[Cocaine] Shark | Wolf | Bear [of Wall St]

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We might get car charging infrastructure only a few years down the line. Maybe a bike shed for e-bike charging a year after that?

What happened to those optimistic ideas where every lamp post had a charger? I would pay for that. I also see these small transformer huts on the streets. What if at least those had neighborhood high speed chargers, it shouldn't cost much since basically there's a good power source right there?

There's just so much friction. I hope some enterpreneur here makes these things real!

Of course artists can be very effective with whatever the toolsets they have learned, they sort of can transcend all the obfuscations and actually can express themselves. It's a bit hard to change everything then as the "user's transformations" are then baked in.

It's also true that mathematical models are often simplifications and one has to consider the whole end to end pipeline, where a more "accurate" transformation can yield a worse end result if applied blindly. I'm always reminded of the anecdote of when in the past, at some tv channel, they switched to more accurate weather forecast models. But the audience got worse forecasts, since the resident meteorologist was used to certain errors the old model produced and could compensate those, while the new model had maybe less errors in total but they were different. Happens all the time and why some engineer thinking something is objectively better might not actually be better for the customer...