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Fable burned my limits and therefore unused it only once. What is your experience with it vs Opus 5, and Opus 4.6?

Very good question. One thing the article mentions is the vast number of attempts and threads of execution was in the tens of thousands, many of them that didn't succeed, with only…

We should be thankful that the model didn't believe the answers lived in the Pentagon, on SIPRNET, the IDF, etc.

Mediterranean diet - tough to do in the age of cyclosporiasis.

What comprises “assistance?” Getting Claude Code to find bugs, suggest a fix, but a human actually editing the source files and testing the result - is that assistance? Perhaps thi…

Could use an Opal or Pyrite drive connected to a USB caddy and sedutil-cli to manage it.

The article just sort of stops. Was the ram upgrade helpful? How was the mouse - was it choppy like in Windows XP as discussed at the top of the article? (And whatever happened to …

TL;DR: the one entry implemented a subleq machine. Google it - it’s a One Instruction Set Computer (OISC). This made me smile. But it also raised a question: when were OISC’s first…

Go ahead and cut a notch out of my expertise card, but in all my years playing with UNIX, I’ve never used that directory.

Interesting - but at what point could “n version programming” step in? I speak of using alternative models as verifiers.

Backyard (fault) tree mechanic FTW!

I’m attempting to learn to use a slide rule. It’s quite a history lesson - we take for granted the large precision we get on calculators. But the learning is taking repeated visits…

It must have been the Mule, something even Hari Seldon could not foresee.

Until recently, it was always cheaper to forego software architecture optimizations and rely on faster hardware, but now with AI I think this changes that calculus.

Same. Hit some bug, tried different distro. Soon after adopted a “live off the land” philosophy, adapting to whatever desktop was default on the chosen distro.

I’m kinda new to this - so what you’re saying is the mouse model induces beta-amyliods directly, rather than finding ways to give mice Alzheimer’s, whereas the human tests are for …

Unless, in turn, you locate the index itself in pi at a much smaller index. And so on... Find k candidate indices for your data, then locate each of them. If the smallest one is a …

In the same vein - the Roswell Museum and Research Center - the library portion is underrepresented in its ads. It is a library about the size of an elementary / middle school libr…

It depends on what vintage of Blackboard your IT team has installed. We moved from a circa 2011 BB instance to Canvas in 2022, and it was hands down superior. A different universit…

LLM’s: sometimes wrong but never in doubt.

Or, the first time a mistake is detected, a correction is automatically applied.

Okay, but what are the cybersecurity implications of this discovery? A new living-off-the-land approach? Resource exhaustion? Covert servers?