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GTX 1080 Ti is running hot.

Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is the second-fastest single-GPU graphics card you can buy, and only because there’s a $1200 Titan Xp offering questionable value out there, too.

That was from an article written in 2017.

When I wanted to try out virtual reality, I bought a gaming computer with that graphics card.  At that time, it was almost impossible to buy a graphics card because crypto-currency miners were buying all available graphics cards.

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Humanoid robots are trash.

Humanoid Robots Have a Serious Design Flaw, And We Need to Fix It

Watch Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot doing training routines, or the latest humanoids from Figure loading a washing machine, and it’s easy to believe the robot revolution is here.

From the outside, it seems the only remaining challenge is perfecting the AI ( artificial intelligence) software to enable these machines to handle real-life environments.

Humanoid robots won’t be attending the robot revolution.

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Sparky doesn’t know about the robots.

Sparky isn’t eager to go out in the heat, but he likes to lounge in the sun.  I modified the software for my robot window shades so that the center shade doesn’t go all the way down.  I am so pleased that Sparky enjoys this feature.

Sparky won’t thank me for this because dogs don’t think that way.  I’m not certain that when Sparky feels a tug on his collar, he understands that I pulled on the leash.

Having home automation and a dog is giving me more project ideas.

Jim Acosta interviews an AI ghost of a dead teenager.

Jim Acosta interviews ‘made-up’ AI avatar of Parkland victim Joaquin Oliver

This is super creepy. 

Jim Acosta, former chief White House correspondent for CNN, stirred controversy on Monday when he sat for a conversation with a reanimated version of a person who died more than seven years ago.

Exploiting a death like this is disrespectful, and putting words in his mouth to support a political position, is dishonest.

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