You understand that any water used is not destroyed, right?

It is actually consumed water.

"Last" or "latest"? Those are rather different.

hehe... fwiw, the un-editorialized title is "Using the *latest" Gemini models"

I speculate OP wanted to put focus on their chosen detail in the title...

Indeed, the focus was on this section but it is direct link to the relevant paragraph.

For the "last/latest", it is the result of trying to trim the title enough to enter in the size limited title box and then I didn't notice the typo.

At first I wanted to put the 3.5/3.6 model number because "latest" is not clear and time dependant but it was too long then.

The OP does not appear to be a native English speaker. And, for example, languages like Spanish don't clearly differentiate between "last" and "latest".

I am not a Spanish speaker, but Portuguese is usually similar. In it we say "último" for last, and "mais recente" for latest, so while there isn't a single word translating, we still have its equivalent. I imagine it's the same for Spanish.

In Spanish, "último" is ambiguous, and can mean either last or most recent.

Funnily, in Galician there is a distinction between "último" (most recent) and "derradeiro" (final). I would have guessed that it would be the same in Portuguese, given how closely related the two languages are.

Why would you put the years in hex, except to obscure? The tracingwoodgrains report is compelling, people should listen to it.

Just for pure whimsy and it's hacker news and the year is close to 0x800 so I wanted to see if I could count backwards in hex in my head.

The first half of tracing woodgrains was on-point. The 2nd half diverged into half-truth. They had a chance in court to provide evidence and couldn't. The case was dismissed. Those looking to score points against DEIA based on this case have to take the L gracefully.

There is the Republic of Ireland, not in UK, and Northern Ireland, in UK.

And Apple's "haven" is in Republic of Ireland, so no, not UK.

fyi, if you see Ireland or Irish mentioned it nearly always refers to the Republic of Ireland.

Following up on Boaz Barak's comment quoted in this article, my best local model did get the answer to the kiwi problem correct when I changed the system prompt from "You are my helpful AI assistant." to "This is a math exam."

For me the dealbreaker on Graphene was inability to record my phone conversations. I went back to Lineage.

GrapheneOS can record phone calls just fine, there is a record button in the dialer.

I can confirm this, and will add: on my Pixel 6 running GrapheneOS, I have to scroll down the "6 pack" of buttons on the in-call screen to reveal the record call button. There is no UI hint that these buttons are within a scrollable element, so discoverability is poor.

Vision language models are blind because they lack the Cartesian Theater, which you and I have. Which you and I say we have.

May as well argue that they can’t really know things because they lack an immortal soul.

Does the part of you that 'looks at' your cartesian theatre also have a cartesian theatre?

[citation needed]

Also, fraud.

Here are audio recordings from actual conversations I had with scammers trying to pull a "family member in distress" scam:

http://main.interstice.com:8090/?p=49

No HTTPS? Hmm, it's been awhile on that.

A true control seems impossible for any "breathwork" study; anyone doing regimented breathing knows that they are doing something. And placebos work, whether you believe in them or not (say the studies ...)

If you can't show that a specific breathing exercise is somehow better than an essentially random breathing exercise, then it doesn't matter what kind of breathing exercises you do.

If you can't show that a breathing exercise is better than e.g. same time spent on stretching, then there's not much point in doing (separate) breathing exercises at all.