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🗓️ 28 July 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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0:00.0 | There are days when you're hungry for McDonald's. |
0:03.0 | Then there are days when you're Big Arch hungry for McDonald's. |
0:08.0 | You'll get to know the difference. |
0:10.0 | New Big Arch for Big McDonald's hunger. |
0:13.0 | Until 9th of September from 11 a.m. |
0:18.0 | Participating restaurants only subject to availability. |
0:20.0 | Three or three or five from 11 a.m., participating restaurants only subject to availability. |
0:30.5 | Three or four years ago, Congressman Don Byer started to get curious about artificial intelligence. |
0:39.9 | I ran across a Coursera course from Stanford on AI. I thought, this would be great. I'll do this. And the first three weeks were wonderful. And I was really impressed with just the math and even the geometry of discovering |
0:48.1 | new things from data. And then I took the first exam and got a zero. |
0:58.7 | He tried to teach himself linear algebra, but that wasn't working out either. |
0:59.9 | So he gave up. |
1:04.0 | Beyer is a Democrat who represents Virginia's 8th district. |
1:08.2 | That's Arlington, Alexandria, a lot of the D.C. burbs. |
1:11.1 | Then, about a year and a half ago, |
1:13.6 | he went to visit George Mason University. |
1:17.4 | It's in his district, to see its new innovation lab. |
1:19.7 | And I said, this is cool. |
1:21.3 | Can I take a course here? |
1:24.8 | And they looked at me funny and said, well, we'll check. |
1:29.1 | Anyway, they let me in at that point as a 71-year-old. |
1:34.9 | So now I'm in my fifth course with another probably 11 courses before my artificial intelligence master's degree. |
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