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Put on your visionary hat. Discard your worries. The future is around the corner. lol
Yeah, it is at least 3 years away. Not too much different than what we've been told about FSD since 2016.
Cruise ships for transportation or entertainment? Compare cruise ships to transportation options or to amusement options like a 3 day amusement park pass? All the cruise ship options I've seen are round trip, so net distance moved is zero.
Several nuclear plants in Japan restarting?
Authorities cautiously permit reactivation of world's largest nuclear power plant: 'We will stop when we find issues and take necessary measures'
IAEA Concludes Long Term Operational Safety Review at Japan’s Mihama Nuclear Power Plant | IAEA
Chugoku...
C3PO like software by end of decade, much smarter in some ways, and dumb in some ways. Like today's LLMs, with billions of facts, but lacking some common sense. Humanoid robot movement also solved / not an issue by end of decade.
Why 500 person supercharger team let go? Seems the Exec didn't meet Elon's standards for layoffs / cost reductions, so Elon took the matter into his own hands.
Will the super charger team be rehired in a lower cost geo? Cal -> Austin -> China?
Guessing the new team of 100 or so will be...
If you want to learn how robots are programmed, then this video is a good introduction.
How robots are trained at a high level:
Trained first in a virtual environment. Random movements with a reinforcement algorithm. The reinforcement algo rewards good actions and penalizes bad actions...
Quote: The US carmaker was granted the approval under certain conditions, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be identified because details of all the criteria aren’t clear. Tesla did manage to clear two of the most important hurdles: reaching a mapping and...
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/26/24141361/tesla-autopilot-fsd-nhtsa-investigation-report-crash-death
Hundreds of crashes and some deaths linked to driver inattention.
Video says Russia will be quick to use tactical nukes on the battlefield. One possible solution is not to give them a clear target of concentrated troops.
Hopefully the invaders paid dearly for the little gains.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/31812
Quote:
The commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces said Sunday Kyiv's position on the frontline had deteriorated and that Russia had made a number of recent battlefield gains.
Russia's troops have...
Don't know, but I do know there is lots of research in many areas such as:
Video understanding. Gemini Pro for example has some good results for this.
Image to text.
Lots of work with memory
High level structuring of how neural networks work such as Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture...
U.S. pays $20K each for old soviet combat aircraft. Possibly to use for spare parts or decoys.
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-buys-81-soviet-fighter-jets-from-russian-ally-20k-2024-4
Computer vision is evolving rapidly. Just look at where we were 10, 5 years ago. Things will be much different by the end of the decade, where vision will have something we can call common sense.
FSD v12.3.6 has started heading to regular customers. 0.3% of the TeslaFi fleet is currently pending an update to this version.
https://www.teslafi.com/firmware.php?detail=2024.3.25%205aaf7e6d28
https://www.notateslaapp.com/software-updates/version/2024.3.25/release-notes
Since they aren't paying, they are missing that part of the equation. They have been criticized by experts for using high precision $40K shells on non high value targets as an example.
Ukraine not having an easy time knocking down hypersonic kinzhal missiles.
0/4 or (0%) of Kinzhal Missiles shot down overnight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh-47M2_Kinzhal
I'm thinking the thaad defense system would take care of this...
That is a big problem, especially when there are many of them. Stop them on a freeway? Can cause serious injury or death. Stopping is one thing, there are many other types of attacks, like routing the vehicle into a wall.
Video of forward deployed patriot system being destroyed. From around March 12.
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/212833/VIDEO-Moment-when-US-Patriot-system-destroyed-in-Ukraine
Text articles:
Russia Claims Major Hit: Patriot Air-Defense System Destroyed in Ukraine
A Russian Drone Spotted A...
Don't know if this has been posted before. Guy wearing a stop sign on his shirt stops a Waymo.
The solution is not hard for Waymo. They will use the video as negative examples of when to stop.
A system of drone tanks often works better than single drone tank trying to do everything. For example having side armor drones that handle aerial drones, side protection, and shooting down incoming projectiles. The drone tank itself can focus more on one thing which is to use its main cannon...
Good news coming tomorrow morning, $6 billion in new weapons for Ukraine. Article says it may takes years to fulfill all of it.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/25/us-weapons-contract-ukraine-00154450
Quote:
The equipment — which also includes ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket...
There will be many more gifts coming over the next 18 months. Hopefully we can give the Ukrainian people some Apache's to have fun with and some A-10 warthogs. What else do we have rotting in the desert?
ATACMS already being used in Ukraine according to anonymous U.S. officials and national security council official. Used to attack Crimea and Russian helicopters. Similar articles:
Ukraine uses long-range ATACMS against Russia for the first time
Ukraine uses long-range missiles secretly...
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3754238/biden-administration-announces-significant-new-security-assistance-for-ukraine/
Estimated value of $1 billion in arms being sent to Ukraine:
Air defense missiles: RIM-7 and AIM-9M
Stinger anti-aircraft missiles
Additional ammunition...
Article has some behind the scenes politics for getting the bill approved. Mostly about giving the speaker of the house a clear picture of the security situation and trying to be friendly.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/24/politics/white-house-ukraine-funding-push/index.html
The OEMs do have Mobileye who tells them it is easy peasy. Seems to me Mobileye has better reputation than Tesla FSD claims which have been wrong since 2016 every year.
Quoting Elon from March 2022: They have no idea how hard FSD is. Only path to success imo is hardcore real-world AI software...
Thanks. I didn't know what to search for and curious what you searched for to find that.
I found this similar article:
https://electrek.co/2024/01/05/tesla-adjusts-ranges-across-lineup-new-epa-rule/
Interesting that it says none of the model 3 ranges changed.