So excited for our first paper published in major scientific journal on our Computer Vision module used within our PostureRay Software! This is true first and "game changer" ...More R&D & published research coming soon! https://t.co/7gfQ2tvIuI
Aujourd'hui grosse discussion avec mes ingés (chez Argil) sur pourquoi Elon a viré le LIDAR de ses voitures autonomes. Choix radical, moqué pendant des années, et comme d'hab il avait raison depuis le début.
Le LIDAR c'est un laser qui balaye l'environnement et crache un nuage de points 3D. Sur le papier tu obtiens la géométrie exacte du monde. Dans la vraie vie c'est une verrue technologique collée sur le toit parce qu'on sait pas faire mieux avec la vision seule.
Problème numéro un : ça rajoute une modalité dans le training du modèle. Ton réseau doit apprendre à fusionner vision + lidar + radar + ultrasons. Chaque capteur en plus c'est une source de désaccord à arbitrer, pas une source d'info supplémentaire. Sensor fusion artisanale = dette technique permanente.
Problème numéro deux, la bitter lesson de Rich Sutton : scaler le compute sur une seule modalité bat systématiquement les architectures bricolées à la main. Tesla a dropé le radar, puis les ultrasons, est passé full end-to-end vision. Leur courbe sur les edge cases s'est accélérée APRÈS, pas avant. Waymo fait l'inverse et reste stuck en ops géofencée.
Problème numéro trois, le plus fondamental : le LIDAR voit la géométrie, pas la sémantique. Il sait qu'il y a un truc, pas ce que c'est ni ce que ça va faire. Les derniers 9 de fiabilité sont des problèmes de cognition, pas de perception brute. Un capteur de plus résout rien, il ajoute du bruit.
Sébastien Loeb balance une 208 T16 à 180 dans un chemin boueux corse sous la pluie avec zéro LIDAR. Deux yeux, un cerveau. L'évolution a donné des yeux aux prédateurs pendant 500 millions d'années, pas des lasers. Il y a une raison.
Le LIDAR c'est l'équivalent du marxisme appliqué à l'économie. Une solution planifiée, centralisée, qui prétend modéliser explicitement ce qui doit émerger d'un système distribué et adaptatif. Tu remplaces l'intelligence par de la mesure, la compréhension par de la donnée, l'émergence par le contrôle. Ça rassure les ingénieurs qui veulent tout spécifier en amont, exactement comme la planif rassurait les économistes soviétiques. Et ça échoue pour les mêmes raisons : la réalité est trop riche pour être capturée par un capteur, comme elle est trop riche pour être capturée par un plan quinquennal.
La vraie intelligence, celle de Hayek comme celle de Tesla, c'est de faire confiance à un système qui apprend de l'expérience plutôt que de tout pré-encoder. L'élégance d'une solution c'est son rapport signal sur complexité. Le LIDAR explose le dénominateur.
Défendre le LIDAR en 2026 c'est préférer empiler des hacks plutôt que résoudre le vrai problème. C'est de la feignasserie intellectuelle maquillée en rigueur d'ingénieur. Les mêmes gens qui défendaient les systèmes experts en 2012 contre le deep learning. Ils finiront pareil.
Never bet against end-to-end. Never bet against la simplicité. Never bet against Elon.
FSD Supervised can reduce risk of hydroplaning
Through Tesla Vision, your Tesla continuously estimates the wetness of the road in rainy conditions.
Using that data + real-time vehicle input & response + estimated tire tread depth, it can then automatically change your speed profile to Chill & adjust speed as needed to help keep you safe
this is actually insane
> be tech guy in australia
> adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live
> not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4
> pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA
> feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold
> zero background in biology
> identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets
> design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch
> genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own
> need ethics approval to administer it
> red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine
> 3 months, finally approved
> drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection
> tumor halves
> coat gets glossy again
> dog is alive and happy
> professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?”
one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline.
we are going to cure so many diseases.
I dont think people realize how good things are going to get
RFK Jr: "They had to destroy ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine."
"Because if they had acknowledged that it's effective in anybody, the whole $200 billion vaccine enterprise would have collapsed."
