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Three space probes are leaving our solar system — yet are still functioning. After the two Voyager space probes, New Horizons "was launched in 2006, initially to study Pluto," remembers New Scientist. But "it has since travelled way beyond this point, ploughing on through the Kuiper belt, a vast, wide band of rocks and dust billions of miles from the sun. It is now speeding at tens of thousands of kilometres per hour..."
And it's just performed the first ever example of interstellar navigation...
As it hurtles out of our solar system, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is so far from Earth that the stars in the Milky Way appear in markedly different positions compared with our own view... due to the parallax effect. This was demonstrated in 2020 when the probe beamed back pictures of two nearby stars, Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359, to Earth.
Now, Tod Lauer at the US National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory in Arizona and his colleagues have used this effect to work out the position of New Horizons... Almost all spacecraft calculate their bearings to within tens of metres using NASA's Deep Space Network, a collection of radio transmitters on Earth that send regular signals out to space. In comparison, the parallax method was far less accurate, locating New Horizons within a sphere with a radius of 60 million kilometres, about half the distance between Earth and the sun. "We're not going to put the Deep Space Network out of business — this is only a demo proof of concept," says Lauer. However, with a better camera and equipment they could improve the accuracy by up to 100 times, he says.
Using this technique for interstellar navigation could offer advantages over the DSN because it could give more accurate location readings as a spacecraft gets further away from Earth, as well as being able to operate autonomously without needing to wait for a radio signal to come from our solar system, says Massimiliano Vasile at the University of Strathclyde, UK. "If you travel to an actual star, we are talking about light years," says Vasile. "What happens is that your signal from the Deep Space Network has to travel all the way there and then all the way back, and it's travelling at the speed of light, so it takes years."
Just like a ship's captain sailing by the stars, "We have a good enough three-dimensional map of the galaxy around us that you can find out where you are," Lauer says.
So even when limiting your navigation to what's on-board the spacecraft, "It's a remarkable accuracy, with your own camera!"
And it's just performed the first ever example of interstellar navigation...
As it hurtles out of our solar system, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is so far from Earth that the stars in the Milky Way appear in markedly different positions compared with our own view... due to the parallax effect. This was demonstrated in 2020 when the probe beamed back pictures of two nearby stars, Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359, to Earth.
Now, Tod Lauer at the US National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory in Arizona and his colleagues have used this effect to work out the position of New Horizons... Almost all spacecraft calculate their bearings to within tens of metres using NASA's Deep Space Network, a collection of radio transmitters on Earth that send regular signals out to space. In comparison, the parallax method was far less accurate, locating New Horizons within a sphere with a radius of 60 million kilometres, about half the distance between Earth and the sun. "We're not going to put the Deep Space Network out of business — this is only a demo proof of concept," says Lauer. However, with a better camera and equipment they could improve the accuracy by up to 100 times, he says.
Using this technique for interstellar navigation could offer advantages over the DSN because it could give more accurate location readings as a spacecraft gets further away from Earth, as well as being able to operate autonomously without needing to wait for a radio signal to come from our solar system, says Massimiliano Vasile at the University of Strathclyde, UK. "If you travel to an actual star, we are talking about light years," says Vasile. "What happens is that your signal from the Deep Space Network has to travel all the way there and then all the way back, and it's travelling at the speed of light, so it takes years."
Just like a ship's captain sailing by the stars, "We have a good enough three-dimensional map of the galaxy around us that you can find out where you are," Lauer says.
So even when limiting your navigation to what's on-board the spacecraft, "It's a remarkable accuracy, with your own camera!"
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A Maine police department has now acknowledged "it inadvertently shared an AI-altered photo of drug evidence on social media," reports Boston.com:
The image from the Westbrook Police Department showed a collection of drug paraphernalia purportedly seized during a recent drug bust on Brackett Street, including a scale and white powder in plastic bags. According to Westbrook police, an officer involved in the arrests snapped the evidence photo and used a photo editing app to insert the department's patch. "The patch was added, and the photograph with the patch was sent to one of our Facebook administrators, who posted it," the department explained in a post. "Unbeknownst to anyone, when the app added the patch, it altered the packaging and some of the other attributes on the photograph. None of us caught it or realized it."
