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Two Pieces of Good News: AI Bringing Speech for the Paralyzed Closer, And Dawn at the Grand Canyon

The Guardian – August 23, 2023 Paralysed woman able to ‘speak’ through digital avatar in world first By Hannah Devlin Latest technology uses tiny electrodes on brain surface and is faster than synthesisers which rely on eye tracking A severely paralysed woman has been able to speak through an avatar using technology that translated her … Continue reading Two Pieces of Good News: AI Bringing Speech for the Paralyzed Closer, And Dawn at the Grand Canyon →

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Let’s Eat! Fat, Chocolate, Eggs, Dairy, Meat, Butter: Everything You Thought You Knew Is (Possibly) Wrong; Or At Least More Complicated

[NOTE: I’ve followed the Graedons and their People’s Pharmacy articles for some years. I’ve also cited them to various doctors, who mostly scoffed; The Graedons are not “members of the club.” But they know the fields, cite sources for everything, and while they support home remedies with track records, are not antivaxxers or suchlike. This … Continue reading Let’s Eat! Fat, Chocolate, Eggs, Dairy, Meat, Butter: Everything You Thought You Knew Is (Possibly) Wrong; Or At Least More Complicated →

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Too many indulgences for the carburetor??

 

 

More of the Texas Gospel According to Greg & Ron . . .

Just papering over our differences??

I hear the streaming version is a bomb . . .

I kept telling Grandpa to stay away from that recycling bin . . .

 

Gwynne Dyer on AI: An Emergency?

[NOTE: A couple months ago, when ChatbotGPT was new, I privately gave it a personal test, by prompting it to prepare a concise overview and assessment of my own writing. Generous samples of this work, covering fifty-plus years are either online, or discussed online.

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