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  1. She was smoke in "Bad Monkey" as well.
  2. I think Lori is related to Abel Grieves (the minister murdered by Civil War Gemstone in ep 1) and she has a long game to bring down the Gemstone empire. I think this episode's opening flashback sequence of someone trashing the Gemstone home and stealing the Bible that Civil War Gemstone stole from Grieves is the biggest clue of the season arc, and my bet is that Lori is connected. I also wouldn't be shocked if Stifler is an illegitimate Gemstone from an Eli/Lori affair and that he ends up taking over the Gemstone empire, reclaiming what was stolen from one of his great-great-granddads by the other.
  3. Pirates over. Padres under. (any team that rosters Martin Maldonado is getting an under vote from me) Red Sox over. Blue Jays under.
  4. csb… He graduated from my high school several years before I did. His little brother was my age and was on the baseball team with me. Jay showed up at our practices a couple of times while he was in the minors and just crushed tanks off of live high school pitching while we sat there with our mouths wide open. No one wanted to be out shagging balls when he was taking swings. Fucking lasers flying all over the place.
  5. Novocaine was a fun movie. Some very cartoonish violence with gore, but a decent popcorn flick.
  6. I don't think it is quite that simple of a solution. I think there are a few contributing factors that possibly answer your question: Cost. Elon's goal was to rapidly scale an affordable autonomous driving solution. When the decision was made, LIDAR was still a relatively expensive sensor that significantly cut into that goal. If it's expensive, it's not really scalable. The facts have now changed a bit, but Elon is committed for better or worse. Neural net training. It's a relatively straightforward process to train a neural net by having it watch a huge amount of video of good drivers and learn from those examples. The data set for driving with LIDAR is a bit "fuzzier." The data set isn't nearly as big and it's a bit more abstract on how one could use it to train a neural net. There were reports that Tesla was having difficulty with its algorithm based FSD model with respect to prioritizing information between radar and visual sensors. So they punted and went visual only. LIDAR is most effective in a very well mapped environment where it can compare what its seeing to a recorded baseline. Musk didn't want that restriction. He wanted to build a solution that was free from the pre-mapping requirement. I don't think the final jury is in on his decision.
  7. Useful Charts is great. Super helpful to understand Bible and Church history. This one has been my favorite for the last several years: https://www.youtube.com/@TheBibleforNormalPeople And I can't say enough good things about the team at The Bible Project: https://www.youtube.com/@bibleproject
  8. Actual smart summon still sucks. It still has a lot of restrictions on it and doesn't operate like supervised FSD at all. Once the "training wheels" come off of it and the full capability of FSD 13 takes over that feature, it will be much better. People who use that function now in crowded parking lots are assholes.
  9. Yep... that is a known issue that has been noted by NHTSA. The fact that autopilot disengaged prior to impact isn't my main concern with that video. My biggest concern is with how late he engages autopilot and the fact that it took three attempts to get it to activate. If I had the time, resources, and talent to paint a Road Runner mural, I would love to recreate this and engage FSD a quarter mile out to see what would happen.
  10. My main concern with the video is the warning notifications that show up on the screen prior to impacts. Without seeing those in focus and knowing what the warnings were actually for, it sure looks like the accelerator was engaged during some of these tests and overriding the system.
  11. Leaps and bounds in the last couple of months alone. The last OTA update (12.6.4) now turns into my driveway and pulls into my garage to park without prompting. And I don't even get the full set of v13 features since my 21 Model 3 only has HW3.
  12. Nah... Just took my time looking at the video. I watched a couple of other analysis videos from yesterday, but they weren't all that compelling.
  13. I mean... y'all knew I wouldn't leave this one alone. It was just a matter of time before this catfish ate the stinkbait. I did take my time and watch the entire video and did multiple viewings of all of the actual tests. You'll all be shocked to hear that I think the video is a bit disingenuous and manipulated to give pre-determined results. Here are my observations that inform my skepticism: Rober doesn't use any FSD build and limits his testing to EAB and Autopilot. Yes, the sensor suite and hardware is the same, but the software is vastly different between autopilot and FSD 12+. Rober pits the latest version of Luminar's system against an older generation Tesla system. In each test where the screen is visible (except for the EAB test), there is an out-of-focus warning notification present prior to impacting the dummy or the wall. Anyone who uses the Tesla TACC, autopilot, or FSD system will tell you that if you have the accelerator pressed and are going above the set speed, you get the following warning: Even EAB will keep going when the accelerator is pressed, which is what appears to happen in the video. It won't give the visual warning notification, but it will give an audible alarm which you hear about two seconds prior to impact in the EAB test in the video. To my eye, it looks like Rober is pressing the accelerator and not actually allowing the driver assist systems to maintain speed on their own. In the raw footage that Rober released in response to criticism, rather than setting the autopilot early in the test which is easily doable, he waits until very late (<5 seconds) to attempt to engage FSD and fails on two attempts to engage before getting it to engage on a third attempt. There's no reason he couldn't have engaged autopilot much earlier. It's just really shady and looks like he is intentionally engaging late to confuse and cause errors in the system. https://x.com/MarkRober/status/1901449395327094898 The "fog" test was not fog, but smoke. LIDAR is significantly degraded in actual fog when water in the air scatters and absorbs the lasers. Credit to the LIDAR system for "seeing" through the smoke, but that is an extremely uncommon scenario for actual driving (no safe driver proceeds at full speed into an obscuring smoke cloud) that was engineered to give the LIDAR system an easy "win" in this comparison. In the "rain" test, which did not simulate a realistic rain scenario that one would actually drive in, the LIDAR system stopped because it read the significant water spray as a solid object, not because it saw the dummy. Judge's review does not award the point to LIDAR in this comparison. LIDAR is degraded in rain just like in fog due to attenuation. The CEO of Luminar (the LIDAR system featured in the video) is present in the video and is a previous collaborator and admitted friend of Rober. For posterity: Motherfuck Elmo for being a nazi asshole. You may now proceed with the knob-slobbing gifs.
  14. Pretty damn jarring to see Tuck taking swings for another team in the regular season this morning.
  15. In the movie "American Sniper" Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle gives a speech about how there are three types of people in the world: sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs. Sheepdogs protect the sheep from the wolves. I don't disagree with the aspiration to be a defender of those who are weaker, but a generation of military and faux-military meatheads latched on to this and made it their entire identity. They carry everywhere and brag about being constantly on alert, scoping out every room they enter. They make a big deal of never sitting with their back to a door and assessing the threat level of every person they encounter. It's bullshit posturing.
  16. I say this as a military veteran who retired after a 20-year career on active duty… I can’t stand Chris Kyle “sheepdog” bros. They are only slightly more annoying than “Mama Bears.”
  17. Waymo’s not going to fuck you, dude. J/K… good info. Thanks for sharing.
  18. Apparently they can recognize more than “STOP” to opt-out.
  19. Jamie will not be a regular due to scheduling issues. Coach Beard and Roy Kent are in as EPs for the show, but not confirmed as cast members. I'm all in on keeping Hannah Waddingham employed and on my TV screen.
  20. To be fair, it doesn’t say which way he bet.
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