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[MikeDeTiger]

Broussard, huh?

Attendees better check that their Google Translate apps can decipher Ed Orgeron, because it's not gonna get any easier at that cookoff.  

[FearlessF]

I enjoy the StaleKracker - funny dude


https://youtu.be/PE46nbpZ-lk

[847badgerfan]

[MikeDeTiger]

In other news......

never forget, Mitch Hedberg was hilarious.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_XbtYfrNYI

[847badgerfan]

Makes me wish I was up there today.

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[Cincydawg]

I've seen two Waymo cars here now with no driver (or passenger).  I used to see them with a driver (not driving).  I chatted with one of them while he "gassed them" up at our Kroger (EV station).  My wife asked how they read traffic lights.

[utee94]

I've seen two Waymo cars here now with no driver (or passenger).  I used to see them with a driver (not driving).  I chatted with one of them while he "gassed them" up at our Kroger (EV station).  My wife asked how they read traffic lights.

Cameras and compute power to detect and run algorithms.

[utee94]

A couple of weeks ago a couple of girls got stuck in a Waymo when it decided to stop on the side of a busy freeway.  It wouldn't let them out because they hadn't reached their destination.  They called tech support from inside the vehicle to see if they could either get it to get moving again, or to open the doors.  It took the tech over 5 minutes to figure out how to free them.  And then they had to walk along and across the freeway, and presumably to their final destination which wasn't all that far away.

Imma go ahead and keep using vehicles with drivers for a while longer.

[MikeDeTiger]

A couple of weeks ago a couple of girls got stuck in a Waymo when it decided to stop on the side of a busy freeway.  It wouldn't let them out because they hadn't reached their destination.  They called tech support from inside the vehicle to see if they could either get it to get moving again, or to open the doors.  It took the tech over 5 minutes to figure out how to free them.  And then they had to walk along and across the freeway, and presumably to their final destination which wasn't all that far away.

Imma go ahead and keep using vehicles with drivers for a while longer.

People need to realize that the classification algorithms those things are running are capable of hallucination just like LLMs.  They're almost certain to, in fact.  The algorithms are actually very different, but the underlying principle is the same.  The real world is going to trip the training data up at some point, but it's still going to try and spit out an answer, because that's what it does.  

Eventually they'll get so good that it won't matter.  I guess they're not there yet.  

[Cincydawg]

Waymo reports 250,000 paid robotaxi rides per week in U.S.

If their error rate is 1 in 250,000, that is pretty good I think.

[FearlessF]

until the 1 is a fatality 

[Cincydawg]

until the 1 is a fatality

Well, it's probably (maybe?) still better than that result with humans driving.  

[utee94]

I'm less worried about a fatality and more worried about the fact that tech support for these things is incapable of taking timely action.

[utee94]

On the flipside, this is really cool:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7PGrAlPELc