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DINOv3 offers powerful self-supervised vision models from Meta AI, like ViT up to 7B parameters and ConvNeXt, pretrained on 1.7B web or satellite images. Load them easily via PyTorch Hub, Hugging Face Transformers (v4.56+), or timm (v1.0.20+), with code examples for features, depth, detection, and segmentation. You benefit by using these top-performing, dense features without fine-tuning or labels—saving time and compute for tasks like classification, object detection, and zero-shot analysis on your images.
https://github.com/facebookresearch/dinov3
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