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Yeah, maybe I'm being more particular about terminology than I should, given how loosely it's used. I was saying the cars aren't using genAI / LLMs, which seem to be the crux of the other (undesirable to me) advertised future developments.

But of course ML / computer vision are expected as major parts of self driving.

There it was at 69 upvotes... but I did have to give it another.

There's a full postmortem from AWS. One piece that stands out to me:

due to the large number of droplets, efforts to establish new droplet leases took long enough that the work could not be completed before they timed out. Additional work was queued to reattempt establishing the droplet lease. At this point, DWFM had entered a state of congestive collapse and was unable to make forward progress in recovering droplet leases.

That is, the load that resulted from the initial failure was not something the system was designed to handle, so it had cascading effects / required manual cleanup.

The installation is housed in what looks like a four-story prefabricated office building. Inside sits a massive stack of refractory bricks, which are heated to temperatures of more than 1,000 degrees Celsius (1,832 degrees Fahrenheit) by an adjoining 20-megawatt solar array. That heat is tapped to generate steam that is injected into oil wells to increase production — a job previously done by a fossil-gas-fired boiler.

The project is something of a Faustian bargain. It will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 13,000 metric tons per year, said John O’Donnell, Rondo’s cofounder and chief innovation officer. But, of course, those reductions are in service of bringing more planet-warming fossil fuels to market.

Article.

Come on people, this is why you make cloud enabled devices that can still function offline. And why I will never buy a range with wifi (or at least never connect it if there's no dumb model available).

Does it? The article makes no claim the self-driving has any dependent on AI. Seems like GM is just hyping up their AI bloatware at the same time — though that would make me hesitate to get one of their cars.

So if your system is oscillating wildly, your P term is too large, right?

P = social media, 24h news cycle I = education D = regulation

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From the initial version of the investigation, the driver faced charges under Part 1 of Article 121 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (intentional grievous bodily harm), but by court decision he was not taken into custody under this article. Soon after, he was detained in Bila Tserkva and another suspicion was announced – leaving a person in danger (Part 3 of Article 135 of the Criminal Code), which carries a penalty of up to eight years in prison.

The Q6 e-tron, which goes for about $70k according to caranddriver.

I have wondered if there's something useful to do if an apparent relative is making someone visibly uncomfortable in public, or if a stranger's attention would just lead to more abuse later.

And so many of them can't stay on their side of the line. Glad nobody was opening doors.

Taken together, the study’s findings represent a crucial step forward in addressing many unresolved issues regarding Long COVID. The systemic increase in AMPARs provides a direct biological explanation for the cognitive symptoms, highlighting a target for potential treatments. For example, drugs that suppress AMPAR activity could be a viable approach to mitigate brain fog. Interestingly, the team’s analysis also demonstrated that imaging data can be used to distinguish patients from healthy controls with 100% sensitivity and 91% specificity.