this goes years back, but in the early 2000s I visited Paris and was a bit scandalized to hear the colloquial name for corner store was "l'Arabe" (!)

Thanks!

This is the key piece of information for making sense of it. Ultimately the OP's insight is that the number-naming system used in the west is thousands based instead of millions based, but came to that by observing the number-naming outcomes instead of the source notation that led to it.

I had them mixed up with Citus and was confused since I thought they already belonged to MS!

Was a cross-over of a number of team members with both product. An easy thing to be confused by.

There used to be a place much like this in Toronto called Active Surplus. Sadly got kicked out as rents rose on Queen Street.

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From what I know it still exists further out of the city. I have a friend who picked up quite large amount of scientific equipment. Might be a similar store with a different name though.

please add geopandas to the list :)

we should shut off clean water and shunt the energy toward more text generation

I'd love to see this deployable to edge that have a Google Coral TPU

Has Google continued releasing new versions of Coral? Seems like a new version with the latest TPU and enough memory specifically to support this model would be awesome for devs

I looked into this recently. Looks like it's a "no".

However there are now alternatives like the official RPi AI Hat that has between about 3x to 6x the TOPs (4 for Coral Vs 13/26 for RPi depending on model) so there is that. 20 TOPs on a RPi 5 - complete with nice vertically integrated camera etc - is quite interesting.

Google has not released a new version since 2021. Even the SDK kit is not under active development(uses Python 3.8), since the last time I saw it.

really fun - i had to play once to really understand what was going on

would be interesting to also gather a list of disappointments so they can be avoided