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

Alright, so last week, a jury in California rejected the claims brought against 's product.

I am not a lawyer and the detailed analysis of legal issues is orthogonal to the obligations of experts in educating the public and in criticizing regulators.

The responses from the jurors in this case are interesting, though... and very much expected.

Let's briefly break this down a bit.

https://www.autoblog.com/2023/04/21/jurors-in-lawsuit-say-tesla-never-claimed-autopilot-to-be-a-self-pilot/

adamjcook,

So, is a partial automated driving system - that is, an automated driving system that requires a human fallback at all times, the exact same as if no automated system existed on the vehicle at all.

This type of system is immediately problematic... and not just in terms of Tesla's system, but industry-wide.

Why?

Because of the passage emphasized above.

The mere presence of such an system makes the vehicle instantly seem different and more capable than it is!

adamjcook, to random

Hudson’s Site in Downtown coming along.

Construction lights are on 24/7 now.

adamjcook,

Beautiful .

Do not sleep on this city.

serpicojam, to random
@serpicojam@mas.to avatar

Okay so who's ready for the draft?

adamjcook,

@serpicojam 🙋‍♂️

all the way, but watching the moves should be interesting.

adamjcook, (edited ) to internet

My hot take on is that it is never going to be federated in practice.

Federation inherently brings considerable complexity - and already well-followed users moving over are just seeking a wholesale anti- alternative.

By and large, they do not care about the benefits of federation (which is understandable)... and so there will be no demand for implementations of the outside of the default, proprietary instance.

adamjcook, to random

The architectural lettering in a few prominent Downtown buildings is fascinating... to me at least.

The Building (which is most recognizable by its glowing "orb" atop the antenna mounted to the roof) is my favorite building in Detroit - a shame that its current owners do not take better care of it, however.

Perhaps someday, the observation deck will be reopened. Seems like a no-brainer to me at least.

A photograph of the hand dial clock situated above the entrance gates to the retail promenade area of the Guardian Building in Downtown Detroit. The clock is integrated into a wrought iron gate that is a dark brown color. The face of the clock is backlight with a yellow-ish light. There are various etchings surrounding the clock face that radiate outward. The typeface for the numbers on the clock is highly distinctive and similar to other typefaces found throughout the building. The typeface features sharp path deviations where the shapes would normally be smooth curves.
A plaque mounted outside of the Guardian Building in Downtown Detroit. The plague shape has a "staircase" pattern that is mirrored on both sides. Each staircase has three landings - which makes the width of the plaque on the bottom larger than the width of the top. The plaque features a think gold trim along its outer edges. Otherwise, the plaque is painted solid black with raised "Guardian Building" letter that is the same color as the outer gold trim. The typeface is distinctive and features sharp path deviations where the shapes would normally be smooth curves.
A photograph of the Penobscot Building entrance in Downtown Detroit taken from Griswold Street at dusk. The entrance features a large, domed, white stone entrance with gold trimmed glass panes taking up the top two-thirds of the entrance. The words "Penobscot Building" is featured just above the four doors that lead into the building. The typeface is similar to that found in the Guardian Building featuring sharp path deviations where the shapes would normally be smooth curves. However, it differs a bit as the corners of each letter seem less "sharp".

adamjcook,

None of these pictures were taken by me.

Here are the sources:

https://www.historicdetroit.org/galleries/guardian-building-photos

http://www.editingluke.net/2016/04/guardian-building-in-detroit-michigan.html

https://www.historicdetroit.org/galleries/penobscot-building-photos

And a big Hat Tip to /u/elzadra1 on Reddit for setting me straight - these are examples of architectural lettering and not typefaces.

It would be cool if someone created a "Guardian Building Font" though.

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,

@stepheng It just seems that the scheme amongst a few wealthy slumlords that prey on Detroit was to sit on the buildings for decades, after initially promising renovations, and await some pieces of the facade to land on the sidewalk.

(And it is possible that some of the facade was "helped" onto the street.)

Rinse and repeat.

Over and over I read these stories.

Like clockwork.

After that, a parking lot remains.

adamjcook,

@inthedeltawaves Yup.

And the Madison-Lenox Hotel: https://historicdetroit.org/buildings/madison-lenox-hotel

And probably a whole bunch more that I have yet to discover.

adamjcook,

@inthedeltawaves Yeah. I do not get it.

We will have to see how much parking garage/lot space is allocated for all of these "District Detroit" buildings that I guess are going up now in Midtown/Grand Circus.

The United Artists Theatre Building (the theatre part was demolished last year) is undergoing extensive renovations right now... and I am sure that it will be beautiful once completed... but it is going to look super wonky with an enormous surface lot surrounding it.

adamjcook,

@inthedeltawaves They also tore apart the beautiful theatre part of the Michigan Theatre Building to build a multi-level parking garage in there...

Never going to get that back now.

Naturally, the infamous Detroit slumlord Dennis Kefallinos and his dipshit son are sitting on that historic property in the hopes of a future parking lot.

adamjcook, to fediverse

So... I have been experimenting with over the past few days and I think that I am going to just stick with Mastodon for now.

https://calckey.social is absolutely superb and if you are very hungry for a closer Twitter-like experience (like Quote Posts), I would give it a shot.

