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Q&A with Pavel Durov on Telegram, his arrest, censorship, not using a phone, Romanian elections, VK, encryption, Edward Snowden, spring 2018 poisoning, and more (Lex Fridman)
https://lexfridman.com/pavel-durov-transcript

Bei dieser roten #Ampel musste ich einfach anhalten, um Fotos von ihrem #Schattenspiel zu machen.
Das dritte Bild ist in etwa die Position beim dran vorbeifahren gewesen, bei der ich entschieden habe, dass ich davon ein Foto will. Aufgenommen in

GUI-KV: Efficient GUI Agents via KV Cache with Spatio-Temporal Awareness
Kung-Hsiang Huang, Haoyi Qiu, Yutong Dai, Caiming Xiong, Chien-Sheng Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00536

GUI-KV: Efficient GUI Agents via KV Cache with Spatio-Temporal Awareness
Graphical user interface (GUI) agents built on vision-language models have emerged as a promising approach to automate human-computer workflows. However, they also face the inefficiency challenge as they process long sequences of high-resolution screenshots and solving long-horizon tasks, making inference slow, costly and memory-bound. While key-value (KV) caching can mitigate this, storing the full cache is prohibitive for image-heavy contexts. Existing cache-compression methods are sub-optima…

"Lesen ist nicht nur die Erfüllung einer Erwartung, sondern auch Protest." (Marcel Reich-Ranicki)
[via https://ub.hsu-hh.de/go/moinmoin]

the thing i appreciate about this is that id apply it to much more beyond religion, everything from career planning to transness, and it sounds better than just saying "holy shit go outside"

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Low Hums:
🎵 Ghost Babe
#LowHums
https://lowhums.bandcamp.com/track/ghost-babe
https://open.spotify.com/track/3kiQa1syUznMIqiBPOLQy7

Just to hammer this home a bit more, I knew a guy who joined the army. I met him after he went AWOL. When he went into the recruiter's office, they asked him if he had any open warrants out for his arrest because they couldn't recruit anyone with a criminal record. He said he did, then they said, "oh, actually, we can help you with all that, don't get caught before we ship you out."
He was just trying to keep himself out of jail. That's not supposed to happen, but it does. IIRC it was on a drug charge, which, also, they're not supposed to take anyone who tests positive for weed... but they also just tell you how to prepare for a drug test.
Another friend joined because she wanted to be part Army Corps of Engineers. A good chunk of the folks I went to school with joined the military after graduation because the other choices were working at the saw mill or working at the canary. If you join the military, you get to go to college. (Or you get to stay out of jail... as long as you don't go AWOL.)

Rethinking Thinking Tokens: LLMs as Improvement Operators
Lovish Madaan, Aniket Didolkar, Suchin Gururangan, John Quan, Ruan Silva, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Manzil Zaheer, Sanjeev Arora, Anirudh Goyal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01123

Rethinking Thinking Tokens: LLMs as Improvement Operators
Reasoning training incentivizes LLMs to produce long chains of thought (long CoT), which among other things, allows them to explore solution strategies with self-checking. This results in higher accuracy, but inflates context length, token/compute cost, and answer latency. We ask: Can current models leverage their metacognition to provide other combinations on this Pareto frontier, e.g., better accuracy with lower context length and/or latency? Abstractly, we view the model as an improvement op…

Streaming some Guild Wars 2 from my Linux PC tonight! Time to dive back into Tyria. Come hang out! #GuildWars2 #GW2 #LinuxGaming

Understanding the Long-term Rotational Evolution of Asteroids with Gaia: #Gaia Solves Mystery of Tumbling #Asteroids and Finds a New Way to Probe Their Interiors: #EPSC