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Re:Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives on Thursday September 10, 2026 @02:07PM (#49647958)
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.

Re:Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives on Thursday September 10, 2026 @11:17AM (#49645240)
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.

Re:Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf] on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @09:32AM (#49610119)
Isn't that a non-denial denial?
> 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.

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"?

Re:Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality on Saturday December 06, 2025 @03:15PM (#46176281)
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.

Re:Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality on Saturday December 06, 2025 @08:42AM (#46173310)
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?

Re:Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality on Saturday December 06, 2025 @08:30AM (#46173223)
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?

In your flying car, no less.
Re:Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023) on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @07:12PM (#46052512)
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.

Nothing in the study actually supports the claim in the headline and much of the text, though.
Re:Kosmos: An AI Scientist for Autonomous Discovery on Saturday November 22, 2025 @11:27AM (#46015901)
I too always claim my position is the null argument.
Re:Kosmos: An AI Scientist for Autonomous Discovery on Friday November 07, 2025 @04:06PM (#45851106)
The statistical argument is basically:

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

Right?

Re:Kosmos: An AI Scientist for Autonomous Discovery on Thursday November 06, 2025 @10:56AM (#45836579)
How exactly extraterretial life is a statistical fact?
There's a video review on YouTube.

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

Re:1X Neo – Home Robot - Pre Order on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @07:09PM (#45754305)
The more modern approach is fake it until a liquidity event.
Re:French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @02:02PM (#45672866)
> 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)

Re:Andrej Karpathy – AGI is still a decade away on Friday October 17, 2025 @04:41PM (#45621810)
Any day now.
Re:How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs? on Thursday July 03, 2025 @04:36PM (#44458946)
But they haven't checked his employment eligibility or he wouldn't have started his first week.
This is simply not the case.

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

Why investigate if we can simply assume the accused is guilty.
> 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).

>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)

You can build a model, but is there any reason to assume it can predict what you want it to predict?
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.

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