adamjcook

@adamjcook@mastodon.social

Engineer focused on #Robotics, #ControlSystems, #SystemsSafety, #Manufacturing and #Simulation. #ManufacturingOpen Contributor. #Purdue Engineering alum. Living in #Detroit. He/Him.
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adamjcook, to random

I am trying out https://calckey.social this week (to see if I want to migrate over there), so if I happen to "re-follow" you with a very similar looking profile... that is what is going on. 🤪

My profile is here, by the way: https://mastodon.social/@adamjcook@calckey.social

adamjcook, (edited ) to chicago

An interesting and depressing, look at the construction of the Eisenhower Expressway in my hometown of - what was lost and how, naturally, it was explicitly designed to negatively impact and destroy minority and communities.

Faux-progress of the 1950s that we desperately need to unwind in all US cities.

https://interactive.wbez.org/curiouscity/eisenhower/

adamjcook, to apple

So, I just moved from a 2017 Intel Pro to the new 2023 M2 Pro .

Now I feel like I am riding on the back of a falcon!

adamjcook, to random

Late 80’s Problems.

A local campaign ad for someone running for City Council in Fremont, California in 1989. The last person featured in the video is apparently the candidate. This video was sourced from TikTok on the “cali_nostalgia” channel.

adamjcook, to detroit

The latest on the United Artists Theatre Building renovation in Downtown …

The renovations are obviously extensive, but seemingly moving along nicely.

This building must have been really messed up inside, unsurprisingly.

Entire external walls are being rebuilt.

It looks like they are finally ready to put new windows in on several of the building faces.

A closer photograph of the north side of the United Artist Theatre Building in Downtown Detroit, as it exists on July 1, 2023. All of the old windows have been removed and it appears that the window frames are being prepared for the imminent installation of new windows - especially on the lower floors. The building is 18 stories tall.

adamjcook, to detroit

The US is in an abusive relationship with cars - and in nowhere is that felt more than here in , so I submit.

The car’s heyday as an economic growth engine has long passed, ICE or or otherwise, and all that is left in its wake its sprawl, unmanageable roadway death, unnecessary environmental damage and housing inaccessibility.

https://newrepublic.com/article/173782/ev-revolution-help-bankrupt-public-transit

adamjcook, to random

We desperately need a -like entity to replace .

"Open" standards.

What a racket.

adamjcook, to random

These "business leaders" are absolute morons.

, Dimon, Munger and Buffet.

Cozying up to the dictatorship for short term gains.

Does any of this seem familiar?

Like when the West welcomed 's oil and gas not too long ago which was later exploited once a dependency was established?

It is only a matter of time before attempts to seize by force.

Naturally, Musk is already telegraphing that the West should just give it to them.

https://www.axios.com/2023/05/31/china-us-business-elon-musk-jamie-dimon

adamjcook, to internet

Nice to see that the faux-left brothers have moved onto their latest scam over on ... being reply guys for in a pathetic attempt to sanitize Musk's hate and harmful behavior.

adamjcook, to random

This is so freaking awesome and the City of should be backing community leaders, organizations and initiatives like this with both hands.

I just happened on this on .

Downtown can stand to be on the back burner if need be.

The city needs this crucial work. Pronto.

A video from the Bridge Detroit TikTok account which highlights the Canfield Consortium and a recent project of their to renovate an old building in their Detroit community.

adamjcook, to random

Speaking of leadership (or the lack thereof), here is the latest that just dropped...

adamjcook, to internet

The follow spam on have been popping off lately!

I am seeing like one to three follows from newly-created, zero karma spam accounts per day over the last two weeks now.

adamjcook, to random

management kills their own taproom/restaurant in .

Blames the closure on sluggish sales mere hours after a second racial discrimination case appears in federal court.

Ink was not even dry yet on the complaint.

What a fucking coincidence.

That employee will possibly be deprived of any measure of justice now.

