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The Boring Company’s skeptics need to calm down about the LVCC Loop

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One thing that Boring Company critics typically forget is the fact that the LVCC Loop’s tunnels are incredibly cheap and quick to build. It’s rarely brought up now, but The Boring Company was one of two companies that were shortlisted for the Las Vegas Convention Center transport system.

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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

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His original hypothesis, published in a 1965 Electronics magazine article , was that the number of transistors would double each year. He became not only a visionary but also our coach, pushing us to build the impossible. His projection came true over the decade that followed.

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A Cheapskate in Monterey

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Old Monterey The oldest part of Monterey — an outpost of Spain and then Mexico dating back to the 17th century — lies just over a mile south of Cannery Row in a pedestrian-friendly downtown where signs flag historic adobe buildings. I passed a landscape painter and jaw-dropping Pebble Beach mansions before coasting into Carmel.

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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. OpenAI certainly needed [cloud computing time] to build these models because they’re enormously expensive in terms of the computing needed.

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When They Electrified Christmas

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Whether for religious or secular celebrations, the variety and functionality of lights have exploded in recent years, abetted by cheap and colorful LEDs and compact electronics. advertised "Winking Fairy Lights for Christmas Trees" in Hardware Dealers' Magazine. In much of the world, December is a month of twinkling lights. of Chicago.

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Stopping Infection Outbreaks with AI and Big Data

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Companies like the Manufacturing Technology Centre are revolutionizing the designs of additive manufactured parts by first building simulation apps from COMSOL models, allowing them to share their analyses with different teams and explore new manufacturing opportunities with their own customers. It’s really been a pleasure.

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

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by-9 meter) screens displaying a computer-generated representation of New York Harbor, complete with buildings, piers, movable buoys, changing weather conditions, and other ships to be avoided. Only when the simulator hardware was ready would they build a compiler to translate the database into the appropriate machine language.

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