will lead those tribes, finding boogeymen to blame for their apparent woes. These leaders find themselves liking their power to be believed, and add more magical thinking to their repetoire.
After WW1, the Germans were looking for solutions to their rotten state: horrific economy, worthless currency, and very wounded pride after the failure of Bismarkism. The barely unified Germany needed ego, and someone to blame. Taking notes from other successful recent "revolutions", Nazism rose to power. Books were burned. Jews, Roma, and homos were blamed for the ills of the German people, who should be Aryan, etc.
Today in America and other parts of the world, there are again woes. 1% of the population controls about 99% of the wealth. Once again, strong leaders promise to rise them from their poor state and misery, eager to cite immigration problems, and (take your choice) Jews, Muslims, Africans, Mexicans, etc. as the source of their misery. Oh, and I forgot trans people. OMG.
As knowledge advances, and learned people come to concurrence that climate change is a reality, and it's anchored on the effects of many man-made evils, those profiting from continuing bad practices continue to fight the science, bribe the legislatures and candidates, create their own mythos defending their poor practices, and the planet starts to burn.
A choir of believers (the sheep), identify with those amazing rich folks, the 1%ers. Wannabe sheep, led by wolves, become supper, eventually. History is full of repetition, and those unable to shed their bias and accept realities.
When I was a kid, long ago, I believed adults. I trusted them. Understanding science and skepticism and excepting real data was a stretched, but I stretched. Others are unable or unwilling or don't have the circumstances to stretch. They are sheep. There is a responsibility to help them. Read the evidence. A staggering amount of it is available to you.
A common mistake is comparing destitute sheep (post WW1) with people that are trained to think for a living. Hitler was able to rally people (bad shepherd problem) and convince them of false rubrics. The sheep followed the false rubrics, believing they were empowered.
And I'm for involving humans, at living wage. The Krogers in my neighborhood tries to hand everyone their own scanner, and hopes they'll check out with their own scanning snafu.
The sadness is the store is now only half of a grocery store, the rest being non-grocery items, booze, greeting cards, motor oil, pharmaceuticals, concessions (Murray's Most Expensive Cheese Kiosks), and so forth.
When a 25mph vehicle comes to my community, sadly, it might end up in a lake along with the rental scooters. This is not the future; this is an MBA's idea of cutting costs and enhancing perceived convenience. I have no kitties and don't touch booze.... I can imagine the $7 roll of toilet paper, though. Sometimes when you need stuff, you need stuff, but it's an edge case.
Signal reflectivity and object characterization is fairly evolved. 1-5% error is pretty clever, but it stands to get more testing, as the madness of what people bring in terms of metallic contraband is huge.
Might it mistake a flask of booze rather than suntan lotion? I'm not sure. Could a big hunk of metal be mistaken for a pistol? Again, not sure. They have to prove effectiveness, or the litigation potential could make many lawyers really rich.
Before a commercial deployment, I'm betting there are guidelines as regards the reality of what's possible. Until then, it's only speculation that it has inexpensive commercial potential-- and every pricey competitor will fight it-- for their loss of profits.
Microsoft makes huge revenue from the OEMs, who in turn, get to have a machine with native Windows as delivered from the store, online or bricks&mortar. They're not giving that up. The only reason Windows 10 was free for a while was their huge gaffe with Windows 8, the absence of 9, and to get people to buy into 10, which has an advertising revenue model, just like their competition.
They don't give up cash cows, as you cite, and no one in LinuxVille (Dell excepted) wants to put Ubuntu or Mint onto their hardware, because people will say, "hey, what's with no Windows?". Bottom line, not gonna be free in the foreseeable future, and Home will be free as an OEM. The OEMs will never go away, and Microsoft makes revenue, hence it costs more to the OEM, so the charge is "hidden" to the end consumer.
The telecoms, through their proxy-- the administration-- are fighting this, NOT CONGRESS. Several individual states have created their own net neutrality statutes, some of which are pretty lame, but an attempt, nonetheless-- something that Congress (also plentifully funded with campaign contributions from telcos) has also failed to surmount.
Follow the money. The money is spent by telcos, and it's not for consumers, it's for plentiful returns to stockholders and Wall Street. Follow the money. The Executive Branch does not have your best interests at heart.
