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What I'm saying is that you've completely missed the OP's point: The advantage Tesla has in the autopilot space is that they are able to have hundreds of thousands of real-world test units for their autopilot systems by running the neural net in parallel with the driver inputs (i.e. shadow mode) versus companies that at best have a few hundred test units thus limited material to improve/iterate on their deep learning models.

A metaphor for the situation is Apple playing catchup in the AI and voice recognition space to Google because Google had years of material and huge sums of it to build their deep learning models while Apple had comparatively little. The underlying technologies used by either company might be very similar, but you can't throw hardware at the problem to play catch up -- you need that real-world input/learning material for the deep-learning model to be robust.

> Is the comment I'm responding to.

And that dark launching includes sending the latest neural net builds to the fleet to safely shadow test the changes, collecting millions of hours of real-world telemetry and rapidly iterating without end users even needing to pick their nose. You either intentionally or through ignorance reduced OP's statement to being an OTA ECU update that you "could literally put that together with scraps in my garage".

But feel free to keep shifting the goal posts.

...Rather than invoking a god which comes with its own problems (i.e. who/what created the creator) one could infer that life came from a universe where the physics/conditions for creating life are possible, and life somehow crossed branes moving from one universe to the next.

Consider a reverse/inverted universe where instead of space being a void, space is solid containing voids/cavities/pathways between voids, allowing complex chemical processes to occur naturally and at great scale.

I think you're being a little uncharitable or simply don't understand what Tesla are doing.

Bonus points for electrochromic glass for privacy. The glass can only be activated when the car is fully stopped with the handbrake engaged.

Uses: sleep, sex, rest, air-conditioned space, heated space, eating space, electrical outlet for phone or laptop, quiet room, change room...oh and a car. Basically anything a hotel can be but also portable.

Add automated driving to the equation and who knows what kind of a beast the industry will be in a decade.

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You're asking for legislative controls which, at the end of the day, can still be bypassed either flat out illegally or via legal grey areas. At best it's remedied after the act or prevents only the most obvious misuse. When you give politicians the mandate to control something often they're too technologically/process incompetent to get it right and to make sure the solution is in your interest.

You want to abate this practice? Exit social media (...and life will improve), use RSS for mass information consumption (I've been doing it for ~10 years now - I can pour through what would normally be a days sifting/reading in 15 minutes while taking the first dump of the day) and use a browser with extensions that give you more fine grained control i.e. Firefox with NoScript.

Be in control of your world.

> “Yeah, Test, you didn’t put the right rudder in.” I said, “Yeah, I know. I couldn’t lift my leg up.”

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> Legalized hooliganism! All in the pursuit of data and good test points, of course.

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> I did, for a moment, stare through the windows of the bridge. And you think to yourself, “This is a view that no one really gets.”

Does it really blow your mind that the ability to move freely without being tethered to a phone is a selling point? I can give an example where it really helps for me: I'm a nudist.

But even when clothed I like walking around able to take a call or listen to music without snagging a cable on one of the many protrusions in this world like door handles, kitchen cupboard handles etc which can also lead to an expensive phone launching from my pocket onto the floor.

If you're worried about pollution, Airpods should be on the low end of the concerns list.

Great observation. You could unwittingly transport it because it's microscopic. You could post tiny quantities in/on everyday objects to any country. Replicating it to usable quantities takes days not months, and a few containers in terms of space not whole crops or basements full of lamps.

This will be game-over for nonproliferation.

As someone who enjoys craft IPAs/NEIPAs rich in hop oils, have hemp protein powder in my breakfast shakes with hemp milk and love the odd puff of the peace pipe, I've got to say it's a remarkable plant family.

You can eat it, drink it, wear it, use it as a medicine, get drunk (well, it's a flavouring and biocide - not the source of alcohol) and get high from it.

Addressing the second sentence - I have no knowledge of what transpired but my assumption would be a combination of Apple didn't want to have their SOC's fab'd by Qualcomm for the sake of an integrated modem, and Qualcomm didn't want TSMC fab'ing their modem IP into Apple's SOC's, so the obvious solution was a discrete modem which was a product they could offer.

Which devices? I kept using my G5 iMac until 2008 without any issues and with regular OS updates.

> Pages

From what I recall, and perhaps what I'm thinking of happened further down the track, Pages had issues in spite of changes to hardware, not because of it. Apple pared back the functionality of its office software when it transitioned from paid to free software, breaking some of the formatting features.

