atomicthumbs

how about lossless JPEG XL

I don't think you got the right link for UVMC2.

Lights don't have to be aimed up into the sky to function. Crime and traffic accidents aren't higher in towns with dark-sky ordnances.

Light doesn't need to be aimed up into the sky to function. You need to spend more time in the world.

Because the fertile soil comes from the process of reaching the breakthrough. This should be fairly obvious.

i think that's just you

he's defending it because they pay his salary

>the public essentially has little interest in preventing human extinction.

yes, most people don't belong to that cult

shouldn't an entity performing science understand what it's doing

because we already have actual medication that does that in a controllable and well-characterized way

If someone didn't care enough to write it, why should anyone else care enough to read it?

Paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06433

Seems like important knowledge for anyone who enjoys terrestrial astronomy or visiting dark sky areas. Despite what we were told on TV, they can in fact take the sky from you.

you can still shoot film

They claim to have done that already, with little result. They don't care very much about this.

why do you think "lighting the world" is good in this case

is it cheaper to build a cellular tower or a satellite

You have never gone outside somewhere it's actually dark if you think this is the case. They're extremely visible after midnight.

this seems slightly delusional

do you believe everything Musk says

telling someone to read something written by a machine is disrespectful of their time. if you didn't care enough to write it, why should anyone else care enough to read it? its value is zero.

so poor people don't get to do to school?

This sort of attitude is how you get a culturally impoverished nation.

yes, they should

i don't think that has anything to do with this paper. isn't parallel tool calling just "assemble several tool calls at once"

5G NR radios could also be capable of communicating peer to peer long distance if manufacturers (phone or baseband?) wanted them to. It's in the spec.

New paper out of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. If this holds up, it seems big.

Abstract: The continued improvements in language model capability have unlocked their widespread use as drivers of autonomous agents, for example in coding or computer use applications. However, the core of these systems has not changed much since early instruction-tuned models like ChatGPT. Even advanced AI agents function on message exchange formats, successively exchanging messages with users, systems, with itself (i.e. chain-of-thought) and tools in a single stream of computation. This bottleneck to a single stream in chat models leads to a number of limitations: the agent cannot act (generate output) while reading, and in reverse, cannot react to new information while writing. Similarly, the agent cannot act while thinking and cannot think while reading or acting on information. In this work, we show that models can be unblocked by switching from instruction-tuning for sequential message formats to instruction-tuning for multiple, parallel streams of computation, splitting each role into a separate stream. Every forward pass of the language model then simultaneously reads from multiple input streams and generates tokens in multiple output streams, all of which causally depend on earlier timesteps. We argue that this data-driven change remedies a number of usability limitations as outlined above, improves model efficiency through parallelization, improves model security through better separation of concerns and can further improve model monitorability.

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not anymore lol

is it because amateur radio operators legally have standards they have to comply with?