Cars That Think

MAY 26, 2024

And ChatGPT has helped millions of people experiment with conversational AI. As a company that relies on conversation, Woebot Health had to decide whether generative AI could make Woebot a better tool, or whether the technology was too dangerous to incorporate into our product.

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Cars That Think

MAY 26, 2022

I will demonstrate this by looking at a few key developments in electricity generation and residential consumption in the United States, which has reliable statistics for all but the earliest two decades of the electric period. This article appears in the June 2022 print issue as “Electricity’s Slow Rollout.”.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Pfizer dominated news headlines and family dinner conversations last December when it became the first company to bring a COVID-19 vaccine to the U.S. Then we have other tools that enable us to connect the instruments, robotics and statistical modeling. We also use R for statistical analysis. Then we report it out to the FDA.

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EV Adoption

MAY 15, 2022

Below is a simple and typical example of the confusing and inconsistent use of the term “charging station” from a news article shared on Twitter. For one, clarity and consistency is critical for sharing statistics and making comparisons. Alternative Fueling Station Locator Definitions of Charging Infrastructure Terminology.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 21, 2023

meters for normal conversation. An abridged version of this article appears in the November 2023 print issue as “White Noise, Inc.” The background hum of a typical office they put at 40 to 50 dB. It’s not all about keeping quiet, though. They suggest creating pockets of “bustle,” to form a blanket of sound.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 21, 2024

Conversely, don't let the other side oversell things -- while reducing tailpipe emissions is a necessary step forward in fighting the negative effects of climate change, the production of the materials needed for electric and electrified vehicles has its own environmental toll. It's not a ban on cars or internal-combustion engine cars.

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Teslarati

JULY 7, 2022

In May 2022, MedCity News published an article on the globally declining birth rate and noted that depopulation is placing a huge burden on a diminishing workforce. Elon Musk mentioned the 2021 statistic to me when he was on my podcast earlier this month. So it’s not surprising that he is concerned about the low birthrate.

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