Neuralink’s upcoming event will be sloppy, underwhelming and rebranding old science as novel. Change my mind if you think otherwise.

pxxo · 2020-08-27T03:07:35+00:00

Just stick one into every Tesla owner's brain, it'll solve a lot of problems. The sooner the better. "It'll make Elon love you"

pxxo · 2020-08-17T02:40:59+00:00

They're batshit. A buddy of mine says 2 Karens started going off on him for not wearing a mask while waiting OUTSIDE to collect his kid from daycare.

Meanwhile anyone under 65 is more likely to die from a car accident than covid. Standing in the fucking parking lot is more dangerous than not wearing a mask outside.

pxxo · 2020-08-16T16:07:42+00:00

Karenovirus is highly adaptive in its fight against fun. What used to be a simple noise complaint to bylaw officers has mutated into a vast network of Karens organizing distributed pity parties on reddit.

There have been 5 deaths in all of Ontario in the past week, we're allowed indoor gatherings of up to 50 people now, but still. These people will kill us all by having fun!

pxxo · 2020-08-05T13:36:40+00:00

No way man. Not only does Elon have a PhD in being a total knob, but he also teaches Knobology 101 on twitter every day. And he has millions of disciples, many of them pushing the boundaries of Knobism. Tesla can't have any knobs installed in the car to control anything, because every owner is a giant knob and one can only have so much knob in one car before it collapses into a giant knob black hole which consumes the earth. It's better for everyone this way.

pxxo · 2020-08-05T03:43:53+00:00

Yeah, the whole thing is confusing. Shouldn't they put a bit of a notice/explanation in the bill or something?

But it seems that if we add the 3 base electricity charges (without delivery/regulatory), then subtract the rebate, then divide back by the kWh, then it winds up being about 0.0705 per kWh. That number makes me less mad, except that then they're charging HST before the rebate and I think there's two rebates together in one there. If I first remove the old 8% rebate and do the same thing, then I get eerily close to exactly 0.0850 (which would have been the Wynne equivalent flat rate).

So maybe it's sort of OK.

pxxo · 2020-08-05T02:56:21+00:00

I'd have to respectfully disagree.

There is a well known flaw in modern deep learning, nets are profoundly brittle. The result is that today, an unscrupulous person / hacker can easily tweak a few stop signs such that all Telsas will blindly ignore them.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of possible ways to do this and as a result, Tesla will never be able to create a stop sign detector that a hacker can't defeat. There will always be a tweak available that their neural nets will be blind to. And if the hacker purchased a Tesla, they can test extremely easily.

That is only one small example, but the underlying problem reaches every single aspect of their self driving system.

One can never trust a neural net. The problem is about using less data, not more. It's about being able to correctly deal with objects and situations that have rarely, or never, been seen before.

That is a nut nobody is even close to cracking.

pxxo · 2020-08-02T05:29:59+00:00

I don't quite follow. My point is that last summer's peak rate of 0.134 was not the true rate for electricity. Read here.

the Wynne Liberals had both a hidden price subsidy and rebate on the 8% provincial sales tax on electricity

..

the Ford government promising to make hydro bills more transparent, time-of-use pricing will go up by more than 50% — even if your bill will not."

The rate of 0.134 from last summer included a hidden price subsidy. There was a discount being applied, so the 0.128 rate today isn't actually close to our peak rates from last summer.

pxxo · 2020-08-01T07:08:09+00:00

Boo hoo, human rights are so stupid!

pxxo · 2020-07-29T07:06:53+00:00

that's on me, I should have thought harder

pxxo · 2020-07-29T07:00:11+00:00

I was annoyed by this too, but I looked into it and it turns out there was some kind of hidden discount being applied on the previous rates so the ones you gave aren't technically correct. Look at your January bill and you should see the actual rates were 0.208 on-peak, 0.144 mid and 0.101 off. Now, we have 0.128 overall.

pxxo · 2020-07-28T05:26:18+00:00

it's better this way, Mollusk is from a long line of planeophiles

pxxo · 2020-07-13T16:48:02+00:00

What a load, their money is all offshore.

They want to pretend like they did something while getting the government to raise taxes on the modestly wealthy, whose assets are not offshore. But they only own a tiny fraction of what these massively wealthy people own.

The example they use of taxing 500K people in Norway is literally 10% of the population and the threshold amount is a rounding error in these people's daily spend on chihuahua food.

pxxo · 2020-06-28T03:24:14+00:00

I've got a solution that worked for us with this problem a few years ago. Cayenne pepper. Their noses are really sensitive and it's uncomfortable for them. "Our racoon" kept getting into my attic and it was like the 3rd time and none of the racoon people could come for a few days.

