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The key to “AI” is having a human there to take algorithms and apply them to the right problems.

This is what most people don’t understand because many of the demos are quite impressive and narrowly tailored to prevent the fact from being obvious unless you know what you’re looking for.

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goddamnit you acid tripping LLM…

About 200 pounds.

Really good point.

There’s always recalls going on, so it’s not indicative of anything when they happen.

I’ve had 3 newer cars from 3 brands in 3 countries, and all 3 had a recall of some kind. In each case they just bring it in and fix it…

Interesting thing about gasoline engines, they become more and less efficient when the temperature drops.

They become more efficient because the air being brought into the engine is denser and cooler which is better, but they become less efficient because rubber parts become stiffer, lubricant becomes harder to move, and overall everything is tougher to deal with.

One result is that if you drive long ranges in -40C, your fuel economy is relatively similar to what it would be in warmer weather. You can blast the heat and your vehicle is toasty warm since it’s just moving waste heat around. I’ve done such drives many times since resources are not where people tend to be.

As you approach -40 you’ll probably want to have your block heater plugged in overnight on a gasoline engine, but generally speaking you can get pretty cold and have the motor turn over just fine. I drove a diesel for a while in the far north and going back to a (really crappy) gas engine was surprising for how easy it was to just get up and go in really cold weather.

EV performance in -40C is something nobody talks about but I’m extremely interested in.

There have been lots of videos of Teslas leaving a heated garage then flying around a snowy track in Norway, but that’s much different than getting in a car that’s soaked in the cold all night, driving it to work, then driving home after it sits all day. Or even better, taking that same cold soaked car and driving to the next city 13 hours away with only one or two places to stop along the way.

Most people don’t know anything about Canada, even people who live there. Most Canadians live in one of two megacities. They’ve never been to lynn lake, meadow lake, fort McMurray, fort st. John, or pickle lake. The wealth is extracted from these places, but with 0 understanding of what the country is like, particularly in February.

It’s because the Liberals are about to lose badly because their policies are not sustainable.

People need home heating, transportation, food, and housing to not die. Those aren’t luxuries.

I feel like this whole article is based on a false premise.

Go to a dealership right now, and try to find any new truck for $36,000. On paper you might be able to get the lowest base model, but in reality good luck with that.

I just checked the dealership near me, and the lowest price for a new vehicle of any kind is 39,400CAD or about 28,000USD. The lowest priced new truck is 66,500CDN, or about 49,300USD.

That’s just what the world looks like now thanks to inflation. And that’s not a vehicle using expensive battery technology, and that’s not a vehicle made out of expensive, difficult to manufacture with stainless steel, it’s just the cheapest standard truck at the dealership.

Really, it looks like the cybertruck is about bang on with prices for other EV trucks that aren’t made out of entirely stainless steel. Considering that Tesla isn’t a budget brand, that doesn’t seem unreasonable. Nobody at Tesla is psychic, they couldn’t have predicted super high inflation sparked in part due to policies enacted due to a global pandemic, so of course prices rose.

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There’s a 5 hour interview with John Carmack on YouTube where he talks about transitioning from really caring deeply about algorithms and the like to deeply caring about how to make a sustainable and maintainable codebase you can have an entire team work on.

Often, a solution that is completely correct if all you’re doing is solving that problem is completely incorrect in the greater context of the codebase you’re working within, like if you wanted to add a dog to the Mona Lisa, you can’t just draw a detailed line art dog or a cartoon dog and expect it to work – you’d need to find someone who can paint a dog similar to the art style of the piece and properly get it to mesh with the painting.

BIIIIG problem: The last 5%.

Did ChatGPT just hallucinate it? Does it exist but it isn’t used like ChatGPT says? Does it exist but it doesn’t do what ChatGPT thinks it does?

I use ChatGPT sometimes to help out with stuff at home (I’ve tried it for work stuff but the stuff I work on is niche enough that it purely hallucinates), and I’ve ended up running in circles for hours because the answer I got ended up in this uncanny valley: Correct enough that it isn’t immediately obviously wrong, but incorrect enough that it won’t work, it can’t work, and you’re going to really have to put a lot of work in to figure that out.

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Excuse me, I think you meant “correct’s you’re code”

Don’t worry about it budday!

The chocolate industry hasn’t found a viable alternative to African slavery 160 years after the emancipation proclamation, but they’ve got this fossil fuels thing licked!

It was early when I read the article, I got the impression that the 9W was for the furnace version of the thermopile electric generator.

Oh, it’s just a thermopile put out in the sun.

I can see why it never caught on then. You’d be relying on the difference in temperature between the hot side of a thing painted black put in the sun and the cool side in the shade. The amount of energy you’d get from such a setup would be infinitecimal. I’d expect you’d need to do an absurd amount of work and use an absurd amount of material just to power a single house.

The amount of energy it would take to build a “solar cell” thermopile that’d generate 1.5v with a quite high internal resistance would probably be in the megawatt-hours, likely from coal and oil.

And after the 1000 page manual some fuck goes “oh, Bob never documents anything!”