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One stunned engineer from a major Japanese automaker examined the computer and declared, "We cannot do it."
Q: What did the German engineer say about the Tesla Model 3?
A: It's a Volts wagon that you can drive without Hans.
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But was it "We cannot do it, because it is so advanced", or "We cannot do it, because our laws don't allow us to risk killing people"?
And it's only six years because they're Japanese -- the Chinese would do it in six weeks.
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Quote: The real reason for holding off? Automakers worry that computers like Tesla's will render obsolete the parts supply chains they have cultivated over decades, the engineer said.
Such systems will drastically cut the number of electronic control units, or ECUs, in cars. For suppliers that depend on these components, and their employees, this is a matter of life and death.
Just going from ICE to an electric drive train is good for an ~40% reduction in the number of parts in a car (mostly because the engine and transmission are nothing but fiddly bits); but apparently the supply chain carnage is going to be even more widespread than that. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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A new method for generating electricity means that pretty soon you may never have to charge your phone again. “ What I really need is a droid that understands the binary language of moisture vaporators”
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We taught the AI how to win us in strategy games...
We started generating electricity "out of thin air" using bacteria...
soon enough the AI reduced us to this [holding an alkaline battery in the hand]
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But they'll only work until the cathoda virus spreads.
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C++ “move” semantics are simple, but they are still widely misunderstood. This post is an attempt to shed light on that situation. "Ya like to move it"
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Facebook CEO reiterates his arguments in FT op-ed, calls for tech to be treated somewhere between newspapers and telcos in Munich speech Especially anyone that competes with Facebook
Treated "somewhere between newspapers and telcos". Companies that produce a product you put under your pet birds, and companies that compete on the loathing scale. I think MarkieZ may be on to something.
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That they need to be regulated is for sure and our of discussion, but I kind of don't trust his "good will" and "kind heart" trying to explain us what to do to avoid an evil he has created or helped to create.
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It is often the regulated who sought to be regulated. They help to write the regulations to hinder upstarts who can't possibly afford the resources to wade through and comply with the regulations.
Be careful what you wish for.
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That's why I said "They have to be regulated, but I don't trust him to do it"
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Maybe he is bored and does his best work when presented with constraints?
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So he's saying he wants laws that block the publication of fake news?
Sounds like fake news.
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Nothing is stopping Zuckerberg from doing what he advocates.
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And also, crucial point, the software may be wrong and we'll never be released by these angels of death It's either AI, or we go back to the reliable Magic 8-ball
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Do we have a way to freeze Bruce Willis until it is known for sure if the asteroids might hit us or not?
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For computers, anything which is not absolute 0 change, is a "may" happen.
For most humans, they would look at "might hit in 200-220 years time" as "well not me then"
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Of course, the developers failed to take into account the end of the Unix epoch, which skewed the calculations, so it's really next week.
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Or just possibly along with an ~10% false negative rate the algorithm might also have a 0.5% false positive rate and none of those rocks will come anywhere near the Earth within the several century window that we can make meaningful predictions. (On longer time-scales the combination of only being able to approximate solving the n-body problem and the combination of spin and light pressure[^] effectively randomize the positions of smaller asteroids.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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This post attempts to describe a mindset I’ve come to realize I bring to essentially all of my work with software. I attempt to articulate this mindset, some of its implications and strengths, and some of the ways in which it’s lead me astray. "Try, try, try to understand"
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Computers are actually easy to understand, computers just follow what they get feed... what I fail to understand is why the heck someone would do things in the way they are usually done.
Quoting the article of [Don't use the word "did"...] below:
Quote: At risk of running counter to Sinclair’s claim, in this case – as Lovelace herself would’ve hopefully agreed – it is people who are stupid, not computers. The proof for that can be found in the ...
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modified 18-Feb-20 1:06am.
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What he's essentially saying is that no-one but him should be trusted, no matter how well qualified and experienced they are in their specialist fields.
In fact, he seems to be against any kind of specialisation. Does he plumb and wire his own houses, and build his own fridges and TVs out of components and materials he has himself manufactured/mined/processed/etc?
I'd expect a more mature world view from a seven-year-old child.
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I don't think that's what he was trying to say in the article.
Understanding the next layer down isn't akin to building it from scratch. Consider if a circuit breaker in your house wouldn't stay on - you'd systematically unplug stuff until you had power back, you probably know enough to unplug appliances that typically draw a lot of power first as well. There's a big difference between learning enough to do that, and wiring your house from scratch.
Learning a little bit about the stuff you don't need to know about is great, otherwise how would you be able to judge between whether or not something like drain cleaner, or a frontend JavaScript framework was an unnecessary and unhelpful?
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The interview with Giant Search and Advertising Company ended in flames. I couldn’t solve the problem. But that was only the beginning of the madness this year.
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I think that's a pretty accurate,clear and well written article from someone who is just starting out in software.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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