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You are confusing predictable continuous low level noise for sheer chaos. The chaotic potential Montreal has in winter, and it uses, is spectacular. The fact that it is so unpredictable in exercising this merely contributes to the problem.

Freezing rain, for example. My god.

"montreal doesn't allow right on red".

That is not uniformly true throughout the metro area, especially in the major burbs.

So how can humans do it?

If humans don't have lidar but can drive it's an existence proof of the viability of that approach.

Compounded by the fact in winter basically everyone will be going to the airports at least twice to escape, which drives demand.

Basically if the planes are flying the robotaxis will need to work.

You have crashed into a cone.

No, in the limit where everyone has lidar they end up stepping on each other too. Being a totally passive sensor system is a major benefit for mass deployment, on top of the cost advantages.

Lidar is cool when you want to get a point cloud from a fixed location, or dealing with perfectly uniform surfaces (which cars don't because humans can't do this either), but beyond that there are better ways to do things.

That's one of the reasons lidar will prove to be a dead end for this application. It's a temporary enabling technology on the path to the simpler multiple camera based solution.

Will be interesting how it handles the tougher climate conditions.

Montreal would be the ultimate test, both climatically and just for navigating sheer chaos. Those Roadster jets may finally make a smooth ride throughout the whole of the city possible.

> The problem is that, for a long time, humans have attributed meaning, value, and social status to great cognitive insights.

Not really, they haven't. It's only when those insights can be communicated in such a way to other people that those other people can find utility (which could be enabling them to derive more insights that yet other people find utility in recursively) in the insights that they do so, and this is a huge difference. This is why AI is such a total problem to this mentality, because it disrupts not only insight production but the mechanism that values insight production.

> an unfeeling corporate robot[1] will burn a rainforest to compile a list of 700 highly obscure barely-readable facts that might be true that nobody can understand

He'd have more of a point if a huge number of humans weren't occupied doing exactly this, and much worse on top.

It really seems exactly like it, although at least the portal had the built in camera cover.

One reason is it lets you access Windows build machines for free when you no longer have any around.

I would not underestimate how strategically important that will prove to be for Microsoft moving forward.

There was a demo of a remake in progress on the Archimedes which did the rounds back in the 90s which was also amazing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jssOIpGYH3E which was the first game I saw do real time anti aliased line rendering for the ship-ball connection.

> sat in fund raising meetings with VCs in toronto

There's your problem. The single biggest thing every Canadian VC is trying to figure out is "why are these people asking us for money when if they were any good they'd be in the US" so by simply asking them you're already signalling something bad. A lot of their enthusiasm for process is based on this suspicion and also that the entire industry is just a way for various professional services to extract most of the investment money, since that's the game they're so used to playing with the government.

There are some Canadian VCs earnestly trying to improve but they are overwhelmingly hilariously conservative and focused on unimportant signals over reality. This is one (but not all) of the major factors that drive basically every remotely ambitious Canadian company to run a corp in Delaware and go for funding from the US. The tax situation is the other major contributor.

But I didn't need to install a publisher specific launcher to run it.

LLMs are inexplicably good at working within any tight feedback loop to coerce the desired solution. This is precisely why proof assistants + LLMs are non intuitively successful.

This is also why they're so good at creating three.js or Blender work when the output is so easily constrained to "Look exactly like that". I recently posted https://www.ambionix.com/blog/introducing-the-czp-1/ on here, and the audio engine in that was developed in that way.

It is true that it would be astounding to find if anyone has seen a LLM produce any useful generalization of anything resulting in a simplification. They seem to have a direct tendency to do the opposite. The brutal reality is humans have also undervalued this capability for a long time (I think the Poincare/Hilbert debate is relevant) to the point we are also taught that generalizations are, generally, bad and wrong.

"Mathematicians did not ask for this work to be done."

Gatekeeping much?

"Mathematicians have a particular vision of progress that is informed by history and field-specific considerations."

This cannot seriously have been written by anyone mathematically literate, it's just too embarrassing.

The entire Anthropic branding is religious kitsch - deeply off putting, but apparently quite reflective of their reality.

Android Studio always was Google acquisition bait, but now they are going to need to be more serious about it.

The trick is having enough speculative explorations going on at once so that you can see if the ones going off for hours on end strike gold while doing so or not, then being prepared to either cut them off or get them back to the point, and repeat.

If you don't have at least some workloads doing that you're missing out on the biggest wins from the current phase of the technology.

Baxter by Rethink Robotics.

If playing the super long game, the app could get a consistent fraction of tax revenue from generated new taxpayers.

> Open MCP basically kills your product in my opinion, you can't charge for any feature the LLM can do itself.

For products for which this is true resorting to whitelisting clients simply accelerates your obsolescence by creating a temporary market for products that are MCP, and open agent, friendly.

We should be grateful there are at least two serious competitors, and hope for more. (Come on Europe/Mistral, please do something interesting . . . )

If ever the competition reduced it would turn into an absolute shitfest of nonsense very very fast, and that is a prime reason not to allow them to "pace the frontier".

My neighbours regularly remind me that AI is quite different in French - despite being Francophone they tend to use it in English for what they think are better results.

It's entirely plausible detection is totally different in different languages.

> from my memory, the OS on Nokias was just fine. it was great. it just wasn't a smartphone OS

Nokia had at least three tiers of OS: Series 30, Series 40 (which had subseries) and Series 60. It was S60 which was the smartphone Symbian based one which is where they went especially nuts.

S40 was actually really good and solid, and if someone remembers the UI of a Nokia fondly it's almost certainly a S30 or S40 device. A bit basic, but for a feature phone of that era it was great. The reason SonyEricsson started gaining market share was their phones were more like improved S40 devices (like higher fidelity UIs) than Nokia's S60 lines which were . . . not.

The irony, for those that missed it, is Nokia did a lot to make WebKit usable on S60, thereby setting up the foundations for mobile Safari in the first place.

Nokia were allergic to ideas like decent font rendering though.

Let's cut to the chase here: the root problem is now a critical mass of the population simply won't believe the government blame for virtually any incident since false flags are now such a widely recognized concept.

The Nord Stream incident being a fine example.

> The point is moot anyways. All info about everyone is out there for the taking now by a half-competent AI prompter. What do we do about that is the real question?

It's like filing your gov tax return in a five eyes country: you guys actually know the answer already, just save me the trouble. But we have to act like they haven't been spying the whole time.

If we actually distributed the benefits of mass surveillance and privacy invasion (and now add wilful copyright infringement) then it would be enormously less objectionable.

So this is the new line around state led irresponsibility? That pointing out they're irresponsible is defending rapists?

Come on. If "AI Agents" (scare quotes) could do it then in practice anyone could have been doing this the whole time and no one would have known.