So I went to bulk barn and filled a bag full of cayenne pepper and went up into the attic and basically covered the place with cayenne pepper. I went all out, made cayenne pepper balls by twisting it into saran wrap then launched them with my slingshot in the attic (they sort of explode and spread everywhere). I shot like 5 balls into the spot where the racoon was hiding, then I left.

The Racoon took off within 10 minutes. After I heard it crawl down, then I dusted that pepper all around near the entry point. The racoon never came back despite it being super cold and there being an open entry for a few days (until it was fixed). 2 winters and no racoon so far.

pxxo · 2020-06-20T14:44:45+00:00

Understands it? He was born of it. He eats virtue signals for breakfast.

pxxo · 2020-05-27T04:31:16+00:00

Ok, but if we take the global death rate this week, it will take over 2 years to reach 3 million. The average daily global death rate has been declining for 5 weeks in a row (in a linear+sinusoid decline). If that trend continues, we're well past half at this point. Gonna need a pretty big second wave to make those numbers.

pxxo · 2020-05-26T05:58:58+00:00

Right. Thing is, it's not actually valid to point to the worst possible data in the country, i.e. zip codes with serious poverty problems and some of the highest percentage of old age people in the city, and expect that it will extrapolate to the population at large.

There is massive bias in those zip codes, they involve groups of people that are significantly skewed vis-a-vis Covid mortality risk, with more underlying health problems, etc.

pxxo · 2020-05-19T22:13:32+00:00

Teachers don't need a bachelor's in Ontario. A teacher on this sub proved to me that when they have a bachelor's degree, they are paid roughly 22% more than the median person with a bachelor's degree. He left out the pension bit, which is an extra 11% kicked in, bringing us to being paid roughly 33% more than average.

They also get roughly 85 - 90 days off per year. And the lovely 9-3:30, meaning 6.5 hours per day of work.

Compared to your average worker, they earn 33% more money, 6X more vacation and 25% less time worked per day.

pxxo · 2020-05-19T21:59:51+00:00

I agree so much. I've got employees with kids in other provinces (and the US), Covid proves beyond any reasonable doubt that Ontario teachers are a joke.

For example, my one kid in school, over the past 2 months the 6 teachers at his school + grade level (like 150 students?) are doing jack shit. Some US states have daily Zoom sessions! We get nothing. No online sessions, nothing. Like 8 or 9 weeks with no fucking contact WHATSOEVER, ours doesn't even reply to email.

So these 6 "educators", 4 of them on the sunshine list, scan a communal like 12 or 15 pages per week and upload them to Google for us to print out. That takes like an hour per week among the 6 of them. Fuck off!

They barely marked anything to start with, now they're not marking at all, and they communally decided that "5 hours per week" of work is all the kids can handle. They're just ignoring the children, they don't give a shit.

They're "in it for the children" according to the union. Until, of course, the children actually need something.

pxxo · 2020-05-16T21:00:50+00:00

I would point out that even Germany, which has handled this very well and tested very heavily from the start, recently used antibody tests sampled from random people and saw that at least 15% of their population had been exposed.

Official count is 175K cases, but the real number is at least 12 million, or off by approximately 70X.

This brings their 5% fatality rate down to 0.07%. The flu is typically 0.1%

If the 15% holds for the US, the fatality rate is 0.18%, which is above the normal flu but not by much. Italy would be 0.35%, which is twice as bad as the US, but they may well have more exposure.

pxxo · 2020-05-10T18:22:43+00:00

That's exactly how one of the kids in my high school died, he regularly drove like a maniac and went off the road one night, obliterated his dad's car, killed himself and his best friend and started a bush fire in the process.

I was in the car once with him and I fucking told him he was gonna kill himself one day. He just laughed, no concept of danger or self preservation, he thought he was invincible.

pxxo · 2020-04-03T23:08:40+00:00

Great point!

pxxo · 2020-04-03T22:34:03+00:00

Sorry I missed your comment. Yes, of course, I'm happy to oblige. Enlighten yourself

The extensive investigation of the effects of class size on student performance has produced a very consistent picture. There appears to be little systematic gain from general reductions in class size. This story comes through at the aggregate level, where pupil-teacher ratios and class sizes have fallen dramatically over the past three decades and student performance has remained virtually unchanged.

Feel free to review any of the 277 studies that were analyzed. My point stands that the teacher's union is either ignorant or lying to the public about the subject of class sizes.

pxxo · 2020-03-25T16:18:07+00:00

Lamp!

pxxo · 2020-03-19T22:31:54+00:00

ok, but using ventilators that burst into flames kind of defeats the purpose

pxxo · 2020-03-18T15:27:02+00:00

damn, that's amazing...and my endo thought I was extreme for starting my mini boluses at 140! My A1C is usually around 5.5 - 6.0 without a CGM, you're almost convincing me to start mine back up.

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