Real estate is one of the hardest open problems in scaled self driving
Why parking & charging will become the limiting factor to bringing autonomous driving to the masses
Kevin Chen
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Large language models are a sustaining innovation for Siri
Why it will be challenging to replace consumer voice assistants with ChatGPT
How autonomous vehicle simulation works
Demystifying the virtual test drives that accelerate AV development
Why autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare
Freeways were supposed to be easy. What happened?
How Cruise vehicles return to the garage autonomously in heavy rain
Their autonomous vehicles and operations team work together to handle heavy rain.
Inferring Cruise occupancy from Kyle Vogt’s fleet dashboard screenshot
I figured out what the car icons mean.
Tearing down the Rewind app
This ML-powered app records your entire screen, yet “doesn’t tax system resources.” How did they do it?
What’s on my ballot: November 2022 California general election
Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2022 general election. While preparing for this election, I consulted:
Analyzing Tesla AI Day 2022
Language models and computer architecture for self-driving
What’s on my ballot: June 2022 California primary election
Here’s how I’m voting in the June 2022 primary election. While preparing for this election, I consulted the San Francisco Chronicle and SPUR endorsements.
What’s on my ballot: November 2020 general election
Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2020 general election in San Francisco:
Speeding up code with vectorization
Take advantage of vector instructions, the easy way
!!Con West 2019 Notes
A conference about the joy, excitement, and surprise of computing!
Supporting macOS Mojave’s Dark Mode on the web
macOS Mojave adds a Dark Mode for native apps that makes you look approximately 78 percent cooler when using the computer. In Safari Technology Preview 68, it’s now available on webpages too! Here’s how I added support to this website.
What I learned in 2017
A computer tries to figure out the world
!!Con 2018 Notes
A conference about the joy, excitement, and surprise of computing!
Why we still can’t stop plagiarism in undergraduate computer science
Lessons on incentives and scaling from two years as a teaching assistant
SIGCSE 2018 notes
Learning to teach computer science
Ideas for fooling Amazon Go
I’d plan a trip to Seattle just to try these out
How to create a digital Suica card in Apple Pay (2024 Update)
Board the train in Japan with just your phone