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Go fuck your strawman on your own then. Tesla making world-class vehicular CV and then switching to lidar once the lidar tech reaches new pinnacles is a totally worth endeavor and might even be a better long-term plan. Vehicular autonomy is always going to need amazing CV, so them pushing it...

So when you read: you saw me say "This is great and crazy, and I'm pretty pumped to see how far they get." you interpreted it as, "This is near impossible and they're retarded."?

I don't even know what point you're trying to make here, but when one spends a tremendous amount of effort trying to get structure from motion of objects in a mono-cam, it feels like cheating when one switches to a lidar like the velodyne above that just tells you what everything looks like in...

Well, it's not required persay. If it was we feeble humans and our addiction to the visible light spectrum wouldn't be able to drive. It does, however, make things a lot easier. The granddaddy vehicle lidar, the Velodyne HDL64-E produces a scan with 64 vertical layers. I believe the below is...

I don't really stand with the above skeptical posts, but I am a skeptic of the EMDrive and think that widespread systemic error from bad experimentation methodology is more likely than the EMDrive working. I think the way forward for the EMDrive is for them to attempt to improve the efficiency...

What's funny about the flat earth society is that it's a collective troll-job. There are some very well-educated people that support it and make the kind of arguments you could only make if you knew a lot about physics, ephemeris, space etc. And there are a lot of less-educated people who read...

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More of the same of what I linked above:

So, what's great and crazy about Tesla is they're trying to accomplish full scale autonomy without lidar, which is the foundational sensor for everyone else's perception. It's kind of like trying to be a raiding guild by using bards and rangers for tanking. Maybe it'll be as forward looking as...

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Silver needs to shave his head.

Competitive Gamer Engineer ... ... Someone who has literally never thought about what their identity is Fucking white male

That was my thought too.

I look forward to seeing the first level 5 autonomous car that doesn't use a lidar.

2 killed in fiery crash near downtown Indy Unknown if they were using supercruise.

Dumb question: Who is that?

Not a fan, but happy for the cubs, really enjoyed watching game 7.

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I'm not comfortable with a 2pt handicap based on UK politics. Though the idea does have reasonable merit. The impact of the Bradley Effect is not new and should be controlled for by pollsters. How much it is impacting our election is unknown. I could just as well say that some people who are...

That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about photosynthesis to dispute it.

Kicking the can 2000 years down the road is about as good as a permanent solution in my mind. What kind of crazy problems are we going to have with the environment in 2000 years, and what kind of crazy solutions we will be able to come up? I feel like it'll make our carbon dioxide problem look...

Fuck off of my algae, I'm trying to sink it, not let you burn it up and put it back in the environment you monster.

Better yet:

Who cares about the fish in the middle of the pacific? There's not even that many that live near the surface in the middle of the ocean, right?

I'm still comfortable with my no choice, but I think it'll be a lot closer. I give it a 35% chance of Trump victory. Last week was at 20%.

Oh, and how viable is the idea of genetically engineering massive-algae farms in the ocean that grow like mad and shed excess mass to the bottom of the ocean? I'm talking a Texas sized clump of algae that we'll eventually have to nuke to stop it from stripping out atmosphere completely of carbon...

Difference between solar shingles and solar roadways is I don't need to drive a fully loaded 18 wheeler on top of my roof, and I don't have dickheads throwing garbage on my roof.

With magical nanotech, won't we be able to easily identify virus elements and separate them from other stuff in ways we can't now? Such that we aren't squinting with cumbersome tools, but are identifying very small structures with precision far beyond what we have now?

I like the idea of the Senate and Congress being 1000 people each. Each state gets 20 senators, and an amount of housemembers based on their population. Create a big stadium with stadium style uncomfortable chairs for them to meet in. Reduce the amount of time they can talk to be minimal. Have...

I don't see how this can be done with the current SCOTUS upholding the first amendment. I mean, if this is a fantasy land we can rewrite the meaning behind the constitution, make big money's influence in federal elections minimal and have state sponsored campaigns. Make it such that the only...

Thinking about term limits, I wonder if this would have the downside of making politicians less powerful and less able to stand against big money. If you're a 20 year incumbent housemember of a fairly happy district, your chances for re-election are so high and your campaign costs are so low...

Yes. Even if Trump continues to inch toward favorability (which would be pretty incredible), it's still much more firmed up than it was a few months ago.

All the good betting is generally outside the general election result, or betting on the swings. The margins are larger and uncertainty much higher when betting on who wins Iowa than who wins the POTUS. And while the race is pretty much firmed up, a few months ago betting on who will increase...

The takeaway for me is that even with an incredibly impressive propellentless drive we're still very, very far from the stars. We'll need a few massive technological breakthroughs beyond that to reach the stars without a generation ship.

Never been tested. I'm probably within a standard deviation from the mean. Picked forum moderator.

Planning on DS3 up. I hear good things about dex, estoc and pyromancy. Any build suggestions? I did a similar thing in DS2 and did winged lightning spear / sorcery in DS1. I'll probably play offline.

Not sure why you'd say that. It's reasonable to assume that a future propellentless drive using physics we don't think is possible would have limits in the form of heat generation or power draw. I'd say that being able to accelerate a ship at 0.1m/s would be pretty impressive for one of these...

Agree completely. And when asteroid mining makes the path to a generation ship possible by bringing massive amounts of usable resources to LEO, I'll be super happy that we're building a generational ship. Even if there's a 90% chance that we'll beat it to its destination, it's worth doing on the...

Not inevitable, but concepts like guaranteed wages become more tolerable. But, johnny handouts getting 30k usd a yewr doesnt mean the wealthy will give up the means of production.

PokemonGo showed the world that a pretty simple app that is slightly connected to the world and barely has augmented reality built into it can be massive in new and exciting ways, though the pokemon IP is a juggernaut and helped with that as well. VR / AR will be huge, 100 billion dollar...