
Title text: "Crowdsourced steering" doesn't sound quite as appealing as "self driving"
"Crowdsourced steering" makes me think "Let Twitch drive you to work".
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eSOANEM wrote:If Fonzie's on the order of 100 zeptokelvin, I think he has bigger problems than difracting through doors.
cellocgw wrote:. But some clever hacker-type guys have figured out how to change a few pixels in the image and get the algo to completely fail -- while not changing the image in a way noticeable to the human Mark-I eyeball.
jonhaug wrote:(1) You solve a problem.
(2) Someone breaks it.
(3) You fix
(4) Goto (2)
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Archgeek wrote:jonhaug wrote:(1) You solve a problem.
(2) Someone breaks it.
(3) You fix
(4) Goto (2)
Come now, Goto is for noob-lords. I fix.Code: Select all
while(3){
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Archgeek wrote:Come now, Goto is for noob-lords.
rmsgrey wrote:Many years ago, there was a tank detection neural net that worked brilliantly on the training set, but failed under other conditions. It eventually turned out that, in the training set, all the photos of tanks were taken in direct sunlight, while the non-tank photos were taken while it was cloudy, so what they'd actually produced was a sunlight detector...
cellocgw wrote:Wondering if the launch of perhaps the stupidest "We are hip to new technology" TV show since Scorpion, "Wisdom of the Crowd," triggered this drawing.
xtifr wrote:... and orthogon merely sounds undecided.
Flumble wrote:Archgeek wrote:jonhaug wrote:(1) You solve a problem.
(2) Someone breaks it.
(3) You fix
(4) Goto (2)
Come now, Goto is for noob-lords. I fix.Code: Select all
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Someone breaks it.
You fix
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I'm not sure whether the "while (3)" is intentional. Anyway, functional style is hot nowadays:Code: Select all
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You solve a problem.
while(3){
Someone breaks it.
You fix
}
orthogon wrote:Archgeek wrote:Come now, Goto is for noob-lords.
On the contrary: the Linux kernel is full of gotos. They're used both by n00bs and by the 1337est of the 1337. It's just intermediate programmers who are advised to avoid them. (Like the way beginners and professional electricians will strip wire using a pair of pliers, whilst people with some skills will use the proper tool for the job. The pros don't need one; the beginners don't have one, and might not even know they exist. Is there a word for this phenomenon of non-monotonicity?)
jonhaug wrote:(1) You solve a problem.
(2) Someone breaks it.
(3) You fix
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(X) Skynet
Archgeek wrote:Welp, it's one line, but does it make a difference under the hood from a while loop's single branch? Also, is that an operator or a warding glyph? I'm lead to wonder if they'll unironically implement a bijection <==> operator next, for those "if and only if" (or "iff") conditions.
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orthogon wrote:Like the way beginners and professional electricians will strip wire using a pair of pliers, whilst people with some skills will use the proper tool for the job. The pros don't need one; the beginners don't have one, and might not even know they exist. Is there a word for this phenomenon of non-monotonicity?
Heimhenge wrote:OP Envelope Generator said: "Crowdsourced steering" makes me think "Let Twitch drive you to work".
Reminded me of a serious (?) paper I read some time ago about "democratic self-driving buses" where the all passengers would have keypads for entering their desired destination. The bus then processes that data and computes the optimal route for its current riders. Wasn't so much "AI" as it was solving for the optimal path between nodes in a network. It might have been a paper on game theory.
Made sense to me at the time. Then I forgot about it until this comic. Wondering now if something like that is part of the AI in multi-passenger autonomous vehicles (like taxis).
somitomi wrote:orthogon wrote:Like the way beginners and professional electricians will strip wire using a pair of pliers, whilst people with some skills will use the proper tool for the job. The pros don't need one; the beginners don't have one, and might not even know they exist. Is there a word for this phenomenon of non-monotonicity?
Pssshht, pliers are so pro-ish noob. The real noobs strip wires with a pair of scissors or their teeth.
xtifr wrote:... and orthogon merely sounds undecided.
somitomi wrote:orthogon wrote:Like the way beginners and professional electricians will strip wire using a pair of pliers, whilst people with some skills will use the proper tool for the job. The pros don't need one; the beginners don't have one, and might not even know they exist. Is there a word for this phenomenon of non-monotonicity?
Pssshht, pliers are so pro-ish noob. The real noobs strip wires with a pair of scissors or their teeth.
orthogon wrote:Blimey, I'd forgotten about teeth. That was my preferred method for years.somitomi wrote:Pssshht, pliers are so pro-ish noob. The real noobs strip wires with a pair of scissors or their teeth.
rmsgrey wrote:Many years ago, there was a tank detection neural net that worked brilliantly on the training set, but failed under other conditions. It eventually turned out that, in the training set, all the photos of tanks were taken in direct sunlight, while the non-tank photos were taken while it was cloudy, so what they'd actually produced was a sunlight detector...
keithl wrote:orthogon wrote:Blimey, I'd forgotten about teeth. That was my preferred method for years.somitomi wrote:Pssshht, pliers are so pro-ish noob. The real noobs strip wires with a pair of scissors or their teeth.
Did you stop when you were down to two teeth, or could you strip wire with the jagged remaining single tooth?
edit: Second question: spit or swallow?
edit edit: Third question: If swallow, what is your favorite insulation flavor?
xtifr wrote:... and orthogon merely sounds undecided.
Heimhenge wrote:Reminded me of a serious (?) paper I read some time ago about "democratic self-driving buses" where the all passengers would have keypads for entering their desired destination.
Soupspoon wrote:Heimhenge wrote:Reminded me of a serious (?) paper I read some time ago about "democratic self-driving buses" where the all passengers would have keypads for entering their desired destination.
For the past few days, now, I've been trying to ID a comedy sketch (could be anything from Monty Python to Little & Large, as far as my memory goes for what show it was on) which had a bus where every seat had a steering wheel (and implied accelerator/brake?), so that everybody had an input. Perhaps according to how much they fed into their personal coin-slot, to dictate how much proportional influence everybody input to the vehicle.
The denoument was (view: external) the bus swerving and u-turning wildly across whatever street-like setting they were filming on (prob. an open-air car park surfaced but unmarked carpark), the passenger/drivers inside franticly playing the controls towards their own contradictory ends, like some form of linked slot machines or a Camel Racing booth at a fairground...
xtifr wrote:... and orthogon merely sounds undecided.
Flumble wrote:Your government has an actual bus with 40 steers? I wish ours was as cool.
xtifr wrote:... and orthogon merely sounds undecided.
The Türing test, named after Ålan Türingjonhaug wrote:I frequently fail at the Türing test when I typically get "Click on the images that contain a car" and have to try over and over.
/Jon
TaintedDeity wrote:Tainted Deity
suffer-cait wrote:One day I'm gun a go visit weeks and discover they're just a computer in a trashcan at an ice cream shop.
Dthen wrote:FUCK CHRISTMAS FUCK EVERYTHING FUCK YOU TOO FUCK OFF
Weeks wrote:The Türing test, named after Ålan Türingjonhaug wrote:I frequently fail at the Türing test when I typically get "Click on the images that contain a car" and have to try over and over.
/Jon
orthogon wrote:Reminded me of a serious (?) paper I read some time ago about "democratic self-driving buses" where the all passengers would have keypads for entering their desired destination. The bus then processes that data and computes the optimal route for its current riders. Wasn't so much "AI" as it was solving for the optimal path between nodes in a network. It might have been a paper on game theory.
Made sense to me at the time. Then I forgot about it until this comic. Wondering now if something like that is part of the AI in multi-passenger autonomous vehicles (like taxis).
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