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One reason might be that Claude Opus 4.7 thinking benchmarks better on Arena Coding at https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text/coding ... hopefully that effectively assesses correctness.…

1990 to 1999, that would be exactly the development timeline of Celerity BBS. Just looking at the revision history of Celerity 2.04 on Discmaster, wow, that went forever! https://d…

Interview with the Smithsonian researchers here https://zonamotel.substack.com/p/interview-kryptos-k4-uncove...

A cryptography angle in the article. Would this be illegal in the US under DMCA? One of the biggest compatibility challenges, Vallette said, was finding a way to work with Bosch's …

Also, another example of an "unreasonable" challenge - the "Decipher Puzzle" https://cisa.umbc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/468/2017/09/S... -- from 1983 to 1985. You would think t…

Here's what's up for sale from RR Auction https://www.rrauction.com/jim-sanborn-kryptos-k4-solution-au... The Wired piece has Sanborn saying the reserve should be "around $300,000.…

Good point, and it's also entirely possible the code designer just did a terrible job. e.g. around 57:00 of https://youtu.be/JOXPYkjvDaA As Kryptos gots a huge amount of media atte…

I'm inclining to this too. I heard about it first on Usenet in the 90s, and started looking at it again seriously in June 2017 when I came across the Bauer paper. But after the 202…

I'm rather skeptical of this claim that the data was compressed in 2018 because there is no further information, apart from a hash value given. If it's a true claim they must have …

It's certainly perceived that way. "Diff'rent Strokes" "Baseball Blues", 1985... Willis does mention stereo is part of the appeal. - Now, Dad, you gotta picture me cruising along i…

Yeah, call me snobby or OCD but I lost confidence in the authors and reviewers when I saw that slipped through. Then I started wondering if this is going to become the new anti-AI …

Section header: "Who's data is it?" Couldn't they have had an LLM proof-read they're paper?

What a coincidence, I pulled out my S1500M (vintage 2010-10) to do some scanning a few weeks ago (after several years) and found the rubber rollers had melted and become like super…

No - https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/twitter (Nobody even posted "Concerning" yet)

Here's the 2023 paper - https://ecp.ep.liu.se/index.php/histocrypt/article/view/691/... And the 2022 paper on cryptanalysis, the other side of the coin - https://ecp.ep.liu.se/inde…