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Serving My Country – My Patriotic Duty

Creative Greenius

While we honor today the service, sacrifice and loss of all our military members, there was no threat to our homeland, our freedom or our democracy from the North Koreans, the North Vietnamese, the Cambodians, the Iraqis, or the Afghanistan people. My personal sense of patriotism demands that I defend this island, whatever the cost may be.

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An Inconvenient Truth About AI

Cars That Think

Regardless of what you might think about AI, the reality is that just about every successful deployment has either one of two expedients: It has a person somewhere in the loop, or the cost of failure, should the system blunder, is very low. These haven't been the only terrible failures of AI systems when no person was in the loop.

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Heard At The Show: Snippets from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

Personal mobility redefined. Fuel becomes very expensive by the time it reaches the front line, ranging from $20/gallon up to $600/gallon when it is delivered by helicopter in Afghanistan. Aluminum takes more energy to produce but this is more than offset by improved vehicle performance. kg) of aluminum used.

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Ukraine Is Riddled With Land Mines. Drones and AI Can Help

Cars That Think

At that rate, it would take more than 500 million person-hours to manually search imagery covering all of Ukraine’s suspected contaminated land for EO. Afghanistan is still contaminated with many of these mines, left behind more than 40 years ago after the Soviet-Afghan War.

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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

Cars That Think

By the war’s end, with “not quite one arm between four persons, and exactly two legs between six,” these self-taught amputee-weaponsmiths decide to repurpose their skills toward a new projectile: a rocket ship. soldiers and 300 British soldiers lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Using AI to Clear Land Mines in Ukraine

Cars That Think

Clearance happens one of three ways, usually, but it always ends up with a person on the ground basically doing extreme gardening. It was previously found in Afghanistan. It still is found in Afghanistan, but it’s found in much higher quantities right now in Ukraine. Then found— it’s a Russian-made land mine.

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Artisanal Cement Tiles Inspired by Modernist Homes

Baua Electric

Ishkar, a London-based company that collaborates with NGOs and artisans to create job opportunities for those living in isolated areas of countries often affected by war, recently commissioned him to create a capsule collection with women weavers in Afghanistan.