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To Touch Grass

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I Built Nothing. Instead, I went outside to touch grass with my family. The whole point of 'touching grass' is to have some time where you do not have to think about, and interact with, technology. Making and using some kind of gimmick still pulls away the attention you could be dedicating to the nature…

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