Technical Marvels, Part 6: Musical Automatons
Music automatons range from singing birds and music boxes to barrel organs and self-playing pianos.
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A paper by Victor Reis and Thomas Rothvoss proved a new upper bound on the time required to solve for any integer program.
More than half of surveyed organizations have a person who’s in charge of AI or orchestrate related initiatives.
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Technical Marvels, Part 6: Musical Automatons
Music automatons range from singing birds and music boxes to barrel organs and self-playing pianos.
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