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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I don’t know if it’s possible, since it’s exposed to the elements. Manufacturers have certainly tried.

    It wasn’t all that long ago that a few car companies were selling their CVT transmissions as having lifetime transmission fluid, that didn’t need topping up or changing.

    Even if it’s as minimal as having to change the brakes/tyres, there’s still going to be maintenance that needs to be done, if only to check that the car can go some period of time without needing further maintenance.



  • Like a car from the future e.g. “ghost in the shell” etc.

    At the same time, it does feel like almost every EV/Hybrid tries to go for the futuristic styling, enough that it’s starting to become a bit bland, since a lot of EVs end up taking after that kind of look. It was neat the first few times, but it’s starting to wear out its welcome, imo.

    Making it seem like a normal car that just so happens to be driven by an electric powertrain would give it a bit more appeal.





  • Also to rouse and inspire them.

    “I’m working on a machine that will make you guys redundant, and then I’ll make those booing me see. l’ll make you all see.” is hardly going to do that.

    He would be much better off talking about how it was the stuff of science fiction not long ago, and how the graduates would be helping to push humanity forward, and make real, things that were also previously considered impossible.

    Some of the talks are also just really bad. I’ve seen a few, and they’re little more than ads, or bragging about a thing the institution is doing that’s unrelated to the graduates themselves. Saw one where the speaker was talking about how the college was using AI for various things. Why even have that in the graduates’ speech?


  • Distillation isn’t stealing the original model, though. It just uses the models to make synthetic training data to train their own thing. They aren’t stealing the model itself.

    Plus, a lot of companies do it. Anthropic’s Claude was calling itself DeepSeek for a while.

    It also doesn’t seem like as big a deal as Anthropic and Open AI make it look, IMO. Them treating it like a national security issue where the company gets its models stolen from under its nose just comes across like a media company claiming that every download is a copy they would otherwise have sold at full price, and thus they have accrued trillions of dollars in damages.

    I could, in theory, take a bunch of google Gemini outputs, and train a GPT-2 model on them. That doesn’t mean that I’ve recreated Gemini, nor does it mean that i’ve stolen it from Google, either.

    To top it all off, it’s not like their services were abused. The companies were presumably paid appropriately for the usage.





  • I don’t know, it has the opposite effect, IMO.

    It just makes them seem obnoxious, since the example they chose was a parent who was distracted with the computer open in the changing room while they were supposed to be helping their children with their skates, and literally mentions how the other parents have to navigate around the thing.

    You’d be more inclined to think that they’re a computer addict who can’t put the the thing down for even a moment.

    On top of that, the video is basically a recipe to drop the laptop and have it shatter into fine powder, if you’re holding it by the corner like that.




  • Slightly odd choice to use a motor instead of an eddy current brake or some such, when it’s supposed to be a drop-in replacement for existing braking systems.

    Is it supposed to be a quick hybrid conversion system rather than just a brake?

    EDIT: I’m not sure if it is. The article makes it unclear, but going by the manufacturer’s site, the electric motors are meant to replace the piston on the caliper, rather than using the motor itself as a brake.

    It’s still a mostly conventional braking system.