Agree. I have a set of Bose Hearphones - a pseudo hearing-aid which cancels ambient noise while enhancing human voices. It's been quite life-changing when having dinner at a restaurant with friends where previously I'd sit in silence because I couldn't make out what people were saying. It's also great for talking while walking down a loud street where previously I'd just walk in silence because I couldn't hear that well...

...but I mostly leave them at home and always carry Airpods for when I want to make a call or listen to music. Other wireless headphones are too big, clunky, and charging them isn't as simple as dropping each bud into a tiny magnetically secured case. So simple and one of my favourite tech products in a long time.

What's stopping Apple from adding hardware-level emulation to their SOC's, even if it's only partial functions, to ensure cross-compatibility doesn't take a serious toll on performance? x86 would be patent-encumbered but I'm sure there are a few creative ways to reduce that burden.

> We have lockout laws preventing us from entering drinking establishments after 1am

Currently for a large section of the Sydney CBD and inner suburbs encompassing Kings Cross new entrants to venues are blocked after 1:30am and last drinks are 3am. This does not apply to areas of the City of Sydney like Surry Hills or Newtown, which can remain open all night. I believe the trading hours for licensed premises have been recently relaxed by City of Sydney to areas including Glebe, however I'm not 100% on that.

Still, it's pretty sad as Sydney's nightlife, particularly in Kings Cross, was a big draw-card for younger visitors and residents alike.

A compound eye of phase detection points, laser, sonar as well as regular contrast detection would be interesting. Each has their own strengths and limitations.

(For context the camera listed above uses sonar autofocus - basically echolocation)

I'm sure someone asked a similar question about personal computers in the early 80's. They didn't go away when smartphones became prevalent, they became computational work-horses and in the same way an AR system will never be able to pack the computing punch and battery life of a smartphone.

But similar to how a smart-phone complements a PC, AR tech will simplify how we interact with specific parts of the world around us like navigation, notifications, and merge with existing tech like wireless earphones with noise cancellation and conversation/audio-enhancement to provide minimum necessary utility.

More features will bleed down the chain from PC to phone to AR, but with size comes certain advantages and disadvantages, and a large object can always hold more juice and computational power.

I think the biggest disruption will come from global low latency wireless internet - suddenly computational power can be uncoupled from the device and AR would be able to offload the power-hungry CPU/GPU's and large batteries needed for fluid and powerful interaction. But I'm not sure Elon Musk's satellite internet project will be that disruptor - so it might be another long wait until that next big thing happens.

I think this is the really important part. Think of it like a computer bus - do you want a single channel able to move a lot of data at once but with potential bottlenecks as various systems fight to talk to each other, or lots of channels able to move medium amounts of data without bottlenecking one component while favouring another?

When one channel is at capacity you move to the next, with further redundancy to spare.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmala_alkaloid

Normally the concrete reinforcement panels that line tunnels are precast based on calculations for how many they'll need to complete the project, which makes sense because tunnels are usually large one-off infrastructure projects.

Boring Co, which wants to be in the business of making tunnels constantly and for anything from transport to utilities, could look into making a Just In Time process for precast panels using tunnel dirt/rocks to mix with concrete and for aggregate.

It'll use only a fraction of what they dig up, but reducing waste and improving process is always a good thing.

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What makes Ant 2 even more unusual is how little light it gives out. Compared to the LMC, another satellite of the Milky Way, Ant 2 is 10,000 times fainter. In other words, it is either far too large for its luminosity or far too dim for its size.

The scifi nerd in me wants to believe it's a result of an ancient civilisation shrouding huge numbers of stars in Dyson Spheres, waiting until they collided with the next galaxy that they could feed on.

That's the feeling I got, as well as perhaps being a human abstraction layer between the engineers and the executives. If you can describe in relatively understandable terms something that is technically difficult to thousands of laypeople (well, that's unfair - Anandtech was for nerds but being a nerd doesn't make you an IC/EE engineer), you'd be an asset to both the corporate and engineering teams.

And that translation works both ways - understanding the direction of the company with regards to future products vs what you want to get out of your silicon teams (e.g. when Anand mentions thermal envelopes, that might include an understanding of the limitations stemming from the potential form/design and material of a future product).

Sample size of one and all that - but for me it was a selling point. The PowerPC G5 (PPC 970) was intriguing when it first came out. Having been with Intel, Cyrix and AMD systems since the 286 and used them since XT (Intel 8088) days, it was nice to muck around with something new and paired with OSX Tiger it was such a fun world to explore. The move to Intel felt like a bit of a letdown, but by that time I loved OSX and Snow Leopard cemented it as my OS of choice.

Apple desktops/laptops moving to custom silicon would excite the nerd in me. I want competition.

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