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Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

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Re: Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

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> Historically, many of these problems were bottlenecked by human attention. Someone had to care enough to spend hours or days reading obscure material, testing unpromising ideas, tracing references, and trying things that might go nowhere I wonder how many of the recent results are due to the fact that very few looked at the problem to start with. Still great results, but the general impression is that it's more abo…

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Re: Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

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Anytime I get worried about where AI might be headed, I think about how Climate Change is now on its way like an out of control freight train headed straight for us, and I worry about AI a little less. I doubt it's going to do anything to us that we're not already doing to ourselves

Here's an alternative take. Climate change, and the myriad related environmental crises, are essentially a product of human population and technology. Population will follow its course, up and then down. The wildcard is technology. Yes, AI's energy hunger is worsening things right now and that's a problem. But, personally, I can't help be hopeful that AI's sheer potential might come to invert that curve. At the very…

AI is the new god. People have started to believe that AI, when it finally arrives in its full glory, will bring some kind of salvation to humanity.

Re: Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

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Sometimes when I get frustrated reading Opus/Fable 5+ output I pause my rage out briefly to wonder if it's because I'm just too dumb for the model or if the model is just terrible at English. I'm not sure that telling it to "try explaining that again, simply and briefly" is helping my ego.

It's often simply misleading / bad writing. Here's one I just got about some crashes: "If the crashes stop, the factory overclock is marginal; run a small negative offset." This looks like it's saying: "If the crashes stop then we know the factory overclock is marginal." (This makes no sense.) What it's trying to say is: "If the crashes stop then we can run a small negative offset, because the factory overlock is mar…

Marginal - definition 2a: of, relating to, or situated at a margin or border.

Succinct and precise; a well crafted sentence. A marginal OC results in unpredictable crashes and can be corrected with a small offset; marginality describes the behavior and explains the solution.

Inscrutable clues casually conveyed can now be readily explained, at least, unlike the training data of [silence]. Brevity is the soul of wit, but perhaps also exasperated confusion.

Re: Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

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Astra told me yesterday: > The run baseline was captured without a physical MAC; the current device is not durably bound to it. > Engineering mode confirmation is the ESPHome component read-back; the LD2410 UART acknowledgement is not observed, so this is not proof the radar itself applied the sensitivity change. No clue what the fuck any of it means.

Its telling you your mmWave radar isn't speaking over serial communication well. https://www.analog.com/en/resources/analog-dialogue/articles... (Its negging your soldering)

I long for the day when AI will just say that directly: "your soldering sucks man" instead of the bizarre made up and jargon packed language they use now.

Re: Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

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So, does anyone have any intuition for how concerned we should be that one of leading foundation models will be able to successfully attack the gold standard symmetric and public key encryption algorithms (AES, ChaCha, ECDH, Kyber, etc.) in the next few years? As a consumer of crypto that doesn’t understand the mathematics deeply, I’m getting kind of nervous that we’re going to wake up one day to find that the backbo…

The entire point of having multiple ciphers is that some will break.

Did the world end with any previous one breaking?

It’s incredible and awesome if AES GCM has a flaw found with an AI now, Chacha20 could be a direct or nearly-direct replacement.

The sooner a cipher breaks, the better.

Re: Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

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I literally created a /plain-language skill.

in which one!

Not the original commenter, but I did this in all of them.

Their skills formats are basically identical, so I setup simlinks from their own skills directories into a shared one so Claude, Codex, Cursor, and anything else that comes out will all read and write to the same shared skills.

It's great having access to the same skills no matter the harness being used

Re: Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

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Wouldn't candidates use AI, like they used social media ads, to win?

They already do. Llm is just an algorithm. Dont worry, you've been lied to algorithmically at least since the 90's.

Before that it was all artisanal lying.

Re: Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

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Its telling you your mmWave radar isn't speaking over serial communication well. https://www.analog.com/en/resources/analog-dialogue/articles... (Its negging your soldering)

I long for the day when AI will just say that directly: "your soldering sucks man" instead of the bizarre made up and jargon packed language they use now.

You can always update your claude.md!
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