Uber Eats has launched a UK-wide integrated brand campaign starring comedian Guz Khan, a charismatic courier who delivers the goods alongside a side dish of unprompted positivity.

The first brand campaign to be undertaken for the food delivery platform by Mother London, it will debut on TV screens before running across OOH, social media and digital.

Within the campaign, Khan immortalises the Bring It philosophy by imparting his own brand of wisdom on his pickup and delivery rounds, making sure that customers know that they are bringing it in their way too.

In a statement, Uber Eats explained: Everybody in life is bringing it, one way or another. Whether youre working hard, finding time to hang with pals, or just doing some washing, youre all definitely bringing it. Follow this guy round the UK as he delivers food and vibes, as well as some compliments about how amazing you all are.

The humorous approach is used as a hook to showcase the range of restaurant partners on the platform.

Previous Uber Eats campaigns have focussed on 'man of delivery' Randy Watkins.

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Perris Union High School District officials are investigating a recent series of what they described as racially motivated fights and altercations at Heritage High that have resulted in the suspension of 15 students from the campus in Menifee.

Some of those students may face expulsion, Candace Reines, a district deputy superintendent, said Friday, Feb. 7. Reines said she was unaware of any arrests. A message has been left with the Riverside County Sheriffs Department seeking that information.

Reines said there was a verbal altercation the previous week outside of school involving Polynesian and Hispanic students. The hard feelings spilled over to one fight on Wednesday and four fights on Thursday. There were none on Friday, she said.

I think this was an isolated incident that bubbled up. It does seem racially motivated, Reines said.

Heritage principal Erika Tejeda acknowledged the incidents in a post on the schools Facebook page. She wrote that students who are allowed to return to campus will first be required to attend meetings along with their parents or guardians and sign a behavior contract.

Heritage High School does not tolerate fighting, bullying, or racially motivated incidents of any kind, Tejeda wrote. The safety of students and staff will remain my number one priority as the principal of Heritage High School. Along with my administration team, we are looking at various methods to improve the ways in which we address student issues before they escalate to fights.

At Perris Union, the district does not necessarily oppose arrests, Reines said.

We always want to solve the issue at the lowest level, counseling, or group counseling, but we dont have a policy where we wouldnt support a student being arrested, depending on the level of the allegations, Reines said.

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FC St. Gallen currently stands top of the Swiss Super League, albeit on goal difference ahead of reigning Swiss Super League champions BSC Young Boys, with both sides having registered 41 points from 20 league games.

However, BSC Young Boys meanwhile have taken seven points (46.6%) from a possible 15 from their previous five games having won just two games from their last five matches under Gerardo Seoane.

Meanwhile, FC Sion, the Geneva-based club who won promotion to the Swiss Super League from the Swiss Challenge League last season courtesy of being crowned champions, have earnedfour wins (80%) from their last five games andpresently stands fourth in the Swiss Super League. FC Sion have registered 33 points (55% win percentage) and remain three points adrift from third place FC Basel, who currently stands third in the Swiss Super League with 36 points (60% win percentage).

FC St. Gallen, who have won won 13 games, drawn 2 and lost five from 20 matches this season in the Swiss Super League, have conceded27 goals and scored 47 under Zeidler.

The two-time Swiss Super League champions, managed by Peter Zeidler, former Head Coach ofRed Bull Salzburg, FC Sion and Sochaux, remains in hot pursuit of FC St. Gallens first Swiss Super League title since the momentous 1999/2000 season; Espens first top flight Swiss league title in96 years after winning their first Swiss Super League title in the 1903/1904 campaign.

FC St. Gallen, who have won six games (75%) from their last eight in the Swiss Super League (18 points from a possible 24 from their previous six matches), currently remains five points clear ahead of third place FC Basel, who faces Cypriot champions Apoel Nicosia in the UEFA Europa League Round of 32.

FC St. Gallen, the oldest professional football club both in Switzerland and Continental Europe, founded on April 19, 1879, have competed in the UEFA Europa League twice in the last six years (2013/2014, 2018/2019), which witnessed the Swiss club eliminated in the group stages and the secondqualifying round of the competition respectively.FC St. Gallen finished last in UEFA Europa League A in the 2013/2014 campaign, which saw Valencia top the group, Swansea City finishing second with FC Kuban Krasnodar finishing third in the table.