ELON CONFIRMS THE 25-YEAR-OLD MASTER PLAN IS BACK: X IS BECOMING THE WESTERN “MONEY DATABASE."
He’s not just building a payments feature.
He’s building the everything app he dreamed about when he created X in 1999, the one that eventually became PayPal after the merger.
25 years later, he’s finishing the original mission, but this time with 600 million users, no board to fire him, and zero competition in the West.
Straight from the Nikhil Kamath podcast:
“I'm just kind of slowly revisiting this idea that I had 25 years ago to create a more efficient money database.
And if that's successful, people will use it, and if it's not successful, they won't use it.
And then I also like the idea of having a unified app or website or whatever where you can do anything you want there.
So China has this with WeChat somewhat, where you can exchange information, you can publish information, you can exchange money. You kind of live your life on WeChat in China. It's quite useful, but there's no real WeChat outside of China.
WeChat plus plus, I'd say, is the idea for X.”
The second payment goes live globally; it's over for every other app.
Source: @nikhilkamathcio, @elonmusk
The mRNA platform was pushed as the “future of all vaccines” — yet its own trial only tracked adverse events for seven days. Seven.
In that tiny window, over 12,000 adverse events were reported — and the so-called “69.9% efficacy” was a 0.38% difference from placebo.
This is NOT science.
🚨 Jenny McCarthy says her doctor shamed her into getting her son vaccinated, then said “there's plenty of institutions for him” after his subsequent autism diagnosis
🚨BREAKING: Fugitive Vaccine Researcher Behind Infamous “No Autism Link” Study ARRESTED for Stealing $1 Million from CDC
The very foundation of the “no autism link” narrative rests on research tainted by both criminal activity and scientific fraud.
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Congratulations to the authors Dr. Ghydaa Anwar, Dr. Ibrahim M. Moustafa, Dr. Iman Khowailed, Dr. Monica Raja Kumari Raghunathan, Dr. Rabah Al Abdi, and Dr. Deed E. Harrison on the publication of their groundbreaking study in Scientific Reports. Their research has uncovered compelling neurophysiological evidence that forward head posture (FHP) imposes a significant compensatory burden on the brain, especially during physically demanding balance tasks. Conducted through an international collaboration between the University of Sharjah, Abu Dhabi University, and CBP Nonprofit, this study breaks new ground in understanding how postural misalignment alters brain-muscle coordination.
This study was a graduate student project of Ghydaa Anwar for partial fulfillment of her Masters of Science degree under Professor Ibrahim Moustafa and in collaboration with Dr. Deed Harrison of CBP NonProfit. Participants with FHP exhibited markedly elevated Corticomuscular coherence (CMC) across all brainwave frequencies—especially in the beta and gamma bands—during increasingly difficult balance conditions.
“This research demonstrates that forward head posture is not merely a musculoskeletal issue,” said Dr. Deed Harrison, “It alters how the brain and muscles coordinate, suggesting that the body must recruit more cortical resources to maintain balance and stability.”
The study highlights how FHP may contribute to inefficient motor control, fatigue, and long-term neuroplastic changes—making it a key factor in chronic pain syndromes and fall risk. It also positions CMC as a promising biomarker for detecting and treating posture-related neural dysfunction.
The findings bolster the case for proactive postural correction strategies, such as those used in Chiropractic BioPhysics® (CBP®), to restore not only spinal alignment but also optimal neurological function.
Full Article (Open Access):
https://t.co/o4HHe7syTx
🚨#BREAKING: The New York Times is reporting that President Donald Trump is weighing a critical decision amid the escalating four-day war between Israel and Iran: whether to directly intervene by assisting Israel in striking Iran’s deeply buried nuclear enrichment facility at Fordo—a site so fortified that only U.S. ‘bunker buster’ bombs, deployed by American B-2 stealth bombers, are capable of reaching it.
BREAKING: Elon Musk confirms Tesla has been testing self-driving Model Ys with no one in the driver's seat in Austin with no incidents, and that the first self-delivery from the factory to the customers house will happen next month.