I moved from LA to the Tacoma area earlier this year. People here are classic car crazy. From around June to September, there’s little to no rain, and the classic cars come out. One person parks a classic in a parking lot while going for groceries, and suddenly there’s 20 of them and it’s a car show.

Around here, some…

The pecking order is this.
No Camaro can compete with the Corvette.
No Chevy hot hatch can compete with the Camaro.
No Chevy sedan can compete with a Buick.
No Buick can compete with Cadillac.

So if any other GM division has a concept car that is too good, there are multiple fiefdoms that can squash them. And they do. All…

My Focus ST came with these enormous tombstone rear seat headrests that I had to immediately remove because I couldn’t see out the back of the car with the interior rearview mirror, and it was dangerous. Adding to the misery, the 2013 Focus ST did not have rear camera availability, though the infotainment system is…

Producers are unwilling to completely blow off the religious fanatics that power the current political party in power. It’s a big market. It’s why they keep making bible films. It would be nice if they would take a stand and say those people are stupid, close minded, and most of all irrelevant.

The big media companies…

I think your vision of what neural networks and machines can do, is about 10 years out of date. The goal in neural network research, has been to get past rigid instruction/result programming, and replace that with learning and improvisational ability. Vision has been the weakness of automation, understanding what is…

What they are good at NOW, is utterly irrelevant to the discussion. People are trying to make them good at the things they aren’t good at, now. All those weird Google images show that they are capable to doing incomprehensible things, they have been known to invent their own efficient languages, and advance after…

Can you name a field in which a neural network, capable of independent thought and nearly instantly acquiring and integrating vast amounts of data, wouldn’t be better at than a human.

Here’s some thinking occupations I can think of where that would replace humans:
Corporate lawyers
Law clerks
Doctors
Lab techs
Marketing
Web…

If you own the company that uses it, sure. But the goal of that company is to use the neural net to hire fewer thinking employees.

YOU think you’ll be one of the people who use the technology. Likely you will be one of the people companies try to eliminate by adopting AI.

Yeah. When the media freaks out about broken off ice sheets, they usually compare it to a small, but large sounding area like Rhode Island. Rather than, say, a large metropolitan area in a big state, like Los Angeles County.

I hope they stop the merger. I’d like to see all mega mergers stop, permanently. This consolidation of massive companies is a step toward the “Economic Singularity” I studied in college, in which it’s inevitable that a single economic entity ends up owning everything as long as intellectual property and high barriers…

This is why you test engines. So they explode on the ground instead of with your payload in the air or space.

I’ll assume that SpaceX will find the cause, and eliminate one more possible source of explosions when they would be catastrophic.

I would challenge your assertion that a supervolcano in Antarctica would raise sea levels significantly in the immediate aftermath.

It’s a possibility, but it’s one of those things that in order to account for all of the variables, it requires detailed simulations like global climate change. Those have been going on…

Antarctica is big, and even supervolcanoes are small in comparison. The environmental damage from a supervolcano is so significant, that just about nothing else short of an all out nuclear war compares. Worrying about the melting ice in the small area of a continent made of ice, is a minor point worry in comparison to…

Watching him, his driving performance and style were excellent considering how they were portraying him. It’s a shame they’re dumping him.

When you buy a used car of that age, working on your car every weekend is your hobby until you sell it. The indeterminacy of arriving at or leaving your destination is part of the thrill. Sleuthing out and solving fluid leaks makes you feel like an automotive Sherlock Holmes. If your cost of repairs stays below what…

You sound like a person who should pretty much be ignored by everyone on any subject.

No first hand information. No researched information. All confirmation bias. No doubt based on forum reports by whiny bitches who’ll never admit on a forum that they fucked up their own cars, and can’t take responsibility for it.

So, outside of the UK, this entire narrative is meaningless? Nothing to see here?

Maybe not more luxurious, but fun, fast and has 4 doors and AWD. MSRP is only slightly higher than the $35K requirement.

So now Musk has joined with the Republican rank and file in opposing a free press. Nice.

Sometimes I put the cheese on the bottom to keep the ketchup and mustard from acting as a lubricating layer for the pickles, lettuce and tomato to slide easily out of the burger. The porosity of the meat creates grip even with the lubricating condiments, while the non-porous cheese creates a smooth surface to enable…