The telecoms are fighting furiously to contain the newly found grip, and additionally get those pesky states who've passed neutrality laws to just go away and leave them alone.
This is a battle with telecom $$ campaign contributions and therefore funded US Justice Dept goading the SCOTUS to see it their way (that is, their friends, the telecoms), and pay back their benefactors, 'cause this sure isn't going to benefit the citizenry.
Nothing of the like. I've watched wafer operations over the year hit the wall time and again. Fab shops aren't cheap. Renting a fab shop after you've re-invented the wheel isn't cheap, either. QA isn't cheap. Generations of this aren't cheap.
NNs learn. FPGAs are easily sent through (new) subroutines. Wanna do algorithms? Field programmable ones, ones that don't have to wait for storage? And they're not that expensive. As a microcontroller in this app, they're great for sensor monitoring.
Whatever the actual design that arrives, it's proprietary, and isn't going to be open to scrutiny, and will be expensive. I still believe it's a bad move.
They're not fully autonomous systems, and the data that they gather is not from fully autonomous systems. Those I know driving Teslas like to actually drive them.
Dissimilar software runs now on Tesla cars as well. Amalgamating that data is no easy task. And we agree that this amalgamation is important.
This is why I'm personally advocating for a unified approach to the problem, believing that it will eventually be a money pit for Tesla.
FPGAs make great sense for execution. If you use a kernel that learns in a small environment and execute in an FPGA for routines, you get the limbic/pre-frontal cortex analog. FPGAs can run circles around GPUs as well, given the scope of execution needed.
As far as reviewing accident logs, that's much tougher. Ingesting the logs to discern actions to take/conditions to learn becomes not so much arbitrary, but a difficult regimen itself. And it means that it's forensic, rather than preventative. Knowing what works vs what doesn't work is better than what didn't work. It means there was no accident, due to a successful posture, e.g. a weighted value for a situation successfully surmounted.
Tesla PURPORTS to be able to add more NN intelligence using proprietary silicon. None of this is proven yet, just like many other Tesla missed goals. This is really rocket science, even with NN. Your rocket is an auto navigating known/unknown obstacles through its use cycle. It can't talk to other cars so as to update them with info about how squirrels leap out in front of you, then go back suddenly. The car will swerve anyway. Kill the squirrel is my opinion, personally, but these cars don't learn. There is no device to add to the neural network, and if one evolves, it only uses the data that other Tesla inputs are able to render or use.
They'll have to use FPGA technology to get it started before they go to fab, and each fab is a chance that they'll have to update.
Please wait while your car is updating. Ignore that Peterbuilt directly crossing your path.
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LOL. They might argue with you, but sounds like you're the owner to me. Needless to say, they don't do *that* anymore!
An interesting exception. Did Commodore license the software to you? The haziness of shrink-wrap licensing always galled me.
Not factually incorrect.
You use Linux and most FOSS software under some kind of license restraint, depending entirely on the license. The most free licenses are usually GNU.... and variants of BSD. Linux is only mildly constrained. Free licenses are, yes, free! Use of the code underneath may indeed be constrained.
I write this on a Linux laptop. Its license is different than the Windows 10 VM that's running on this VM, which is different still than the Windows 2016 also running on this machine.
Licenses aren't invoked.... you're constrained by them, and others may have recourse as regards how you use that license. The Windows licenses I use are vastly different, both in actual monetary cost and constraints compared to the GPL licenses used for the FOSS software I'm using. I don't "own" either. I'm a licensee of all. Modification and subsequent dissemination of the mods are all part of the above mentioned licenses.
You never owned Microsoft software. You have always licensed it, like it or not. If you use Linux or macOS, you also license that software.
The difference is that iterative/successive versions cost nothing with Linux, and often nothing with Apple (unless you buy closed-source, paid-for software).
With free software, you may pay support costs, or usage counts. And as major organizations try to wrest control back (often to the "cloud"), you may or may not pay depending on the services rendered, or the "seats" used.
Al though Microsoft does indeed support some free models, there are many models that are not free.
Summary: No, this is your father's Microsoft, despite the CNet hype. They have stockholders to pay, and it's not coming out of their pockets, indeed it's coming out of yours.
If you thought facial recognition was getting good, think about voice recognition.... that ostensibly isn't used.
