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He should have just kept buying a few percent of the company at a time whenever the stock dipped. He would have had control in a few years for a lot less money.
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Charlz Guybon posted:He should have just kept buying a few percent of the company at a time whenever the stock dipped. He would have had control in a few years for a lot less money. Yeah but like most narcissists he has poor impulse control and had to have it naoow
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Doggles posted:I don't think I've seen this video in the thread before. It's new to me. Let's watch a Tesla identify a horse-drawn carriage. Do Teslas seriously not have a slow-moving vehicle ID for stuff like buggies, farm equipment, golf carts, and other not-quite-car things found on <25mph roads? I feel like if there's a special insignia for something (the reflective triangle in the US) that you're supposed to recognize on a driver's test a self-driving car should recognize them too.
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Youth Decay posted:Do Teslas seriously not have a slow-moving vehicle ID for stuff like buggies, farm equipment, golf carts, and other not-quite-car things found on <25mph roads? I feel like if there's a special insignia for something (the reflective triangle in the US) that you're supposed to recognize on a driver's test a self-driving car should recognize them too. Yeah but this a software that has lots of blind spots and notorious behavior. Like it rolling stops through stop signs or just blasts through them if the car is going fast enough.
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Two things jump out for me, when watching that video. 1st: it starts out believing it is a slow moving truck, why did it change its mind, when that was fine? 2nd: It doesn't have a "I'm unsure" option, it is too specific, a better solution would be making a box with a question mark in it. Maybe ask the passenger "what am I looking at?"
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Kwyndig posted:Yeah but this a software that has lots of blind spots and notorious behavior. Like it rolling stops through stop signs or just blasts through them if the car is going fast enough.
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The software also had a setting for slow rolling didn’t it? Like a literal “how much do you want to break the law by?” option.
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Charlz Guybon posted:He should have just kept buying a few percent of the company at a time whenever the stock dipped. He would have had control in a few years for a lot less money. That's kinda possible but maybe not in the way you are thinking. You have to start filing SEC forms that are public about your intention to buy and sell public securities when you already own 5 or 10% of a publicly traded company. I don't recall which forms (I'm only familiar with the insider trading ones which is primarily form 4 and some form 3) but even as an "outsider" you'd have to start filing. Not just historically, but your intentions to purchase. So now the entire market knows you're going to purchase up to X shares of Y in the next Z days and.......yeah, doesn't really work out well when you're this level of attention seeker.
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Doggles posted:I don't think I've seen this video in the thread before. It's new to me. Let's watch a Tesla identify a horse-drawn carriage. Hey, a Tesla's able to simulate one of those cautionary tales from the "Texting Can Wait" videos.
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Nov 20, 2022 18:59
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SniHjen posted:1st: it starts out believing it is a slow moving truck, why did it change its mind, when that was fine? lol if you think FSD has any conception of object permanence. At their last AI Day there were hours of presentations about neural network architecture, maybe 5 minutes discussing training on simulations covering some tiny area of San Francisco (so you'd think it would be flawless there, right?), and approximately 0 seconds discussing validation, regression testing, or really any kind of performance or safety metrics.
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Evil Fluffy posted:The software also had a setting for slow rolling didn’t it? Like a literal “how much do you want to break the law by?” option. Yup, the short lived "aggressive driving" toggle that would make it more likely to weave, cut people off, blow through yellow lights, and do rolling stops..
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Youth Decay posted:Do Teslas seriously not have a slow-moving vehicle ID for stuff like buggies, farm equipment, golf carts, and other not-quite-car things found on <25mph roads? I feel like if there's a special insignia for something (the reflective triangle in the US) that you're supposed to recognize on a driver's test a self-driving car should recognize them too. It draws my digger as a lorry mostly. I do sometimes wonder if Tesla stole the code from some sort of ai dustbin lorry startup because where it really excels is identifying and drawing wheelie bins. NotJustANumber99 fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Nov 20, 2022 |
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Cabbit posted:This seems like a good time to remind everyone of who the second largest stakeholder of Twitter is after Elon Musk: For the Saudis, blowing up a critical vehicle for dissent would be worth the write-off.
