It's called amateur porn...

Independent of the sleazy nature of the glass, process patents have gotten out of hand and need to be reigned in. People have made highlight reels for years, this is just an automation tool that certainly could be protected rationally by copyright without a claim to have invented automating highlight reels. I mean, AI could already do it with the right prompt and training.

Yes, you must inject one byte for every byte you take; can't let you get away with science. Maybe Congress should make it illegal to take publicly available information and use it for scientific purposes.

Since researchers used publicly available orbital information from Starlink satellites , I wonder how long it will be before Musk wants to get paid for the data.

You. I called them dates.

Meh. Multitask by drinking in class.

Freshman year is an acclimation and get you non-core stuff out of the way. Taking them out means the easy A's don't inflate your grade point so your reported GPA is mr indicative of your actual major performance. Personally, when I interview I really didn't care about GPA. You got in to a school where we hire, you made it through and graduated; I always thought using them was just a way for a company to say "We hired the brightest." I was more interested in what you did during school, what you were interested in; a few tech questions sorted out what you know.

Years ago, when I got my grad degree, one company wanted to know your undergrad GPA as well. For fuck sake, I got into a school you obviously hire a lot of people from, I graduated , and my undergrad was over a decade ago. Needless to say, I didn't accept their offer to interview; I suspect with my initial reaction to their request it would not have gone well.

The real problem is grade inflation, which makes GA even less important.

"No one in this world, so far as I know... has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people." H L Mencken

Translated: “We’ll get all the upside and foist the downside on public investors. “

Yea, that's a challenge. At a minimum, Flock should do a fuzzy search on the tag with the state registry to see if a missed read digit results in an hit, but that would mean more work and cost more money. Flock's real problem seems to be GIGO compounded by poor programming logic.

They have to have a way, or else there whole system is even more fucked up. States can and do duplicate tags, so a simple number search could cause problems. I suspect the whole state reading is fucked, because of the large variation in how states put the name on a tag, the wide variety of tag graphics even within states, etc.

At a minimum, it would seem Flock should validate the tag is in fact a valid tag for state X and the vehicle matches the state's description. That would at least throw out bad reads , assume Flock wouldn't just flag it as an invalid tag so it would still generate a hit in the DB.

US plates are the same, which is why vanity plates are often a mix of numbers and letters.

More to the point, if say 96% of the plates are valid and not tied to a crime, a positive hit has a 50/50 chance of being a false positive. When looking at percentages like that, it's important to understand the population of true positives and false positives to understand the real odds of a false positive when yo have a positive result.

With a politicians tag number taped to the balloon...

Most tasks don't really need the big cloud based models. While on device models will lack the depth, breadth, and speed of cloud offerings, they have a number of advantages:

• Private data can stay private and not get into the cloud models knowledge.
• For specific types of tasks with well defined needs, the smaller models will be good enough
• Costs are a lot less and more controllable since you aren't buying tokens at an unknown rate
• Cloud models can still be accessed if needed via an API while still not revealing private data; for example you could use the cloud to do a lit search and use the data locally
• They can be hosted on a private server or on the end user's machine
• Speed isn't necessarily a big issue for many tasks vs costs; and speed can be bought

Of course, if the silicon gets powerful enough to make local models more commonplace, the AI firms may be more reticent to release stripped down versions for free when they discover it's no longer the first hit is free model...