Driving the 2027 Xiaomi SU7 Ultra With Glorious Power, Bargain Price.
https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/first-drive-2027-xiaomi-su7-ultra
John
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Retired computer guy. Seems to discuss Linux on discount hardware more than politics, but does discuss politics. A UBI is the answer to AI.
Did someone make a wish to live in interesting times?
The collective madness that is American politics and the intersecting wave of LLM AI certainly are that.
I could do with something a bit more boring.
One of my cars, with a manual transmission, has reverse up and to the left. The other of my cars, with a manual transmission, has reverse down into the right.
This is a hard one to get right.
Recovering from a back thing, I started being a little more formal about my "zone 2" #exercise.
I have no idea if that is still considered scientifically valid, but it certainly feels good.
I think we (USA) would be a better country if we let really interesting cars (like the MG Cyberster and the Xiaomi SU7) in to compete.
It's entirely too on the nose for "the East is rising and the West is declining" to keep them out.
As if it's too hard to compete.
I had a sense that this new Ferrari might have been for the Chinese market ..
“"If your identity is tied up with the classic Italian Ferrari look, I get it, [rejecting the design]" Rehn said. "But Ferrari is still a corporation that needs to sell cars. And the classic Ferrari guy is a limited market. There are far more billionaires in China than in Italy. And the super-rich are skewing more female, younger and less white."”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ferrari-electric-vehicle-luce-9.7214032
Ferrari's 1st EV panned by fans, but the car could be steering toward a different market | CBC News
Ferrari's new all-electric vehicle Luce, unveiled earlier this week, is pale blue, round and glassy, with enough room for the kids. But some supercar enthusiasts say the detour from Ferrari's classic design isn't progress — it's an insult.
I think Spider Noir, in black and white, is surprisingly good. I can see elements that are modern noir trope, but also elements that are more true to 1940s originals.
John Gordonai über alles: “GPT was helped by the facts that human mathematicians had wasted most of their time trying to prove Erdös right …”
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9782
“… even if they did look for a counterexample, they’d need to be experts in algebraic number theory to find this one, which hardly any discrete geometers are”
It’s the breadth of expertise that is beyond human capability
Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴The world's carmakers are struggling to compete with China
Capitalism is rising in the US, after being on a long ebb. It was a long enough ebb that John Kenneth Galbraith could write about a new managerial society, and Peter Drucker could write about a post-capitalist one.
I don't think it's a fine distinction, and it's pretty important: strictly speaking in a capitalist society the people owning the capital make the decisions.
Musk and Bezos fit this to a tee, but not every problem is exactly that.
Better regulation prevents it.