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Today in shitty machine learning startups, this company claims to predict IQ, personality, and violent tendencies by applying deep learning to facial features and bone structure.
That's phrenology. You just made the ML equivalent of a racist uncle.
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@jessicaray0
Works in a dealership, drives a GMC Denali 2500. Going to bet he also complains about gas prices.
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@Teslaconomics
Going the wrong way through a parking lot, while violating the FSD user agreement by not keeping your hands on the wheel. Thanks for showing everyone how this system encourages reckless driving.
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@Grady_Booch
@fchollet
@smdiehl
This is just amazing. They took a relatively simple and robust system, and made it orders of magnitude more complicated, less efficient, slower, and added many more points of failure. All to achieve the exact same end result.
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@ryxcommar
Accidentally committed my node directory and a couple Jupyter notebooks. Now VP of engineering.
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@Popehat
@TheSpiceDAO
"unconfined by professional advice or basic subject matter knowledge"
This could be the slogan of the entire cryptocurrency space. The perfect intersection of dudebros who know nothing about economics/computing/law/math/finance but who are absolutely sure of themselves.
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@Imposter_Edits
The end where they're all forming an orderly line to take a swing at him...
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@Eve6
Still undefeated is the libertarian uptopia in New Hampshire that got overrun with bears because they never developed a waste management system.
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Cybertruck has the design esthetics of a state park urinal.
Tesla Cybertruck will be the absolute coolest toy for adults…
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@Teslaconomics
That's a Mercedes AMG GT, you dingus. It's also a full 45 seconds faster than a plaid around the nurburgring. So your car doesn't stand a chance.
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@ChudsOfTikTok
These trucks are almost always illegal (your tires cannot extend beyond your fenders because it kicks up road debris into cars and people behind you). But of course, the cops refuse to enforce the law.
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Latest cult conspiracy: the reason FSD is crap is because Tesla is keeping the real FSD secret, and will shock the world with magical level 5 glory any day now.
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Amazing that these morons are actually falling for this “sell AI compute on the cars” bullshit. A single Blackwell machine has 2,000x more integer performance, and 120,000x more floating point performance than the dinky little processors in these cars.
Elon talks for the first time about an AWS like opportunity.
Elon says its car owners (with hardware 4) will be able to rent the cars compute power to an AWS like service that is used for AI inference.
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Reminder the three years ago Mobileye's CEO said Tesla's approach to self driving was a "brute force" method that would hit a "glass ceiling", stalling development. Now we know he was exactly right.
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@PatW91194378
@TaylorOgan
There aren’t billions of miles on FSD. There are millions, and hardly any is usable data. Plus, we don’t know accidents or injuries, because Tesla refuses to actually release FSD performance stats.
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This is so stupid. The "AI" capabilities of those chips are less than current iPhones. Why do people listen to these Ark dimwits?
Tesla using in-vehicle compute for other purposes would create another way to get more utilization / a revenue stream off of the car, even if the owner hasn't signed up for the robotaxi network. Personal cars are used <=~5% of the day now by human drivers so lots of room
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@SbastienBurdin3
@ajtourville
Then why the hell are they charging $15,000 for a feature they've been promising for 6 years, but still doesn't exist?
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@ModeledBehavior
There’s a pattern with a lot of guys I know. Get a $60k a year job on a gas drilling rig, feel like you struck it rich, and use your first paycheck as a down payment on a $75k truck.
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The car company that claims to be a leader in "AI" builds the least reliable driver assistance system on the market. I give it another 3-4 years before Tesla goes the way of Theranos.
"The final 11 seconds of a fatal Tesla Autopilot crash"
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@nihilistspicer
Are we considering breadsticks discrete or continuous? Because I strongly suspect breadstick consumption follows either a Poisson or gamma distribution.
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@RadioFreeTom
Guy I went to high school with posted on Facebook last night that Hillary Clinton had Vince Foster killed to block the investigation into Benghazi. He was serious, and couldn’t be convinced otherwise.
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@iamdevloper
Was recently told by a recruiter that I could be part of a "revolution" by using AI to change how people buy underwear.
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@warren_craddock
@BillB
Imagining Bjarne Stroustrup sweating his way through a Google interview.
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Looks like I’ve made it.
Not many people know this, but one milestone in becoming an ML researcher is getting blocked by Lex Fridman on Twitter.
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$100,000 invested in Ark’s innovation fund 5 years ago would be worth $99,788 today.
According to Ark Invest, with 100k invested you will be a millionaire not in 10 but in 5 years.
While for many those calculations look aggressive, Ark Invest was spot on before, and other calculations, methodologies, and models lead to about the same results.
