TBA
Google Gemini
Google's Gemini campus tour's final stop was at UCLA. They did two days on campus as well as a dedicated session for faculty and staff; it's quite good, although focused only on their two latest LLMs. Some of the photography/visualization detection stuff was a very honest demonstration in what is and is not effective, and the demos, including a deep research one, a comparison between 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro, and two others, were quite good.
Back at home, took delivery of some dry aged USDA prime New York strips from Flannery Beef. Being dry aged, they taste more intensely of beef than normal non-dry-aged, and at 20oz they're quite thick. Pictured next to Snake River Farms Gold Grade ribeyes, they look slightly less well-marbled, and being a different, less fatty cut, it's hard to give a fair comparison. Upon cooking later, the quality was notably inferior to SRF Gold Grade, being more chewy to a surprising and somewhat disappointing degree. The beefy intensity still didn't match the flavor of SRF Gold Grade.
However, on sale vs. on sale, the Flannery Beef was still a good bit cheaper, so if you prefer the taste of dry aged beef, Flannery Beef might be your thing. First impressions for me are than it's not quite my thing.