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The FFmpeg School of Assembly Language teaches you how assembly code is written in FFmpeg, helping you understand what happens inside your computer. To join, you should know C programming (especially pointers) and basic high school math. The lessons include assignments and a Discord server for questions. By completing them, you can contribute to FFmpeg, a powerful video processing tool that uses assembly to speed up tasks dramatically—sometimes up to 94 times faster with special instructions like AVX-512. Learning this helps you write highly efficient code for video and multimedia processing, improving performance in real-world applications.
https://github.com/FFmpeg/asm-lessons
Grand #Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: how #Africa’s largest hydropower project Is powering #Ethiopia’s future
A detailed examination of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam – its construction, specifications, commissioning, regional impact, and remaining challenges.
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (#GERD) is the largest hydropower project in Africa. Located on the #Blue_Nile in Ethiopia’s #Benishangul-Gumuz region, about 14km from the Sudanese border, the project has been delivered by Ethiopian Electric Power (#EEP) with major civil works undertaken by #Webuild Group (formerly #Salini Impregilo).
The objective of the dam is to increase Ethiopia’s electricity generation capacity, reduce dependence on imported energy, and support long-term industrial and economic development.
Construction began in 2011, and Ethiopia officially inaugurated......
Read more: https://www.waterpowermagazine.com/analysis/grand-ethiopian-renaissance-dam-how-africas-largest-hydropower-project-is-powering-ethiopias-future/?cf-view