Moreover, FC St. Gallens joint leading goalscorers this season, Emerdin Demirovic and Jordi Quintill, both of whom have respectively scored nine goals thisterm for the club, have been among the prominent catalysts for Zeidlers side. Elsewhere, Switzerland international striker, Cedric Itten (eight goals) and Boris Babic (seven goals), have additionally both played a positive role in the 2019/2020 season as FC St. Gallensrenaissance as legitimate title contenders in theSwiss Super League gains further traction in the second half of the campaign.

FOX Sports Radio 96.9FM/1340AMs Dean Perretta briefly caught up with FC St. Gallen and Switzerland international striker, Cedric Itten, 23, to discuss the nail-biting race for the Swiss Super League title, FC St. Gallens ambitious prospects of playing in the UEFA Champions League next season and, of course, the personal target of Itten being selected in Vladimir Petkovis final 23-man Switzerlandnational teamfor the highly anticipated Euro 2020 this summer.

Dean Perretta: Cedric, can you touch on FC St. Gallens form and performances so far this season and indeed the targets and goals in the second half of the 2019/2020 campaign in the Swiss Super League?

Cedric Itten: We are in very good form at the moment (in the Swiss Super League) and have improved continually. We have got a clear plan how we want to play football and currently, it just works out. We are taking game by game (in order to achieve our targets).

Dean Perretta: FC St. Gallen presently remains top of the Swiss Super League with reigning league champions BSC Young Boys currently second. However, what would it mean to play a key role in brining the club its first Swiss Super League title since the memorable title winning 1999/2000 season?

Cedric Itten: Of course it is nice that we are top of the league right now. But we really dont waste any thought on the (Swiss Super League) title. There are still 16 games to play (in the league) and the rivals are strong, so we just stay focused on ourselves.

Dean Perretta: FC St. Gallens next seven Swiss Super League fixtures are against: Servette, Luzern, BSC Young Boys, FC Sion, FC Zrich, FC Thun and Neuchatel Xamax. In terms of the title race, how much of a turning point would it be, especially with regards to confidence and consideration, would it be to take crucial points from these games?

Cedric Itten: It is our aim to win every match, never mind the opponent. We are taking (points game by game), and thats really the way it is, game by game. We know that we are capable of winning every match if we manage to perform to our standards.

Dean Perretta: FC St. Gallen competed in the UEFA Europa League last season. However, can you talk about how this experience shaped the team this season, especially in terms of motivation and playing in Europe again?

Cedric Itten: Its a big goal for every player to play internationally (in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europe League). Therefore, this is no extra motivation.

Dean Perretta: Lastly, what would it mean to be selected and play a key role in Switzerlands Euro 2020 campaign?

Cedric Itten: It was an incredible experience (to be selected for my international debut back in November last year) and it fills me with pride to take to the field for the Swiss national team. Of course, it is my goal to go to Euro 2020, but thats the coachs decision. I will try to continue performing the best possible to be in contention for a place (in the squad this summer).

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A Chechen blogger who spoke out against the governments of Russia and Chechnya was found dead in a French hotel room with a slit throat and stab wounds.

Police in Lille, France, discovered the body of 44-year-old Imran Aliev late last month in what French police suspect was a politically motivated slaying. Aliev was a vocal opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.

He used the pseudonyms Mansur Stariy and Old Mansur and was known for his fiery denunciations of Putin and Kadyrov. A French official told Business Insider last week that Aliev had been living as a political refugee in Belgium and was under police protection because of threats out of Russia and Chechnya over his opposition blogging.

Aliev was reportedly accompanied to the hotel by another Chechen who disappeared after the apparent assassination and who officials are now searching for.

This identification could be a case of mistaken identity or even an illegal alibi, the French police official said, noting that nothing could be determined until we have spoken with this man we believe is an important witness.

It is unclear why Aliev traveled from Belgium into the border city of Lille. A Belgian official would not say whether he notified authorities there about the trip.

