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Merry Christmas!

If you celebrate it, I wish you have a Merry Christmas! 🎄 If not, I wish you a happy/merry whatever you celebrate, be that Hanukkah or any other day. If you don't celebrate anything, I apologize for most places being closed and wish everyone a great Monday! -The Wilson family to yours.

Exams over

Exams are now over, take a breather. Hope you enjoy the time off!

Happy Holidays!

With the season fast approaching, (hard to believe it is the 13th of December already!) I just wanted to take the time to wish you all happy holidays and a wonderful new year! If this is your last semester of post secondary education: I wish you the best in your chosen field. If this is not your last semester of post-secondary: I wish you the best of luck in your continuing studies in whatever your program/chosen field may be. Happy holidays!

Good luck on your finals!

Was a pleasure to be in this course with all of you and I wish you good luck on any final exams that you may have!

CMNS 150 done - check!

Is CMNS 150 done? - check! Do you have any other courses left this semester?

Star Wars used as analogy to help people understand semi-autonomous driving assists

This is an interesting analogy, using Star Wars to help people understand semi-autonomous driving assists. Reminds me somewhat of how Grand Theft Auto V was used by researchers to teach AI how to drive/algorithms how to identify/classify objects (ie "that's a vehicle", "that's a sidewalk", etc.) -  a dangerous proposition, yet equally as good (given that the game's AI drivers are really  bad, which could actually teach the AI how to be safer drivers & expect unpredictable behaviour). The I first mentioned article in The Verge  (the analogy) One article about Grand Theft Auto V being used to teach AI how to drive The official report about using GTA to teach AI how to drive

People can hear a silent GIF bouncing

This is definitely interesting. I don't personally hear it "bouncing" but it is interesting that some can. Weird. Check out the article in The Verge  now! https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/4/16733778/noisy-gif-hearing-movement-auditory-neuroscience-synesthesia