Global Fertility Crisis Has Governments Scrambling for an Answer

As birthrates fall, countries will be forced to adapt or fall behind. At least two children per woman—that’s what’s needed to ensure a stable population from generation to generation. In the 1960s, the fertility rate was five live births per woman. By 2017 it had fallen to 2.

Global Fertility Crisis Has Governments Scrambling for an Answer

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Holotron: A Robotic Exosuit for Virtual Reality | Digital Trends

There was once a time, in the early 1990s to be precise, when the biggest impediment to achieving high-end virtual reality was the fact that the images were too fuzzy and slow-moving. Today, we’ve moved way beyond these early teething challenges. Holotron: A Robotic Exosuit for Virtual Reality | Digital Trends

GPT-J is self-hosted open-source analog of GPT-3: how to run in Docker

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Ironman 2017 - Maastricht

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