I noticed a lot of great safety engineering analysis in this new investigation by the Los Angeles Times. …since 2021, at least 23 people have died in crashes involving Autopilot or Full Self-Driving systems. That tally comes from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which also reports 840 Autopilot/FSD-related crashes over the same period. […] … Continue reading Tesla “worst driver monitor system on market. Last place … useless”→
People have asked me lately if I’ve seen news footage of the giant symbol erected haphazardly atop Twitter headquarters in SF. Yes, yes, I tell them. I sometimes watch it getting destroyed by the U.S. Army just to cheer me up. Oh, they say they did Nazi that coming. Twitter’s ‘X’ sign is taken down … Continue reading Twitter’s “X” Design Based on Nazi Swastika→
It’s an interesting footnote in history, how a Swedish man involved with extreme-right groups in 1918 set the antisemitic swastika as the Finnish Air Force symbol. Eric von Rosen had no Nazi associations at the time of his 1918 gift, he did subsequently become a leading figure in Sweden’s own national socialist movement in the … Continue reading Finland’s Air Force Comes Clean on Nazi Swastika Emblem→
The pace of AI innovation has been impressive lately. Microsoft is increasingly looking like it’s going in reverse compared to smaller, faster and less expensive options already available. Cerebras and Opentensor are pleased to announce BTLM-3B-8K (Bittensor Language Model), a new state-of-the-art 3 billion parameter open-source language model that achieves breakthrough accuracy across a dozen … Continue reading Good bye and good riddance to ChatGPT. Decent quality LLM now fits on your phone.→