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Great News From GDELT Project: “A Transformative New Chapter: Translating The Entire Quarter-Century TV News Archive Through Gemini For Just $54K + All Channels Now Translated”
Today we are announcing a transformative new chapter in planetary-scale translation and towards our vision of making it possible to see the world through others’ eyes. In collaboration with the Internet Archive’s Television News Archive, we have completed the Gemini-powered machine translation of the Archive’s entire quarter-century archive of more than 2.4 million non-English broadcasts and we are now translating all non-English broadcasts from all monitor
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Great News From GDELT Project: “A Transformative New Chapter: Translating The Entire Quarter-Century TV News Archive Through Gemini For Just $54K + All Channels Now Translated”
Today we are announcing a transformative new chapter in planetary-scale translation and towards our vision of making it possible to see the world through others’ eyes. In collaboration with the Internet Archive’s Television News Archive, we have completed the Gemini-powered machine translation of the Archive’s entire quarter-century archive of more than 2.4 million non-English broadcasts and we are now translating all non-English broadcasts from all monitored channels each day. For the first time since its creation a quarter-century ago, you can now view machine translated English captioning for any broadcast from any country in any language across the entire TV News Archive!
In total, we translated more than 2.4M broadcasts we previously transcribed into their original languages using GCP’s Chirp ASR, totaling 4.5B seconds (75M min / 1.2M hours) of airtime spanning more than 6.8 billion words across 38 billion characters (46GB of text). Using Google Translate this would have cost more than $760K, but using Gemini 2.5 Flash Non-Thinking, this cost just $53,866 (consuming 79 billion input + output tokens). Only the public enterprise Vertex AI Gemini API was used and no data was used to train or tune any model.
[Clip]Moreover, the ability to translate 1.2 million hours of speech in over 150 languages and dialects for just under $54,000 brings the cost of at-scale translation down to the level where libraries and archives can now begin to tractably contemplate translating their holdings at scale into the languages of their patrons, making voices from the rest of the world vastly more accessible to journalists and scholars.
I can't say particularly why, it may just be a craving, but this question put the image of a specific cheese in my head.
Cougar Gold by the Washington State University Creamery (I graduated as a University of Washington Husky, this cheese is the ONE thing I can give them)
It's a sharp white cheddar, aged 14 months, and ships in a can. When you open the can, you just get this sharp, pungent, tangy smell. There's a crust of amino acid crystals on the cheese.
Sometimes, standing at the open fridge, staring at the cheese drawer and trying to decide, I will absent-mindedly start singing that Led Zeppelin song, "In My Time of Dying",
"🎶 Oh my Cheesus! Oh my Cheesus! Oh my Cheesus! 🎶"
I would like to hear from the small percentage of people who chose "processed cheese product" because I want to know what the strongest cheese in that category is. Maybe the Wispride port wine cheese ball?
my none-too-rigorous 5th-grade science project found that it was impossible to get mold to grow on Velveeta at any tested level of temperature or humidity, which seems plenty tough
I had the big brick of Velveeta in mind. Does it still come in a cardboard box and foil wrap? Haven't had it since I was a kid. I would never pray to a cheese that I also would eat.
This is one of the reasons I look forward at some point to getting a Costco membership. You know those peanut butter and jelly jars are going to be ridiculously big, and getting loaves of bread for a reasonable price doesn't hurt either.
I don't know the rate for bread these days and haven't gone inside a store for a while now. Still, considering inflation it wouldn't surprise me if things were not exactly as cheap as they once were.
@ratking When I go to a store, say, Costco. I expect a level of treatment there that they deliver on. If I'm buying good products, well, i know its not gonna be the cheapest thing out there, and they run their business mostly at a loss. Regardless, I don't feel its a ripoff.
@ratking The evidence, with respect, is against you. Costco' does not run many, if any, aspects of their business at a loss. Their stock is near the $1000 mark, and institutional investors don't spend that money on something which makes losses.
@ratking the food court is, I think, the only aspect where they may be, and even then it may just be loss leaders, specific items, rather than the entire project. Outside of that, I would be very interested in knowing how you know anything else is running at a loss because that's not what I'm seeing.
@techsinger @ratking I obviously don't work there so I don't know everything but they regularly give their customers good deals on products that other stores don't match, because they can afford to do it.
@ratking better prices per unit, probably not. Better prices for a particular product, possibly. Also keep in mind all I'm saying that CC doesn't work at a loss on the vast majority of its business. For some products, it undoubtedly has better pricing because you're buying in bulk.
@techsinger @ratking Most of the things that CC sells are also a part of their Kerkland brand. Making and selling that brand of products is far less expensive than anything. The bulk also helps.
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in reply to Annalee Newitz 🍜 • • •I can't say particularly why, it may just be a craving, but this question put the image of a specific cheese in my head.
Cougar Gold by the Washington State University Creamery (I graduated as a University of Washington Husky, this cheese is the ONE thing I can give them)
It's a sharp white cheddar, aged 14 months, and ships in a can. When you open the can, you just get this sharp, pungent, tangy smell. There's a crust of amino acid crystals on the cheese.
Strength Cheese.
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in reply to Annalee Newitz 🍜 • • •Sometimes, standing at the open fridge, staring at the cheese drawer and trying to decide, I will absent-mindedly start singing that Led Zeppelin song, "In My Time of Dying",
"🎶 Oh my Cheesus! Oh my Cheesus! Oh my Cheesus! 🎶"
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Roquefort for Strength - soft.
Parmesan for Luck - hard.
Went with "soft".
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