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 TeslaMotors

’s completely unsupported and unhinged promises of future therapies, treatments or prosthetic devices enabled by his firm and this “” humanoid robotics project is pretty damn disgusting.

A new, disgusting low.

Even relative to Tesla’s vast and wrongdoings, which is saying something.

This man lies like he breathes.

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,

@mo8it Yeah, well, it would be absolutely great to have this available as an open source project.

But, completely understandable if that cannot work for them.

These certifications are a ton work.

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,

Article here: https://niedermeyer.io/2023/07/14/the-end-times/

adamjcook, to detroit

Wayne County Building, Downtown .

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,

has an odd power.

People today cannot really remember a time when everyday products would readily kill or maim. So, having lost those experiences over the decades, Silicon Valley increasingly saw a business opportunity.

But modern society is grounded on the public’s trust and, given enough critical mass, trust can be virtually lost overnight.

Quite literally.

That is Great Depression stuff right there, folks.

adamjcook, to detroit

Too early for predictions?

Put me down for 12-5 this season.

bcwrkittens, to animals

Little Mildred is a little brighter and responsive this morning Bradford Cat Watch Rescue & Sanctuary despite remaining critically ill.
She is still struggling to regulate her body temperature and glucose levels and has much reduced mentation. This is likley to be a result of being so terribly hypothermic and hypoglycemic for such a long time and may have caused brain injury

Mildred remains in intensive care on our critical care ward and is being constantly monitored and nursed.

adamjcook,

@bcwrkittens @Nadinabbott She is in the very best hands, though! ❤️‍🩹

econproph, to random
@econproph@mastodon.social avatar

Question for @redcrew
@adamjcook
and anybody else in the metro Detroit area:
Do you know of an org or group that needs/accepts donations PC's and networking equipment for use in schools, non-profits, or other good uses?
I've got 2 still-in-shrinkwrap Netgear wifi router+satellites packages + some other stuff.
Pls boost.

adamjcook, (edited )

@econproph @redcrew I don’t off the top of my head (I am rather new in town)…

Maybe @civicDetroitDan could help?

adamjcook, to detroit

A criminally under-followed, -oriented YouTube account here.

This channel drives around the Detroit area near-daily - showing off the immense progress of Comeback City… and where there is still work needed.

Raw and unedited.

Check it out.

Detroit is on its way! 💪

https://youtube.com/@FrankaiVideos-DetroitsComeback

CrackedWindscreen, to random
@CrackedWindscreen@mastodon.online avatar

Kyle Vogt tweeted about taking a full page ad to say how BRILLIANT autonomous vehicles are and how bad humans are, with a stat.

Hello you're back. He uses a number stating how many people are killed on the roads because of human drivers.

  1. only humans drive or are legally stated as driving so who else can it be compared to?
  2. are all those deaths due to a human driver or any for, say, not wearing a seat belt or mechanical issues, maybe?

Desperate move by a con artist.

adamjcook,

@CrackedWindscreen You said it.

It is a full-on Musk strategy.

I will have a thread on this shortly.

adamjcook, to detroit

Well, it looks like they are preparing to lift new mechanicals to the roof of the United Artists Theatre Building project in Downtown .

This massive crane showed up this afternoon.

This building, first opened in 1928, is undergoing extensive renovations - and will eventually become residential units.

No one repurposes previously-abandoned, 1920s-era buildings like Detroit. 💪

bcwrkittens, to animals

Look who has been a brave boy!!
Eddie has been in the vets all day . He had surgery to remove his very damaged snd non functional eye. Eddie is now back at Bradford Cat Watch Rescue and Bradford Cat Watch Rescue & Sanctuary resting and recovering.

adamjcook,

@bcwrkittens He is a cutie pirate! 🥰

Sad about his eye, but happy that he is feeling better.

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,

A damn shame that the last two major infrastructure bills in the US were primarily a “Highways Bill” and an “EV Bill”.

adamjcook, to 3DPrinting

The recent consolidation in the market has been interesting from its lofty promise back around 2015 or so.

I can recall many pilot programs at many manufacturers that I saw personally.

is a tough nut (perhaps, the toughest nut) to crack in terms of displacing entrenched, proven processes like machining and casting.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-13/3d-systems-is-said-to-bump-offer-for-stratasys-to-24-a-share

adamjcook,

Newer entrants like and , complete with some very innovative metal printing technologies, never really did take off near as I can tell from my view of industry.

Sort of sad, but not terribly surprising.

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?

CrackedWindscreen, to random
@CrackedWindscreen@mastodon.online avatar

Did I really read that the Starlink satellites are leaking radiation?

adamjcook,

@CrackedWindscreen Electromagnetic radiation, surely?

joeyabanks, to random

I wish more of Design Twitter were on Mastodon. 🥺

adamjcook,

@joeyabanks I was thinking the same thing today about "Safety-Critical Systems Twitter".

We were never that large of a group - but it was still a good group sort of scattered between Twitter, LinkedIn, Mastodon and, now, Threads. 😓

adamjcook, to twitter

Disappointed to see Rep. engage and further legitimize Musk on .

Senator does the same glad-handing.

And what value a deeply-conspiratorial person like Rep. can possibly provide on this topic beats me...

The fact is that all of these individuals have zero competency in "AI".

In any case, Rep. is not my representative so that is up to his constituency, I suppose.

https://www.axios.com/2023/07/12/elon-musk-ai-congressmen-twitter-spaces

ianthetechie, to swift
@ianthetechie@fosstodon.org avatar

Question for my and dev friends: with AppCode gone, are there any other good alternatives to Xcode? It’s just nuts to me how bad it still is (I’ve been using it since 3.0 so I’ve been around…). While AppCode wasn’t ever great for UI, it was a massive improvement the rest of the time.

I guess you could use an editor that has LSP support but meh… don’t really like VS Code but maybe it’s slightly less bad than Xcode?

adamjcook,

@ianthetechie I have not found anything yet.

I too wrestle it daily.

These days, (with this extension, https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=sswg.swift-lang) is picking up the slack on my end.

I have a large-ish mono repo with Rust and C++ code along with the Swift code that I have to manage simultaneously - so, the loss of was also a double-whammy on that front.

adamjcook,

@ianthetechie Plugins did - like the Rust extension for CLion... I think.

Yeah... I had to kinda do a CLion-AppCode two-step dance, but there was some Rust/C++ functionality overlap on the AppCode... so, it was not necessary all of the time.

Still, it was nice (or, would have been nice) to work on the codebase with the same brand of IDEs at least.

Indeed. Would have been nice for all of that collapsed into one IDE. Really nice.

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