I cannot speak directly to whether anyone knew he planned to travel, but I would suggest that arranging protection for someone just a few kilometers over the border would not have been an issue, the official said.

More than a dozen people have reportedly been assassinated in the United Kingdom by Russian assassins. In 2018, Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia almost died after being poisoned by a Russian nerve agent, prompting then-Prime Minister Theresa May to expel 23 Russian diplomats.

Obviously, considering Aliev's history and previous threats, we need to strong examine the possibility of a state intelligence service in this murder, and we are collecting and analyzing evidence from travel patterns, electronic intercepts, and other investigative tools at our disposal, said the French police official.

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I never wanted to be Alan Greenspan when I grew up. I never wanted to work for H & R Block. I never even wanted to fill out my own tax return myself.

I enjoy writing more than write-offs. And Im pretty sure most of you relate to that, unless youre an actuary or something.

But theres one tax in the world I do know a few things about. Believe it or not, I know enough about baseballs Competitive Balance Tax, more often called the luxury tax, to understand exactly why the Red Sox were convinced it was worth their while to trade Mookie Betts and David Price. I can sum it up this way for you:

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Ive done that math. I even ran it past people in baseball who work with this tax every day. And I can tell you that trading those two guys, and dipping under the tax threshold, could easily be worth hundreds of millions in savings off future tax bills. But

I can also tell you that, in the midst of...

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I am a first year history Hons student from Delhi University and wish to become an IPS officer. But, being an average student, I worry that if I am not able to clear the exams, I will be left without a secondary plan. My family cannot financially support me for long. What should I do to ensure I get a job, without letting go of my dream? Himanshu

Dear Himanshu,

Eight lakh students appeared for the UPSC last year, out of which, 759 made it to the IAS and IPS services.

This statistic is not to demotivate you. You could be one amongst the 759, certainly, but what if you dont make it? It is imperative that you start consciously thinking of a plan B and C to fall back on. See what else comes closest to the IPS for you.

You must toil for the next two years now and pass the written tests and subsequent interviews. This, of course, requires self-discipline, patience, punctuality, commitment, self-confidence and above all, a fire to really make it happen. Work hard and smart, build your physique and body and work on your stamina as well. Keep a healthy mind and stay time conscious and away from naysayers. Sky is the limit. Good luck.

I am a second year B.com student. My parents want me to prepare for the CAT. How do I prepare for it and score well? Naga Chaitanya Sai

Dear Chaitanya,

What do you want to do with your life?

First things first Know the CAT exam pattern and syllabus in detail. Ensure that you get the right study material. Sign up to physical or online coaching classes if possible. Take online mock tests. Find like-minded friends and create a study group. Stay determined, confident and motivated. Good luck.

Disclaimer: This column is not a substitute for long-term therapy. It is merely a guiding voice. Some issues may need medical intervention.

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Meek Mill and Justin Timberlake have joined forces on a new anthem.

For Believe, the latest single to arrive from Meeks upcoming fifth studio album, the Philly native enlists JT to send a powerful message of holding out on faith during trials and tribulations. Accompanying the uplifting joint is a harrowing visual that depicts a family coping with the plight of incarceration and mental health issues with sheer determination.

Put my face in the dirt on the ground/ Still, I race off to take back the crown, yes/ You can break my body/ But you can't lock the soul of a man down, Timberlake delivers in the anthemic chorus, as Meek motivates with lyrics like, "Follow your dreams not your addictions/ How we gon' follow our dreams locked in a prison?/ They tried to swallow me whole, God be my witness/ Deprive me outta my dreams but I'm relentless.

In the Biblical promotional cover image for the track, Meek also inscribes the message: "There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish at the roaring and tossing of the sea.People will faint from terror, apprehensive of what will come of the world.When these things begin to take place, stand up and liftyour heads, because your redemption is coming."

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NewsPolitics Exclusive: The former Labour MP is publishing a memoir which proclaims her innocence

Monday, 10th February 2020, 7:59 pm

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The former MP Fiona Onasanya has compared herself to Moses and Jesus in her year-long quest to clear her name (Photo: Chris Radburn/PA Wire)

Disgraced former MP Fiona Onasanya is attempting to rebrand herself as a motivational speaker with a new autobiography.