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Nov 20, 2022 20:57
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Why blow up what you can control and infiltrate?
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HelloSailorSign posted:Hasn't Elon snubbed Trumpism in the past? Quoting this for posterity
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Nov 20, 2022 21:46
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When is he bringing back Chuck "floorshitter" Grassley
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Shazback posted:Why blow up what you can control and infiltrate? At this point it seems like preventing Twitter from exploding would be the harder task, which is pretty typical for Elon's projects.
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Nov 21, 2022 00:04
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Amazon lost billions on Alexa. Apparently running a voice assistant is finicky business but still.
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Owling Howl posted:Amazon lost billions on Alexa. Apparently running a voice assistant is finicky business but still. I figured that anything that's been pushed this hard for this long has to be a spectacular failure of a pet project, and here we are.....it is. I mean, every goddamn device with a microphone is trying to get you to "turn on Alexa". Every product on Amazon that could possibly be controlled over a network gets stamped with "Works with Alexa!". Meanwhile the only things I've ever hear anyone do with Alexa is use it to play music or turns lights on and off. Selling units at cost for people to do this is a lovely business plan.
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Still think it was an incredibly dick move by Amazon to pick an extremely common name for their AI -- Apple and Microsoft at least had the good sense to pick rare ones and Google just named it after itself.
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It's funny to me that their motivation with Alexa was to essentially make it so people can effortlessly buy things through it. Presumably they intended to do this by enabling people to make mindless purchases on a whim like "Alexa, buy me a new toaster", or something? But buying stuff on Amazon is already such a disaster thanks to the complete lack of product moderation, I don't think I'd trust Alexa to buy me a toaster that wasn't actually just one of those scams where they send you a printed jpeg of a toaster.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:It's funny to me that their motivation with Alexa was to essentially make it so people can effortlessly buy things through it. Presumably they intended to do this by enabling people to make mindless purchases on a whim like "Alexa, buy me a new toaster", or something? But buying stuff on Amazon is already such a disaster thanks to the complete lack of product moderation, I don't think I'd trust Alexa to buy me a toaster that wasn't actually just one of those scams where they send you a printed jpeg of a toaster. "Alexa, buy me a P-p-p-p-p-powerbook."
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Szmitten posted:Am I naive in thinking Elon's just gonna cave and a bunch of people will be invited back asap after the first hitch with regular work hours and WFH and will pick a new leader and gently caress off and everything resumes as it was? I don't think Elon's going to gave on WFH ever. I don't even think it's a pride thing; I think he thinks he has a vested interest in defeating WFH because of the control WFO gives him over people.
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https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1594415301466415104 Hey brah, you wanna rez at the DraftKings House or the Caesar's Sportsbook Palace? (no, that's not literally what's happening yet, just this:)  
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Magic Hate Ball posted:It's funny to me that their motivation with Alexa was to essentially make it so people can effortlessly buy things through it. Presumably they intended to do this by enabling people to make mindless purchases on a whim like "Alexa, buy me a new toaster", or something? But buying stuff on Amazon is already such a disaster thanks to the complete lack of product moderation, I don't think I'd trust Alexa to buy me a toaster that wasn't actually just one of those scams where they send you a printed jpeg of a toaster.
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eXXon posted:https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1594415301466415104 this will surely end well and not with thousands of gambling addicted debt saddled 20-year-olds
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:this will surely end well and not with thousands of gambling addicted debt saddled 20-year-olds I mean, isn't this just a gambling-addiction-replay of when a bunch of colleges would really push credit cards with super skeevy terms on their students?
