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  2. azrael
    Unfortunately, "AI" has become a buzzword. Just like "blockchain", "the cloud", and so many more words before it. There's a commercial out there about a data analytics software where they threw out "We use AI to blah blah your data blah blah...". No, you're just using ChatGPT to perform data analysis instead of paying 75-90k for a flesh body running Tableau. Sure, we may see AGI, in some stupidly basic form, in our lifetime. But it will need every node in a 800,000+ sq ft data center, powered by a small nuclear reactor to accomplish that. 'Would makes for a good headline, but completely impractical.
  3. Master Dex
    Yeah that's all decades old spaceflight jargon and dark humor that came from old pilots and the steely-eyed missile men at Mission Control. SpaceX is just following up their legacy. Great work but it wouldn't be without what the vintage NASA did first.
  4. Hikuro
    It's been big news in my area last 24 hours, I live just north of San Antonio not to far. From the sounds of it his house burnt down due to the really cold temps we tend to get over the last few years. He'd been using Propane (no pun intended) to heat up his home but it still wasn't enough. So he and his partner stayed at a hotel to stay warm. He was on his way back to the house to check on his 4 dogs when the house was on fire. Cause of the fire was supposedly determined to be the propane space heater however Joss claimed it was vandalism due to he being gay and often having trouble with various people in the area because of that. I can rather believe the heater being the issue as a very similar incident happened with my dad 6 years ago resulting in his home being burnt down and losing several of his dogs. These things happen when you don't think about it. Now, this incident occurred I think back several months, and you roll into yesterday where he was coming to the property to pick up mail where his dispute with his neighbor began. I find it rather odd he's still picking up mail from an area that's no longer livable and not sent somewhere else. But I guess this so called neighbor has had various issues with Joss in the past, rumors are they'd shot at eachother before, I mean this is Texas and all that. But I guess things went to far this time and here we are.
  5. Hikuro
    I dig either or. There's design cues and stylings that would work well on SS86 Megatron from Romulus, at the same time, there's stuff that's on Romulus that's forgotten somehow on Megatron.
  6. electric indigo
    Do I see some pigs taking off?
  7. jvmacross
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  9. jenius
    I think there's a lot more to this story. Neighbors claim he had his power shut off and was heating his home via a fire pit before it burned down? Sounds like there might be lots of crazy in that neighborhood. Gives me a healthy appreciation for my sane and friendly neighbors.
  10. Negotiator
    Just not interested enough for Fantastic 4 to go buy a ticket. They always seemed kinda goofy to me, especially stretchy powers.
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  12. Seto Kaiba
    That's actually borrowed from NASA. They have a list of lovely euphemisms for when things go horribly wrong on rockets. I think my favorite is either "engine-rich exhaust" (part of the engine melted and/or was ejected from the craft unintentionally) or "lithobraking maneuver" (it hit the ground).
  13. Big s
    It seems like an insane situation to have had to deal with and nobody needs to go through any of it.
  14. Big s
    One thing I gotta give credit to Space-X is that now if I break something or blow something by mistake, I can use their ultimate oops description “rapid unscheduled disassembly”. It’s their ultimate accomplishment to humanity. Dropped a fancy plate on the ground, I didn’t break it. It was a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” I didn’t accidentally break the window. It was a “rapid unscheduled disassembly”. I didn’t total the car. It was a “rapid unscheduled disassembly”. I didn’t accidentally kill the neighbor in a drunken fight and dismember the body to make it easier to dispose of the evidence. He had a “rapid unscheduled disassembly”. That line works for every situation, kinda like a new version of the Mentos commercials
  15. Seto Kaiba
    Misinformation and exaggeration plays a big role in public perception of AI as being a lot more capable, powerful, efficient, and scalable than it actually is. It makes for a fantastic example of the true, rather embarrassingly primitive, state of AI technology though. Not only is an Artificial General Intelligence like Sharon Apple, Skynet, Commander Data, or any other sci-fi AI not "just a few years away" like the toxic techbros like to claim, the AI technology we actually have amounts to a coked up and hilariously inefficient techno-parrot blindly repeating strings of words it's heard frequently with no understanding of what they mean, robot cars that can barely manage to drive certain ringfenced city streets in carefully controlled conditions, and slightly better autotune. Of course, it probably also does not help that we keep societally moving the bar on what constitutes "AI". A lot of convenience features that use machine learning and so on like autocorrect, auto-focus, automatic red eye correction, etc. were once considered AI, but aren't really though about as such because they've become mundane and people have realized they're not actually "intelligent".
  16. sh9000
    By genmyokuga.
  17. sh9000
    Bodacious Beach Bros.
  18. sh9000
    1/10 Azrael statue.
  19. sh9000
    Honest Trailer.
  20. sh9000
    Beast Man.
  21. sh9000
    Reflector and Thundercracker.
  22. Bolt