A year after being jailed for perverting the course of justice, the ex-Labour MP has published a memoir in which she proclaims her innocence and defends her actions.

Ms Onasanya, 36, was convicted after a court found she had lied about who was driving her car when it was caught speeding. She has always denied any wrongdoing, but lost an appeal against her conviction and three-month jail sentence.

This month she is publishing an autobiography, Snakes & Adders: A Set Up for the Step Up. Ms Onasanya has called the book "the story of my journey into politics", adding: "I speak very candidly about life both behind and beyond the door as a sitting MP."

Fiona Onasanya pictured with Jeremy Corbyn (Photo: Getty)

The former MP intends to use the book as a springboard to a career as a motivational speaker, according to the marketing blurb she has drawn up for the self-published memoir.

It says: "Fiona Onasanya is a law graduate, former solicitor and the former Member of Parliament for Peterborough North. Having experienced first hand that words can either hinder or help progress, she is a strong believer that delay is not denial. This is mirrored in her motivational speaking and here she takes the reader on a journey, committing to never quit."

Some voters responded with anger to Ms Onasanya's plans to profit from her experiences. One said on Twitter: "You've got a cheek. You lie, cheat, milk a salary and expenses from us taxpayers then want to sell us a book about your shady life."

Ms Onasanya was elected as the MP for Peterborough in 2017, taking the seat from the Conservatives. Just weeks later she was caught speeding, but told the authorities that someone else was driving her car at the time in an attempt to avoid getting points on her licence.

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After she was jailed in January last year, a quarter of her constituents signed a petition calling for her removal from office - exceeding the 10 per cent threshold required to trigger a by-election. In that vote the seat was held by Labour, but it was retaken by Conservative Paul Bristow at the general election in December.

Ms Onasanya's attempt to lodge an appeal failed as a judge criticised her for turning up at the hearing without a lawyer or any notes on her case. She was subsequently struck off as a solicitor by the professional regulator.

The former MP has compared herself to Moses and Jesus in her year-long quest to clear her name. She said: "While God did not save them from a guilty verdict, he did save them in it and ensured that their greatest days of impact were on the other side of a guilty verdict."

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by Dimis Michaelides

She didnt actually say it like that. She might have asked to be or not to be? and insisted that that is the question. In any case, machines are already up to asking profound existential questions.

On 11th February 2019 a very unusual event marked the latest man-versus-machine challenge: a debate on whether we should subsidize pre-schools or not. In a quite unique public gathering attended by hundreds of people, IBMs female-voiced AI system, formally known as Project Debater but lovingly nicknamed Miss Debater, opposed Harish Natarajan, a debating champion of international renown.

The human won, this time. What stole the show though was the sophistication of the debate and the outstanding argumentation of both contestants see highlights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJXcFtY9cWY and the apparent humanity of Miss Debater.

Debating requires expert and general knowledge, reasoning, creative thinking, eloquent expression and the skilful appeal to emotions, all skills once considered unattainable by machines. No longer. In this case both the computer and its adversary showed ample evidence of mastering these competencies. Interestingly Natarajan was expecting emotional arguments from Miss Debater and it was his readiness to address these with spontaneity that helped him win. I am sure she has learnt from this and she is probably thinking about how to outdo her opponent next time.

Earlier milestones of human vs machine contests include the famous 1997 chess match in which IBMs computer system Deep Blue beat Gary Kasparov, a chess grandmaster. In 2011 IBMs Watson supercomputer defeated two record-winning contestants in Jeopardy, a general knowledge quiz. And in 2016 Alphabets AlphaGo famously proved artificial intelligence can master the ancient and intricate game of Go by beating the world champion in a set of five games. The machine had learnt to play and had developed many creative new moves on its own.

Machines did not beat humans at chess, Jeopardy and Go the first time round, indeed they learnt to win after having fought many losing battles. If AI can one day master complex philosophical reasoning, might that be the right moment to tell the likes of Zenon, Socrates and Descartes to get a real job?

