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QOTD: Dealing With The Metric System

The Truth About Cars

It's also something that was already on my mind long before I booked this vacation since I am an American working for a Canadian company. I personally can fairly quickly translate kilometers and kilometers per hour into miles and mph, but god help me if I try to quickly convert Celsius to Fahrenheit or vice versa.

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Remembering Data Compression Pioneer K. R. Rao

Cars That Think

Similar to the discrete Fourier transform, the DCT converts a signal or image from the spatial domain (a matrix of pixels) to the frequency domain (in which images are represented by mathematical functions). Rao co-authored 22 books, some of which have been translated from English to Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish.

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Rare Rides Icons: The Cadillac Eldorado, Distinctly Luxurious (Part II)

The Truth About Cars

Conceived as a new high-end convertible in the years leading up to the personal luxury car, the Series 62 Eldorado “sports convertible” wore unique sheet metal to all other Cadillac models in 1953. All three new convertibles rode on different lengths of GM’s C platform.

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Taming the Climate Is Far Harder Than Getting People to the Moon

Cars That Think

In his 1949 book The Concept of Mind , Gilbert Ryle, an English philosopher, introduced the term “category mistake.” He gave the example of a visitor to the University of Oxford who sees colleges and a splendid library and then asks, “But where is the university?” The costs will be stupendous.

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We buy a used Porsche Taycan! Bargain price, 1000km road trip and charging dramas

EV Central

I’ve come along to help with the buying/selling bit (I’m a car person) as it’s relocating from NSW to QLD, and my accountant – let’s call him Alan – doesn’t know how all this public charging stuff works. ” One more EV convert it seems, and what a car to do it in.

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CES 2023 Preview: A Stick-on-the-Wall TV, A Covid Breath Test, and More

Cars That Think

I’m traveling today to Las Vegas for the in-person CES 2023. I’m booked to see some under-the-hood technologies that their developers hope will make it into consumer products soon. In no particular order, here are a few of the gadgets I’m planning to check out in person.

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Discover Le Havre, Where Impressionism Was Born

Baua Electric

It consists of a volcano-shaped theater and a smaller crater converted into a library — with quirky seating pods that are great for kids. One-way tickets start from an average of €16 (or about $17) when booked in advance through SNCF Connect. A favorite of locals (about €20 per person for lunch).