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Not the future, it did already happen, albeit on a smaller scale with Cruise: https://www.thedrive.com/news/a-swarm-of-self-driving-cruise... The worst part is they were never real…

I don't know if VBB used this, but most transit agencies publish their data in two standard formats these days GTFS for static schedules and GTFS-real time for real-time data. Any …

It's also a popular meta-learning algorithm: ALPaCA: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08912 Well no one cares unless one of the parties has enough money and interest to hire a lawyer.

Many vocal users, tiny set of their overall users.

It's not like 1password is gonna delete your data or block you from accessing your data if payment fails and your account is frozen. It just gets into read-only mode. They have a f…

Oh that wasn't my intention - Shazam was and is groundbreaking, they did it when no one else could. All I meant was that it seems more "doable and I probably understand how it work…

Shazam used to wow me, but then as others mentioned in the replies it's essentially matching the signature of the sound to the sounds in the database. If it's one of the song, it g…

From a quick glance, Notion has the highest valuation per employee (10 Billion USD for 350 employees). Some of the companies are really bloated imo. Canva has 3100 employeee? Serio…

What is the basis of your statement that the factories are never inspected or the products are tested? I interned at a pharmaceutical company's factory in India for the summer that…

And what makes you think Amazon doesn't do that yet? Kiva systems did what Ocado does now a DECADE go. Amazon acquired kiva systems (infact, Amazon robotics was born out of this ac…

I could be wrong, but I don't think Applied Intuition and Polymath have the same product or business plan. Applied Intuition has a high-fidelity simulator as the main product, Poly…

Congratulations on the launch Stefan and Ilia! I'm a PhD student in robotics and autonomy and I've always wondered why something like this already didn't exist, at least for 90% of…

Conda let's you install a specific cuda version directly in a virtual environment with one click though. It's really useful when you have to switch between multiple PyTorch version…

I don't think Jeff cares about SEO. He was out probably looking for a simple domain and I'm sure algorithms.com, algorithms.org etc. were already taken. If I had to pick between sa…

Jeff also owns this domain that redirects to this book: algorithms.wtf

I was thinking about this the other day: a huge solar storm that can wipe out the power grid in continental United States will also wipe out literally every tech company. Google, A…

Yeah, vision is indeed used only to localize, not really to recognize the track. Low-key this is what I don't like Waymo/Cruise approach to autonomous driving - they use HD maps to…

A couple of points: 1. We doesn't have to be another country/military. It could just be another research lab in US, China, or anywhere else in the world. Some people just like push…

Pretty much every company that tries to capture the environment around it uses a probabilistic model that takes in the raw sensor data and makes predictions about things in the sur…

What do you mean? In a flight simulator you have your controls controlling a plane (right body, dynamics are well known) in the sky (simple environment, dynamics are reasonably wel…

While DALL-E might seem like something out of the world, what it outputs at the end of the day is pretty basic: a 2D image. To run a high-fidelity simulator of human body that is u…

It's easy to simulate the robotic manipulators - the dynamics are well known and they are rigid objects. On the other hand, simulating say skin/muscle/blood or anything that closel…

I've read reports that say the mouth bacteria develop Xylitol resistance in about 9 months. So I'm not sure how sustainable it is in long term https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22218…

I mean correlation doesn't mean causation. Perhaps the very reason the bought a handgun is because they thought they had some threat or were involved in activity that would increas…