It wasn't long before the edited image's gibberish text and hazy edges drew criticism from social media users. According to the Portland Press Herald, Westbrook police initially denied AI had been used to generate the photo before eventually confirming its use of the AI chatbot ChatGPT. The department issued a public apology Tuesday, sharing a side-by-side comparison of the original and edited images.
"It was never our intent to alter the image of the evidence," the department's post read. "We never realized that using a photoshop app to add our logo would alter a photograph so substantially."
The image from the Westbrook Police Department showed a collection of drug paraphernalia purportedly seized during a recent drug bust on Brackett Street, including a scale and white powder in plastic bags. According to Westbrook police, an officer involved in the arrests snapped the evidence photo and used a photo editing app to insert the department's patch. "The patch was added, and the photograph with the patch was sent to one of our Facebook administrators, who posted it," the department explained in a post. "Unbeknownst to anyone, when the app added the patch, it altered the packaging and some of the other attributes on the photograph. None of us caught it or realized it."
It wasn't long before the edited image's gibberish text and hazy edges drew criticism from social media users. According to the Portland Press Herald, Westbrook police initially denied AI had been used to generate the photo before eventually confirming its use of the AI chatbot ChatGPT. The department issued a public apology Tuesday, sharing a side-by-side comparison of the original and edited images.
"It was never our intent to alter the image of the evidence," the department's post read. "We never realized that using a photoshop app to add our logo would alter a photograph so substantially."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Leuk nieuws voor Tibetaans boeddhisten en daarnaast alle vijftigplusvrouwen die zich ook best wel een beetje verbonden voelen met het boeddhisme omdat ze regelmatig een kwartiertje mediteren nadat ze iets te hard hebben staan tietzwiepen bij een festival met klankschalen en atonale oegaboegamuziek. De Dalai Lama is JARIG. Specifiek de veertiende Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, die vandaag 90 is geworden. Tja. Het is een 'heilige' figuur waarvoor overal ter wereld de rode loper wordt uitgerold, inclusief in onze Tweede Kamer, en vaak geheel onterecht de kwalificatie inspireeeerend toegedicht krijgt. Vandaag nog kreeg hij voor zijn verjaardag een knuffel van Richard Gere, blijkbaar een toegewijd Tibetaans boeddhist. Wij snappen het allemaal niet zo. Die Dalai zal ongetwijfeld een leven lang met zijn neus in de Tibetaans-Boeddhistische boeken hebben gezeten, maar je hoeft niet heel lang zonder roze Xenos-boeddhabeeldjes-bril op naar de man te luisteren om te zien dat het best wel een twat is. De Dalai Lama spreekt het liefst in lege algemeenheden en lacht na elke zin om zijn eigen uitspraken. Dat lachen wordt nog eens extra aangedikt zodra er naar de door hem gesteunde onderdrukking van de Shugden-boeddhisten wordt gevraagd. Per slot van rekening vroeg hij ook nog aan een klein jongetje om aan zijn tong te zuigen, dat vinden wij dus: raar gedrag. Ach ja, 90 jaar dus. Ook hijzelf kan er niet meer omheen dat zijn dood reïncarnatie dichterbij komt. Dat wordt dus nogal een dingetje. Zoals bij alles wat de Tibetanen aangaat, is CHINA namelijk van mening dat zij er een zegje in hebben wie de volgende Dalai Lama wordt. De kans is dan ook groot dat Tibetaanse leiders in ballingschap een opvolger gaan aanwijzen terwijl de Chinezen op hun beurt een ander kronen tot leider van Tibet en het Tibetaans boeddhisme. Wordt wel ingewikkeld, zo. Dan moet Erica Terpstra ineens kiezen van welke van de twee your holinesses ze het meest hitsig wordt. Wij in ieder geval van geen van beide. Hooguit van Erica Terpstra.
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Hundreds of monkeys can now safely cross roads in Alta Floresta, a city in the southern Brazilian Amazon. Seven canopy bridges have reconnected rainforest fragments that were separated by urban roads.
