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Letting in the Light

Electric Auto Association

All four men felt that LEVs could eventually be one of the most important forms of personal transportation, and had already been supporting that cause. Gerhardt had joined with Ed Benjamin of the Light Electric Vehicle Association (LEVA) to offer training programs—and certification— to aspiring ebike mechanics.

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Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI

Cars That Think

He pioneered the use of graphics processing units (GPUs) to train deep learning models in the late 2000s with his students at Stanford University , cofounded Google Brain in 2011, and then served for three years as chief scientist for Baidu , where he helped build the Chinese tech giant’s AI group. Ng: I think there is a scalability problem.

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NDEW: Profile rising

Electric Auto Association

At the time of this post, 239 in person and online events were listed as confirmed. We’ll be promoting e-bikes and other Light EVs along with The Clean Machine , a local bike shop.” Younger folks attending the event will be invited to build a veggie racing vehicle. We update you with EV news monthly. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Cognition Without Computation

Cars That Think

Measuring a property at one place can cause something to change at another, and with a reaction time that is faster than the speed of light. A person with Alzheimer's always has clumps of plaque in the brain. Today we all assume that intelligence, thought, cognition—whatever you want to call it—is a product of computation.

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Cognition Without Computation

Cars That Think

Measuring a property at one place can cause something to change at another, and with a reaction time that is faster than the speed of light. A person with Alzheimer's always has clumps of plaque in the brain. Today we all assume that intelligence, thought, cognition—whatever you want to call it—is a product of computation.

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NSF leads $400M federal effort to boost advanced wireless research

Green Car Congress

This new program will enable the deployment and use of four city-scale testing platforms for advanced wireless research over the next decade and builds upon the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Spectrum Frontiers vote yesterday. Large-Scale Networking Platforms “Communities of Practice” Workshop. Earlier post.).

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Q&A: Marc Raibert on the Boston Dynamics AI Institute

Cars That Think

Sony was really the trigger—we’d worked for them quietly for about five years and made a running AIBO which never saw the light of day, and then we worked on their little humanoid QRIO , building tools that made it possible to do choreography. It felt great to return to building machines, and I’ve never looked back.

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