Comment Re:Typo? (Score 1) 59
What if he was a Dvorak user?
What if he was a Dvorak user?
So do you think physics is racist, or are the operators of the software what if they for instance don't compensate for their skin tone using more light? The darker the skin, the less light is reflected and therefore the worse outcome there is without extra light to compensate for it.
FaceID uses special 3D scanning hardware rather than a simple camera.
So, you're also saying that the people who made the webcams in the computers implemented settings that were optimized for white faces, and didn't care-- probably didn't even bother checking-- whether the settings work on black faces.
No, webcams are just really shitty little cameras and for any faces you need proper lighting, and faces with less contrast need even more. If you read the numbers, it's also racist against white people and in general the algorithm fails on roughly half the faces, racial differences are like rounding errors.
> not bothering to care when the system doesn't work when the faces detected aren't white
It didn't perform much better on white faces either. Latinos were recognized the best, but in general the software just sucked and was based on some open source suite the developers didn't even write themselves, since it performed identically. If you just embed some random open source library into your app, are you racist?
I'd like a TV that's just like a dumb monitor, a single HDMI input would be fine. Just turn on and off depending on whether there's a signal to it. Doesn't need to do anything else than display a picture and have factory calibration of correctness. I currently have an LG WebOS TV and I'm definitely picking something else next time, preferrably something as dumb as possible that doesn't need a minute boot, rather just a second or so like the TV I had 15 years ago.
Elon has clearly gone through training, and good for him. He used to have a crippling stuttering speech issue.
I would be concerned about the electronics most of all.
In that case, your focus should be the ROHS ruling banning leaded solder in electronics. As a result, we have literal mountains of electronics devices that have failed prematurely due to poor solder. See tin rot, tin whiskers etc in additional to mechanically much more brittle soldering connections and harder to repair products as the consequence. There's no point in engineering an electronical product to last, since it'd be crippled by the fundamental compound keeping it together anyway.
Those W123s are still rolling around as everyday vehicles in Africa, while those Toyotas are or will be dust long before the W123s stop running. Munro's approach is about how to do efficient engineering and therefore avoid extra cost as a manufacturer, not how to build the ultimately luxurious or durable vehicle.
As an European, poorly fitted parts is something I just attribute to American, French, UK and Italian work ethics. Something about not having the Lutheran work ethics, I guess.
Your numbers were fudged a lot in favor of Toyota and if that's how you service your cars, I sure hope I'm not the next owner of something you've had. A car you've owned would also not be worth anything like that, most likely it'd be scrapped since everything would be beyond any sensible repair budget.
I'll buy, if I can swap the battery in under 60 seconds.
You know Tesla had a demo about this in 2013 (90 seconds) and even did a few swap stations, but it turned out people didn't want that.
Meant Hyundai Ioniq.
I'll wait for the Japanese or Koreans to make an electric car, thank you.
So go buy a Nissan Leaf or Hyundai Ion then?
Yeah, basically one of the most intentionally misleading mainstream sources of "news" out there at the moment.
Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. -- Steinbach
