I have to admit, arguments over free will never interested me all that much, because if we don't have free will it's something of a moot point. Might as well "choose" to have it.
What I am interested though is the potential involvement of quantum effects in consciousness. I'm not particularly sold on any of the existing theories, but at the same time, I'd honestly be kind of surprised if consciousness didn't involve some sort of quantum effect, now that we know they can be exploited by living things--photosynthesis, and possibly smell, though the latter seems rather controversial. It may just be bad reasoning associating two notoriously difficult problems, though.
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New technique could be used in medical imaging and advanced manufacturing
Physicists at the University of Sydney have shown a new pathway to achieve superlensing with minimal losses, breaking through the diffraction limit by a factor of nearly four times. Their trick? Remove the superlens altogether
Imagine LLM do chip decapping and perform fault injection on hardware and extract firmware. I think Cyber securiry is bigger than that. I think that take another few decades until we get there and once we are there it is not anymore just cyber security jobs.
For more than 25 years, a technology used for critical data and voice radio communications around the world has been shrouded in secrecy to prevent anyone from closely scrutinizing its security properties for vulnerabilities. But now it’s finally getting a public airing thanks to a small group of researchers in the Netherlands who got their hands on its viscera and found serious flaws, including a deliberate backdoor.
German researchers gained rare access to three satellites and found that they’re years behind normal cybersecurity standards. A new analysis from a group of German academics provides a rare glimpse into some of the security weaknesses in satellites currently circling the Earth. The researchers, from the Ruhr University Bochum and the Cispa Helmholtz Center for Information Security, have examined the software used by three small satellites and found that the systems lack some basic protections.
Abstract: Satellites are an essential aspect of our modern society and have contributed significantly to the way we live today, most notable through modern telecommunications, global positioning, and Earth observation. In recent years, and especially in the wake of the New Space Era, the number of satellite deployments has seen explosive growth. Despite its critical importance, little academic research has been con- ducted on satellite security and, in particular, on the security of onboard firmware. This lack likely stems from by now outdated assumptions on achieving security by obscurity, effectively preventing meaningful research on satellite firmware. In this paper, we first provide a taxonomy of threats against satellite firmware. We then conduct an experimental security analysis of three real-world satellite firmware images. We base our analysis on a set of real-world attacker models and find several security-critical vulnerabilities in all analyzed firmware images. The results of our experimental security assessment show that modern in-orbit satellites suffer from different software security vulnerabilities and often a lack of proper access protection mechanisms. They also underline the need to overcome prevailing but obsolete assumptions. To substantiate our observations, we also performed a survey of 19 professional satellite developers to obtain a comprehensive picture of the satellite security landscape.
You should watch some of his early Tesla reviews. He was pretty negative on them. It wasn't until he dove deep to really understand all of Tesla that he realized how well things are going.
I'm not a Tesla fanboy but I didn't think it was biased. E.g.:
Right off the bat he talks about the number of ECU[1] of Tesla compared to others. He points out that this will result in inferior quality due to the number of connections. A no-brainer with cascading effects which has many other advantages for Tesla[2]. Spelling this out will upset a lot of people because it's a valid attack that also knocks the other designs into a corner that makes one wonder what's the point of even continuing. (at least if one expects a ranking on quality etc - then there is no recovering from that).
The missing CAN-FD[3] bus-speed info on Tesla is interesting. It seems Tesla is doing it's own thing here with CAN-FD. Maybe a proprietary implementation (I couldn't make sense of it)?
The other connections like Ethernet, LIN etc are also much less and I'm assuming this can be attributed to simply having such a small number of ECU's too.
No idea what's going on with the missing OBD-II but I'd imagine if you want to roll out a proprietary after-market technology that can only be serviced at a Tesla shop then killing this makes sense in order to lock everyone in (customers but more relevant after-sales).
Tesla Y has no replaceable fuses, ... and it goes on ... and on ...
As a piston/gear-head who hates the brand, and strongly dislikes Musk it's a lot to digest and put up with. I don't understand though why the video is supposed to be biased or not accurate. It doesn't seem they're releasing any info that hasn't been floating around in various places.
I own a Tesla, but I'm not a fan-boy. I can appreciate how having fewer ECUs means, all other things being equal, it would be less failure prone. (But more expensive to replace a failed larger ECU than a failed smaller one). Tesla starting from scratch gives them a lot of advantages, not being tied to a specific legacy architecture or vendors. Again, assuming they actually do it right rather than bodge it :)
Sandy and the other experienced gentlemen in the video are welcome to strong opinions about one approach being better than another; it's not necessarily biased. Maybe you favor a "simpler" design, or maybe you favor one that's cheaper to repair, or uses a tried and true architecture, or more off-the-shelf components.
I actually just had a steering wheel module replaced in my Model 3 last week; the Park button had stopped working. Of course these kinds of things are electronic in virtually all modern vehicles.
no he doesn't, seriously, why do people remember one thing but not the other?
He HAD Tesla stock, and sold it, he realized that Tesla was, to quote WSB, "mooning" and threw some money at it and made some profit, like a LOT of people who realized Tesla was going to "moon" when it was about to be added to the S&P500 did.
He saw an absolute obvious opportunity, threw some money at it, bought and sold, life goes on. It's not like he's a journalist, his main income comes from his Munro business.
When he has actual conflict of interest(NDA) he discloses and doesn't talk anymore.
What I am interested though is the potential involvement of quantum effects in consciousness. I'm not particularly sold on any of the existing theories, but at the same time, I'd honestly be kind of surprised if consciousness didn't involve some sort of quantum effect, now that we know they can be exploited by living things--photosynthesis, and possibly smell, though the latter seems rather controversial. It may just be bad reasoning associating two notoriously difficult problems, though. Random John Smith Guy