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Everyone wants to hate on Elon but he’s making incredible progress in machine learning. Tesla and OpenAI have done more for the field than almost anyone in the last decade, except maybe Google.
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But is it closer than Linux on the desktop?
The irony of this is there is probably more Unix on your wrist than Linux on the desktop.
Nah, I really want my next PC build to run Linux. But that'll have to wait a while ... just paid $4k for a vacation. My girlfriend wasn't sympathetic that $4k would pay for an awesome rig instead.
Also he is a investor in a Chinese competitor to Tesla (EV and self-driving abilities). Take his words with a grain of salt.
Just to clarify the current process of being able to use the Tesla FSD beta because I've seen a lot of comments by people thinking Tesla released this and cars are now just driving around without a human driver: 1. pay $12k or $200/mo 2. Opt-in for beta. Drive over 100-200 miles and maintain a 98%+ "safety score" until you're selected (could be months) 3. Manually activate FSD each time you want to use it 4. Keep han…
Should this be legal? Some rich Tesla fanboy beta testing buggy software with a misleading name of autopilot or FSD ont he streets where your children walk? I am not aware of such laws but they shoudl exist, otherwise other companies can start alpha testing with random fanboys.
These days when I'm near a Tesla on the road I use the same caution as if driving near an obviously drunk driver. Give them lots of space and prepare for them to act unpredictably.
My usual wheels are a crappy French dumb city car with a peanut for an engine and I feel safer in that with a large truck driving 6 feet off my ass.
Edit: also my crappy French thing actually has CarPlay rather than the shit show mess Tesla came up with.
I think full self driving is the same distance away as cold fusion.
Both Cruise and Waymo are legally operating cars without drivers that are available to the public today.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fsd is the current definitive take on the subject. Watching this video I really had no idea how bad it was. My opinion is that we will never have full self driving without infrastructure updates; basically putting the cars on rails and forbidding non-self-driving cars and pedestrians. Even then it's dicey. At least part of the reason is that a self-driving car can never have skin in…
I'm not sure. Maybe it's my anxiety speaking but that sounds pretty dangerous, at least over time. An autonomous car may not play chicken but it can still make mistakes, or be unable to brake in time. There's also no way to know that a car is being autonomously driven since, currently, someone has to have their hands on the wheel.
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The irony of this is there is probably more Unix on your wrist than Linux on the desktop.
As someone who's heavily bought into the Apple ecosystem, I'm surrounded by Unix all the time, technically. On my wrist, in my pocket, on my lap. And I'm surrounded by Linux, too, at least at work. But Linux on the desktop ? How delightfully absurd! Nah, I really want my next PC build to run Linux. But that'll have to wait a while ... just paid $4k for a vacation. My girlfriend wasn't sympathetic that $4k would pay f…
Typing this on my iPad in a hotel. That’s the life.