John Jacques

Ceasefire moment. Israel moment.

BREAKING: Tesla has officially released FSD V14.3 I'm downloading it in my Model Y right now. Here's everything that's new: • Improved parking location pin prediction, now shown on a map with a P icon. • Increased decisiveness of parking spot selection and maneuvering. • Rewrote the Al compiler and runtime from the ground up with MLIR, resulting in 20% faster reaction time and improving model iteration speed. • Enhanced response to emergency vehicles, school buses, right-of-way violators, and other rare vehicles. • Mitigated unnecessary lane biasing and minor tailgating behaviors. • Improved handling of small animals by focusing RL training on harder examples and adding rewards for better proactive safety. • Improved traffic light handling at complex intersections with compound lights, curved roads, and yellow light stopping - driven by training on hard RL examples sourced from the Tesla fleet. • Upgraded the Reinforcement Learning (RL) stage of training the FSD neural network, resulting in improvements in a wide variety of driving scenarios. • Upgraded the neural network vision encoder, improving understanding in rare and low-visibility scenarios, strengthening 3D geometry understanding, and expanding traffic sign understanding. • Improved handling for rare and unusual objects extending, hanging, or leaning into the vehicle path by sourcing infrequent events from the fleet. • Improved handling of temporary system degradations by maintaining control and automatically recovering without driver intervention, reducing unnecessary disengagements. Upcoming Improvements: • Expand reasoning to all behaviors beyond destination handling. • Add pothole avoidance. • Improve driver monitoring system sensitivity with better eye gaze tracking, eye wear handling, and higher accuracy in variable lighting conditions.

BREAKING: The Washington Post reports that Pete Hegseth's portrayal of the war on Iran has been 'overly optimistic' and 'misleading', according to US officials. Intelligence assessments reportedly show that over half of Iran's missile launchers remain intact, and thousands of drones are still available for Iranian military attacks. The sheer absurdity of neocon foreign policy is now on full display. They launched a war on Iran using Venezuela as a 'template' and believed the country would submit in less than a week. They believed their overwhelming air power would be enough to destroy Iranian military capabilities. Now these assumptions have gone up in smoke... And President Trump finds himself backed into a corner by his own rhetoric, with Pete Hegseth still scowling at the camera, using bellicose rhetoric to talk about non-existent successes. The entire region, and the world is paying the price for this neocon hubris and blatant stupidity.

UK bars Kanye West, citing his presence as “not conducive to the public good” – BBC.

🚨 HOLY CRAP! JD Vance just WENT HARD against the European Union, slamming tyrannical bureaucrats for trying to destroy Hungary because nationalist Viktor Orban leads them "Foreign election interference! The bureaucrats in Brussels have tried to DESTROY the economy of Hungary. They have tried to make Hungary less energy independent!" "They have tried to drive up costs for Hungarian consumers. And they've done it all because they hate THIS GUY [Orban]." "We think the amount of interference that's come from the bureaucracy in Brussels has been truly DISGRACEFUL!" "I won't tell the people of Hungary how to vote. I would encourage the bureaucrats in Brussels to do the EXACT same thing." 🔥🔥 The EU are TYRANTS