Meaning of "Power Level" on google colab

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Doron Gold picture Doron Gold · Apr 1, 2019 · Viewed 22.6k times · Source

When I open a new notebook on Google Colab I see a "POWER LEVEL" indicator with a battery symbol at the top. I can click it and choose three different power levels: low, medium and high.

Google Colab snapshot with Power Level

I don't remember ever seeing this before on Google Colab. I believe this is a new undocumented feature.

Does anybody know what is the effect of changing power levels?

Answer

Bob Smith picture Bob Smith · Apr 1, 2019

Power level is an April fools joke feature that adds sparks and combos to cell editing --

https://twitter.com/GoogleColab/status/1112708634905964545

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It is enabled and disabled in the notebook settings accessed via the Tools -> Settings menu item.

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