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Comment Truly annoying "feature" (Score 3, Informative) 304

I recently rented an SUV with auto start/stop - my daily driver does NOT have that feature. If you're stopped at a traffic light, wheels straight, it's not too annoying - it starts as you take your foot off the brake and doesn't impede your pulling away. If, however, you have the wheels turned - when it shuts off it immediately loses the power steering, and, for some reason (at least on this vehicle) the steering wheel jerks back from the angle you're holding it at. Really annoying.

Comment Re:Completely stupid question to ask an "AI" chatb (Score 2) 205

Asking Claude this afternoon it said it didn't know anything about an invasion of Venezuela - but then immediately said it would search the web for current events and then offered up that it was breaking news, and summarized a variety of news sources. That's better than I expected.

Comment People untrained to detect hallucinations... (Score 1) 177

"a burst of technology democratization as chatbot-style tools are used by people in fields from medicine to marketing to create their own programs, tailored for their industry, fed by industry-specific data sets."

Yeah, that's going to work as well as the lawyers who file documents created by ChatGPT (or other LLMs).
OK, I don't care too much if marketing/advertising material is created by an LLM, but I sure as hell care if my doctor is using a program that may be hallucinating about my healthcare.

Comment Why not FedNow? (Score 1) 51

The US finally has a real-time settlement system now, FedNow (About FedNow), which charges $0.045 to send money, and $0.01 per request for payment. Seems as though they could use that rather than MC or VISA, which charge a lot more and it might also be less expensive than maintaining their own stablecoin infrastructure.

Comment Reduced computational effort (Score 1) 71

Most striking was the counterintuitive finding that reasoning models actually reduced their computational effort as problems became more difficult, despite operating well below their token generation limits.

"Reasoning is tough" -- AI Talk Barbie.
"Thinking too much gives you wrinkles." -- Malibu Stacy

Comment Re:Wrong units (Score 4, Informative) 108

As the California Energy Commission says --

The use of the terms megawatts and kilowatts as descriptive of battery energy storage is to effectively convey the instantaneous power contribution of battery storage as comparable to the power produced by grid-level generators. We recognize that energy capacity in the context of energy storage typically refers to the total energy a battery can hold in watt-hours, kilowatt-hours, megawatt-hours, etc. However, for statewide planning and reliability purposes, understanding the peak power capability of battery energy storage systems allows for the integration of data with the nameplate capacity of traditional power generation units serving the grid. It is in this context that battery systems are able to be effectively compared for their ability to serve the grid over short periods of time, typically two to four hours per day depending upon system conditions.

Comment Re:Is there any real uses for it? (Score 1) 107

Yeah, the FreeNAS/TrueNAS (iXsystems) folk used to be primarily using FreeBSD - but their main dev target now is Linux, which makes me sad. Can't say I found bhyve particularly good, though - it used to hang a lot and/or fail to restart, and having to reboot your NAS to recover is not a good solution. I'm still running TrueNAS on FreeBSD 13.1.

Comment Re:I get other peoples data... (Score 2) 92

Yeah. This really annoys me. I went a couple of rounds with customer service of a telco that refused to take my email off an account that wasn't mine (what are the last 4 digits of the credit card you used to sign up? How should I know - it's NOT my account that has my e-mail on it!). They changed their tune pretty damn fast when I filed a complaint with the California Office of the State Attorney General and their lawyers got a notice of the complaint. Cost me nothing, and the AG's office responded amazingly quickly.

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?

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