Place your bets
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Aren’t you the dipshit pretendgineer who micromanages Tesla’s autopilot/FSD teams, despite knowing fuck all about the tech? The guy who didn’t understand radar, so demanded it be removed, over the objections of actual engineers?
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@PatW91194378
@TaylorOgan
You shouldn’t just trust what your eyes see. It’s easy to build a system that can drive 95% of the time with a human backup. The hard part is that last 5%. That’s why we need actual performance stats, not staged YouTube videos.
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@DobackHuffInc
Yes, but as a Mazda owner, I object to the comparison. Mazdas are actually well built and fun to drive.
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What makes me so angry about this is that there are lots of companies doing great work toward autonomous driving. But they're being careful and meticulous in their approach. Meanwhile, TechnoTrump Leroy Jenkins his way into the field, and gives the entire industry a bad name.
Here's a typical drive on Tesla FSD Beta, and why it's the opposite of useful. It's most certainly not even close to being "safer than a human", by any factor.
22-minute drive, 4.5 miles, and WAY too many interventions.
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@RadioFreeTom
We need more curmudgeons. People who embrace the basic elements of liberal society, and maybe even a little progressivism, but are also willing to tell utopian lefties when they're full of shit.
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GM has had four wheel steering for 20 years. Holy shit, Teslabros have finally topped cryptobros as the world's dumbest motherfuckers.
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@DeanBrowningPA
@kayleighmcenany
Speaking of cutting away, you should really know when to cut away from your account.
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@PatW91194378
@TaylorOgan
And Tesla still won’t release actual performance stats, or be able to use the vast majority of the data, because they’re not actually developing a “full self driving” system. They’re just milking an ADAS prototype as long as they can.
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@revhowardarson
The most avid QAnon promoter in my hometown was previously in prison for raping his 5 year old cousin.
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Holy shit, Elno had his engineers update "the-algorithm" repo to remove the embarrassing bits where they had a special category for his tweets.
So, open source it, except for the parts that make TechnoTrump look like a loser.
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@CAPTStringbean
@BrandonOfTX
@Theophite
This one drives me insane. Ho Chi Minh fucking loved the founding fathers, and aspired to make Vietnam in the image of the US, and we were like, “fuck you, submit to the French.”
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@Grady_Booch
@molly0xFFF
Wasn't that the same problem that Bitcoin cruise ship ran into?
"We never thought about what to do with all this shit."
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In case you weren't already convinced web3 is bullshit, check out this proposed infrastructure diagram. It's not decentralizing or removing middlemen. It's adding more middlemen, and centralized points of failure.
@Grady_Booch
@fchollet
@smdiehl
This is just amazing. They took a relatively simple and robust system, and made it orders of magnitude more complicated, less efficient, slower, and added many more points of failure. All to achieve the exact same end result.
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@jimcramer
@APompliano
Tether is the only reason for Bitcoin's price. It's solely responsible for pumping it over the past year. Without Tether, Bitcoin drops below $1000.
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@bowserbot2
It's there in the Tensorflow docs. There's a switch to crack down on conservative built right into the code.
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@SaherCpp
@Grady_Booch
@fchollet
@smdiehl
One thing I always ask in interviews is where a proposed algorithm or solution wouldn't work. You can't really understand the tech without knowing its limitations. People pushing blockchain solutions never seem to be able to answer that question.
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@WalkerSeattle
That suspension setup is completely illegal in 49 states (ambiguous in 1). But for some reason, we've decided to stop enforcing basic vehicle safety laws.
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@jeffleb89495079
@coloradotravis
I'm willing to bet 99% of crypto bros can't explain what a blockchain is. That's the difference. Munger knows to invest in what he understands, not YOLO420 into hype.
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Somehow these dipshits memory holed the entire space shuttle program.
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The unifying trait of Tesla bros is they all consider themselves AI experts, and they all have no idea how AI actually works.
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Every single one of these videos they post to promote this "feature" shows multiple violations of the user agreement. The system actively encourages misuse.
This is how I move around parking lot.. you don’t? $TSLA
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Teslastans screaming “driver error!” “It’s in beta!”. 1) no, it’s in wide release. You can’t just slap the beta label on it to excuse a shitty safety critical system. 2) even on just basic highway driving, Teslas get orders of magnitude more phantom braking than other brands.
Just hours before the crash that injured nine people, including a 2-year-old child,
@elonmusk
had triumphantly announced that Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” capability was available in North America.
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@_ganeshp
@Grady_Booch
@fchollet
@smdiehl
So, what is the point? I keep hearing it's to decentralize the web, but the proposed solution still depends on all the same rails the current web uses, so nothing is actually decentralized beyond current systems. This just adds more middlemen.
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@BuildBackGOP
My hometown in Texas with a population of 4000 has a higher murder rate than NYC.
