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AlexNet Source Code Is Now Open Source

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In partnership with Google, the Computer History Museum has released the source code to AlexNet, the neural network that in 2012 kickstarted todays prevailing approach to AI. It was developed in 2012 by then University of Toronto graduate students Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever and their faculty advisor, Geoffrey Hinton.

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Starbase City seeks to increase launches from 5 to 25 annually

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Musk sets a date for Starship trip to Mars with Optimus on board Since SpaceX began acquiring land in 2012, Starbase has transformed from a sparsely populated area into a hub with company housing, facilities, a road named Memes Street, and even a giant bust of Elon Musk.

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Used Car of the Day: 2012 Audi A4 Avant

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Today we're back on the German wagon, uh, bandwagon with this 2012 Audi A4 Avant. It's a Premium Plus trim, with a little under 150K miles on the clock. It has the Convenience Package, Sport Package, S-Line appearance package, and more. That more includes a panoramic sunroof, Bang & Olufsen audio, and Audi MMI with navigation.

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Does the manual gearbox have a future in an EV world?

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in 2012-2013, to 20% in 2023-2024. The move towards BEVs is probably one reason why the proportion of automatic-only new driving licences in the UK has increased substantially over the last 12 years. This went from 5.1% There are now over 1.3 million BEVs on UK roads, up 38.9% year on year.

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The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore’s Law

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EUV and Moores Law My journey into the world of EUV mini-supernovas started in 2012, when I was completing a stint as a postdoctoral research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and looking for my first job outside of academia.

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IEEE Recognizes Itaipu Dam’s Engineering Achievements

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GW Three Gorges Dam , on the Yangtze River near the city of Yichang, surpassed Itaipus capacity in 2012, the South American dam remains one of the worlds most productive hydroelectric facilities. In 2006 and 2007, it was expanded to 14 GW with the addition of two more units, for a total of 20. Although Chinas 22.5-GW TWh output).

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SpaceX Astronauts Splash Down Off California Coast for the First Time

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Twenty missions using an earlier version of the companys Dragon capsule to carry cargo to the space station from 2012 to 2020 all splashed down there. Landings in the Pacific are also a return to the past for SpaceX. No word on whether the West Coast dolphins will be just as curious.