FSD - Is there any point re-hashing how long Musk has been wrong about this?. Ride share/robotaxi is yet another dream layered on top of this failed vision.
Robots - Not currently available. What does exist are demos that are being questioned as fake. Why the FTC hasn't investigated this as blatant investor fraud is open for debate.
Ah, I'm glad I'm not missing out by using Visual Studio. It's probably even slower in VS, I'm sure. I've been dual wielding VS for building/running and VSCode/Cursor/claude-code/codex-cli for AI editing, and it's a much better experience. Although if it wasn't so shitty in VS, I would do it all in the same UI.
EDIT: I'm especially pissed at Microsoft for not improving VS's rendering speed. They are all about making its backend services async, spinned out to external processes to be able to use the latest dotnet version, while the main IDE process is stuck in NET 48 seemingly forever, with zero improvements made to rendering performance. Perhaps the Vello Sharp news I'm hearing recently will kick MS into gears (one can hope).
I wouldn't based any policy based on people's opinion IMO. There has to be a cost/benefit study to base your decision on. Anyway kids can be pretty smart. It wouldn't surprise me to learn that this program is beneficial even that early in life.
Often times, educational programs are put in place without rigorous study, based on opinion. And the program design space is so large that it is hard to have a clear conclusion on an entire concept, like early gifted and talented programs.
My perspective is that the mos important thing in the early grades are that kids are engaged and not being held back. But there are many ways to address this.
It seems to be similar to what Yan Lecunn argues also. I wonder what does Sam Altman, Ilya sutskever and other major LLM creators mean when they say they aim to create AGI. Do they acknowledge that the current architecture isn't sufficient as well, or do they think scaling will be enough? Or do they not say at all?
Why are you comparing Anduril against Russia's drones? Shouldn't you use Ukraine, surely it has access to higher tech than Russia and is just as battletested?
Russia has the strategic depth to mass manufacture specialty drones in a way that Ukraine cannot. Even though Ukraine used fiber optic drones first, the Russians were the first to produce them in large numbers and it took Ukraine months to catch up. Lancet/Shahed drones are even bigger examples of this.
Shahed where originally designed and manufactured by Iran. Russians initially bought and licensed them. And I assume are now improving upon the original design.
Russian is top down innovation with a thick layer of corruption. No matter how much you want to claim strategic depth, they are always several steps behind Ukrainians. No matter how many advantages due to size they have.
> Shahed where originally designed and manufactured by Iran.
I'm talking about mass manufacturing, not design. Russia has had capability to hit any Ukrainian factory since Day 1 of the war, that's why they've successfully dispersed and hidden their production so much. Also, I've always been pro-Ukraine.
>they are always several steps behind Ukrainians.
That's not true anymore, both sides have plateaued because all innovations are quickly copied. Anti-recon quadcopters were another Ukrainian innovation that took the Russians roughly 6 months to catch up to. The only advantage they have is size and strategic depth. There isn't much else.
Shahed evolved into Geran, then Geran 2, and now Geran 3 with jet engine, recently confirmed in use in Ukraine by Kyiv. So, Russia is innovating at a high pace. I'm concerned that America cannot innovate so quickly and cost-efficiently. Everything needs to go through tons of red tape, hourly rates are crazy, and the end product is extremely expensive and hard to maintain and evolve. Anduril to me is not America's answer. America needs on the battlefield innovation and means to share feedback in real-time. We're behind! That's my concern.
I was thinking the same thing until I learned about the high speed train plans California had (and still have?) and just how much of a disaster it is. It’s a red tape issue and nobody at the policy level seems to care to fix it.
It doesn’t even matter, does it. It seems the democrats made a plan spanning multiple elections due to it being loaded with regulations and now Starlink can better serve rural areas at a fraction of the cost (for american taxpayers). Also the planned deployment was 2026 at the earliest?
I think you have your policy preferences and you have the idea that if starlink was allowed, it would magically take much less time to go through regulation process. I think this is not true, but I think we digress.
My point is that democrats don’t get credit and votes for improving internet for rural areas and republicans don’t get punished for destroying progress. The fact that you are criticizing democrats so harsh and think trump breaking the laws doesn’t matter just prove my points.
They don’t have to take that long. Seriously, when you build years and years of government reviews and challenges and approvals into the process of awarding funds you have only yourself to blame when the government works for four years and accomplishes nothing. Meanwhile a Starlink, a private company, just starts doing the work. They’ve spent 10 billion dollars of their own money and built a service that is hands down the best internet service available in any rural area of America. They expect to have 11 billion in revenue this year, just 6 years after the service first became available to paying customers.
- FSD
- Robots
Both are very risky of course.
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