Large and in Charge
This person is the CEO of TPUSA.
Who is Erika Kirk?
Pride is today often associated with the letters L, G, B, T, Q, I and A, which respectively stand for these words.
What are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual/Agender?
This was the most recent state to join the US.
What is Hawaii?
In 2001: A Space Odyssey, he said, "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."
Who is HAL 9000?
Taxes on imports are known as these.
What are tariffs?
This person is the President of Oregon State University.
Who is Jayathi Murthy?
Not marsupials, sloths are actually members of the group Xenarthra, which also includes these long-nosed, hard-shelled creatures.
What are armadillos?
This is the largest state by population.
What is California?
One of the first truly notable chess engines, its creator made it as an offshoot of and engine called Glaurung. This engine reigned supreme until it was beaten by Google's AlphaZero.
What is Stockfish?
The representative of the Linn and Benton counties, she spoke at our Charile Kirk Vigil.
Who is Shelly Boshart Davis?
This person is the Governor of Oregon.
Who is Tina Kotek?
Scrooge McDuck, famed for his greed, is from this show, alongside his grandnephews Hubert, Duford, and Llewellyn.
What is DuckTales?
The thirteen colonies all were majority Christian, this one was specifically majority Catholic.
What is Maryland?
GPT-3 shocked the world when it began to perform in interviews posted to social media. It was one of the first notable instances when beating the Turing test was actually thought possible. Chat GPT isn't just an AI, it's specifically an LLM, one of these.
What is a Large Language Model?
Before playing minecraft, we spent some time thinking about the writings of this libertarian agricultural author.
Who is Wendell Berry?
This person is president of ASOSU.
Who is Masha Mogylevsky?
John Steinbeck is notable for this novel about The Great Depression.
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
This group got stuck in the Sierra Nevada while on a wagon trail to the west, and nearly half of their members perished.
What was the Donner Party?
To oversimplify, when an AI is trained to remove visual noise from an image, it is then able to generate images from visual noise. This is how the large majority of AI image generation works; the process is known as this.
What is stable diffusion?
This representative, orginally an engineer before he entered politics, came to one of our meetings to speak and participate in a Q & A.
Who is Ed Diehl?
This person was the second president of the United States.
Who was John Adams?
Founded as The Voice of Montreal, this magazine has had a rocky history, but today is relatively succesful, with a strong online presense and a reputation for edgy content.
What is Vice Magazine?
In Texas, we remember this battle.
What is the (Battle of the) Alamo?
Isaac Asimov wrote this book, Will Smith starred in the movie, as a cop in a murder msytery.
What is I, Robot?
Not next week, but the week after, we'll be watching a documentary about this woman who detransitioned.
Who is Chloe Cole?