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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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You said then that you wanted an artificial general intelligence to exist—in fact, you said it had always been your personal motivation for working in robotics and AI. We see a person do something, and we know what else they can do, and we can make a judgement quickly. Or, how far can a person throw a Frisbee? Didn’t at all.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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CCD area image sensor that greatly improved low-light detection and the first two-phase CCD linear image sensor —which, he reported, guaranteed “the ease of use and the high quality of image reproduction.” And in 2019, he was named a Person of Distinguished Service to Science and Technology, one of the nation’s highest honors.

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

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The second copy set you gave us is a little light. I just read the article in the June/July issue of Homepower magazine written by two firemen who have solar panels on their roofs. People will turn their lights and quit bleeping reading! Could you make us another copy?” onto and off the roof rapidly, if necessary.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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brought the friendly interface to thousands of personal computer users. Sketchpad users could not only draw points, line segments, and circular arcs on a cathode ray tube (CRT) with a light pen—they could also assign constraints to, and relationships among, whatever they drew. In 1984, the low-cost Macintosh from Apple Computer Inc.,

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A 100 m.p.g. truck? A Bright IDEA | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Three years ago, the magazine Popular Mechanics even wrote an article prodding the auto industry for not building the 100 m.p.g. They reality always seems to be just a few years away, the magazine complained. car when tech-savvy types can configure one in their garage by rewiring their existing hybrids. Right Now can be seen here.

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MAEAA Web Links

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Chevrolet S-10 :Jim Coates very clean conversion Chevrolet S-10 :Mark Brueggemanns neat project, and more. Home PowerMagazine : While not an EV magazine, they do have a regular EV section. Nuts& Volts Magazine : For the serious gadgeteer. Chevrolet S-10 :Brian has a new and very nice conversion.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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The original intent had been a game machine, but at this point the personal-computer market was beginning to look promising. At a meeting of Charpentier, Winterble, and Tramiel, the decision was made to go for a personal computer. It’s a personal challenge. I personally had to play the heavy on a lot of stuff,” he said.

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