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@yacineMTB Facebook isn’t foundational tech. You could scrape it off the internet and everything would still work.

The reason zuck is spending absurd amounts of money on openAI's top researchers probably isn't because he is trying to beat openAI on AI research but it's to inflict a mortal wound to openAI because they are an actual legitimate threat to their monopoly zuck knows what i know

@R2rule1 @TheHumanoidHub They’re androids, meant to be compatible with interfaces designed for humans

@TheHumanoidHub Legs have no structural efficiency. Putting legs on robots is stupid.

Optimus has a human-like toe-off feature in its feet for more natural and efficient locomotion.

@AdrianDittmann The Oatmeal online comic published the authoritative treatise on Mantis Shrimp: theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_…

Mantis shrimp are fascinating creatures. They have 12 photoreceptors for light wavelengths while we have 3, and can punch so hard that cavitation bubbles form which can emit light.

@TeslaTrip @grok - what’s your estimate of the size of the Uber fleet in Austin, TX?

Robotaxi launch details x.com/i/spaces/1yNGa…

@goodday_upup @BislaHodl Maybe, but don’t forget Mars’ excellent background music choices; iconic.

@BislaHodl I remember he was sort of saying this himself few days ago lol

Holy moly! This Chinese tester (Douyin: 萌脸大叔) deliberately drove FSD onto the sidewalk TWICE. In both cases, FSD recognized the situation and managed to navigate back to the road. The second test in the video is especially impressive because the tester didn’t even input a destination into the GPS and FSD somehow understood he is driving on sidewalk and found the quickest and the best way to get himself out of such a weird situation!

@SwiftOnSecurity Minivans are brilliant in their environment. I think your average tool-loving functionally-minded geek could appreciate them as multi-tools.

Single and showing up to a date in a minivan to show how ready I am to settle down

@Rainmaker1973 This chart is a crime

Essential skills for the future

My understanding was that the problem was integrating the information between multiple sensor types. If the vision and LIDAR sensors disagree, which one do you pick to make decisions? To get better results from training the AI, Tesla shrank the problem space by limiting the training to the one sensor type that was absolutely necessary, vision. Tesla then maxed out the information they get from the cameras by removing the usual image processing performed by cameras. That reduced latency, improved light sensitivity, and broadened the spectrum relayed by the camera on the red and blue ends. Then they did the rest: increased the fleet size, collecting real-world edge cases, created synthetic data, made huge training clusters, custom training chips and networks, all to crack how to drive using the primary sensor we all use; vision. After that? After RoboTaxis are possible? It’ll probably be simpler to network the cars together. Automated transport offers a lot of possibilities. You could dedicate roads to automated traffic, with networked autonomous vehicles no longer needing lanes or signals. Traffic capacity on existing infrastructure would soar. But that’s all beyond the first most important step; solve vision.

@fredzannarbor @overglobe @elonmusk @Tesla And that has MANY costs.

“Do you still believe LiDAR isn’t needed?” an analyst asked @elonmusk today during @tesla’s quarterly report call. He isn’t alone. In the past few weeks I have had several people tell me it is necessary. Even at an autonomous vehicle party at CES. Even at last Friday’s AI poker game in San Francisco. Why do people not believe the evidence? I have faced this many times in my career. People choose to stay uninformed and stupid. And never apologize for being wrong. It is part of being human, I decided long ago. Wish it weren’t so. We could have a better world if people would learn faster. I use this lesson to ask myself what I am stupid about. I usually find something. It is why I force myself to use AI for everything.

@davepl1968 @ChipHarbour It’s gorgeous; great work!

@ChipHarbour Nothing... I'm sure an MP3 player is better. But just look at the thing!

I finally have everything in the Pioneer stack working perfectly! You'd be surprised how much is required to get a stack like this working when you're just buying stuff off eBay one pieces at a time... Finding all the rack mount stuff and handles was one of the harder aspects! Many thanks to Curt at reeltoreeltech.com for his work on the RT-909!

@MohammedF710 @VarunNavani x.com/i/grok/share/k…

@VarunNavani Hello, he is the actual reason Tesla has not significant made progress in autonomous driving and not deliver on its promises. Most of these tasks were accomplished using Mobile eye chips.

In 2017, Tesla faced an impossible challenge: Teaching cars to see and understand the world like humans. Then they hired a 29-year-old genius who solved it. But what he did next shocked everyone in Silicon Valley. Here's the untold story of Tesla's AI mastermind:

@n3c8 @o_lalonde @davepl1968 True. It doesn’t look like he took a photo with his iPhone. The dude is writing Matrix-style screensavers in C for his VT100, so it’s hard to guess what’s actually going on behind the scenes

@FnordPrefect @o_lalonde @davepl1968 The picture is very clean for a shot of the screen. Not saying your wrong.

If you know why it's "Access denied!", you're a better programmer than 4 out 5 dentists surveyed!

@o_lalonde @davepl1968 This is Dave Plumber; that’s no emulator, he got a PDP-11 up and running in his garage:

@davepl1968 I just want to know what is this terminal emulator.