Besides excelling in pure reason, it is becoming clear that superstar machines can really learn to display and manage emotions and be amazingly creative, faculties hitherto monopolized by humans. DeepMind, the company that designed AlphaGo, argue that their products are already doing this.

Artificial Intelligence is entering our lives in myriads of different ways, influencing sectors as diverse as transport, health, entertainment, politics and war. As we move from AI in fiction to AI in reality, there will be intended and unintended outcomes, so it is not too soon to consider the ethical and social dimensions of AI. A lawless AI future is frightening and potentially catastrophic. DeepMind, has already set up a new research unit, DeepMind Ethics & Society. Their goal is to fund research on privacy, transparency, fairness, economic impact, governance and accountability and managing AI risk.

For those of us whose dreams of radical innovation and digital transformation have stumbled upon obstinate people with unbending mindsets, AI will be a big bonus. Expect intelligent machines which, through their own learning, will be able to change themselves, at a much faster pace than those awkward humans.

Expect existential issues to troll and pollute our innocent debates on the value of innovation and entrepreneurship for mankind.

Expect arguments denying that we exist just because we think because not all machines will be Cartesian.

And expect to be questioned by the ghost of a somewhat deranged prince on whether you should be or not be because some machines are bound to be Shakespearean.

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Geoffrey Hinton, center. talks about what future deep learning neural nets may look like, flanked by Yann LeCun of Facebook, right, and Yoshua Bengio of Montreal's MILA institute for AI, during a press conference at the 34th annual AAAI conference on artificial intelligence.

The rise of dedicated chips and systems for artificial intelligence will "make possible a lot of stuff that's not possible now," said Geoffrey Hinton, the University of Toronto professor who is one of the godfathers of the "deep learning" school of artificial intelligence, during a press conference on Monday.

Hinton joined his compatriots, Yann LeCun of Facebook and Yoshua Bengio of Canada's MILA institute, fellow deep learning pioneers, in an upstairs meeting room of the Hilton Hotel on the sidelines of the 34th annual conference on AI by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. They spoke for 45 minutes to a small group of reporters on a variety of topics, including AI ethics and what "common sense" might mean in AI. The night before, all three had presented their latest research directions.

Regarding hardware, Hinton went into an extended explanation of the technical aspects that constrain today's neural networks. The weights of a neural network, for example, have to be used hundreds of times, he pointed out, making frequent, temporary updates to the weights. He said the fact graphics processing units (GPUs) have limited memory for weights and have to constantly store and retrieve them in external DRAM is a limiting factor.

Much larger on-chip memory capacity "will help with things like Transformer, for soft attention," said Hinton, referring to the wildly popular autoregressive neural network developed at Google in 2017. Transformers, which use "key/value" pairs to store and retrieve from memory, could be much larger with a chip that has substantial embedded memory, he said.

Also: Deep learning godfathers Bengio, Hinton, and LeCun say the field can fix its flaws

LeCun and Bengio agreed, with LeCun noting that GPUs "force us to do batching," where data samples are combined in groups as they pass through a neural network, "which isn't efficient." Another problem is that GPUs assume neural networks are built out of matrix products, which forces constraints on the kind of transformations scientists can build into such networks.

"Also sparse computation, which isn't convenient to run on GPUs ...," said Bengio, referring to instances where most of the data, such as pixel values, may be empty, with only a few significant bits to work on.

LeCun predicted they new hardware would lead to "much bigger neural nets with sparse activations," and he and Bengio both emphasized there is an interest in doing the same amount of work with less energy. LeCun defended AI against claims it is an energy hog, however. "This idea that AI is eating the atmosphere, it's just wrong," he said. "I mean, just compare it to something like raising cows," he continued. "The energy consumed by Facebook annually for each Facebook user is 1,500-watt hours," he said. Not a lot, in his view, compared to other energy-hogging technologies.

The biggest problem with hardware, mused LeCun, is that on the training side of things, it is a duopoly between Nvidia, for GPUs, and Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), repeating a point he had made last year at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference.