Just that the questions have an IP address (dorm, library, etc.) time of day, context, and therefore can be fingerprinted.
This will not turn out well.
Simply not true.
People don't discriminate. They drink a coke with lunch, eat a sandwich, then have pasta or something with rice. A beer, perhaps later.
Each of these has too much sugar. Let's say they have a nice meaty steak, then have potatoes. Oops. Add these carbs up. NOT the calories. It's the sugary and starchy (often with grains) part that few people understand.
In today's culture, you need to actively watch the carbs, because carbohydrates are everywhere. Groceries devote aisle after aisle to carbs. Chips/crisps, cereals, rice, processed frozen foods, all of these pack it on. Add the skew of genetic propensity to high-efficiency fat storage (read the insulin sensitivity literature, please) and they've packed in on. Secrete insulin, and wear what you eat. It's that simple. What triggers insulin (rather than ketosis)? Carbohydrates. That moderation-in-all-things bullshit is a simple answer, and it's wrong. Example: ketosis stops cold with alcohol consumption, because most bodies would MUCH rather get fuel from blood alcohol (ethyl) than from either fat or sugars.
Stop saying calories. Start saying carbs and fat, and you'll get to the heart of the matter. "Calories" is a sloppy cover for energy exchange. It's a dog-whistle word. Read the book. Discover why I'm so adamant.
You completely missed the entire chemistry behind insulin, insulin reaction, ketosis, and more.
The obesity epidemic is the direct result of sugar/starch/carb addiction. It's like nicotine or crack-- but worse. Cheap carbs are the basal cause of the epidemic. Sugar feeds a serotonin release caused by a chemical pathway to the brain. It's addiction.
Calories aren't useful for most people, but carbs are necessary for all. You've been hypnotized by the BRIBED research. Read the book in the citation. Read its bibliography. Understand how the cereals and sugar industry have skewed "nutritional pyramids" and other fantasies of logic. KCals are a horrific reference point. Read the book. I have other citations available as well.
Although I agree with your post's subject, I think the argument here is the degree to which things can be successfully hacked. I believe they also mischaracterize macOS... as it's a Darwin branch of BSD and much tinier in size (the kernel, not the kexts) than Linux or Windows 10/2016.
In this ideological world surmised by someone who I believe has an agenda of their own (the cited paper). Any kernel with popularity is going to get bashed and hacked and crunched and messed with; this is inevitable. The author cites no evidence that a non-monolithic kernel with a comparable number of installations is going to be any more secure. Nada.
A nano kernel is the answer? If one is deployed, it's not very useful and has to be aided by other apps, a design forced largely by the chipset makers. If you look at motherboards 20, then 10 years ago, you'll note that the amount of discrete components is shrinking rapidly, replaced largely by SoCs.
Worse, kernel design has been somewhat forced by the whimsy of the Intel/AMD/NVidia cabals. In 2008, a decade ago, we had laptops, desktops, and servers. There were some portable devices, but diffuse and there were numerous architectural battles going on for how they would turn out.
They turned out like this: crazed IoT, myriad phones, laptops, desktops, pre-made servers, DIY architecture servers, based on Intel/AMD/NVidia, along with a minor share of IBM chips, and a superfluity of ARM versions, some of which are compatible.
If you're a developer, learning machine language is not high on your list for most. And so porting your valuable app to a target device is now what 1) enables that hardware architecture with functionality and 2) common OS support provides a foundation for your app to run. The chicken-and-egg problem is that a new family of devices needs a common substrate for apps to work. No apps, no functionality, no sales.
The argument about the # of CVEs justifying a monolithic kernel or something other than a monolithic kernel is more or less moot.
All this said, Intel and AMD and to a lesser extent ARM licensees are in deep crap because there are very serious fundamental architectural problems with their current designs. How many CVEs make up for that?
I believe the paper cited is deeply flawed.
Yep. Same origins here: https://arstechnica.com/scienc...
No, you miss the point.
It's not about calories, it's about net carbs after fiber. Counting calories works well for high-output individuals, who in the US, are about 2 in 10. The rest of the people need to count carbohydrates by the gram or other measure.
Calories isn't so much of a figment, rather, it doesn't portray the accuracy of a nutritional diet. See https://www.amazon.com/Case-Ag... for questions. His other books are equally as well annotated, chapter and verse.