I want to know if the city put any money into this taproom renovation project. That shit needs to be clawed back.

https://www.metrotimes.com/food-drink/founders-brewing-abruptly-closes-detroit-taproom-for-good-33009928

adamjcook, to queer

, who is the reply guy for actual, self-professed (like Ian Miles Cheong), endorses a disgusting view that the community is a front for Nazism.

Musk has been really letting his hair down lately on the hate.

Naturally, Musk does this thing now where he only "likes" the really offensive content - in an effort to boost it on somewhat covertly.

adamjcook, to random

A missed opportunity, in my view, to discuss how ’s somewhat recent entry into the systems space is really the far more pressing issue here.

Hand-waving systems safety yields enormous cost savings (far more than is typically expected) and is corrosive to a modern society in ways that courts could never rectify once sufficiently lost.

https://www.businessinsider.com/venture-capital-big-tech-antitrust-predatory-pricing-uber-wework-bird-2023-7

adamjcook, to random

This is really great to see!

Being relatively new to , I had no idea this was even going on.

I will definitely join one (or several) and help where I can.

https://www.axios.com/local/detroit/2023/05/15/detroit-block-clubs-on-the-rise-michigan

adamjcook, to random

Wow!

Big shakeup in the space!

It will be interesting to see how evolves...

This acquisition reminds me of when bought out UGS (makers of the software suite).

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/emerson-to-advance-global-automation-leadership-through-acquisition-of-ni-301795491.html

adamjcook, to internet

The premise of this article (opinion piece?) is absurd.

's can be manipulated, both in their content and placement, by entirely out-of-view to outside parties.

Musk obviously has administrative console access at Twitter.

There is zero sense in wondering about Community Notes' value to the public.

It has none.

Quite the opposite, in fact.

https://www.ft.com/content/d4e4f0f2-6240-4b19-b85f-7ca2da3a3aa9

adamjcook, to ChatGPT

Hmm. Not sure about the wisdom of this...

There are physical assets at risk and sometimes, arguably oftentimes, systems concerns here.

I would need to see a safety case, at minimum.

And I expect I would not receive it.

adamjcook, to animals

mood.

adamjcook, to random

“Safety” is a term tossed around like a cheap suit these days - with cars, submarines, planes, whatever.

Note that safety has primarily nothing to do with software, software versions, sensors, 5-star ratings, statistics, data and so on.

Safety is all about the process - what is the fitness of the process that continuously seeks to identify, quantify and handle failure modes to avoid unacceptable death and injury.

No system can ever be “perfectly safe”.

But what is the process backing it?

adamjcook, to ML

Well put.

And frankly, the community needs a serious (technical and ethical) wake-up call.

Many would gush over Tesla’s so-called “ Days” while neglecting to demand any safety case.

That advanced and legitimatized Tesla’s wrongdoings - wrongdoings where people have died avoidably.

These are systems and not “AIs”.

A robust systems safety process is the real, competitive value - not the data, NN architecture, sensors, compute, or whatever.

Tesla has no process.

adamjcook, to plc

Tonight, in about a half hour (10 pm EST, 7 pm PST)... I am going to try and launch my first stream on Kick.

The channel is here: https://kick.com/motorcityadam

We will see, but I am currently thinking of doing Monday and Friday streams.

I will not be playing videos games, because I am terrible at those. 😅

Instead, we will be doing using some and, in time, other digital engineering tools. In the future, programming and more.

Please join the channel if that interests you!

adamjcook, to tesla

Here’s the thing.

Clearly, today does not have internal engineering competence in systems.

Competent safety-critical system engineers do not ship “beta” systems to the untrained public.

But let’s put all that aside for a bit.

Overworked, stressed engineers is simply incompatible with the exacting work of safety-critical systems anyways.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/16/23833447/tesla-elon-musk-ultra-hardcore-employees-land-of-the-giants

adamjcook, to detroit

Incredibly tragic.

#Detroit

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2023/08/19/eastern-market-ceo-injured-wife-dead-after-being-hit-by-car/70631502007/

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