Tom Johnstone BunurongCountry AU EU UK
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“Waymo’s robotaxis have driven over 200 million fully autonomous miles on US roads. It took Waymo 16 years to reach the first 100 million mark—then only 7 months to double that. Its fleet now logs nearly half a million fully autonomous miles every day. Robotaxis are getting exponentially safer too. In 2022 Tesla’s “full self-drive” mode needed a human to intervene roughly every 15 miles. The latest version travels 2,800 miles between critical interventions. That’s a nearly 200X improvement in four years. The moment a politician can say, “human drivers are now the leading cause of preventable road deaths” is the moment we start seeing driving bans. You may be the last generation of human drivers. I say “you” because I don’t drive! What this means for you. Carl Sagan famously said, “It was easy to predict mass car ownership, but hard to predict Walmart.” We can all imagine a city filled with robotaxis. But what kind of businesses spring up when you reclaim 10+ hours a week of commute time?” -@DisruptionHedge
The people in the centre and on the left dismissing/misunderstanding the rise of One Nation are making the same mistake as those on the right dismissing/criticising the Teals. If you can only see the world through your own lens, you're missing the bigger picture by a *lot*.
UK universities cut jobs, research and teaching amid squeeze in overseas students ft.trib.al/mRzR5kG
Labor & Coalition dud young workers millions of super $$ while lining the pockets of big corps like Coles & Kmart. We can fix this - & we should. @MikeSeccombe in @SatPaper
@AvidCommentator Can we just compare this last month with last year May/June, in 25, 24 etc as this is the classic slow down period for real estate agents. They head off on holidays now.
The scholarly reference system is over 100 years old, DOIs ~15. References typically refer to whole papers. Why not reinvent this? References could point to exact claims, data, equations, figures, ideas. Writing software could handle most of it. LLMs&humans would benefit equally.
This is because the slides were accessible and interactive. They are very simple - a few notes on that. 1st - these are intended for early kinder 2nd - I did have 1-2 students say at first that a rock is a plant. The "not-a-plant slides" take about 30 seconds and are helpful