Truly and sincerely, it's not the calories, it's the carbohydrates net of fiber content.
Sounds like a truism, but what you said is a falsehood.
Too many of my friends and colleagues are dying of sugar/carb addiction. They don't have to be huge, just not monitoring their blood A1C score (blood sugar).
It's not a fad diet. People consume a huge amount of starchy foods, sugary beverages, and worse, get no exercise. Type 2 diabetes is almost the epidemic that opoids are!
Often, people do this too late. The damage to their pancreas is already done, the effects of fat uptake because of enormous insulin dumps to battle the constant sugar cycles eventually takes its toll. Some people are even more reactant genetically; they don't need to have huge fat uptake to become insulin resistant.
The Lancet's study isn't an observation-- instead, people took a freaking survey-- people never lie on polls and surveys!! Right?? (looking at you, 538.com).
Consider that there is a class of people who are believers, believing what they're told, as a matter of their circumstances. There are many people who are destitute, perhaps poor, and they struggle. I won't correlate this to IQ or ego, just cite it as an observation.
They believe in magical things. They do it in groups, even mobs. There are those that will lead those tribes, finding boogeymen to blame for their apparent woes. These leaders find themselves liking their power to be believed, and add more magical thinking to their repetoire.
After WW1, the Germans were looking for solutions to their rotten state: horrific economy, worthless currency, and very wounded pride after the failure of Bismarkism. The barely unified Germany needed ego, and someone to blame. Taking notes from other successful recent "revolutions", Nazism rose to power. Books were burned. Jews, Roma, and homos were blamed for the ills of the German people, who should be Aryan, etc.
Today in America and other parts of the world, there are again woes. 1% of the population controls about 99% of the wealth. Once again, strong leaders promise to rise them from their poor state and misery, eager to cite immigration problems, and (take your choice) Jews, Muslims, Africans, Mexicans, etc. as the source of their misery. Oh, and I forgot trans people. OMG.
As knowledge advances, and learned people come to concurrence that climate change is a reality, and it's anchored on the effects of many man-made evils, those profiting from continuing bad practices continue to fight the science, bribe the legislatures and candidates, create their own mythos defending their poor practices, and the planet starts to burn.
A choir of believers (the sheep), identify with those amazing rich folks, the 1%ers. Wannabe sheep, led by wolves, become supper, eventually. History is full of repetition, and those unable to shed their bias and accept realities.
When I was a kid, long ago, I believed adults. I trusted them. Understanding science and skepticism and excepting real data was a stretched, but I stretched. Others are unable or unwilling or don't have the circumstances to stretch. They are sheep. There is a responsibility to help them. Read the evidence. A staggering amount of it is available to you.
A common mistake is comparing destitute sheep (post WW1) with people that are trained to think for a living. Hitler was able to rally people (bad shepherd problem) and convince them of false rubrics. The sheep followed the false rubrics, believing they were empowered.
Does this sound a lot like modern politics?
Ummm, no.
We can measure with modern tools, the changes. The "fluctuations" as you term them, are data. With data, you can predict with reasonable certainty.
Over 100,000 scientists, WITH THAT DATA, have agreed on the outcome, given long history, and your "fluctuations".
If you're not alarmed, you're either ignoring the data, or your stupid.
And I'm for involving humans, at living wage. The Krogers in my neighborhood tries to hand everyone their own scanner, and hopes they'll check out with their own scanning snafu.
The sadness is the store is now only half of a grocery store, the rest being non-grocery items, booze, greeting cards, motor oil, pharmaceuticals, concessions (Murray's Most Expensive Cheese Kiosks), and so forth.
When a 25mph vehicle comes to my community, sadly, it might end up in a lake along with the rental scooters. This is not the future; this is an MBA's idea of cutting costs and enhancing perceived convenience. I have no kitties and don't touch booze.... I can imagine the $7 roll of toilet paper, though. Sometimes when you need stuff, you need stuff, but it's an edge case.
Signal reflectivity and object characterization is fairly evolved. 1-5% error is pretty clever, but it stands to get more testing, as the madness of what people bring in terms of metallic contraband is huge.
