Google Notebook LM large context window
“I’ve been doing some experiments with AI.”
Every Monday, we have a discussion about the latest in AI or what we’ve done or maybe even we do experiments during that night.
She described her experience with Google Notebook LM.
But first, a little background…she’s into astrology which often leads to interesting discussions about people. So, she was looking into astrology predictions for 2026. There were 3 people providing their predictions, one of whom was not an astrologer. And that person did a 9-hour video on the month-by-month prediction of 2026. (I’m not sure how a non-astrologer was doing this.)
Nine hours! Who does a 9-hour video? Yeah, I would feed it into Google too.
The amazing thing was she fed the video into Google Notebook, and the AI appeared to still function. Google Notebook can handle a 9-hour video. That tells me the context window in that Notebook LM is pretty large. I didn’t realize it was so large.
Would a 9-hour video equate to a book? It would be interesting to find out.
Anyway, that was an interesting insight to how much Google Notebook can handle.
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And then after her story about her experiment, she told us “this is going to be one crazy year except for early June which should be pretty nice. Maybe a week or two there that are nice. So, in June, in early June, there will be one or two…there’s a couple of really nice weeks. And the rest of it’s going to be one crisis after another.”
“They were saying, you know, it may be a little quieter, more behind the scenes in January. And it’s gonna pick up. It doesn’t mean things aren’t happening, but then we’ve already had…people in Venezuela and Columbia, too. And yeah, just the rhetoric going around…”
“This is what’s to come till February when it starts getting bad…So, who knows what…just, you know…focus on what’s within your control this year is what it comes down to.”
“Because it’s going to be crazy out in the world. You can’t tell what’s real.”
Ummm, this was January 5th. On January 3rd, the US “invaded” Venezuela, extracted the president and brought him up to New York. I put the term “invaded” in quotes because I’m not sure if that is the right term, but it’ll do for now. We’ve already done 6 or 7 bombings last year (I must have been out because I didn’t realize it was that many) but this Venezuela incident caused a larger outcry. So, this “invasion” was a big deal.
Before this evening, we (the group that was meeting) never talked about politics or world affairs like this so what happened with Venezuela must have shaken her enough to give hints of the year to come.
Her recitation about the series of crises that we will face throughout the year came before the killing of a white woman in Minneapolis. That killing took place 2 days later, on January 7th, after our conversation, further lending credence to her announcement.
And that incident became the “is it a gold/white dress or a black/navy dress?” of our time. Each side perceived the situation differently, and it was hard for me to get at the full timeline of what transpired.
I think these events are what got me off of blogging because I have been binging on the news, wondering what was going to happen next. I was expecting the potential for violence to be later on in the year, not during the first week of the year.
So, we’re off to a very bad start for 2026. But it’s an election year – the midterms.
