Luis de Jorge

A good thing was made in the last few days.

Project Astra is now in the hands of trusted testers. The video below gives a good sense of its capabilities and how people have been using it. These experiences are enabled by the multimodal capabilities of Gemini models under the covers. youtu.be/hIIlJt8JERI

We're off to BCN! Come and say hi :)

@WarronBebster 🙋

I've been working on a casual multiplayer game about civil design and civilization collapse for a while and finally have a playable version. Looking for folks interested in playing an early version - if that sounds interesting, LMK!

@alfredmalmros Revisiting this tweet now not feeling like joke anymore

@alfredmalmros Messi out on the group stages

This is fascinating. My mind is blown.

New font! Sono by Tyler Finck is a soft monospace (or proportional!) #variablefont. It has a weight axis (ExtraLight - ExtraBold) and the default style is fixed-width (not kerned). But thanks to a "mono" axis, you can make the design proportional! 🍄 fonts.google.com/specimen/Sono

@WarronBebster That exists in Spain. Morning routine in the summer months.

Billion dollar idea: horchata iced coffee

@joshm I'll raise my hand hoping you'll get to see it across the Atlantic!

okayyy we're gonna need more hats 😅 gonna put in another run to make sure everyone here gets one!!!

@zebpedersen I would love to see how it handles Swindon roundabout

“It works in San Francisco therefore it works” 🤔

This is genius. Italian singer Adriano Celentano released a song in the 70s with nonsensical lyrics meant to sound like American English—to prove that Italians would just love any American song. And it was a hit.

Me too

@zebpedersen They were my fantasy car back then. Also never forget the Renault Fuego, the clue is in the name

@luisdejorge Probably already turned to rust by the late 80s 😂

Some island classics from Formentera. A lovely holiday but sad that the 2CV, Clio mark 1, and dustiest Twingo in the world eluded my camera 🤷‍♀️

Parlez-vous Bambara? L'équipe de recherche Google à Accra, grâce à un partenariat avec l'organisation malienne locale @robotsmali, facilite la mise en ligne d'un plus grand nombre de locuteurs bambara. blog.google/technology/res…

The Google Research team in Accra, through a partnership with local Malian organization @robotsmali1, is open sourcing the Bambara dataset and ASR model, built from Malian oral storytellers called Griots. Check it out 👇 goo.gle/3QOyTpo

"Ramayana : The Legend of Prince Rama", an indian-japanese animated feature film produced 30 years ago, and now remastered in HD. Directed by Ram Mohan, Yugo Sako & Koichi Sasaki, with many animators who worked at Ghibli. Full trailer & pilot >> catsuka.com/news/2022-07-3…

@skuwamoto 2 weeks in Europe are not enough

Let’s imagine, hypothetically, that you were taking an eight week sabbatical. The first two weeks are a trip to Europe. What would you do during the remaining six weeks?