Might it mistake a flask of booze rather than suntan lotion? I'm not sure. Could a big hunk of metal be mistaken for a pistol? Again, not sure. They have to prove effectiveness, or the litigation potential could make many lawyers really rich.
Before a commercial deployment, I'm betting there are guidelines as regards the reality of what's possible. Until then, it's only speculation that it has inexpensive commercial potential-- and every pricey competitor will fight it-- for their loss of profits.
Microsoft makes huge revenue from the OEMs, who in turn, get to have a machine with native Windows as delivered from the store, online or bricks&mortar. They're not giving that up. The only reason Windows 10 was free for a while was their huge gaffe with Windows 8, the absence of 9, and to get people to buy into 10, which has an advertising revenue model, just like their competition.
They don't give up cash cows, as you cite, and no one in LinuxVille (Dell excepted) wants to put Ubuntu or Mint onto their hardware, because people will say, "hey, what's with no Windows?". Bottom line, not gonna be free in the foreseeable future, and Home will be free as an OEM. The OEMs will never go away, and Microsoft makes revenue, hence it costs more to the OEM, so the charge is "hidden" to the end consumer.
The telecoms, through their proxy-- the administration-- are fighting this, NOT CONGRESS. Several individual states have created their own net neutrality statutes, some of which are pretty lame, but an attempt, nonetheless-- something that Congress (also plentifully funded with campaign contributions from telcos) has also failed to surmount.
Follow the money. The money is spent by telcos, and it's not for consumers, it's for plentiful returns to stockholders and Wall Street. Follow the money. The Executive Branch does not have your best interests at heart.
The telecoms are fighting furiously to contain the newly found grip, and additionally get those pesky states who've passed neutrality laws to just go away and leave them alone.
This is a battle with telecom $$ campaign contributions and therefore funded US Justice Dept goading the SCOTUS to see it their way (that is, their friends, the telecoms), and pay back their benefactors, 'cause this sure isn't going to benefit the citizenry.
Nothing of the like. I've watched wafer operations over the year hit the wall time and again. Fab shops aren't cheap. Renting a fab shop after you've re-invented the wheel isn't cheap, either. QA isn't cheap. Generations of this aren't cheap.
NNs learn. FPGAs are easily sent through (new) subroutines. Wanna do algorithms? Field programmable ones, ones that don't have to wait for storage? And they're not that expensive. As a microcontroller in this app, they're great for sensor monitoring.
Whatever the actual design that arrives, it's proprietary, and isn't going to be open to scrutiny, and will be expensive. I still believe it's a bad move.
They're not fully autonomous systems, and the data that they gather is not from fully autonomous systems. Those I know driving Teslas like to actually drive them.
Dissimilar software runs now on Tesla cars as well. Amalgamating that data is no easy task. And we agree that this amalgamation is important.
This is why I'm personally advocating for a unified approach to the problem, believing that it will eventually be a money pit for Tesla.
FPGAs make great sense for execution. If you use a kernel that learns in a small environment and execute in an FPGA for routines, you get the limbic/pre-frontal cortex analog. FPGAs can run circles around GPUs as well, given the scope of execution needed.
As far as reviewing accident logs, that's much tougher. Ingesting the logs to discern actions to take/conditions to learn becomes not so much arbitrary, but a difficult regimen itself. And it means that it's forensic, rather than preventative. Knowing what works vs what doesn't work is better than what didn't work. It means there was no accident, due to a successful posture, e.g. a weighted value for a situation successfully surmounted.
And all of this takes time, money, and both together equals margin, something that's pretty slim for Tesla.
No, not yet.
Tesla PURPORTS to be able to add more NN intelligence using proprietary silicon. None of this is proven yet, just like many other Tesla missed goals. This is really rocket science, even with NN. Your rocket is an auto navigating known/unknown obstacles through its use cycle. It can't talk to other cars so as to update them with info about how squirrels leap out in front of you, then go back suddenly. The car will swerve anyway. Kill the squirrel is my opinion, personally, but these cars don't learn. There is no device to add to the neural network, and if one evolves, it only uses the data that other Tesla inputs are able to render or use.
They'll have to use FPGA technology to get it started before they go to fab, and each fab is a chance that they'll have to update.
Please wait while your car is updating. Ignore that Peterbuilt directly crossing your path.