Buelldozer

I wouldn’t put it past the USA to ddos the platform… Would you?

I don’t see “the USA”, as in the Federal Government, running a DDoS against a Chinese AI company. I can see some private companies doing it but now we’re talking about a conspiracy. Without having more verifiable facts I think Occum’s Razor comes down on “Internet Hug of Death” as the most likely explanation since it doesn’t require multiple bad actors involved in a hidden conspiracy.

On the other hand, china’s Ai is censored and will not tell the truth about China.

Eh, I’m going to let other people battle over DeepSeek’s content.

In the end I’m honestly not disturbed by DeepSeek. I commented elsewhere that this kind of innovation driven market disruption is normal in the tech industry. It’s been happening since at least the early 1950s when companies and even countries were contesting to be the top supplier of mainframes. (If you want more on this hit up the youtube channel “Asianometry”, he’s got a great series of informative videos on it.)

At this point it should be expected that any new field of tech, such as AI, will have at least two disruption events in the first decade (ish) after becoming mainstream. After that the market and the number of companies in it will expand for another decade(ish) and then as that market matures those companies will start down a path of consolidation.

So everyone, mostly investors, need to stop and breath for a few minutes. The rest of us can smile and get ready for the upcoming improvements.

Meh, this is how Tech has always worked. The list of companies that foresaw endless growth due to a temporary market advantage is long. As an example ask Intel how their DRAM production is looking these days. They were dominating the market with it in early 70s but by the early 80s they’d been entirely supplanted. Anybody still buying new ZIP drives? How much market relevance does MySpace or Napster have these days?

This particular stock “crash” is really just an investor driven blip that Nvidia will quickly put in its rearview mirror but its a signal flare that the AI Market in general and the GPU market in particular is ripe and waiting for disruption. That disruption is coming and it will arrive quicker than most realize.

If you are the CEO of a hot new startup do you admit to not being able to scale up to meet demand or do you slow down access while claiming a cyberattack?

DeepSeek is probably being hugged to death by the Internet as literally tens of millions of people all over the world sign into to play with the hot new thing. We’ve all seen this before.

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‘Left-wing’ in casual use in the US refers to “everyone except the Republicans and some moderates”, but “left-wing” in any serious political talk refers to anti-capitalism.

Please list the mainstream “leftist” parties in any G20 nation that are “anti-capitalist”; and by mainstream I mean they have more than two representatives at the federal level.

Not true…

My good person if I go to a search engine and type in “vectra loose steering” it returns results of people having problems with literally every mechanical bit that I pointed out to you; from tie rod ends (sometimes called track rod ends) to worn bushings in the column mounting hardware. The problem of “loose steering” exists even for your Make and Model.

It happens with nearly every vehicle manufacture. Here’s an owner of a 2019 Honda Accord ST complaining about it in 2020 when their car was only a year old! Heck I just did a search for “BYD steering loose” and got results!

For a 4 year old car to have it is ridiculous.

Now THAT I agree with. These problems really shouldn’t be showing up in vehicles this new unless they have more than 100,000 miles (160,000 kilometers) on the odometer or they’ve been subjected to abnormal conditions. I’m not arguing that Tesla’s are great, I’m pointing out (with evidence) that “loose steering” is not a solved problem and widely exists across all Makes and Models.

This goes back to pre-Musk Tesla.

Tesla started in July of 2003 and Musk showed up in February of 2004 with VC money, becoming employee number 4 IIRC. How many vehicles do you figure that Martin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning, and Ian Write built in their garage before Elon showed up? Couple hundred maybe?

Since Musk has been in…

Musk has been involved since 9 months after Eberhard and Tarpenning started the company. He was involved with the design of the Roadster, which he and others won an award for in 2006. That was two years before he became the CEO.

Elon is a disappointment and has truly become another billionaire douchebag jackass but that’s no reason to rewrite history. Practically speaking Elon has been involved with Tesla since the beginning.

We solved this problem more than 50 years ago with better Sterring rack.

No, we did not. Every steering system that uses a mechanical column, like the Model 3, will eventually develop play. The bushings and u-joints are mechanical parts and wear over time. Even electric (drive by wire) steering can eventually develop play simply because the steering itself is mounted used a bearing or bushing assembly.

Here’s an image of the steering assembly from an Opel Vectra.

You see those things at the very ends? Those are tie rods and they wear out. You see those black booted things on each side of the steering gear? Those are u-joint and they wear out and get loose.

There’s the actual column, the part that goes between the steering wheel and the steering assembly. As you can see in this image it too has wear points that will eventually cause looseness. Specifically there is a bushing at both the top and bottom where the steering shaft goes through the column. If you have tilt steering, that column does, there’s another wear point. If you have pull out / push in steering then there’s another one.

MANY vehicles, including the Model 3, also have a u-joint in their column. You can see it in this image. That U-Joint is necessary because the location of the steering wheel often doesn’t align with the steering box on the assembly. Here’s an image of a column out of an Audi A6 and it has a u-joint on BOTH ends.

I’m not arguing that Tesla’s are great, they definitely have QC problem, but the statement that this is a “solved problem” LET ALONE one that was solved in 1975 is absolutely untrue.