Before the bridges, local firefighters reported an average of one primate collision a day within the city's perimeter. The black-capped capuchin (Sapajus apella) was the first to use the bridge, crossing just days after installation. In the weeks and months that followed, several rare species also began using the bridge, including the endangered Schneider's marmoset (Mico schneideri), black spider monkey (Ateles chamek) and the critically endangered Alta Floresta titi monkey (Plecturocebus grovesi). "It was incredible," road ecologist Fernanda Abra, founder of the Reconecta Project and a postdoctoral researcher at the Smithsonian, told Mongabay in a phone interview. "When we saw the animals exploring the bridges just two, three days after installation, it was the best result we could have hoped for." ... The project in Alta Floresta was driven by locals who were troubled by the high number of primate road deaths and set up a group to share images and news about collisions. They raised their concerns with authorities and local organizations, who reached out to Abra's project. In one of the city's main squares, Parque das Capivaras, a billboard now tallies the number of safe crossings by the monkeys, which Abra said helps engage the local community with the conservation effort. They also installed road signs signalling the presence of monkeys to raise awareness for drivers. "The whole city is really content because they were very aware of the problem," Abra added. For more, a trio of videos: Beautiful forest footage as David Attenborough presents Fernanda Abra with the 2024 Whitley Award for leadership in community-driven conservation Abra's award speech: "Combining scientific knowledge with Indigenous knowledge" in partnership with the Waimiri-Atroari community Nature PBS profiles the Reconecta Project
Before the bridges, local firefighters reported an average of one primate collision a day within the city's perimeter. The black-capped capuchin (Sapajus apella) was the first to use the bridge, crossing just days after installation. In the weeks and months that followed, several rare species also began using the bridge, including the endangered Schneider's marmoset (Mico schneideri), black spider monkey (Ateles chamek) and the critically endangered Alta Floresta titi monkey (Plecturocebus grovesi). "It was incredible," road ecologist Fernanda Abra, founder of the Reconecta Project and a postdoctoral researcher at the Smithsonian, told Mongabay in a phone interview. "When we saw the animals exploring the bridges just two, three days after installation, it was the best result we could have hoped for." ... The project in Alta Floresta was driven by locals who were troubled by the high number of primate road deaths and set up a group to share images and news about collisions. They raised their concerns with authorities and local organizations, who reached out to Abra's project. In one of the city's main squares, Parque das Capivaras, a billboard now tallies the number of safe crossings by the monkeys, which Abra said helps engage the local community with the conservation effort. They also installed road signs signalling the presence of monkeys to raise awareness for drivers. "The whole city is really content because they were very aware of the problem," Abra added. For more, a trio of videos: Beautiful forest footage as David Attenborough presents Fernanda Abra with the 2024 Whitley Award for leadership in community-driven conservation Abra's award speech: "Combining scientific knowledge with Indigenous knowledge" in partnership with the Waimiri-Atroari community Nature PBS profiles the Reconecta Project
"Our results show that LLMs are highly competitive, consistently surviving and sometimes even proliferating in these complex ecosystems. Furthermore, they exhibit distinctive and persistent "strategic fingerprints": Google's Gemini models proved strategically ruthless, exploiting cooperative opponents and retaliating against defectors, while OpenAI's models remained highly cooperative, a trait that proved catastrophic in hostile environments. Anthropic's Claude emerged as the most forgiving reciprocator, showing remarkable willingness to restore cooperation even after being exploited or successfully defecting."
Daniel Poon 2012 has added a photo to the pool:
Fushimi Inari-taisha (伏見稲荷大社) is the head shrine of the kami Inari, located in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. The shrine sits at the base of a mountain also named Inari which is 233 metres (764 ft) above sea level, and includes trails up the mountain to many smaller shrines which span 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) and take approximately 2 hours to walk up. 伏見稻荷大社（日語：伏見稲荷大社／ふしみいなりたいしゃ Fushimi-Inari Taisha）是一座位於日本京都市伏見區內的神社，是遍及日本全國各地約三萬所[1]的稻荷神社之總本社，也是近畿地方初詣參拜者最多的社寺（2010年日本國內第4位）[2]。以境內所擁有的「千本鳥居」聞名。