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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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Latimer literally wrote the book on electric lighting at Edison’s urging: Incandescent Electric Lighting: A Practical Description of the Edison System was published in 1890 by the Van Nostrand Company, a leading publisher of trade, technical, and scientific books in the 19th century. on 4 September 1848.

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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

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Adapted from the book BUILD: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell. But no matter where we went, we could not escape one thing: the goddamn thermostat. Nest Gets Googled. In 2014, Google bought Nest for $3.2 In 2016 Google decided to sell Nest, so I left the company. A long one.

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L. Frank Baum’s Cautionary Tale About the Gifts of Electricity

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In those books and numerous other works, he wove together magic, adventure, and nature into fantastic tales that were beloved of children and adults alike. The book plays up both the promise and the perils of what was still a very new technology. The American writer. Occasionally, Baum also drew inspiration from technology.

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GPT-4, AGI, and the Hunt for Superintelligence

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Koch has a background in both AI and neuroscience and is the author of three books on consciousness as well as hundreds of articles on the subject, including features for IEEE Spectrum and Scientific American. It’s read all of, I don’t know, the Reddits and Subreddits and many thousands of books from Project Gutenberg and all of that stuff.

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