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Comment intergalactic medium (Score 3, Informative) 53

Aside from this direct observation there's another source of evidence for a lot of matter outside of galaxies.

"The analysis revealed a striking picture: roughly 76% of the universe’s ordinary matter is spread thin in the IGM."
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencenewstoday.o...

Submission + - How we built our multi-agent research system (anthropic.com)

ZipNada writes: The essence of search is compression: distilling insights from a vast corpus. Subagents facilitate compression by operating in parallel with their own context windows, exploring different aspects of the question simultaneously before condensing the most important tokens for the lead research agent. Each subagent also provides separation of concerns—distinct tools, prompts, and exploration trajectories—which reduces path dependency and enables thorough, independent investigations. ...
these architectures burn through tokens fast. In our data, agents typically use about 4× more tokens than chat interactions, and multi-agent systems use about 15× more tokens than chats. For economic viability, multi-agent systems require tasks where the value of the task is high enough to pay for the increased performance. Further, some domains that require all agents to share the same context or involve many dependencies between agents are not a good fit for multi-agent systems today. For instance, most coding tasks involve fewer truly parallelizable tasks than research, and LLM agents are not yet great at coordinating and delegating to other agents in real time. We’ve found that multi-agent systems excel at valuable tasks that involve heavy parallelization, information that exceeds single context windows, and interfacing with numerous complex tools.

Comment dirty refineries (Score 3, Interesting) 52

Oil refineries are wasteful and dirty. You can see mile after mile of them in places on the Texas coast. They crack the oil with heat and pressure and draw off the distillates, anything not wanted gets flared off into the atmosphere. If these guys have a process that distills oil more efficiently and with less pollution more power to them.

Meanwhile we need to get off of oil, and fast.

Comment locked in (Score 5, Informative) 148

Sadly, a considerable amount of additional warming is already locked in.

"If the large-scale carbon dioxide removal needed to reach net-zero emissions is unfeasible and instead, the remaining hard-to-mitigate emissions approximately balance natural sinks, atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations will remain constant. Such fixed GHG levels will result in continued warming until the climate system reaches a state of radiative balance, which we call “committed warming.”
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fagupubs.onlinelibrary....

Comment the reserves (Score 1) 59

According to the article they have have joined the Army Reserve, not the regular army and "will serve for about 120 hours a year". I'm not familiar with the structure of the Reserve or the obligations, or if this gives them any authority to order soldiers around. But it may give the Army the right to order THEM around seeing as how they now report to some senior officers. And they might could be called up to serve in some military capacity.

I'm curious to know if their contract is for 8 years or some lesser interval. And will they "perform training and service one weekend per month, currently referred to as Battle Assembly, and for two continuous weeks at a time during the year referred to as Annual Training (AT)".
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Comment Re:But more from cold. (Score 0) 66

Interesting website but the evidence is weak, and the definition is very broad.

'due to “moderate” rather than extremely cold conditions'
'an earlier death than would have occurred if the temperatures were “optimal”.'
'most temperature-related deaths reduced lifespans for at least one year'

Meanwhile the Swiss Re report states that "up to half a million people globally die from extreme heat effects each year".

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