I have been doing AI work for more than a year now. It's fun, really but where is my $2M signing bonus?

I wasn't aware of Joby before seeing this article but their videos are actually pretty impressive. And they have some pretty solid corporate backing. And I like the design where it switches from VTOL to cruise like an Osprey.

From a technology standpoint it seems viable, but is each 10 mile ride going to be a 2 hour wait and cost $1,500? 100 mile range is only going to be good for 5 to 10 trips at best, then a couple hours for recharge.

Also interesting that they had one video/article that showed a hydrogen powered version which had 500+ mile range. Hydrogen doesn't make much sense for cars but for an aircraft operating out of a properly equipped FBO it could be doable. But it looks like they aren't going that way.

If a voxel is assigned a space where it can be in one of four positions, then it encodes 2 bits.

I'm all for sensible regulation, but this strikes me as similar to trying to combat drug addition by banning medicine bottles.

I am sure Elon Musk is responsible in some way for this atrocity.

Does anyone here have any specimens of adolescents that don't look like mental cases?

I know there are some. But they can be hard to spot.

Two observations:

#1 More often than not the frozen stuff they cook and give you a sample of at the store tastes nothing like what it does when you get it home. You end up having one serving and the rest stays in the freezer until you throw it away.

#2 You can be risking your life to get a sample. Some percentage of the shoppers there act like they haven't seen food in a week when the nice/crotchety old lady pushes a tray of cut-up eggrolls or sausage or whatever. The remarks about "mostly acting like adults" doesn't apply there.

Does anyone care to validate this experience?

With the U.S. in the mindset that it can do whatever it wants anywhere at any time as long as it says its own "National Security" is threatened I'm not sure that "sovereignty" really means much no matter what words someone writes down on a piece of paper somewhere and votes on it.

Trump a) thinks he can annex Greenland, b) commit open murder in international waters, c) do the same thing in Nigeria, d) invade Venezuela, e) ... you get the idea. But it is not like he was the first one. The Cheney administration just fabricated total lies and got a supine congress and a credulous and frightened public to go along with a 10 year set of wars.

So why would anyone think that this same rouge government would not feel inhibited from invading wherever it wants to get access to a data center if it wants to? Either cyberattack or physical. It doesn't matter. Trump has demonstrated over and over again that there is no consequence for doing so even if the operation is botched.

Go ahead and pass a law. It will matter to regimes that are not lawless.

It looks a lot closer to Trump University than anything else.

If Stanford (right up the street you know) can't find jobs for its CS graduates -- far more extensive knowledge and training -- why the hell would anyone expect to found a career out of a positive-cash-flow marketing project?

I have to wonder if you wouldn't get better bang for your buck at one of those "Code Ninja" shops down at the strip mall.

There are more than a few commenters here that are always willing to step up to defend, justify, and extol as righteous everything Trump does.

Is it just me or are they strangely underrepresented today? Why do you suppose that is?

They think they are going to control this but they are barely being able to control regular internet access. They can for the docile segments of their population (and they no doubt take great comfort from that) but that isn't what matters.

So their choices are to ban the technology altogether or continue to shovel shit against the tide. And if they reject AI embedding into their culture they will lose whatever chance they will not be able to sustain their technological parity with the barbarians.

Let's see what they choose.

Are you talking about the part where he said LIDAR-based systems were "doomed to fail?"

I'm not saying he is right. But I don't see him admitting anything like what you are saying he is.

You will find an "opinion" that is endlessly repeated in many forums (including right here) that it is impossible to build a fully autonomous driving system unless you are using LIDAR. It isn't true and Tesla has pretty much proved it by this point.

I wonder how much of Luminar's business plan was based on this myth.

However there are a lot of other applications for LIDAR. Not as glamorous maybe but certainly enough to support positive cash flow.

I once was paid on on a contract gig to write/maintain an APL program. There can't be many people like that. Anyone else here?

I found it to be a rather elegant language, but I found it annoying that I couldn't finish the work remotely on a Hazeltine 2000 or ADM terminal. I had to drive to Sacramento to access the system on a special IBM terminal that could handle the character set.

Do I have this right?

They put in $1B, then they will likely get more than $1B ROI just on license fees.

Then they have the stock and the revenue stream. Where can I get a deal like that?