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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. He’s also turned it into a book. And it’s really cheap. You buy stuff at home, expect it to be delivered to your home.

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Discover Le Havre, Where Impressionism Was Born

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To prove his point, he picked up a coffee mug with an intersecting L and H — the new emblem of Le Havre that adorns products — like T-shirts and tote bags — sold throughout the city. Hubert Dejan de la Bâtie, the mayor of Sainte-Adresse, has dreams of buying and renovating the house and transforming the area into a tourist attraction.

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U.N. Kills Any Plans to Use Mercury as a Rocket Propellant

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Mercury is otherwise found as a by-product of other processes, such as the burning of coal. And it’s cheap—there’s not a lot of competition with anyone looking to buy mercury. government has agreed to adhere to the Minamata Convention’s provisions because it already has similar laws on the books.

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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

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If you’ve got an idea for a business or a new product, you usually don’t have to wait a decade to make sure it’s worth doing. Adapted from the book BUILD: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell. But to make this product successful—and meaningful—we needed to solve two big problems: It needed to save energy.

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Mad Power thoughts

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It comes upon us when we have barely started ripping out our gas boilers to make way for the expensive and inefficient heat pumps the Government is telling us to buy, or building the costly new power stations that will be needed to charge the electric cars we will all soon require. Gas is the only answer. What would I do? Source: Daily Mail.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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Such an architecture stores data as it is received, stacking it like a pile of books. As they planned to buy whatever hardware they needed after they had perfected their programming language, they focused first on Jam. As noted earlier, one was a cheap laser printer. Today, even Hewlett-Packard Co.

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Urban transport | Two wheels good | The Economist

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The British government, for example, announced recently that, in a few years, motorists will be able to get up to £5,000 in incentives to buy an electric car. Every big carmaker seems to be developing one, and governments are vying with each other to support them. People actually love the idea of a bicycle that does not need pedalling.