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maxall4

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About maxall4

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    I agree that purchases on e-commerce sites are virtually never this fast; but I have used some extremely fast physical payment terminals (e.g., Square): sometimes it seems like the…

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    Comment #49103413

    Likewise, I have started doing Project Euler problems for fun, and to further my mathematics education.

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    Comment #49028853

    I'm honestly quite shocked that the physicians/scientists involved would choose to use an AAV for a brain-targeted gene therapy. There is just so much data demonstrating that these…

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    Comment #49001266

    I very much enjoyed Grok 4.5's rendition of the Mona Lisa as Elon Musk with tentacles.

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    Comment #48709065

    Especially an MRI which is a 3D medium —something current LLMs are very bad at.

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    Comment #48666267

    Or, alternatively, it may suggest that the NSA’s classified systems are not very secure, which seems at least as possible: they may rely on requiring physical access to these syste…

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    Comment #48663735

    It doesn’t seem like it? Unless I am misunderstanding these Nasdaq insider trading reports: https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/cbrs/insider-a...

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    Comment #48572596

    This is rather reminiscent of the Bogdanov affair: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanov_affair

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    Comment #48511128

    > We have reviewed the report and validated that the level of capability displayed there is widely available from other models (including OpenAI’s GPT-5.5), and is used every day b…

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    Comment #48497084

    Indeed, according to METR, Mythos only achieved an 80% success rate with 3 hour tasks. https://metr.org/time-horizons/

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    Comment #48468788

    I’m very aware of this as well.

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    Comment #48468561

    As someone who works in bioinformatics, and, as such, does a great deal of machine learning, this makes Fable unusable for me as well.

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    Comment #48468490

    These safeguards are ridiculously sensitive: a prompt as simple as “ Why is an infinitely slow process reversible?” gets flagged as a ToS violation.

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    Comment #48430419

    “The strait of Hormuz is open so long as Iran does not fire missiles at ships.”

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