dan poon

Cofounder/coder in mechanical simulation startup (sold). BSc maths/philosophy b/c GOFAI. Lived in the UK, India & China - industrialising the last 2

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@zenxv @smolcitizen @NotFarLeftAtAll You are right. Yes I have tried too.

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@TeslaBoomerMama Find me a fund manager that will vote according the the Tesla board’s recommendation, and I will switch all my passive funds to that manager

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@Tesla Find me a fund manager that will vote according the the Tesla board’s recommendation, and I will switch all my passive funds to that manager

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@philhuwedwards @johnrhanger First world problems.

When previously you had no power whatsoever, who gives a shit if it’s intermittent.

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@AndyatAuto @Telegraph The hot hatch killed sports cars, way back in the 80’s

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@todayyearsold Did you know that multiplication commutes?

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@DANNYUNFILTERED Of all the uninsured drivers you could nick, you nick this one ffs.

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Worth reminding yourself every so often of “The Bitter Lesson” https://t.co/4Ji8Yq4iKC

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@niccruzpatane Ironic if Waymo need to swallow “The Bitter Lesson”, after Google fired Rich Sutton.

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@SawyerMerritt Every car in China has a long version.
BMW 3? There a long version of that. Etc.
MYL will probably sell well in China.

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@nogulagsagain Connect a lithium ion battery pack to it, and you have an electric powered bike

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@KenWongUSA @SawyerMerritt This. China does not assign fault to a single party.

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@DabOf0ppo Judging from the Porsches reaction from the 1st person cam, either he didn’t know what to do once the car hit the curb (he lifts off). Or he just froze.

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@niccruzpatane More like Siri vs ChatGPT

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@ValueAnalyst1 I’d like to hear deepmind’s opinion of why waymo is not pursuing e2e nn, and why the bitter lesson does not apply to them

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@niccruzpatane Maybe the Bitter Lesson does not apply to waymo. But id like to know why.

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@ValueAnalyst1 You keep appearing on my feed, slagging Tesla off. I’m puzzled. Do you believe that…

- end to end neural nets will never work, or…..

- end to end NN is right, but Tesla won’t be the one to do it

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@Sassafrass_84 This is madness, because

i. We don’t need it
ii. We don’t want it
iii. We don’t like it

….. Er, what comes after iii?

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@Sassafrass_84 Bring back Roman numerals!!!

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@farzyness JV between space x and Tesla.