2025 BingoCard
In something of a tradition for me, at the start of each new year, I deal with my existential dread by creating a BingoCard. Here is my 2025 BingoCard:
Here is a link to the pdf version
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- Joseph Weizenbaum, creator of the first chatbot, 1964
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