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This is literally the smart fridge gag from Silicon Valley. But of course the “AI investooooor” crowd thinks it’s revolutionary, and not just another scam.
In-vehicle compute opportunity: Some really rough numbers: Gross profit of $230 per vehicle per year and $60 per bot per year.
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@Zeddary
When I was in high school during the Iraq war, an army recruiter came to our class and said the US should “nuke all Arabs.” A couple rednecks responded, “hell yeah!” They later signed up, and now post Trump memes on Facebook all day.
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@PatW91194378
@TaylorOgan
This is the exact line Tesla has been pitching since 2014. “Level 5 in 6 months to 1 year. Robotaxis soon after.” You got conned. The company has no path to any sort of autonomy.
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@MehrsaBaradaran
Seems like a place to plug
@Noahpinion
‘s great piece about how neglecting poor kids is holding back the entire economy.
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@cassidoo
Me talking to my computer architecture students during the first discussion section.
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@EarthTrustee
@TaylorOgan
Wouldn’t have to if Tesla would actually share their performance data.
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@ryan_creates
@unusual_whales
They’ve accomplished literally nothing. So far all they’ve done is rip off research from 25 years ago. It only looks impressive to people unaware that it’s all been done before.
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@Tazerface16
Not sure about aerospace, but within AI it’s widely recognized that he has the understanding of a business school student who just had AI explained to him in 3 minutes by a drunk undergrad who themselves are 2 weeks into an intro course on the topic.
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@RadioFreeTom
The mask “debate” is giving the Chinese government a century’s worth of material for why democracy is a bad idea.
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Fanbois think buying a car makes them AI experts.
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@sam_d_1995
How much you wanna bet the guy talking about fixing people's AC/gas/electric owns a 3/4 ton truck, doesn't know how to change his oil, and has never put anything larger than a cooler in the bed.
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@InternetHippo
We can extrapolate that the epitome of cool is that 85 year old naked guy in the gym locker room, who ran out of fucks to give during the Carter administration.
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@smdiehl
Only in crypto does criticizing an algorithm draw this vitriol. If I criticize GPT-3 for being a short term and brute force solution to NLP, I get a thoughtful reasonable discussion. If I criticize blockchain for being cludgy and impractical, I get threats and name calling.
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@Coalission
@ncweaver
Read a little closer. The article says they have teams doing various research on uses for blockchain, but nothing concrete. Companies this large have people researching everything imaginable.
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@badhistorytakes
Reagan, wasn't he that guy who implied murdered civil rights workers in Mississippi had it coming?
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@Popehat
@berri_tea
@Steven_Strauss
"science... which Iranians didn't do."
Alhazan would like a word.
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@FrankFree97
@BriannaWu
@LPNH
No, her point is entirely relevant. Sweatshops did exist in the US before labor laws eliminated them. Removing those labor laws would bring them right back.
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Ever notice how the people spouting this nonsense couldn’t define gradient descent?
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@AdamSerwer
@cjane87
They don't care. When they say it's "divisive" they mean recognizing slavery and its consequences doesn't fit with the conservative myth that "slavery was a long time ago, and if blacks haven't caught up by now, their must just be something wrong with them."
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@abledoc
@grantbelden
"The article is 3 years old"
That's the point. The prediction was dead on. FSD has shown zero quantifiable progress in 2.5 years.
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@JonahDispatch
One big one is his support for Bitcoin, which is a complete waste of energy and time, and an enormous environmental disaster. He also leaves a lot of people misinformed about tech, because he often doesn't know what he's talking about, but people trust him.
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I made one just for you. ADAS system complaints relative to vehicles sold. Orange line is Tesla, blue is Ford.
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@mat_polaschek
@Ryon_Downs
That's a different study. It's comparing vaccine response to covid response among the vaccinated. What it's actually showing the the vaccine reduces the risk of myocarditis developing from a breakthrough covid infection. Joe doesn't understand this is a totally different study.
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FSD came in dead last, followed by Autopilot. No surprise that Toyota’s more safety focused system came out on top.
🆕 IIHS is introducing a new ratings program to encourage automakers to incorporate more robust safeguards into their partial driving automation systems.
New ratings out now:
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Flying through the heart of Silicon Valley at 70 mph, hands off, eyes off, no attention paid to traffic… cause I’m on a train.
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@nihilistspicer
A couple years ago I got a message from a recruiter looking for someone with 10 years of Tensorflow experience. When I pointed out that Tensorflow has only been around since 2015, he just kept asking if I can meet the requirements.
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@andreamatranga
@ModeledBehavior
This is exactly why there’s about 2 dozen car dealerships right outside the Air Force academy in Colorado Springs.
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@levie
Is anyone else getting a horrible sense of existential dread when the aisles drop through the floor and you're left alone on the infinite abyssal plain?
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