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If I, as a regular Google user ask in the search "is this search powered by Gemini?", the AI generated result is in the affirmative.

"Yes, this search is powered by a customized version of the Gemini model for its generative AI features."

Based on that, I'm not sure how it is reasonable to claim that Gemini App has a legal term that is exclusive of its use in search.

Amusingly, it refuses to answer if i ask "is this search powered by Gemini app?"


What? The paper clearly says "This section presents the environmental impact metrics for the Gemini Apps AI assistant". You are going through lots of hoops instead of just reading the paper.


As someone who lives on grid, but barely... in that I lose power many times per year and have had week+ outage's.

I believe you are mostly right with the addition of * shift power consumption to summer months. * wood heat in the winter and electric air conditioning in the summer. * electric-expensive hobbies in the summer (e.g. welding) * with low winter consumption, multi day battery operation becomes feasible * small dual fuel generator and a propane tank to recharge the battery bank in emergencies and extended outages with little solar production


Linear typed are "use exactly once". In this case you consume "file" when you pass it into writeString and then it is (compile time) unavailable to be used with g, afterwards.


around 2010, we (Zynga at the time) used torrent to distribute the MafiaWars code/assets to all servers in a couple of data centers. Worked without much challenge.


I've found the best layman's grounding for Category theory's relationship to axioms to be in Bartosz's post here:

https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-axioms-for-category-theo...


That's a nice post, and it actually reinforces my thoughts: You already need a foundational theory before coming to category theory.


Well... then set theory with core logic still THE foundation then.


"the main story was Satan's rebellion against God"

so Satan rebelling against being enslaved?


More like the rebellion of a subject against their king, which isn't quite the same as slavery used in TFA (which is mainly the slavery of the blacks under the whites).


It generally means model running in parallel with the actual system. It is not just about being able to store data, but about being able to mirror (and sometimes predict/replicate) exactly what that system is doing.

In current software parlance, this is often used in stupidly trivial ways, but digital twins have a long and important history and function

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_twin


There's a huge difference between modeling only the stimulus/response, and modeling the full interior and exterior dynamics. "Digital twin" only refers to the latter.

I wholeheartedly agree that it's a safe bet that very very few digital twin projects achieve anything close to what they propose. More typically it is a flashy label to stun management. I actually worked on digital twins -- I came into ML via physics -- and once you start digging, you find the rabbit hole is deep enough that absent massive government grants or angel corporate investors you will never get anywhere close to what could be a called a digital twin.


To use this terminology on biological systems seems more like a very lofty goal than anything realizable with current technology.

Not that there's any issue with lofty goals.


The article is long, but from TFA

The court ruled that the museum’s revenue, business model, and supposed threats from competition and counterfeiting are irrelevant to the public’s right to access its scans, a dramatic rejection of the museum’s position...


Rust is not (much?) further from the hardware than C++


C++ is further than rust in my opinion. Vtables that support inheritance, as well as stack unwinding for exceptions, are pretty complicated and totally implicit in C++. Okay rust also technically has unwinding for panics to be fair but it’s rather unusual in practice for programmers to use panics to mean anything other than “crash the program now”.


Like trait implementations, and trait objects.


That’s fair, trait objects do cause a table to be generated, but they don’t support inheritance and subjectively I think they’re used less often than the OOP features of c++ that lead to vtable-based dynamic dispatch. (Traits are extremely common in rust, but dyn trait objects somewhat less so)


Doesn't matter how common, the feature is there, and although we aren't yet that far, might even differ across implementations.

Also trait inheritance exists, enforced via trait bounds, what Rust doesn't support is class inheritance.


> Doesn't matter how common

Yes it does, if your concern is “how often do I encounter code where I can’t predict or control what it actually does on the hardware”.


Any time there is a compiler implementation that has to provide support for translating such features into machine code.


Why the disbelief? You are literally describing the process of species extinction due to failure to adapt. This should not be a new concept.


If not nature.... where do you get diversity from?

It seems such hybris to believe that mere humans have a better handle on what 'nature' needs, than, er, nature.

The embedded idea is both guilt-ridden and egotistic. Amazing destructive humans are harming 'nature' (antropomorphised) but other, good humans are here to redress the balance by doing this or that. At which point, whatever is there is no longer 'nature' but some sort of themed garden.


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