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About Me – David Kobia

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My name is David Kobia. I was born and raised in Kenya, moved to the United States, fell in love with the American south and I currently live in Atlanta with my wife and child. I love thinking about near future technology and the impact it will have on our lives. I also love zombies. David is an MIT Director’s Fellow. Fall is here. Time to find some pumpkins. The Best Black Home Improvement Blogs. The Top Automotive News, Reviews and Tuning. Tools, Handyman and Home Improvement.

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Simulated Reality – David Kobia

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I’ve spent the holidays chasing after a 64gb Nexus 6. I failed. In the process, I found two phones more preferable to the top heavy, slippery monster: The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and the Motorola Maxx. This post is not about phones though. I just realized that Rick, the bounty hunter from Philip K Dick’s ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Better known as its movie reincarnation, ‘Blade Runner’. Happened to be chasing down six escaped Nexus 6 androids. Rick is armed with an ‘. I find it particularly inte...

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Roadtrips, Freeways and Gigabit Internet – David Kobia

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Roadtrips, Freeways and Gigabit Internet. We recently took a road trip down to Orlando from Atlanta. Usually a 6 hour ride, it took us almost 8. We stopped once – thankfully. My 18 month old daughter was actually quite well behaved. A handy tip we got from friends on traveling with kids was to leave at 5am. She gave us more than 4 hours of sleep once we were on the road. Fall is here. Time to find some pumpkins. The Best Black Home Improvement Blogs. The Top Automotive News, Reviews and Tuning.

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Moore’s Law at 50 Years – David Kobia

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Moore’s Law at 50 Years. 8220;Moore’s law” is the observation that, over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years. The observation is named after Gordon E. Moore, co-founder of the Intel Corporation, who described the trend in a 1965 paper. 2 to the 64th power = 9.223372e 18 or approximately 10 quintillion! More than a billion times the population of the planet. If Gordon Moore’s law stands true for the foreseea...

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Quotes – David Kobia

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There's only four things we do better than anyone else:. Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson. There are only three universally personal items that someone will carry with them no matter where they live. The first two are money and keys; the third is the mobile phone, making it the first new invention added to that short list in three thousand years. Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

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Stuck in the middle of nowhere. Toyota Land Cruiser vs Land Rover Defender. Fight!! – David Kobia

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Stuck in the middle of nowhere. Toyota Land Cruiser vs Land Rover Defender. Fight! We drove down to the coast of Kenya in two cars. A Land Rover Defender 300 TDI and a 1983 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ40 — two really great cars.The good ol’ landy broke down unfortunately and was rescued by the land cruiser. To its credit, the landy carried the BRCK. Crew down to South Africa and back a few months ago. Fall is here. Time to find some pumpkins. The Best Black Home Improvement Blogs.

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David Kobia – Page 2 – Staking Africa's Claim on the Future

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There are only three universally personal items that someone will carry with them no matter where they live. The first two are money and keys; the third is the mobile phone, making it the first new invention added to that short list in three thousand years. Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. Frank Herbert, Dune. On Kids and iPads/iPhones. Roadtrips, Freeways and Gigabit Internet.

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Instagram – David Kobia

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Fall is here. Time to find some pumpkins. Fall is here. Time to find some pumpkins. Early morning in Galu. This week I have the privilege of working at the coast of Kenya with the rest of the Ushahidi team. Stuck in the middle of nowhere. Toyota Land Cruiser vs Land Rover Defender. Fight! We drove down to the coast of Kenya in two cars. A Land Rover Defender 300 TDI and a 1983 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ40…. Mia tests the gauntlet. David & Goliath battle it out at the Louvre. The guts of the Eiffel tower.