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, (edited ) to threads

does not seemingly support on images at launch (h/t to @mmasnick's post on Threads pointing that out).

And that is pretty damn unacceptable.

adamjcook, to random

Here is the Hard Truth about software.

If it…

Looks like this; and
Has apps like this; and
Has pop-up notifications like this; and
Has widgets like this; and
Has distracting color palettes like this; and
Has small font sizes like this; and
Entertains people like this…

it is unsafe.

Full stop.

I could care less what consumers want. Consumers cannot appreciate systems safety. Regulators and systems safety experts should be making the calls.

adamjcook, (edited ) to ai

I will say it again...

I do not recall an open letter with thousands of prominent signatories, a hastily-assembled White House Task Force and a big Senate hearing for automated driving systems.

You know... systems that are masquerading as that have killed people and have the capacity to readily cause immediate injury and death.

We have an unregulated Wild West out there on that.

No, no.

Let's sound the alarm over a goddamned chatbot.

adamjcook, to twitter

Interesting.

It appears that is now "locked down" such that one cannot even view Tweets or user accounts without logging in first.

Not sure if this is an intentional change on Twitter's part or if they just broke something.

adamjcook, (edited ) to random

For the millionth time… editors, the and … a vehicle is, at no time, capable of “self-driving”.

There is no “self-driving mode”.

Publishing these terms and descriptions only serve to advance Tesla’s and ’s lies and are an immense public safety hazard.

https://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/2023/05/michigan-woman-hospitalized-after-self-driving-tesla-crashes-into-tree.html

adamjcook, (edited ) to TeslaMotors

Anyone remember the time when promised that, if you buy a vehicle today, it will soon earn you $30,000/year in personal income by acting as a public "robotaxi" when not in use?

That was in 2019.

Same basic lie, different day.

The lie worked for Tesla when Tesla needed it most financially (and Musk was never challenged on it by US regulators), and so Musk is now trying it again.

Of course, the "Tesla Lie" actually killed people (by creating human driver complacency).

adamjcook, to random

At some point, someone needs to do a investigative report on how many historic, vacant (but viable) buildings were demolished and condemned to surface parking lots in Downtown in the service of a shallow, one-time Super Bowl (2006) event…

adamjcook, to animals

mood.

adamjcook, to random

Please . Please. I am begging you. Stop doing this.

's product is not at all, "partially" or otherwise, capable of "self-driving".

The official term, if you need to use something, is a "partial automated driving system" and the control responsibilities of the human driver utilizing such a system are exactly the same as if they were driving a 1995 Dodge Neon.

No Tesla vehicle is capable of "driving itself".

https://www.axios.com/2023/05/10/elon-musk-cathie-wood-tesla-twitter

adamjcook, (edited ) to random

First, the ... perhaps now the Files?

, a prominent business publication, has obtained a considerable amount of internal Tesla files that may point to and vehicle concerns that were possibly hidden by Tesla.

Apparently, Handelsblatt is releasing reports on these files in stages.

I will be watching this space... probably to add comments after more is publicly released.

https://jalopnik.com/whistleblower-drops-100-gigabytes-of-tesla-secrets-to-g-1850476542

adamjcook, (edited ) to chicago

I was at Pride all weekend while visiting with my wife (videos and photos soon!), so I missed this Drama concerning that erupted.

Ok.

Let us, again, all put on our hats and take a look at the situation here as I understand it.

Below is the video that kicked the beehive between Tesla defenders and detractors on "what really happened?".

This clearly chaotic video was taken from a larger drive sequence in which FSD Beta was active.

🧵👇

adamjcook, to twitter

So, if it was not the case before, now that seems to be walled off for good...

How can the and, say, The White House (as a two random examples) continue to remain solely on social media platforms that are inaccessible to millions of unregistered users?

Those exclusively on the , an open platform, are being actively denied public services, official policy announcements and timely emergency alerts.

Wondering if there is a legal argument here.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/23779764/twitter-blocks-unregistered-users-account-tweets

adamjcook, to internet

This is a really, really dumb thing to do on the part of the .

It plays right into ’s hands and damages your journalistic credibility more than if you did not initially suspend your activity in the first place.

Obviously, nothing has changed in terms of and editorial interference over the past month on Twitter - if anything, it has become far worse.

Really dumb.

adamjcook, to detroit

Oh! This would be a big boost for Midtown in .

Detroit has one of the finest art museums in the world.

The elimination of surface parking lots?

Count me in!

https://www.crainsdetroit.com/politics-policy/midtown-cultural-center-gets-12-million-michigan-budget

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 detroit

One of my favorite photos of .

Do not sleep on this city. ✊

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 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 TeslaMotors

This is a lie. is lying here.

At no time, are vehicles capable of “driving themselves” - only capable of the illusion that they are, which Musk exploits.

This is a common Musk Lie, made in the interest of selling Tesla vehicles and pricey add-ons.

People have died under this lie and will continue to do so, completely avoidably.

Let’s explore the underlying foundations of this lie and why it is so dangerous.

🧵

adamjcook, to opensource

Wow. Big!

The compiler will almost certainly not be , which is just a tiny bit sad, but the advancement of Rust into this domain would be a milestone.

https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/a-decade-of-rust/

adamjcook, to detroit

I have said it before, and I will keep saying it...

Nothing has damaged and more than the industry - from multiple fronts and multiple perspectives.

And although I believe that some public officials here are starting to (finally) recognize that, we must be far more aggressive in shifting away from this industry in Michigan.

The amount of state incentives that have currently been spent on facilities is too much at this point.

adamjcook, to twitter

It is interesting watching (from afar) sheepishly backtrack on the hype.

There were three, maybe four ringleaders as far as I could tell - which included some that are competent in science and physics that should have known better.

But whipping up useless hype gets people paid by Twitter at the moment.

It all really underscores my position on how unsuitable Twitter is for actual science and public education - and that was fairly true even in the pre- Twitter Era.

adamjcook, to detroit

’s last free-standing synagogue, one of the most unique buildings in Detroit, just completed a $5.4 million renovation.

Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue.

And the building looks great.

It is absolutely wonderful that these institutions and community staples are doubling down on Detroit’s future.

We need more of this.

adamjcook, to detroit

The Dime Building light well in Downtown .

The Dime Building (also known as the Chrysler House) is one of Detroit’s oldest skyscrapers.

23 floors. Completed in 1912.

adamjcook, to detroit

Wild weather in right now, pretty much out of nowhere.

Tornado Warning in , so I am told.

Stay safe out there!

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