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stsmwg commented on U.S. Life Expectancy Falls Again in ‘Historic’ Setback   nytimes.com/2022/08/31/he... · Posted by u/aaraujo002
sct202 · 3 years ago
There are graphs from the CDC in this PDF for the data that NYT is reporting: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr023.pdf

Idk why they decided to write out every single number when a chart or graph would have been easier to read.

stsmwg · 3 years ago
I found it especially confusing how certain numbers were presented as the 2019-2021 delta and others the 2020-2021 delta without any way of seeing all the data together. Thanks for linking to the original source as when I looked for it last night I found it difficult to find.
stsmwg commented on Scenarios in which Tesla FSD Beta 9.0 fails   twitter.com/giacaglia/sta... · Posted by u/giacaglia
Syonyk · 4 years ago
This has been a common assertion about Tesla's "leadership" in the field - that they can learn from all the cars, push updates, and obviously not have to experience the same issue repeatedly.

It's far from clear, in practice, if they're actually doing this. If they have, it would have to be fairly recent, because the list of "Oh, yeah, Autopilot always screws up at this highway split..." is more or less endless.

GM's Supercruise relies on fairly solid maps of the areas of operation (mostly limited access highways), so it has an understanding of "what should be there" it can work off and it seems to handle the mapped areas competently.

But the problem here is that the learning requires humans taking over, and telling the automation, "No, you're wrong." And then being able to distill that into something useful for other cars - because the human who took over may not have really done the correct thing, just the "Oh FFS, this car is being stupid, no, THAT lane!" thing.

And FSD doesn't get that kind of feedback anyway. It's only with a human in the loop that you can learn from how humans handle stuff.

stsmwg · 4 years ago
Great, thanks for that info. I'm remembering the fatal crash of a Tesla on 101 where the family said the guy driving had complained about the site of the accident before. It's interesting to know that there's at least a mental list of places like this even now. Disengagements should at least prompt a review of that interaction to try and understand why the human didn't like the driving. Though at Tesla's scale that has already become something that has to be automated itself.
stsmwg commented on Scenarios in which Tesla FSD Beta 9.0 fails   twitter.com/giacaglia/sta... · Posted by u/giacaglia
stsmwg · 4 years ago
One of the questions I've repeatedly had regarding FSD (and Tesla's approach in particular) is the notion of memory. While a lot of these scenarios are disturbing, I've seen people wavering on lanes, exits and attempting to turn the wrong way onto one-way streets. People have memory, however. If we go through the same confusing intersection a few times, we'll learn how to deal with that specific intersection. It seems like a connected group of FSD cars could perform that learning even faster since it could report that interaction with any car rather than driver-by-driver. Are any of the FSD implementations taking this into account?
stsmwg commented on Tesla Q1 2021 Results   tesla-cdn.thron.com/stati... · Posted by u/marc__1
azinman2 · 4 years ago
So I just bought an ID.4 this weekend after seeing on HN on Friday that it launched in the US. I also test drove a Tesla Y just to double check Saturday morning before doing so.

Tesla Y is for sure faster and the better drive. It's also like 10-15k more expensive and that's not even before VW's rebates. The interior was weird -- tiny headrests, tiny mirrors, and really poor back visibility. A giant screen in middle and nothing else wasn't particularly great, and I don't have CarPlay (I know Tesla has a lot of functionality in their system, but I'd personally rather drive it all from my phone to have a more continuous experience in car and out of car). On that screen was a 'video game'-ified representation of what Autopilot was seeing... not only distracting, but kept being wrong while I was stopped at a red light staring at it as it missed the cars in front of me and kept rapidly alternating what direction the incoming lane was going to turn. And that's driving the car? Scary!

I don't care about being faster, the ID.4 is plenty fast. I also don't really care about 250mi versus 350mi range or whatever right now.. all are inconvenient for a super long trip. I just recently drove from SF to near Canada... that was a very long multi-day drive and I would for sure not want to have multiple 35m+ stops in addition to the long drive. Until the technology gets WAYYY better I'll just rent ICE cars for a very long drive. Until then 250mi is plenty to get around the Bay Area knowing I can just plugin at home overnight to recharge.

VW has build a Electrify America charging network from a 2B settlement for their diesel emissions standards. If they're smart they'll capitalize on this and win much more in the long run by becoming Exxon AND a car company... their network isn't exclusive to their cars.

With everyone coming online in the next couple years, Tesla is going to have very real competition. I don't think the areas that they're better at are quite as make/break for car decision making as they claim to be. Elon Musk himself certainly doesn't help as a very divisive figure (and was part of the reason I didn't want a Tesla).

stsmwg · 4 years ago
These are almost the exact reason I'm looking forward to test driving an ID.4. I just don't care about the acceleration enough to have that be a plus. I hope you like your ID.4, it really seems like a 'regular car' BEV.
stsmwg commented on YouTube is now building its own video-transcoding chips   arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/stsmwg
stsmwg · 4 years ago
This is a 1st-gen chip with H.264 and VP9 support. Apparently, they've already got early versions of the next generation with AV1 which will hopefully mean wider adoption of AV1 will be coming in the next few years.
stsmwg commented on CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers   coscreen.co/... · Posted by u/mmettler
coscreen · 4 years ago
Fixed... This is what it should have said: - macOS: yes (requires macOS Mojave 10.14.6 and above) - Windows: yes (requires Windows 10 and above) - Linux, Mobile, Web: coming soon, sign up for the wait list
stsmwg · 4 years ago
Thanks for the quick fix. CoScreen looks really great!
stsmwg commented on CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers   coscreen.co/... · Posted by u/mmettler
stsmwg · 4 years ago
FYI, looks like the link on the FAQs for Windows is messed up in the second question.

Is CoScreen available on macOS, Windows, Linux, Mobile, or Web? macOS: yes (download - requires macOS Mojave 10.14.6 and above) Windows: yes(download - requires macOS Mojave 10.14.6 and above) Linux, Mobile, Web: coming soon, sign up for the wait list

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