Luis de Jorge

I make things happen for a living at Google Creative Lab. Chaotic good

[Luis de Jorge @luisdejorge]

A good thing was made in the last few days.

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

We’re rolling out Teach from Home, a tools & resources hub to help teachers continue teaching during school closures. We’re also establishing a $10M Distance Learning fund to support orgs that help remove barriers for students learning remotely. #COVID19
https://t.co/bM7fD4f4oU

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

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.

https://t.co/8ByrGlbE20

[Luis de Jorge @luisdejorge]

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

[Luis de Jorge @luisdejorge]

@WarronBebster 🙋

[Luis de Jorge @luisdejorge]

@alfredmalmros Revisiting this tweet now not feeling like joke anymore

[Luis de Jorge @luisdejorge]

@alfredmalmros Messi out on the group stages

[poof @poof_eth]

This is fascinating.

My mind is blown.

[Google Fonts @googlefonts]

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! 🍄 https://t.co/todeMyI9uo

[Luis de Jorge @luisdejorge]

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

[Luis de Jorge @luisdejorge]

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

[Luis de Jorge @luisdejorge]

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

[Khai @ThamKhaiMeng]

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.

[Luis de Jorge @luisdejorge]

Me too

[Liam 🇩🇲 @evilliam]

I will be there - and I will be regularly re-tweeting this up until then

[Luis de Jorge @luisdejorge]

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

[Google in Africa @googleafrica]

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.
https://t.co/lgLffBjSAH

[Google Open Source @GoogleOSS]

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 👇 https://t.co/rYN2YSN2Uc

[Catsuka @catsuka]

"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 >> https://t.co/5oveDSnR5D

[Luis de Jorge @luisdejorge]

@skuwamoto 2 weeks in Europe are not enough