    YF-24

    Bolt replied to sc_planet's topic in Model kits

    Beautifully done! Most excellent!
  23. Master Dex
    Relatively Space does more of 3D printed rocket components than any other space launch company, though even they are walking it back on new designs for cost reasons. SpaceX has done it but not to a large scale. And in all truth SpaceX isn't even directly operated to that guy's direction, it's run by Gwynne Shotwell who does a very thankless job considering all the things they accomplish (and the press they have to deal with for iterative design testing being inherently destructive but the layman just seeing it as failure). I'm all for dunking on Musk but he takes too much credit (good and bad) for a lot of other people's work. He is more directly responsible at Tesla though which causes most of the aforementioned BS trending.
  24. pengbuzz
    Okay, my apologies then. I thought the plethora of them were doing this and not just Tesla. Apparently, given the info you gave me just now, we can tell where the "flow of the BS" is coming from. TBH: it's not really a surprise given he 3d prints rocket engine parts (I don't trust the sintering process for the metals used in them). Thanks again for the clarification; apparently, my info is half-baked at points (and needs some cinnamon and brown sugar plus icing!).
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  26. Seto Kaiba
    There are some features on some cars (mainly EVs) where it is possible/practical or even advantageous to move computation out into the cloud... but those are mostly things that go on while the vehicle is stationary and thus are not critically time-sensitive like rate-conscious "smart grid" charging of EVs. (A project I worked on with the Argonne National Lab back in the day.) To be fair, most OEMs have been reasonably upfront about the actual capabilities of their ADAS and related autonomous vehicle features. The commercially available autonomy features (mainly ADAS ones like adaptive cruise control and smart lane stay) work well and are exhaustively tested for safety. They're just not self-driving. Likewise, robotaxi companies like Waymo (who I've worked with directly), Baidu, and Pony.ai are quite open about the fact that their robotaxi services are essentially an open beta of an evolving technology that's "good enough" to be safely tested by the public under controlled conditions but isn't ready for widespread consumer adoption yet. The sort of "AI" technology we'd need to create a car that can drive anywhere as flexibly and safely as a human driver doesn't exist yet. It's a hugely complex undertaking to create a system that can respond to road conditions and hazards as flexibly as a living driver and be able to drive anywhere the way a living driver could. There are still a lot of unresolved/unsolvable questions that need to be figured out for us to create a self-driving program that can autonomously operate on any public road, never mind one that can operate anywhere as the goal of a true Level 5 autonomous vehicle can... never mind doing so on hardware compact and efficient enough to fit inside of a car and cheap enough to actually include on a mass production basis. People don't appreciate just how much of the heavy lifting in driving a car is done by the brain meat of the human in the front seat. To really pull it off a computer needs to not only be able to follow the rules of the road and make snap decisions about safety to prevent collisions and such, it also needs to be able to understand what terrain is safe to drive on, to identify unsafe conditions on the road and respond accordingly, and make snap decisions based on emerging safety risks as well. That level of tech just ain't here yet. A lot of misconceptions about the completeness and road-readiness of "Self driving" cars comes from one bad actors: Tesla Motors. Mainly their dippy CEO, who keeps pushing the claim that Tesla will have full Level 5 autonomy figured out "in the next few years" as a way to sell idiots on an overpriced self-driving "beta" (actually just their Level 2 system) with the vague promise of a future update to unlock true self-driving capability coming "when it's done". Like most of the company's claims, it's hogwash and allegedly (based on court filings) done with intent to defraud.
  27. MKT

    YF-24

    MKT replied to sc_planet's topic in Model kits

    Very, very nice.
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