Nobody is saying that they haven't made it work with or without the guy. The key here is that you're essentially saying their culture is OK because the end justify the means, but I don't think that's a company that I'd want to work for. If you do, that's fine, but having warnings like this are nice for the people who don't want to work in environments like that.
I think something that can help this situation is to not use "big" machine learning words such as "patch embedding".
This is one of the issues with a lot of machine learning articles out there (not to nitpick on you, sorry); there are almost always easy and illustrative examples that you can use to break this down into a simpler explanation.
The one I was involved with could never jump like that. My guess is that umbilical, at a minimum, carries power. Based on what I know, I cannot imagine the robot doing what is shown on these videos while loaded with the two battery packs that are part of the design.
Please keep in mind that this is a single data point. I am sure there have been many successful builds. It's a nice design. I was not intimately involved in the original build of the robot we dealt with. I was involved in a complete tear-down and reconfiguration to make it work. As I mentioned, this led to the design of a lightweight quadruped that is fully CNC machined and uses more powerful and capable customized drone motors.
I'd be curious to learn more about the motor selection for the complete tear down and rebuild. One of the biggest buys of the Solo (in the article) design is the 'high bandwidth' current/torque control, and the price/performance seemed (at the time) to be pretty great.
Wasn’t the earth the supercomputer that was trying to come up with the question to the answer of 42? If they just found it, does that mean that they’re done with us?
It's been a while... but I'm pretty sure the opening of the book explained that there was a theory that should both the question and the answer exist in the same universe, it would instantly collapse on itself and begin anew.
There was also a theory that this had already happened.
Well, some technology can't be replicated by living creatures... I could hire 10,000 book-keepers and they still wouldn't be as fast or as accurate at handling my company's finances than an old pirated copy of Quickbooks.
On the other hand, would I spend $7,000 on a state of the art sex doll? I'd probably just head to the bar, spend $50 or so on drinks, and take home a female human.
But, I'm cheap...
Some will spend the $75k to have an automated quadruped robot fetch them their sex doll.
As for me, I'll just bring my little chihuahua to the bar, use him to flirt with some girl, and head home with the dog, the girl, and some beer all for much less than $75k.
Honestly, convolution reverb is already highly accessible. It’s a feature in $50 (and probably free) reverb plug-ins for anybody that does audio. They’re relatively easy to implement and have probably been around for a decade+. As the OP said, the audio things they mentioned aren’t new or adding any accessibility imo
I have no clue where you're getting your information from. But as an ex SpaceX'er with friends still working there and friends at Tesla, they absolutely work at least 70-80 hours a week. This is not an 'anomaly', but the norm. In addition, the expectations are incredibly high.
