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ranuloon ChatControl: EU ministers want to exempt themselves

What are you talking about? There is literally only one opinion that is illegal in Germany and that is to deny that the holocaust happened.

Everything else can be published (there can be civil lawsuits later of course, but the state won't stop you unless you are actively treating people).

ranuloon Transformers.js – Run Transformers directly in the browser

Might make more sense for web apps and electron applications.

ranuloon Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5

> This new generation also delivers a breakthrough in long-context understanding. We’ve been able to significantly increase the amount of information our models can process — running up to 1 million tokens consistently, achieving the longest context window of any large-scale foundation model yet.

Sweet, this opens up so many possibilities.

ranuloon OpenAI's Whisper is another case study in Colonisation

Mozillas Common Voice Project (https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en/languages) is creating an open dataset for many minority languages to make it easier to support them in STT systems without legal issues. If you speak one of these languages please consider donating a few minutes of your voice.

ranuloon America Is Missing Out on the Best Electric Cars

You are also missing out on small european EVs. the VW E-UP and ID.3, the Renault Zoe and soon the Renault 3 and Citroen e-c3 are all quite nice.

Especially the Zoe became a cult car for early EV adapters.

ranuloon Oldest Fortresses in the World Discovered

True, but we haven't found anything older than 12000 years, haven't we?

ranuloon Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year

I will try this out as a tool to manage my private tasks. I always wanted something like Jira for my personal life.

ranuloon Astronomers posit that we live in an area with below average density

Interesting solution.

I have a theory in my head for years now. It is probably wrong, but here it comes:

In an infinite universe the total amount of gravity that affect us in one point in space is defined by the event horizon if we assume that gravity travels with light speed. Every atom in the universe has a very small influence on us. But this event horizon expands with light speed all the time. I wonder if this could lead to very small but permanent increasing gravitational pull from all directions at once. In other words, and increasing inflation.

ranuloon Using GPT-4 Vision with Vimium to browse the web

This could enable human language test automation scripts and could either improve my life as a QA engineer a lot or completely destroy it. Not sure yet.