Readit NewsDoes it also follow that black holes in our universe contain universes internally, beyond their event horizons?! Seems like it should. Mind-blowing.
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The worst case scenario for preservationists is for games to become a streaming service via cloud gaming, which publishers may like since it pretty much prevents piracy and allows them to charge a monthly fee rather than a one time license fee. For movies and music streaming exclusives aren't a new thing and improvements in network latency and bandwidth are making game streaming more and more viable.
While they offer digital downloads on the eShop, their pricing actively discourages it.
Case in point: I just bought my kid a new first-party Switch game. Physical copy on Amazon was ~25% cheaper than the identical digital version on Nintendo's own eShop. Even my 9-year-old noted how illogical it seems, the physical version requires manufacturing, shipping, retail markup, yet costs significantly less than the digital bits that have near-zero marginal cost.
It strongly suggests Nintendo wants the physical retail channel to thrive, or values the perceived permanence/resale value of cartridges.
This context makes the Switch 2 "gamekey" cartridges (physical auth token, digital download) fit their pattern of valuing a physical artifact and retail presence, even if the data delivery shifts.
For example, it may start like this "This is a way to solv-", or "This is th-"
One beam could be "This is a way to solv-". With no obvious "good" next token. Another beam could be "This way is solv-". With "ing" as the obvious next token.
It will select the best beam for the output.
The Wikipedia article goes on to discuss interesting aspects of how the book was translated in different languages, with different self-imposed constraints.
That said, I think the most impressive achievement is the English translation of the French novel. Writing an original constrained novel is hard enough, but translating one means you can’t just steer the story wherever you like. You have to preserve the plot, tone, and themes of the original, all while respecting a completely different set of linguistic limitations. That’s a remarkable balancing act.
What I will add is that constrained generation is supported by the major inference engine like llama.cpp, vllm and the likes, so what you are describing is actually trivial on locally hosted models, you just have to provide a regex that prevent them to use the letter 'e' in the output.
Had that been a fee kilometers closer to the surface, there would not have been much left of the area. That was roughly 200 Tsar Bombas.
> People are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses; the average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours, about what an oven would use in a little over one second, or a high-efficiency lightbulb would use in a couple of minutes. It also uses about 0.000085 gallons of water; roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon.
https://blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-singularity