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My experience playing Go against GPT-4, how strong it is, and where things might be heading!

Wow that is super cool! What an elegant solution.

From the first link: "Bitcoin has achieved a level of comput[ational power] that no single nation state can overthrow it through computation alone. The effort to do so would require a massive covert operation of chip fabrication. Then, the coordinated assault would give them over the next block for 10 minutes, until we kick those bastards off the network... they would be revealed, they would have lost billions of dollars doing this, and all they would have got was a double spend"

It looks like a bunch of outlets are picking this up and repeating it under headlines like "Segway is dead". Bit of a PR nightmare.

I don't think it's correct to assume from this that the Segway as we know it is dead.

All this article says is that the New Hampshire plant is shutting down, and that the Segway PT is being discontinued.

However, the majority of Segways are manufactured in China by Ninebot.

Will the i2 SE, x2 SE, and police branded models be discontinued as well? It seems unlikely.

I personally was introduced to self-balancing vehicles through the Solowheel, invented by Shane Chen of Camas WA. (Also the inventor of the hoverboard), and never thought the Segway was a particularly attractive proposition.

Oh, I see that it does, sorry, skimmed the article.

I still think the main news here is just that the legacy Segway PT unit is being discontinued, along with the US manufacturing facilities in New Hampshire, where it doesn't make sense for a Chinese company to be manufacturing.

Seems to me like Mark Wilson of Fast company is trying to make a bigger story out of that, when I'm not sure there is one.

Fast Company has learned that the Segway brand will retire the last Segway as we know it, the Segway PT. Manufacturing at the Bedford, New Hampshire, plant will stop July 15

I'm not sure this article is all that accurate.

"Segway" is a brand that has passed through several hands after Dean Kaman sold it a while back.

This sounds to me like the New Hampshire plant is no longer going to manufacture Segway units, rather than the technology being discontinued altogether.

Ninebot of China acquired Segway and uses the IP to defend their self-balancing inventions.

https://time.com/3822962/segway-ninebot-china/

It looks like ninebot still produces the Segway in China, and I don't imagine will stop soon.

https://www.segway.com/professionals