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Comment Clearing the visual sensors for the "AI" driver? (Score 1) 44

The NHTSA rules for "windshield wipers", "defroster", and "mirrors" are basically so that a human driver can correct the situation when the windshield/windows might be obscured -- I think it's clear that having cameras with a combined 360 view should substitute for the "mirror" requirement, but does the Zoox have gear fitted to ensure that the cameras and "laser based sensors" are not obscured by rain/sleet/frost/snow?

Comment Just like real life... (Score 1) 76

Though the AI systems proved adept at quickly finding relevant code sections, they stumbled when it came to understanding how different parts of software interact. The models often suggested surface-level fixes without grasping the deeper implications of their changes.

So they've replicated a large product development team (large codebase, or large team - doesn't matter which) in an "AI". Perhaps they trained the system on real-life examples... GIGO.

Comment 1971/72 - Computer adjacent - keypunches (Score 1) 192

We had 3 IBM model 029 keypunches at the back of the classroom used for Computer Math. Fortran IV (actually the WATFOR compiler) batch jobs were run every evening and output brought back to the school the next morning from Computel's IBM 360 system in the basement of the St. Laurent Shopping Centre. For a while we had access to a portable IBM 2741 terminal, connected via a 110 baud modem to the University of Ottawa's York APL timesharing system, and it didn't take long after that to discover that you could also go to what were essentially public access 2741s in the University of Ottawa's Engineering building. Fun times!

Comment Predicting Rule 34? (Score 1) 65

From the letter --

Each race is dependent upon the other for innumerable benefits, and until the reproductive organs of the machines have been developed in a manner which we are hardly yet able to conceive, they are entirely dependent upon man for even the continuation of their species. It is true that these organs may be ultimately developed, inasmuch as man's interest lies in that direction; there is nothing which our infatuated race would more desire than to se a fertile union between two steam engines; it is true that machinery is even at this present time employed in begetting machinery, in becoming the parent of machines often after its own kind, but the days of flirtation, courtship, and matrimony appear to be very remote, and, indeed, can hardly be realised by our feeble and imperfect imaginations.

Comment It wasn't fraud, but bad news for the payer... (Score 2) 42

When Zelle first started, we frequently got notifications for Zelle payments to one of our e-mail addresses... sometimes for amounts in the $1000 range. Since we didn't (and never will) have Zelle linked to that e-mail, it just nagged us for a few weeks -- if we'd had Zelle linked to that e-mail address the payments would have arrived without any action, and the payer would likely be out their money. There was NO WAY to tell Zelle, or the payer, that these payments were being sent to the wrong address. I had conversations with the Early Warning Services corporate office who were unsympathetic to the situation and had no useful guidance on how to stop it. So... as far as I'm concerned, the CFPB can have at them with my blessing!

Comment Ignoring any human factors research... (Score 2) 235

What an idiot

I'm pretty sure he doesn't have a degree in Human Factors engineering, or any other discipline that's actually relevant to the design of human/machine interfaces.
We've been studying HF since about World War II, starting with trying to improve the performance of military hardware and the people using it.

While our ability to design and build systems has evolved significantly from those days, people's mechanical and cognitive abilities have not significantly changed - our muscles don't work any faster, we still can't voice two things at once, our memory is not significantly improved, and so on.

Sure, it might cost a bit more to have buttons - but if he wants to (be in charge of a company that can) build vehicles that people enjoy driving, and operate safely, he should StFU and listen to his human factors researchers. And don't let the damn software engineers design the UI.

Comment clean? perhaps, quiet? not a chance (Score 1) 41

"The regulation published today will ensure the U.S. continues to play a global leadership role in the development and adoption of clean flight,"

So far the FAA has completely (and willfully) failed at effectively regulating noise from traditional aircraft - wider use of eVTOL aircraft is just going to ratchet up the annoyance from loud whiny devices that will probably remain in earshot for longer than their faster flying brethren.

Comment Re:No such thing as a career MBA (Score 1) 216

There is no such thing as a career MBA. There are only MBAs with a STEM background (the majority by the way), MBAs with a business background, MBAs with a financial background, etc. Basically, whatever a person goes into Business School as they come out as, however their learned to understand the perspectives of others.

So the problem is really one of having an MBA with a financial background running an engineering company rather than an MBA with an engineering background.

I think you're letting your Americentrism show through. Most other countries have a "Bachelor of Commerce" degree. The US calls it a "Bachelor of Science in Business". At least the other countries are honest -- there is NO STEM content in a BComm, and I seriously doubt there's much if any in the US version.

Comment SEND payment not TAKE payment (Score 4, Interesting) 86

I would much rather see a system where I initiate the transfer of funds with my bank, or with my credit provider, to the merchant's trading account and receive a proof-of-payment token that I can provide (electronically) to the merchant and they can verify, that does NOT give them the ability to initiate any future transaction.

The whole process of providing my credit card number or bank account details to some merchant that can then lose control of them, or themselves make unauthorized transactions, and that I have to keep a watch for... is just idiotic.

Now that the FedNOW service is operating even the US can do instant payments that would support this.

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