For me, though, I intend to develop my own, independent -compliant platform (with unique engineering education features) soon so changing over is sort of a moot point for me right now.

thinkle, to random

New Siemens Venture cars on the Wolverine from to offer a quieter, smoother ride. Love the 2x1 configuration, which gives solo travelers a business-class like experience of having a seat to oneself and your own chargers, with USB charging built-in. Digital signage informs of upcoming station stops. Very nice!

Digital signage in the ceiling of the new Siemens Venture cars. The sign reads: Amtrak Midwest Services. Arriving in Jackson. We'll be arriving shortly. Check your seating area and overhead racks for all personal belongings. At the right of the screen is shown the train and car number and other informatin.

adamjcook,

@thinkle Oh cool!

Taking the Wolverine line from to in mid-May.

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

KingShawn, to random
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Scoble: “I have been on Twitter 16 years and I support both Elon Musk and the new direction of Twitter.”

I haven’t heard from Bobby in years but it’s nice to see he continues to be as irrelevant, tone deaf, and out of touch as usual. https://mastodon.me.uk/@ianbetteridge/110244416501402453

adamjcook,

@Jonathanglick @KingShawn Scoble needs help.

I can recall a Twitter post he made (maybe 3 years ago?) where he was traveling at high speed with Autopilot active in his Tesla vehicle while recording himself being intentionally inattentive.

His young children were shown asleep in the vehicle.

He did that stunt to somehow “prove” that Tesla vehicles were capable of self-driving (which they are not, even today).

He later deleted the video, but not before boasting of the attention it received.

adamjcook,

@bynkii @KingShawn @Jonathanglick This is disgusting behavior by Scoble and it makes total sense that he is a part of Musk's inner orbit.

joe, to random
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I made a thing! https://phillytechcalendar.com/

adamjcook,

@joe Oh! This is cool.

I was thinking about making something like this for for a while.

adamjcook, (edited ) to random

Does anyone know the status of the team from ?

The team was part of Detroit's Foreign Language and Immersion Cultural Studies School (FLICS).

Team 14010 Techno Phoenix.

The national championship was this weekend and it looks to be wrapping up today, but there are so many teams competing that it was difficult to figure out when they were competing...

The story from February was here: https://www.freep.com/mosaic-story/news/local/detroit-is/2023/02/19/detroit-robotics-team-first-championship-2023/69906730007/

adamjcook,

It looks like the team's coach, Leon Pryor, was the runner-up for the Compass Award this year - which recognizes an adult coach or mentor who has given outstanding guidance and support to a team throughout the year and demonstrates to the team what it means to be a Gracious Professional.

Congrats, Leon!

Do not sleep on robotics.

https://www.facebook.com/TechnoPhoenix14010/posts/pfbid09Js6eScuRnc6zqcNTfAhbYiZtVyHgDJFkhrKDHts4Es5zGM6V5iiPAVueottjJ8xl

KarlBode, to random
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it literally took the US tech press the better part of fifteen years to realize musk was an unremarkable rich brat cosplaying as a supergenius engineer, which says more about our press than it does musk

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/22/elon-musk-the-barking-mad-publicity-hound-00093293

adamjcook,

@KarlBode The biggest issue was, in my view, one of a betrayal of journalistic ethics.

Many in the tech press were used by Musk to facilitate Tesla’s lies around their “full self-driving” narrative - which was anything but.

The public was concretely harmed by those ethical wrongdoings.

maxkennerly, to space
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Sorry, but you can't convince me that the test of a reusable rocket system is supposed to involve destroying the launch site—which was reusable on every prior generation of space flight technology—and launching debris thousands of feet away.

is not a serious company, it's a clown show, and it should not have a single dollar in government funding, much less billions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViAb3vYIh_8

adamjcook,

@michaelgemar @maxkennerly The lack of a flame trench and a water deluge system was obvious negligence and a public safety wrongdoing to which SpaceX should receive heavy sanctions.

Downright incompetent.

Absolutely unserious.

And, like most Musk-operated firms, one has to ask themselves if the "cost savings" (granted SpaceX is a private firm with closed financials) are because they are shifting enormous costs off on the public - a defining feature of Tesla.

adamjcook,

@michaelgemar @maxkennerly I am not suggesting that they are losing money (I have zero interest nor competence to analyze SpaceX's or Tesla's financials).

All I am saying is that it took a while to piece together how Musk was engaged in vast, sometimes covert wrongdoings at Tesla that shifted significant costs from Tesla onto the public's back.

But much was pieced together eventually.

With this launch, SpaceX needs to be put under the same microscope.

I am willing to bet there is more here.

laurenshof, to space

good read on the outcomes of the launch. It really does not bode well for starship, and thats only based on the current issues with the launch. The article does not go into the regulatory risk that comes with any revision to the launch base, which obviously has to happen. It does mention that barely anybody knows the actual financials of spacex, which is also a big red flag. ZIRP is over, and financing will get more expensive.

Sure the idea is to quickly reiterate on the design, but how many reiterations can spacex still afford?

https://lavieohana.medium.com/starship-oft-thoughts-15573f6b9cea

adamjcook,

@flowerpot @laurenshof The is a deeply flawed regulatory agency that has seen its robustness and, effectively, its mandate (that was always contradictory) eroded over the years due to a variety of forces.

And that is saying something because the FAA is one of the most robust regulatory agencies under USDOT.

For example, the , which is supposed to regulate highway and vehicle safety is so ineffective that it might as well not even exist.

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