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oldgradstudent··on Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives
It wasn't the coverup of the crash. It's the fact that they massively exaggerated their capabilities.

For example, the reason they started with night trips was that their car could not differentiate between kids and adults so they preferred to start operation when kids are less likely to be presetn.

Not that they've told anyone about it.

oldgradstudent··on Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives
These are all Waymo's narratives, carefully written. Not the objective truth.

There will eventually be a serious or fatal crash and the investigation will shed light on what's happening inside. That will be the real test.

Cruise collapsed the moment they were involved in a single serious crash. It collapsed because we suddenly found out how the company was actually run.

oldgradstudent··on Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
Isn't that a non-denial denial?
oldgradstudent··on I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s
> Punishing people a decade after the fact isn't very effective for anything.

It sends a very clear message: even if it takes a decade, we will find you and punish you.

oldgradstudent··on Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination
That's pathetic.

How did he agree to be a co-author when "he never had access to the data for any of the studies"?

oldgradstudent··on Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality
If true, that means the groups are different in many other aspects other than the vaccine.

The study does not control for the differences. No causality can be inferred.

oldgradstudent··on Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality
So what you're saying is that they are comparing two distinct self-selected populations that differ in many other aspects than just taking the vaccine.

Why would you ascribe any difference to the vaccine rather to any other difference between the groups?

oldgradstudent··on Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality
You're basically saying that the study compares two distinct populations that differ in many other aspects rather than just by vaccine.

Why then do you ascribe the difference in mortality to the vaccine?

oldgradstudent··on Shor's algorithm: the one quantum algo that ends RSA/ECC tomorrow
In your flying car, no less.
oldgradstudent··on Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023)
I was working in customer support for one of the first ISPs in my country when the switch from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 happened.

Windows 95 was a massive jump in usability.

Regular people simply do no understand the overlapping windows metaphor. When a windows disappears behind another they are often completely helpless. The taskbar was a life saver.

oldgradstudent··on Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world
Nothing in the study actually supports the claim in the headline and much of the text, though.
oldgradstudent··on Kosmos: An AI Scientist for Autonomous Discovery
I too always claim my position is the null argument.
oldgradstudent··on Kosmos: An AI Scientist for Autonomous Discovery
The statistical argument is basically:

Multiplying a number beyond our comprehension by an unknown probability >= 2

Right?

oldgradstudent··on Kosmos: An AI Scientist for Autonomous Discovery
How exactly extraterretial life is a statistical fact?
oldgradstudent··on I Tried the Robot That's Coming to Live with You. It's Still Part Human
There's a video review on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3c4mQty_so

oldgradstudent··on 1X Neo – Home Robot - Pre Order
The more modern approach is fake it until a liquidity event.
oldgradstudent··on French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence
> motivated by Netanyahu's almost certain knowledge that he'll go to prison if and when he loses his grip on the reins.

Guilt beyond a reasonable doubt is determined by trial in an open court where defendent has the right to cross examine witnesses and present evidence. Do not assume guilt or innocence based on heavily politisized reporting.

For anyone who is not following the trial, Netanyahu was charged with bribery and a few lesser charges which do not have a direct US equivalents. As soon as the prosecution's case-in-chief was over, the judges publicly notified the prosecution that they should drop the bribery charges as they are unlikely to be able to prove them.

The prosecution case for briberty was built on a hypothesized meeting in which Netanyahu supposedely instructed the director general of the ministry of communications to serve the interests of Elovitch.

During cross examination, the defense managed to prove conclusively that such a meeting, as described, could not have occurred. They also showed that the prosecution had in its possession all the necssary evidence to show such a meeting could not have occurred.

https://www.kan.org.il/content/kan-news/local/409910/ (use Google Translate)

oldgradstudent··on Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
Any day now.
oldgradstudent··on Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?
But they haven't checked his employment eligibility or he wouldn't have started his first week.
oldgradstudent··on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
This is simply not the case.

Edited: removed some inflammatory language I shouldn't have used.

oldgradstudent··on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
Why investigate if we can simply assume the accused is guilty.
oldgradstudent··on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
> Case 3 - seemingly similar to Case 2, a large news website offered to portray Bibi in a better light if he would push through regulatory changes as Minisiter of Communications.

Favorable coverage was the original charge (סיקור אוהד). However, since this website was exteremely hostile to Netanyahu, the charge was changed to being unusually responsive* to requests from Netanyahu's spokespeople (הענות חריגה).

oldgradstudent··on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
>There are multiple charges of corruption against him, which he is probably guilty of.

For anyone who is not following the trial, as soon as the prosecution's case-in-chief was over, the judges publicly notified the prosecution that they should drop the bribery charges as they are unlikely to be able to prove them.

The prosecution case for briberty was built on a hypothesized meeting in which Netanyahu supposedely instructed the director general of the ministry of communications to serve the interests of Elovitch.

During cross examination, the defense managed to prove conclusively that such a meeting, as described, could not have occurred. They also showed that the presocution had the evidence to show it could not have occurred.

Don't assume guilt or innocence based on heavily politisized reporting.

https://www.kan.org.il/content/kan-news/local/409910/ (use Google Translate)

oldgradstudent··on In the Network of the Conclav: How we "guessed" the Pope using network science
You can build a model, but is there any reason to assume it can predict what you want it to predict?
oldgradstudent··on Data manipulations alleged in study that paved way for Microsoft's quantum chip
In the 1970s both my parents were programming computers professionaly.

Computing was already a huge industry. Just IBM's revenues were in the multi billion dollar range in the 1970s. And a billion dollar in the 1970s was A LOT of money in the 1970s.

oldgradstudent··on In the Network of the Conclav: How we "guessed" the Pope using network science
Why would a bayesian model be better than, say, astrology in pricing that?
oldgradstudent··on Philip K. Dick: Stanisław Lem Is a Communist Committee (2015)
If a committee can produce the Cyberiad, books should always be written by committees.
oldgradstudent··on Major Flaws in 2025 Meta-Analysis on Fluoride and Children IQ Scores
> There is a Scotland that the found an 81.4% reduction in cavities.

Do you have a reference?

oldgradstudent··on The April Fools joke that might have got me fired
> We used Lotus Notes for email

My condolences.

oldgradstudent··on Boycott IETF 127
Is this a parody?

> Beyond problems at the border, the current Secretary for Health and Human Services - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - has said that he will send those with ADHD to camps. Source: Futurism.

What he actually said:

> "I’m going to dedicate that revenue to creating wellness farms — drug rehabilitation farms, in rural areas all over this country," he said during the podcast. "I’m going to make it so people can go, if you’re convicted of a drug offense, or if you have a drug problem, you can go to one of these places for free."

That what happens when you rely on Futurism as a source.

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