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From boom to burst, the AI bubble is only heading in one direction | John Naughton
“Are we really in an AI bubble,” asked a reader of last month’s column about the apparently unstoppable rise of Nvidia, “and how would we know?” Good question, so I asked an AI about it and was pointed to Investopedia, which is written by humans who know about this stuff. It told me that a …
Sergei Krikalev – Wikipedia
Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (born 1958) Sergei Krikalev Krikalev in 2005 Born (1958-08-27) 27 August 1958 (age 65) Status Retired Nationality Soviet (1958–1991) Russian (1991-present) Occupation Mechanical Engineer Awards Hero of RussiaHero of the Soviet Union Space career Time in space 803d 9h 39min[1] Selection 1985 Cosmonaut Group 8 Total EVA time 41 hours, 8 minutes …
What is Medicare Part A?
Enrolling in Medicare Part A If you are already collecting Social Security benefits or Railroad Retirement Board benefits at age 65, you are automatically enrolled in Medicare Part A at no additional cost. If this applies to you, then three months before your 65th birthday, your Medicare card will arrive by mail. If you aren’t yet collecting …
The most capable openly available LLM to date
Takeaways: Today, we’re introducing Meta Llama 3, the next generation of our state-of-the-art open source large language model. Llama 3 models will soon be available on AWS, Databricks, Google Cloud, Hugging Face, Kaggle, IBM WatsonX, Microsoft Azure, NVIDIA NIM, and Snowflake, and with support from hardware platforms offered by AMD, AWS, Dell, Intel, NVIDIA, and …
Ingenuity team says goodbye to pioneering Mars helicopter
Saying goodbye is never easy, especially from a world away. The Ingenuity Mars helicopter team convened one last time on Tuesday (April 16) to oversee a transmission from the little rotorcraft, the first robot ever to explore the skies of a world beyond Earth. The meeting, in a control room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory …
Prohibitory Order – Wikipedia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia US Postal Service order against a mailer A Prohibitory Order is a legal instrument issued by the United States Postal Service, against a mailer, on request of a recipient. Its effect is to criminalize any further attempt by a particular mailer to continue to send advertisement material to a particular …
Our Transparent Future. No secret is safe in the digital age… | by Deb Roy
No secret is safe in the digital age. The implications for our institutions are downright Darwinian. Daniel C. Dennett and Deb Roy More than half a billion years ago a spectacularly creative burst of biological innovation called the Cambrian explosion occurred. In a geologic “instant” of several million years, organisms developed strikingly new body shapes, …
See Language Difficulty of European Languages According to This Map
For English-speakers, Romanian is easier to learn than German. And you’ll be speaking Swahili sooner than Polish. How is that? Because the Foreign Service Institute says so. Located in Arlington, Virginia, the FSI is the U.S. government’s main provider of foreign affairs training, including language courses. As the chief learning organization for the State Department, …
Proposed “LibGodot” Lets You Embed Godot Game Engine Into Other Apps
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HOPL C Transcript
Thank you. Before I begin the talk, I will put forth a little idea I thought of in the last day or so. It’s a programming problem having to do with Graph Theory: you have a graph. The nodes contain a record with a language and a person, and, just to make the example concrete: …