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Neito posted:I mean, isn't this just a gambling-addiction-replay of when a bunch of colleges would really push credit cards with super skeevy terms on their students? yeah but now we get to look forward to the first college sports team that figures out how to get rich by throwing their own game.
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:yeah but now we get to look forward to the first college sports team that figures out how to get rich by throwing their own game. I'd hate to see such noble traditions as paying Div III teams to get slaughtered to pad out wins corrupted by gambling. Audience here is doubtless the older and richer alumni, that looks like the stage truck so most people who see those ads are going to be doing so on TV. It's sort of old internet lore at this point but this is also the team that tigerdroppings was created for, to give fans a place to chat about football and politics. Not that they're going to complain if any college aged kids sign up and get hooked, but like has been pointed out it's not exactly the kind of market you bling out a semi to park in front of a stadium for.
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Neito posted:I don't think Elon's going to gave on WFH ever. I don't even think it's a pride thing; I think he thinks he has a vested interest in defeating WFH because of the control WFO gives him over people. It's absolutely this. Insecure dipshit execs/owners need to micromanage so they feel they're doing something and absolutely HATE work from home. WFH makes it clear just how irrelevant they are to the business and the entire structure of power they've built.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:It's funny to me that their motivation with Alexa was to essentially make it so people can effortlessly buy things through it. Presumably they intended to do this by enabling people to make mindless purchases on a whim like "Alexa, buy me a new toaster", or something? But buying stuff on Amazon is already such a disaster thanks to the complete lack of product moderation, I don't think I'd trust Alexa to buy me a toaster that wasn't actually just one of those scams where they send you a printed jpeg of a toaster. I thought their motivation was to get an always-on microphone in as many households as possible under the guise of 'order stuff easily'.
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:this will surely end well and not with thousands of gambling addicted debt saddled 20-year-olds Pay off your student debt with gambling!
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Alexa was still a good idea for them. It’s a land grab. If they didn’t do it then Google and Apple would be controlling the market. Their problem was overinvestment. They hired expensive teams to build features in Alexa that no one uses. I think some report said the vast majority of users use Alexa only for two or three basic features, like playing music or checking the weather.
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Vegetable posted:Alexa was still a good idea for them. It’s a land grab. If they didn’t do it then Google and Apple would be controlling the market. It's pretty much this, and it's pretty much why, AIUI. Amazon very much wants to be the third player in the connected devices space. Alexa, play Skyrim Very Special Edition.
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Vegetable posted:Alexa was still a good idea for them. It’s a land grab. If they didn’t do it then Google and Apple would be controlling the market. So would it have taken a long time for the market to catch up to what Alexa is capable of? I have family and friends who use Alexa and Google's voice command features pretty extensively. I know this isn't the most compelling use case, but it's really convenient for setting up multiple cooking timers when you're cooking a big meal.
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ninjahedgehog posted:Still think it was an incredibly dick move by Amazon to pick an extremely common name for their AI -- Apple and Microsoft at least had the good sense to pick rare ones and Google just named it after itself.
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Epic High Five posted:I'd hate to see such noble traditions as paying Div III teams to get slaughtered to pad out wins corrupted by gambling. LSU mass emailed current students, including lots of whom were under the legal age to gamble at the time, promotional sign up codes and asked them to sign up. Its absolutely not just aimed at the older and richer alumni. Its all covered in good depth in the NYT articles.
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Blut posted:LSU mass emailed current students, including lots of whom were under the legal age to gamble at the time, promotional sign up codes and asked them to sign up. Its absolutely not just aimed at the older and richer alumni. Oooookay yeah I got the wrong read on that, extremely horrible.
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Neito posted:I mean, isn't this just a gambling-addiction-replay of when a bunch of colleges would really push credit cards with super skeevy terms on their students? "If you sign up for this CC we give you a free T-Shirt too!" I wonder how many applications were filled out with complete bullshit info by students looking for freebies. If it's less than 50% I'd be amazed.
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