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Well they are still in transition. My street is next. They will plant quite a bit more trees and plant areas. Looking forward to them :)

Here in Utrecht the Netherlands they are trying to greenify the city to reduce heat stress during the hot months. They try to plant as much trees and plants as possible, they try not to mow grass often and let it grow, they encourage homes to remove tiled gardens and add green, they have programs to turn roofs into green roofs.

I like it, the city feels nicer to life in.

https://healthyurbanliving.utrecht.nl/fileadmin/_processed_/...

https://healthyurbanliving.utrecht.nl/our-vision-for-utrecht...

https://aiph.org/floraculture/news/utrecht-is-crowned-the-ne...

The Netherlands already banned smartphones from schools since January 1st 2024

https://www.iamexpat.nl/education/education-news/netherlands...

Apple already has a Windows iCloud password app and a Chrome extension https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud-windows/manage-passwo...

Sam Altman pre announced it will not be a search engine https://twitter.com/sama/status/1788989777452408943

Likely there is also a smaller battery as the iPad Pro is quite a bit thinner

I am in the Netherlands and I am able to visit rt.com without VPN.

They have been here in the Netherlands for decades so feels odd to see it is such a novelty in California. Happy to see they work there too!

Maybe you should read the related Wikipedia article.

Released 2 days ago by Apple, a research paper on methods to run larger llms on iPhones.

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/21/apple-ai-researchers-ru... https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.11514.pdf

It seems you can convert them to formats compatible with the Quest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH96y2QjCGw

Are there any scores on Dutch support? Is it totally not supported or not benchmarked?

I am looking forward to this development since the open source models are not as good in Dutch compared to OpenAI.

Are there models good enough in Dutch which we could use in the mean time?

Yes there is some movement. Good to see trustllm being another initiative.

The Dutch government starts with some non profit agencies to train a Dutch model too. But this will also take some time.

https://www.tno.nl/en/newsroom/2023/11/netherlands-starts-re...

As far as I can see it uses the OpenAI models which are quite good. Or am I wrong?

It could be to get attention.

A problem I have with the open source models is that they are all not remotely good in many languages other than English compared to the OpenAI models. I specifically need Dutch and the outputs are unusable for us.

They only announce it days in advance as the road closures are announced. Also it is good to follow the developments around testing of a new rocket to know how close they are to flying. They go through the same stages of stacking and testing. It will likely take months until a third flight.

Oops, was a mistake. Cannot edit comment anymore.. Thanks!

If I am correct Flutter compiles to Dart code which compiles to Native code.

Above I was more talking about platform integration. As Flutter their own document states everything within Dart is compiled to run like its own enclosed runtime environment. It talks with the native world with messages over channels.

https://docs.flutter.dev/platform-integration/platform-chann...

Within Kotlin however it is possible to directly call the native method. So it looks like Flutter has more overhead for native communication than Kotlin.

Here for example a part of a C interop tutorial in Kotlin. You can directly work with data coming from C libraries.

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/mapping-primitive-data-types-fro...

I have used this in production for both Java and Web targets for a Startup. It did what it was promising although at earlier stage it took some research to make it work and had to adapt to changes. Now the multiplatform SDK is stable and way better documented. The Kotlin Slack community is also quite helpful for whenever you are stuck.

You can work in whatever way makes sense for you to share code.

Kotlin allows you to call native code (JS/C/ObjC/Java/WASM) from Kotlin, or you can call Kotlin functions from native code (JS/C/ObjC/Java/WASM). So you choose on what level you want to create shared code.

So it is quite flexible so it is up to you on what level you want to share code. It can either be a low level library, a middle level library. And with maturing Jetpack Compose it is possible to build the whole app including UI multiplatform without leaving Kotlin.

It is also possible to write the UI in Kotlin cross platform with Compose Multiplatform.

Kotlin Multiplatform allows you to work fully native on Android as Kotlin is the main language there. And it also allows to compile to native iOS code and integrate with native iOS Objective-C code or bridge code. (Swift integration is on the roadmap) It also allows you to directly call C code or C libraries. Or it allows to compile to JS and call JS code. So it is more versatile than Flutter and easier to integrate with native code/components. Flutter is more creating its own world with the Dart sandbox and then has to pass messages to communicate with the native world. Kotlin is closer to native output.

Jetpack Compose is the UI library and provides a similar mechanic as React/SwiftUI/Flutter in building declarative UIs. It is already the Android default as Google started to develop this UI library and Jetpacks brought in the multiplatform implementation.

Since Jetbrains their main business is selling Desktop apps (IDEs) and they are the main developer, I have high hopes.

Kotlin Multiplatform gives the mechanics to compile code to different platforms/targets. So it can compile code to Android, native iOS/linux/windows, web, beta web assembly, java runtimes and more.

Compose Multiplatform is the Flutter equivalent. They work on a UI toolkit which compiles to desktop/mobile/web. It works with declarative patterns like Flutter/SwiftUI/React, so is a quite modern implementation to build UIs. So it is possible to build desktop apps. Jetbrains have build their toolbox app as first desktop app since a few years using Compose. It provides many UI elements to build Desktop apps and as Jetbrains itself is a big Desktop app developer, you can expect they put their expertise into it to make it as good as possible.

Did anybody try the Llama 2 model with languages other than English? The paper notes that it works best with English and the amount of training data for other languages is only a fraction. Which likely would make it unusable for me..

See table 10 (page 22) of the whitepaper for the numbers: https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/llama-2-open-found...

Are there other downloadable models which can be used in a multilingual environment that people here are aware of?

I think allowing any website to just ask for permission for notifications, which by most non tech people would be clicked away with yes, would lead to a lot of spam. I see it already happen with people in regular browsers…

I am 41 and still have no driving license. But I can relate to cycling alone outside the cities. There is just something about just moving forward outside the cities without a clear goal.

You can download photos on a Windows PC through iTunes

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201302