But the barcode is primarily encoding a unique handle to the item for purposes of communication between parties and systems (e.g. the thing that I just scanned as I placed it in the shipping container is thing X not thing Y).
It doesn't seem like a url is serving the same purpose, unless you are thinking that the url itself is the unique handle (and it's not actually used for a request, it's just a unique identifier).
Will Waymo ever decide to route on freeways? Last I heard the lidar doesn't see far forward enough to meet their safety standards, but they should really figure this out.
It's not possible for a simple lidar sensor to "see" very far ahead on the freeway --- too many other cars and big trucks in the way. By design, these sensors are near sighted --- they really only "see" the nearest obstacle that reflects light back.
When self driving cars can't "see", what is their typical response? Slam on the brakes? This could easily be disastrous on the freeway.
Driving at high speed on a congested freeway is a risky high wire act that demands quick, almost instinctive decision making based on more than what is directly in front.
Nothing short of AGI may be required to do it as well as a human.
Driving aggressively in LA freeway traffic, maybe, but driving on a freeway in stop and go traffic limited to pre-mapped areas is a solved problem with Ford's Blue Cruise which is only level 2 self driving according to SAE J3016, and thats been available for years. Most other manufacturers also have some sort of adaptive cruise control and lane assistance technology. Freeway driving isn't that hard.
Maintaining your lane and speed isn't that hard, which is about all that level 2 does. It is highly dependent on constant human oversight --- aka a "driver".
After merging and before you exit, all you have to do is maintain your lane and speed on the freeway. What is the constant human oversight actually adding? Have you used Blue Cruise?
A "driverless" car doesn't get to choose only the easy parts.
Have you ever driven on the freeway?
I have and I have come really close to dying on multiple occasions and probably would have without experience, good instincts and defensive driving skills.
Imagine one car clipping another at freeway speeds and knocking it's bumper off and it comes flying over into your lane.
Imagine a car hitting a patch of ice on an overpass and spinning out of control creating a multi car pile up right in front of you.
This and more has happened to me on the freeway and I lived to tell about it. Drive long enough and you'll experience something like this too. How would Blue Cruise handle these situations?
Things like this happen on a daily basis in most large cities. You can't jam millions of people together without it happening. Incompetent drivers (or software) only make for worse results.
Wow! You've driven on a freeway? So blessed to be in your presence. What's that like? that's such a rare experience, you must feel so privileged to have had that experience. How often do you do that? multiple times a year? More than once per day even? just wowwww...
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C'mon man, freeway driving isn't that hard. Millions of people do it every day. A worse driver in the same situations you've been in would have gotten into a crash. the best drivers in the world, in formula 1, still get into crashes sometimes. crashes happen. humans don't have this magical ability that prevents them from ever happening. If a computer controlled car gets into an accident you do the same thing as when a human controlled car gets into an accident, with the bonus that there's video of the entire incident for insurance adjusters to review for who's at fault.
It's really not that hard to stay in a lane and not hit the car in front of you. BlueCruise solves for that but does currently falls back to the human driver as needed. Waymo doesn't currently put their cars on the freeway, but braking unexpectedly and changing lanes isn't beyond the abilities of the software that's currently driving on streets. I had a Waymo agressively merge into my lane in a way that I've seen human drivers be unable to do, just today.
I'm not forcing you to use a technology that isn't available to the public yet. but semi-autonomous freeway driving is already happening, fully autonomous isn't too far behind. when it does, it'll be better than the worst human drivers, and we currently let them drive. that doesn't mean it won't ever get into a crash, but if it means incompetent drivers now won't be driving because a computer will do it for them, there will be fewer crashes, which is what we're really after. Unintentional injury, which includes car crashes is the 4th leading cause of death in the US, according to the CDC. Not driving isn't an option for everyone people so the way to bring that down is to develop software so computers handle it for people that shouldn't be driving but currently do anyway.
There were a few things that need to be clarified as to how addresses are recorded. The author says:
> Because of Google, our address wasn’t even present for the USPS
In fact, USPS has its own database of addresses which Google most certainly solicits their data from. I know because I have dealt with customers who have found the same issue. We urge anyone with this issue to direct the issue to the USPS Address Management System Offices to file their address. Other services like those from Auctane (ShipStation, ShipEngine) references this data too.
The name of the paper contrasts with the paper that spawned Transformer architecture, which itself is a reference to the song "All You Need Is Love" by the Beatles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_Is_All_You_Need
I eagerly await the backlash to suggesting any one thing is all you need, the first shot of which shall surely be titled: “‘All you need’ Considered Harmful”
With this, you could invent a very unique magic trick where your spectator well-shuffles a deck of cards, then you can secretly swap your deck with one of the decks from your collection to reveal that yours was shuffled in the exact same way.
This is a relatively well known technique in card manipulations known as a "cold deck". There are many variations of it involving probabilistic but not entirely deterministic forces that lead to a branching path to a different cold deck.
Are these errors consistent for the same instructions? For example, in the same ALU, will 2+2 always equal 5, or will it spontaneously produce 5 and not happen again for a "long while"?
I'm working on a to-do list and time management application that I prefer to keep secret for now. If anyone here is using an app like this, I would love to know what you would like to improve. And if you're not using an app like this, I would love to know why not?
Well, we can share, but wait - we decided to keep it as secret for now... Oh and not to be seen as rude - check CS50 @harvard uni - there's one exercise you can check.
How would you know that they are who they claim to be?
There is an urban legend in my city that a person claiming to be a parking attendant worked outside the zoo for 20 years, pretending to work for either the local government or the zoo, collecting parking fees from visitors.
Similarly, I was with a friend who parked at the far end of a parking lot that had a McDonalds at the other end. When we came back there was a car boot on the car, I wanted to speak with a general manager to confirm they were "Enforcing the parking lot of McD's customers only", they said we could talk with the shift manager (who they may or may not be working with separately). My friend just wanted his car and paid them without checking anything with a credit card - on their phone+square device (or whatever that portable cc reader is). It was sketchy and I hadn't seen them there before. I am not even sure that is legal tbh, but didn't have time to work through it with him/them.
Wanna know how I know you're at least as old as I am ;)
People use maps on their phone for weather and traffic these days, along for music.
More so, signage is mostly useless. The problem is the world is covered in advertisements so much to the point that we all have our "AdBlock for Brains" coping mechanisms, that commonly lead us to bouncing off a door then realizing it says "use other door" and people asking why we didn't see it when every other square inch of the door is covered it words saying "Buy this addictive drug" or "Eat this sugar filled crap"
Simply put this is a much harder problem to solve then one would expect as we've allowed marketers to buy up all of our attention.
I remember (90's) those blue signs outside of cities or towns along the highway to "tune in for traffic information" on some AM station. These days some cars are being made without AM radio: https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/4004678-say-...
