anthonyj
Stonks
Are you bulking or just a fatty?
Or maybe he's one of those annoying high-metabolism inner fatties.
I ain’t fat! TSLA actually made me lose weight... in my wallet
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Are you bulking or just a fatty?
Or maybe he's one of those annoying high-metabolism inner fatties.
At 7:35, some guys claims that a Prius buyer does not buy a Model S or X or a 3. Guess what: I’m a Prius buyer who bought both a Model S and a Model 3.
Ditto.At 7:35, some guys claims that a Prius buyer does not buy a Model S or X or a 3. Guess what: I’m a Prius buyer who bought both a Model S and a Model 3.
I'm long...like 5 years or more long, so....
Make cars...
Sell cars...
Innovate...
Motivate...
Keep getting closer to autonomy...
Keep getting closer to solar roof mass release.
Everything else...meh.
Reminiscent of the LP to CD transition. People were happy with their records... until they had compact discs:
Did not need turning over half way
Were more scratch resistant
More bump resistant (you could dance without the needle jumping)
Fit on a smaller shelf
Didn’t wear out
Were equal in quality to the master
(Please no debate from audiophiles on lossiness, the point is historical - that CDs won by being more convenient).
So this is from the Tesla Annual Shareholder Meeting's video stream, which ran for a couple of minutes and is included in the Youtube version as well, starting exactly at 8:00:
It definitely appears to be a vehicle's exterior from very close up, with a Tesla logo and the weird section you outlined. The 'rotation' is I believe camera movement. The whole sequence is repeated around 3 times before the live feed is cut in. I believe it's showing various details of a single car the whole time: the color scheme is similar.
Edit, here's a few detailed shots of the Roadster 2020:
I don't recognize that 'rotating' sequence as any of the details on the Roadster 2020.
I don't recognize these details from any of the existing production models or known protytypes either.
Could this be another Tesla Pickup Truck leak, hidden in plain sight? The black color scheme would support that interpretation too.
I don’t believe it is possible for *all* ‘short low, cover high’ operators to be that stupid. Which leaves the only possible explanation that some large operators are sponsored, by <insert Tesla enemy>.
I'd bet a factor in this is that the Model 3 pack appears to have incorporated intumescent goo.Luckily I don't think there have been *any* Model 3 fires. Not a single one so far.
I mean, eventually someone will have a Model 3 burn because it's inside a building which is on fire (this happened to a Model S in Canada, IIRC), so it is still an issue, but they seem to have made the pack even more fireproof than on S and X.
Battery-grade nickel sulfate isn't made from metallurgical nickel; it'd be far too expensive to produce the metal, purify it, and then convert it to battery-grade sulfate. It's made directly from nickel sulfide ore deposits, which are fairly rare, and usually with significant overburden. Traditionally you can't economically use even rich nickel laterites (by contrast, lower-grade laterites are extremely abundant globally, with little to no overburden). But the new tech push is price reductions in HPAL to be able to use low-grade laterites cheaper than sulfides.
Both nickel sulfate and lithium carbonate/chloride will be really feeling the crunch if Tesla scales quickly. The latter because, like you say, there's been significant underinvestment in lithium mining, and the former because we really need to move off of sulfides and on to laterites if li-ion EVs are going totally replace ICEs, since nickel sulfate is required in abundance (nickel = 80% of non-oxygen cathode mass). There's a Chinese company (can't remember the name off the top of my head) that's really been pushing the envelope in this regard. Fun side effect: HPAL recovery of nickel from low-grade laterites is also good at recovering cobalt as a side stream. So in case it can't be completely eliminated...
So this is from the Tesla Annual Shareholder Meeting's video stream, which ran for a couple of minutes and is included in the Youtube version as well, starting exactly at 8:00:
It definitely appears to be a vehicle's exterior from very close up, with a Tesla logo and the weird section you outlined. The 'rotation' is I believe camera movement. The whole sequence is repeated around 3 times before the live feed is cut in. I believe it's showing various details of a single car the whole time: the color scheme is similar.
Edit, here's a few detailed shots of the Roadster 2020:
I don't recognize that 'rotating' sequence as any of the details on the Roadster 2020.
I don't recognize these details from any of the existing production models or known protytypes either.
Could this be another Tesla Pickup Truck leak, hidden in plain sight? The black color scheme would support that interpretation too.
Luckily I don't think there have been *any* Model 3 fires. Not a single one so far.
I mean, eventually someone will have a Model 3 burn because it's inside a building which is on fire (this happened to a Model S in Canada, IIRC), so it is still an issue, but they seem to have made the pack even more fireproof than on S and X.
@skybluecgreen
remember from long ago, Betamax was a better picture than VHS, but VHS tapes were everywhere, and dominated. until superceeded by better. how to win, "firstest with the mostest"
At about 8:45 there’s a right angled intersection of flat panels which doesn’t match any car in production that I can tell, and would support this being the truck. That’s my guess. I can’t really make any of it jibe with the earlier reveal shot, but maybe it doesn’t have to.
Rotating stuff?Yeah I also figure it could only be the Pickup, actually Tesla Pickup Truck is currently the only major vehicle whose complete face we have not seen. (Well... except for that "really exciting" Tesla Submarine Aquatic Car )
The rotating stuff also fits what Elon described as straight out of sci-fi scene.
I agree it's modular, but IMHO the different NNs mostly pass their info up to heuristic code that makes driving decisions. Passing info to each other creates lots of unnecessary complications.Perhaps my favorite thing from the Autonomy Day was the information that they are making a large number of different specialized neural nets to do different specific things, and then passing information between them
Even if we say that Tesla scale data sets are necessary but not sufficient, who says that Tesla is solely using inference a la multi-multi-layer backprop?
Biological brains are a bag of tricks. You can find mis-matched based learning for categorical memory, match based learning in motor control, and opponent processing based reinforcement learning for timed behavioral selection. Some of the tricks involve learned mappings from one coordinate system to another, e.g. retinal coordinates to spatial to motor codes in movement. Some of the tricks transform input, e.g. visual inputs are spit into form and boundary channels that reconverge for further processing. And so on.
You can pick and choose from this bag of tricks. Oftimes you can leverage some of these insights in data preprocessing and input representations. Sometimes you might need to do more. You can even use a hammer: You can add 'rules,' algorithmic pre-, inter-, or postprocessing.
Just because Tesla isn't publicizing every trick they use doesn't mean they aren't using them. Don't be blinded by your own strawperson.
In point of fact, our evolution is the existence proof that a sufficiently large data set plus search/inference can find the solution to every problem in navigating in the real world and more.
Tl:dr; Silicon Valley understands nothing so well as search. Recast this problem in your mind as a search, i.e. evolutionary, problem. Recognize that the compute power to perform this search is available today (given a sufficiently large and comprehensive data set ). And, perhaps, you will come to a different answer.
Rotating stuff?