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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

The Torrance Hillside Overlay district , covers most of the historic Hollywood Riviera neighborhood where the Creative Greenius lives and I can tell you that it’s a zoning law that is pure politics. I went down to the Building Dept and they said, “It will be two weeks before we get back to you.” What happened?”.

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Why AI Should Move Slow and Fix Things

Cars That Think

She reminds engineers that default settings are not neutral, that convenient datasets may be rife with ethical and legal problems , and that benchmarks aren’t always assessing the right things. Via email, she answered IEEE Spectrum ‘s questions about how to be a principled AI researcher and how to change the status quo.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

Cars That Think

So Stillwell went inside Atwood’s and used his phone to record his conversation with Libby and another man, Duane Maki. As such, there are many reasons to be concerned about its use in the criminal legal system. Singh did not build a profile from an unidentified voice. Others said it sounded like Nate Libby, a dockside worker.

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Why N.Y.C. Hotel Rooms Are So Expensive Right Now

Baua Electric

The conversion of hotels to shelters has sharply decreased the supply of rooms just as tourist demand has risen, nearly to prepandemic levels, and is projected to match a record high. More than two dozen hotels are in the vicinity of the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, and Kennedy International Airport.