Even more interesting than hardware for training, LeCun said, is hardware design for inference. "You now want to run on an augmented reality device, say, and you need a chip that consumes milliwatts of power and runs for an entire day on a battery." LeCun reiterated a statement made a year ago that Facebook is working on various internal hardware projects for AI, including for inference, but he declined to go into details.

Also: Facebook's Yann LeCun says 'internal activity' proceeds on AI chips

Today's neural networks are tiny, Hinton noted, with really big ones having perhaps just ten billion parameters. Progress on hardware might advance AI just by making much bigger nets with an order of magnitude more weights. "There are one trillion synapses in a cubic centimeter of the brain," he noted. "If there is such a thing as General AI, it would probably require one trillion synapses."

As for what "common sense" might look like in a machine, nobody really knows, Bengio maintained. Hinton complained people keep moving the goalposts, such as with natural language models. "We finally did it, and then they said it's not really understanding, and can you figure out the pronoun references in the Winograd Schema Challenge," a question-answering task used a computer language benchmark. "Now we are doing pretty well at that, and they want to find something else" to judge machine learning he said. "It's like trying to argue with a religious person, there's no way you can win."

But, one reporter asked, what's concerning to the public is not so much the lack of evidence of human understanding, but evidence that machines are operating in alien ways, such as the "adversarial examples." Hinton replied that adversarial examples show the behavior of classifiers is not quite right yet. "Although we are able to classify things correctly, the networks are doing it absolutely for the wrong reasons," he said. "Adversarial examples show us that machines are doing things in ways that are different from us."

LeCun pointed out animals can also be fooled just like machines. "You can design a test so it would be right for a human, but it wouldn't work for this other creature," he mused. Hinton concurred, observing "house cats have this same limitation."

Also: LeCun, Hinton, Bengio: AI conspirators awarded prestigious Turing prize

"You have a cat lying on a staircase, and if you bounce a soccer ball down the stairs toward a care, the cat will just sort of watch the ball bounce until it hits the cat in the face."

Another thing that could prove a giant advance for AI, all three agreed, is robotics. "We are at the beginning of a revolution," said Hinton. "It's going to be a big deal" to many applications such as vision. Rather than analyzing the entire contents of a static image or video frame, a robot creates a new "model of perception," he said.

"You're going to look somewhere, and then look somewhere else, so it now becomes a sequential process that involves acts of attention," he explained.

Hinton predicted last year's work by OpenAI in manipulating a Rubik's cube was a watershed moment for robotics, or, rather, an "AlphaGo moment," as he put it, referring to DeepMind's Go computer.

LeCun concurred, saying that Facebook is running AI projects not because Facebook has an extreme interest in robotics, per se, but because it is seen as an "important substrate for advances in AI research."

It wasn't all gee-whiz, the three scientists offered skepticism on some points. While most research in deep learning that matters is done out in the open, some companies boast of AI while keeping the details a secret.

"It's hidden because it's making it seem important," said Bengio, when in fact, a lot of work in the depths of companies may not be groundbreaking. "Sometimes companies make it look a lot more sophisticated than it is."

Bengio continued his role among the three of being much more outspoken on societal issues of AI, such as building ethical systems.

When LeCun was asked about the use of factual recognition algorithms, he noted technology can be used for good and bad purposes, and that a lot depends on the democratic institutions of society. But Bengio pushed back slightly, saying, "What Yann is saying is clearly true, but prominent scientists have a responsibility to speak out." LeCun mused that it's not the job of science to "decide for society," prompting Bengio to respond, "I'm not saying decide, I'm saying we should weigh in because governments in some countries are open to that involvement."

Hinton, who frequently punctuates things with a humorous aside, noted toward the end of the gathering his biggest mistake with respect to Nvidia. "I made a big mistake back in with Nvidia," he said. "In 2009, I told an audience of 1,000 grad students they should go and buy Nvidia GPUs to speed up their neural nets. I called Nvidia and said I just recommended your GPUs to 1,000 researchers, can you give me a free one, and they said no.

"What I should have done, if I was really smart, was take all my savings and put it into Nvidia stock. The stock was at $20 then, now it's, like, $250."

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