Author: Tom Cronin
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Start-up to industry titan: Chip designer Nvidia and the AI revolution | Tom Cronin
Tech giant Nvidia was founded in 1993 by three computer-scientist-video-gamers in the middle of Silicon Valley. They developed their plans at a local Denny’s in East San Jose. With no money and no investors, they began working out of one of their small homes. Today, 31 years later, Nvidia employs 30,000 people, is based in…
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Provocative new reads about predictions and probabilities | Tom Cronin
“The Singularity is Nearer When We Merge with AI,” by Ray Kurzweil (Viking) “On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything,” by Nate Silver (Penguin) What happens when you read back-to-back books by a quirky celebrity computer scientist and a quirky celebrity statistician/gambler? You’re tempted to consider bigger and riskier bets, and you ask difficult questions about what…
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Open space acquisition in Colorado Springs: Memories of the early days | Cronin and Loevy
It was good news last April when the voters of Colorado Springs renewed the TOPS (Trails, Open Space and Parks) sales tax. For only one cent out of every $10 spent, $11,000,000 per year is raised to buy additional lands for open space and parks in our city. It was not always that way. Almost…
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Documentary: How Trump won in 2016, and could again in 2024 | Cronin and Loevy
“The Accidental President” is an American-made low-budget documentary film by British filmmaker James Fletcher. It explains how businessman Donald J. Trump captured the Republican Party’s presidential nomination and beat Hillary Clinton in 2016 to become president. By majority rule, Hillary Clinton won. She captured 3 million more votes than Trump did, but he prevailed in…
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Skyway: A mountainside residential neighborhood | Cronin and Loevy
Imagine a neighborhood of classic post-World War II ranch houses that is built on a lower mountainside of the Rockies. The farther up the mountainside the ranch homes go, the more expansive the views of the city below and the great Eastern Plains beyond. The scenic views from the higher-up homes are particularly gorgeous at…
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In New Hampshire and Colorado, can Trump be beat? | Cronin and Loevy
Former President Donald Trump looks unstoppable in his quest for the Republican nomination for president in 2024. His big victory in the Iowa Republican caucuses last Monday was convincing. Important Republicans are rallying around him — Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Vivek Ramaswamy, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, dozens of members of Congress and Republican Party officials…
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Iowa Republican caucus-goers to decide Desantis’ fate | Cronin and Loevy
Nearly 200,000 mostly stalwart and predominantly evangelical Iowa Republicans will brave frigid weather and snow on the ground Monday night to officially kick off the 2024 Republican presidential nominating contest. Public opinion polls already tell us that Donald Trump will be the likely winner. The only question is what his percentage of the statewide vote…
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Coming soon: Legally ‘rigged’ presidential primaries and caucuses | Cronin and Loevy
There has been a lot of talk about “rigging” elections in the United States lately. Former Republican President Donald Trump has argued that the 2020 presidential election was rigged so that current Democratic President Joe Biden won and Trump lost. Most observers of American politics deny such rigging existed. But get ready for even more…
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Shout-out notables and disappointments in 2023:Cronin and Loevy
Many people and events marked this year just ending. The American economy was surprisingly strong with record employment and stock market achievements. But events in Ukraine and the Middle East have been major disappointments. Here’s what caught our attention. Entertainment and sports Taylor Swift: This American 34-year-old singer-songwriter has become, an international pop icon. She…