As the Thanksgiving weekend passes, let's look at some technology things that we're thankful for and excited about. 

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THINGS TO BE THANKFUL FOR:

• Thankful for health
• Happy Birthday to ChatGPT
• The feature on an iPhone that remembers the code sent in an SMS message
• Role playing, brain storming, scenario planning on ChatGPT/Gemini
• Tools like Vercel that let non-programmers use AI to build apps (the future of PaaS)
• Tools like NotebookLM making complex stuff like LLM training, RAG patterns,  
• True competition in the cloud market as differentiation emerges
• The beginnings of alternatives to NVIDIA in the AI HW Acceleration market
• The evolution of wearables like fitness trackers, or AirPods (better sound quality, noise cancelling, language translation, etc.) 

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