Individual initiative, corporate inertia, good bad advice (on caring about work)
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cat /dev/sdb > backup.img # make a disk image
cat /dev/sdb > /dev/sdc # clone disk
cat ~/Downloads/* # play Russian roulette with your terminal
cat > file # minimalistic text editor, ^D to exit saving, ^C to exit erasing the file
cat << wq > file # nearly complete emulation of ed
grep -r bongo . | cat # shorter than typing --color=never
cat -v file # cause 20 points of damage to wizards of bell labs
cat file > file # empty a file without removing the file
cat meow meow > meows # duplicate file contents The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that
conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more
comforting.
The truth is, that it is not the Jewish banking conspiracy, or the
grey aliens, or the twelve-foot reptiloids from another dimension
that are in control.
The truth is far more frightening; no-one is in control.
The world is rudderless.
-- Alan Moore
> a former Baidu executive, Drive.AI board member, and one of the industry’s most prominent boosters — argues the problem is less about building a perfect driving system than training bystanders to anticipate self-driving behavior. In other words, we can make roads safe for the cars instead of the other way around. As an example of an unpredictable case, I asked him whether he thought modern systems could handle a pedestrian on a pogo stick, even if they had never seen one before. “I think many AV teams could handle a pogo stick user in pedestrian crosswalk,” he told me. “Having said that, bouncing on a pogo stick in the middle of a highway would be really dangerous.”
> “Rather than building AI to solve the pogo stick problem, we should partner with the government to ask people to be lawful and considerate,” he said. “Safety isn’t just about the quality of the AI technology.”
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/3/17530232/self-driving-ai-w...