Wow how bad was the machine learning behind Siri?
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I have to reset the ML for my keyboard prediction periodically.
In the past week, Elon Musk admitted that the ML that was allegedly scanning all the camera footage from every Tesla for Autopilot actually isn’t, and probably won’t reach v1.0 for a year because of all the corner cases. It’s probably the least inflated thing he has sad about Tesla (opposite of “a Tesla will drive itself from LA to NY entirely under Auto Pilot in $TODAY + 6_months). It’s a hard problem to solve, and 99% is basically 0%.
Just because you can draw inferences from large data sets doesn’t mean the results aren’t gibberish.
And back Siri itself: the voice recognition still isn’t as good as when they first bought it, when it used all of Nuance’s technology, since took it in-house. Not that they aren’t capable of engineering a better solution, but Nuance owns 99% of the speech patents.
That story was hilarious when I first read it, and… it’s still funny.
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It would be so interesting to somehow quantify how many Volvos have been sold because of LH.
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Man…how clueless is Ford…lol
j/k…I think I’m going to make plans shortly to move to Texas. Cali is out of control.
That’s a large part of why I just pulled the ejection handles and got out.
More people leaving CA over a DMV fee also means more available housing 
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I’ll take your word for it. I don’t know how many longhorn and Whataburgers the TX DMV charges for registration.
Edit: Here is the last thing that I will say about this, and iMessage board full of people that will go to extreme lengths to save a dollar. I think the one true drawback in TX, as someone who always signs and drives, is (if they allow it) amoritizing the upfront taxes and paying rent on it. My effective MF is 0.74% and our lease tax is the state min 7.75%. If I leased something in TX at 2-4% rent and rolled in several thousand in taxes, that would hurt.
Could be right, I mean that is what I was charged. It is the overall cost of living in a blue state just crazy high.
Then you should obviously pack up and move there to save $140/yr (+) on your registration.
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I’d say I want to vacate my home for more available housing. California specially LA, has a big transient problem. Just sarcasm. Why shouldn’t high registration fees be on that list.
Obviously what they’re really trying to say is that California has so many more real problems that should make everyone want to leave that high registration fees don’t even show up on radar as being a reason to go.
Speak for yourself (and you did by moving). The only other place in the US I would live besides CA is Northern VA, and Amazon HQ2 speculation made my old home in Crystal City more expensive than housing in CA.
But Texas and Florida don’t even make the list. If I was going to move just to reduce or avoid taxes, I’d go to Arizona or Nevada, and they aren’t high on the list either.
Power outages > humidity and cicadas in my book.
Hey now, Florida gets plenty of those too, its just not usually intentional.
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You should check AZ reg fees before you say that…
Lol I spent Aug-Oct 2015 in Phoenix for work, registration fees don’t even make the list. For one, I don’t have a neck tattoo so I’m not eligible to register a vehicle there.
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You’ve posted this in at least five different threads. If you are trying to get feedback, I’d recommend deleting what you’ve already posted and starting your own thread with complete details of your deal.
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Looks like it’s up to 6, haha. Can you imagine being the dealership dealing with this? Oy.