by David Brooks | Feb 28, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
A housing/development site called Realtyhop.com took data from 2022 and data from the 1970 census to compare median house prices with median household income to create a “multiplier”. The higher the figure the harder it is to buy a house. The full study is...
by David Brooks | Feb 27, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
The key to a chatbot’s usefulness is the data it is trained on. A professor at Dartmouth’s business school demonstrates that by creating a chatbot TA to answer student questions. First, Shumsky created a knowledge base in Cody—an AI coding assistant, or...
by David Brooks | Feb 26, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
On Monday, Feb. 26, N.H. Department of Transportation began posting state highways, limiting heavy trucks on roads to reduce breakup of pavement from frost heaves. Those nasty bumps are created when water freezes and thaws in a warm/cold cycle, the same pattern that...
by David Brooks | Feb 26, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
From Dartmouth Health: A case of misidentification and rush to judgment on social media has led to false accusations of racism and threats of violence against an innocent New Hampshire doctor and his family. Andrew R. Spector, MD, a highly respected Dartmouth Health...
by David Brooks | Feb 26, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Feb. 25. *** *** Snap to Grid Bracket for a Sprinlker Support Assembly ASC...
by David Brooks | Feb 23, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
NH Business Review has a long article looking at the debate in the state over the effect of carbon credits on the timber industry. You can read it here. Carbon harbored in standing trees has become a virtual commodity in the form of credits traded on global markets...