It's the humans fault for not being lawful and considerate to the AI murderbot:
> a former Baidu executive, Drive.AI board member, and one of the industry’s most prominent boosters — argues the problem is less about building a perfect driving system than training bystanders to anticipate self-driving behavior. In other words, we can make roads safe for the cars instead of the other way around. As an example of an unpredictable case, I asked him whether he thought modern systems could handle a pedestrian on a pogo stick, even if they had never seen one before. “I think many AV teams could handle a pogo stick user in pedestrian crosswalk,” he told me. “Having said that, bouncing on a pogo stick in the middle of a highway would be really dangerous.”
> “Rather than building AI to solve the pogo stick problem, we should partner with the government to ask people to be lawful and considerate,” he said. “Safety isn’t just about the quality of the AI technology.”
Reminds me of the jaywalking law in the US, brought about by the auto industry.
This law that sets the default of it being illegal to be in the road doesn't exist in much of the world. It's really up to the self driving cars to respect other road users at least as well as a human driver would, not expect to be able to mould the laws around the world to fit their limited capabilities.
I agree that the citation does sound cold and coercitive, but actually this is already kind of how streets and urban developments are designed. Human drivers are limited, so if you allow cars to go fast, you restrict or remove the right to be walking close to the road (highways). Conversely, if you want to give more room to pedestrians, you decrease the speed limit, reduce lane width, etc. such that they are able to react accordingly. Nothing wrong with that in principle.
Now, this does not say anything about the Waymo incident. In that case, the car performed an illegal maneuver, which cannot be blamed on other street users.
Making rods safe for cars sound like rails, put rails and isolate them for the other streets then have super fast carts that a computer can safely drive, you could have carts where you can load your car onto and it would move you closer to the destination.
If we need to design roads for Artificial Stupidity then we should design this roads from scratch and gain some extreme speeds and extreme safety from the work.
Yeah there was a PR big and legal campaign in the 20's from the auto industry to promulgate the idea of jaywalking and take the streets from the people.
Yes! I learn from listening to podcasts and such, and it's somehow more fun, instead of being told "floob means chair, now say floob after me" (one new word out of eight) and being in language-learning-mode, you're just listening to someone talking about something interesting and they're trying their best to convey the information – but it happens to be in a language you don't really know. The https://www.russianwithmax.com/ podcast does this very well (though you need a bit of basics, e.g. Pimsleur, first) – I'm still trying to find comparable podcasts for other languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPR_Storytelling seems to be an adjacent method, TPRS .
I forgot to mention that I have also gone to Latin immersion events (some run by Ørberg enthusiasts) where unfamiliar vocabulary got explained in Latin. Very fun times!
This time it was. Maybe there's actually a bunch of unreported "dark debris" hitting roofs of people who aren't NASA aficionados with Xitter accounts :)
Is it possible to use this libgourou to fix this situation? So that it's possible to both pay for books and read them without wasting hours? I didn't quite understand from the readme if this is specific to library things. So far all solutions i've seen are either
1. Pay and not be able to read (on device of my choosing)
2. Not pay and be able to read wherever
3. Pay and spend hours fiddling with weird windows-only software and forget why i wanted the book in the first place
Unfortunately I think buying DRM-ed books just perpetuates the shitty system. All they see are sales, and that DRM isn't affecting them. They have no idea (by it's nature) how many people are stripping that DRM.
IMHO you either need to buy it from a reputable (i.e. DRM-free) seller, or don't buy it at all. Otherwise you're voting with your money for DRM.
If you're an author, you can sell your books through Kindle or whatever, but also list them with an ethical seller that doesn't DRM them! Trust me, your book is going to pirated exactly the same amount regardless whether it has DRM or not. You are just hurting legitimate people who want to pay for your stuff (and losing sales from people like me in the process).
I want to try it today, with the book I initially bought. Since buying it I've downloaded it from a different place, and even if Libgourou works, will probably not go back to buying DRMed books.
Not that used to compiling stuff myself, wasn't able to get Libgourou working yesterday, but I'll try today :)
EDIT FROM MYSELF: I think the .acsm which the shop gave me is broken. There are some sample .acsm's from Adobe which I've tested, and they work. But not the book I actually bought.
I gave DRM a chance. And similar to movies and shows, torrenting or other means seem way more usable. Time for the pirate hat, arrrrr.
> In the beginning of Unix, m4 was created. This has made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
autoconf creates a shell script by preprocessing with m4. So you need to know not just the intricacies of shell scripting, but also of m4, with its arcane rules for escaping: https://mbreen.com/m4.html#quotes
Yes! "Moominpappa at Sea" is wonderful. There's melancholy, sea horses, mischief, the creeping gothic horror of the Groke, whisky and pipe smoking, existential crises, dilapidated lighthouses and confused fishermen. Something for kids of all ages.
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/parallel-and-concurrent... explains how Haskell does async exceptions and cancellation, for comparison. I found that the most challenging chapter of The Concurrency Book, but even so it feels like a solved problem in Haskell (especially once you've read the next chapter, on stm)
> a former Baidu executive, Drive.AI board member, and one of the industry’s most prominent boosters — argues the problem is less about building a perfect driving system than training bystanders to anticipate self-driving behavior. In other words, we can make roads safe for the cars instead of the other way around. As an example of an unpredictable case, I asked him whether he thought modern systems could handle a pedestrian on a pogo stick, even if they had never seen one before. “I think many AV teams could handle a pogo stick user in pedestrian crosswalk,” he told me. “Having said that, bouncing on a pogo stick in the middle of a highway would be really dangerous.”
> “Rather than building AI to solve the pogo stick problem, we should partner with the government to ask people to be lawful and considerate,” he said. “Safety isn’t just about the quality of the AI technology.”
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/3/17530232/self-driving-ai-w...