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The Hong Kong Apartment Complex Fire

 

In the afternoon of Wednesday, November 26, it was windy in the part of Hong Kong where eight 31-story apartment towers called Wang Fuk Court were undergoing renovations.  As has been the custom for hundreds of years, exterior scaffolding made of bamboo was erected around the towers. style=...

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AI Ghosts and the Yuck Factor

 

The December Scientific American highlights an article by David Berreby that gets personal.  Berreby's father was born in 1927, the same year as my father, and died in 2013.  Yet the article opens with Berreby asking, ...

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Can AI Make Roads Safer?

 

The answer is almost certainly yes, as a recent Associated Press report shows. 

 

I have been less than complimentary in my treatment of artificial intelligen...

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Questions About UPS Flight 2976

 

At 5:15 PM on Tuesday, November 4, UPS Flight 2976 bound for Hawaii took off from Louisville Muhammed Ali International Airport in Kentucky.  Louisville is the main worldwide UPS hub from which millions of packages are shipped weekly on aircraft such as flight 2976's three-engine McDonnell-Dougl...

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Can We Afford to Power AI?

 

That is the question posed by Stephen Witt's article in this week's New Yorker, "Information Overload."  Witt, a biographer of Nvidia founder Jensen Huang, has toured several of the giant data centers operated by CoreWeave, the leading independent data-center operator in the U. S. st...

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