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The US government has mandated automatic emergency braking in all new cars sold starting 2029. (Car and Driver)

This could save 360 lives a year, claims the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, almost as many as are killed by beavers and bathtub accidents combined.

Tech News

Understanding Stein's paradox. (Joe Antognini)

Well, that didn't work.
Why RAG won't solve generative AI's hallucination problem. (Tech Crunch)
Because models have no real intelligence and are simply predicting words, images, speech, music and other data according to a private schema, they sometimes get it wrong. Very wrong.
What RAG does is tell the AI to look the damn answer up instead of making it up.

For which the AI is entirely unnecessary.
4060 Ti or 7700 XT? (Tom's Hardware)

Following price cuts from both Nvidia and AMD, the judges award this round to the 7700 XT. In fact, I've seen the 7700 XT (which has 12GB of RAM) selling for less than even the 8GB model of the 4060 Ti, making the choice easy.
Setting up computers all over the place, including a new Linux server at home running Ubuntu 24.04.

Disclaimer: The Team MP44 is awarded a rating of "sucks", after failing completely under both Windows and Linux.

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