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Google’s Gemini disaster can be summarized with this sentence: A non-problem with a terrible solution; a terrible problem with no solution. By now I’m sure you all have seen the lynching Google has received online after Gemini users realized it’s almost impossible to get the chatbot to generate images of white people. Among many others, Elon Musk, Yann LeCun, Paul Graham, Nat Friedman, and John Carmack chimed in with (more or less reasonable) criticisms and warnings about Google and its “bureaucratic corporate culture,” to quote Graham.

As usual my, Wednesday article will not be directly public transit-related, but this one isn’t too far off! This is Part 1 of what I imagine will be a running series on digital maps and how they can better help represent & aid navigation in our cities! Make sure you subscribe so you don’t miss future editions. I grew up on Google Maps. I can still remember the first thing I looked for when I found out you could use Maps and Earth to see satellite imagery — the giant spaceship-themed movie theatre in my hometown.

… we say tongue-in-cheek that TPU v1 “launched a thousand chips.” In Google’s First Tensor Processing Unit - Origins, we saw why and how Google developed the first Tensor Processing Unit (or TPU v1) in just 15 months, starting in late 2013. Today’s post will look in more detail at the architecture that emerged from that work and at its performance. Share A quick reminder of the objectives of the TPU v1 project.

I turned forty years old on July 1. I wrote thousands of words about turning forty the other day, but I’m not ready to share yet—that got…uh…a little raw. Oops, I mean—‘it’s been held up in editing.’ Since I don’t have any sane reflections to offer at this time, I wanted to share this song by MUNA with you and ask you to listen to it as a birthday present to me.

No one exemplifies the hypocrisy of modern day “Conservative Christians” quite like Southern Baptist pastor-turned-politician Mike Huckabee. This so-called “Man of God” is so determined to protect America’s children from the evils of the world that back in January 2015 he publicly slammed the Obamas for allowing their daughters to listen to Beyonce’s ‘mental poison.’ Later that year, when his friend Josh Duggar admitted to molesting five young girls, including two of his own sisters, the former Arkansas Governor wasn’t quite so harsh.

GPTZeroX is built for educators, and uses our completely revamped models, with higher accuracies and mixed AI <> human text detection. Our team is also consistently iterating to improve our detection model — with some recent breakthroughs! GPTZero now highlights portions of the text that are most likely to be AI generated, a key feature that educators in our community have been requesting. GPTZero now supports larger text inputs, multiple .

Happy Friday my friends. Today I have a new recipe for grain-free, chocolate-coated granola bars (you can also eat them like cookies, but more on that in a bit!). This recipe idea was sparked by my grain-free granola clusters reel, which went bonkers on Instagram (442,000 views as of yesterday 😳). While I eat the clusters occasionally for breakfast, my favorite way to eat them is as a snack or post-meal treat.

Welcome to South Asian Trailblazers! 👋🏼 I’m Simi Shah, and here, I dive deep into the journeys of trailblazing South Asians. Listen to the podcast that inspires this newsletter on Apple, Spotify, or any major podcast platform. Follow us for updates on our events and more on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, & TikTok. At South Asian Trailblazers, we’ve long been dedicated to elevating extraordinary leaders. Our new initiative, The Trailblazers Agency and Expert Network, marks the next step toward fulfilling that mission.

New York City had an earthquake today. Actually, the epicenter was in New Jersey, but we felt it. I was on a commuter train into Grand Central Terminal from the Bronx near my apartment when we felt the quake. The shaking was so minor, I thought something was wrong with the train for a moment…but then it passed. Within a few minutes, my daughter, who lives in Poughkeepsie (40 miles north of Manhattan) texted me and said “Did you feel the quake?