@neoeno Fascinating; thank you

the thing is, all of this is SUPPOSED to be about Forth, but did you know Forth uses a linked list to store its keywords? my question was then — why did Chuck Moore implement it that way? and THEN... there are a lot of other things to think about...

yes i have created my own virtual machine with its own assembly language to implement my own linked lists for the next video

@DrAllyLouks @PDT1060 @dieworkwear ICYMI there is a Russian series translated as “The Sniffer” who, yes, solves crimes with his exquisitely sensitive nose. I’ll leave the trailer here should you require inspiration: youtu.be/U28FY1H8sbY

@PDT1060 @dieworkwear I’m not sure Derek and I have the skillset to solve mysteries, but then neither did half the Scooby gang so y’never know. I bet there are episodes where the reveal hinges on smell and/or clothes…

I would *love* to hear everyone’s recommendations for references to smell in pop culture (tv, film, art, memes etc). Bonus points if it has an ethical angle, but certainly not essential.

@girldrawsghosts The production design of Mystery Men is absolutely bonkers-brilliant. It was marketed as a snarky comedy, but looks like DELICATESSEN or CITY OF LOST CHILDREN.

@elonmusk @BillAckman Git blame style?

@BillAckman Great idea! That should be required.

Imagine if all bills were required to be footnoted with references to which Congressman added a provision to a bill. We could then see from whence the pork comes. The way it has historically been done, there is no cost to being behind a particularly egregious piece of pork. With this change, there would be a cost to even proposing government waste.

I agree. The demographics for both Russia and China are not great. Eastern Siberia might be a priority for China more for the arable land rather than natural resources, but that’s obviously anyone’s guess (link below for fun). I agree that an actual coup is unlikely. The Russian Federation breaking up, with various ethnographic groups newly aggrieved over being used as cannon-fodder in Ukraine, seems far more likely. They might not march on Moscow, but they could well chase of the remaining Russian forces and declare independence. Guessing at particulars is fun, but a waste of time as any speculation will be wrong. Directionally though? It’s difficult to see how Russia gets through this without a fundamental renegotiation/demotion of its position and relevance in world politics.

It’s possible. There’s not enough young men in Russia for a coup, like in Ukraine. Your China scenario is intriguing. I have my doubts. After 2030, China begins a large population collapse. China also has ongoing border disputes with India. “Taking a buffer zone” could be very problematic for China when India is nuclear, much younger, and does a lot of trade with Russia. It’s plausible. I have my doubts.

1/7 Unlimited failure: russia has suffered 700,000 casualties, lost control over Syria and Armenia, expanded NATO, and wrecked its economy, while reducing its occupation of Ukraine from about 30% in March 2022 to roughly 20% now. Look at the maps and witness the fiasco!

Despite Russia’s best effort, the EU has not frozen. And with the loss of Syria, Russia will have a much harder time supplying Wagner in their ongoing destabilization of North Africa. Russia couldn’t defend Armenia, maybe failed at staging a coup? Whatever the story, it’s hard to interpret events as a positive sign for Russia. Even declaring Russia a gas state is a tacit admission of the sad reality that their economy has devolved to simple resource extraction. Everyone can watch the satellite images of the Federation stockpiles being drawn down, read about Russian artillery fire dying down even with NK shells and barrels, itself another humiliation. A Russian civil war seems all but inevitable, with Chechnya already sparking up. China will “secure/stabilize” a buffer, carving off a huge portion of the east where they’re already in place, because Russia no longer has the resources or expertise to exploit what’s there. As the kids say, “Putin might not have a succession plan, but China does.”

EU is heavily relying on US LNG since the Nordstream was blown up. Armenia is not a Russian satellite state. Russia backstabbed Armenia in the on/off conflict with Azerbaijan. Armenia has begun pivoting West prior to the conflict. Russia is a gas state. India acts as a middleman as oil sales might not be as high, but the resources are still flowing.

Sure, if the EU actually hadn’t been learning to do without Russian energy for the last few years. And then there’s that past-tense. Russia “had” a bunch of stuff. It’s an open question if Russia can restore any of it. Russian stocks are crashing, interest rates skyrocketing, and the only reason the central bank can afford to stabilize the Ruble is because so few are actually traded. About the only positive economic news is those pallets of cash Assad brought with him as yet another Russian satellite state (Armenia was earlier) collapses because Russia doesn’t have the resources to spare. I think it’s pretty unlikely Russia will ever be in a position to exploit those gas fields.

@FnordPrefect @joni_askola @siproj Why would Russia want a pipeline to China, when Russia had two pipelines to Europe, acting as the gas station for the EU? Control energy for 500m people, you can heavily influence a continent to do your bidding.

@willshawison @joni_askola @siproj And the only thing they’re missing is a pipeline from the Donbas to China.

@joni_askola @siproj You just appeared on my TL so I don’t know much about you friend. Russia has still achieved the most important objective of the invasion: controlling Europe’s mostly untapped, largest natural gas field.