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Punctuation? Not our specialty.

Excerpt from the Project Defuse document (March 2018): “we will intensively sample bats at our field șites where we have identified high spillover risk SARSr-CoVs. We will sequence their spike proteins; reverse engineer them to conduct binding assays, and insert them into bat SARSr-CoV (WIV1, SHC014) backbones (these use bat-SARSr-CoV backbones, not SARS-CoV, and are exempt from dual-use and gain of function concerns) to infect humanized mice and assess capacity to cause SARS-like disease.“

March 24, 2018: “we will intensively sample bats at our field șites where we have identified high spillover risk SARSr-CoVs. We will sequence their spike proteins; reverse engineer them to conduct binding assays, and insert them into bat SARSr-CoV (WIV1, SHC014) backbones (these use bat-SARSr-CoV backbones, not SARS-CoV, and are exempt from dual-use and gain of function concerns) to infect humanized mice and assess capacity to cause SARS-like disease.”

Post from Mark Chen for those not on X:

  Two things to distinguish:
  Did any human or agent look at user data as part of the Navier Stokes effort? No.
  Do we use user feedback and de-identified data to improve ChatGPT and Codex in a holistic way? Yes. And so does every LLM company.

The future we have all dreamed of: “An integrated 100k pixel macro lens camera powered by machine learning detects, tracks and predicts gaps between teeth in real time, triggering a precision jet burst of mouthrinse exactly where it is needed.”

Me: What's with all the Astra hype?

Astra: Do you mean Google’s Project Astra, or a different Astra?

Sorry for your loss.

Why does applied AI intentionally exclude a framework/harness around AI? The job is to harness the power of AI, and a harness is a critical part of that.

To clear up the confusion on naming: "Computer" is their cloud-hosted, multi-model harness/router. "Portable Computer" allows you to run the harness locally. You have you bring your own DGX Spark.

It's unclear why this is tied to the Spark. Shouldn't we be able to run this on any system that is capable of running local inference?

Everything is a plugin.

"this, like all other problems in Computer Science, can be solved by one more level of indirection." Roger Needham, circa ~1981

(@tomhow) Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48924912

(@dang) Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48892468

I spoke with a (potentially biased) member of technical staff @ Anthropic today who claimed that tags w/ multi-player capability is the biggest thing they've shipped since Claude Code.

This is a different issue: "We are investigating a fiber cut in Eastern North America. Customers connecting through North America or accessing services in Europe may see increased latencies and timeouts as Cloudflare engineers look to mitigate"

Sharing due to recent Fable/Mythos news. Is this the path forward for Anthropic?

Better source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48358646

No. You can get a PowerBook today with 128 GB ram.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1957120-REG/apple_mbp...

Perhaps you have a system prompt? Many users have reported similar issues: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1tjxa6g/goo...

There was no other prompt, no system prompt, etc. Many users have reproduced, exactly as it demonstrated in the parent.

Are you using the flash models? Reasoning models or extended thinking will change the result.

GPT 5.5. Instant shows the same error. If the given prompt isn't working, you can also try "300+140=460 is this correct?". I suspect that leading with the equation may be part of the issue, but haven't tested much.

Sure. I'll take the bait, but I assume I'm replying to an AI model.

Why would you use an LLM for this? My comment was about the jagged nature of intelligence, so the prompt provides an example of that.

You can see the entire conversation in the shared link. There was no pre-prompt. Even after pushing it to write python, it hallucinated the same output. It later told me that it doesn't have access to a sandbox through the web UI, but it could execute code in a sandbox if invoked via API.

And yet 300+140=460. A very jagged surface indeed. https://gemini.google.com/share/c2a187275e26

Interesting project. The examples page needs screenshots.

Tried w/ 5.5 Pro, Extended Thinking. 17 minutes:

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Yes. In fact the proposed bound is true, and the constant 1 is sharp.

Let w(a)= 1/alog(a)

I will prove that, uniformly for every primitive A⊂[x,∞), ∑w(a)≤1+O(1/log(x)) , which is stronger than the requested 1+o(1).

https://chatgpt.com/share/69ed8e24-15e8-83ea-96ac-784801e4a6...

Can I bet on this?

There’s a lot of speculation about how this was achieved, but little mention of the likely weapon system that was used: https://israel-alma.org/the-growing-air-defense-capabilities...

The SA-67 is essentially a hybrid surface-to-air missile and loitering drone that operates like an airborne mine. It’s a pretty innovative weapon: instead of relying on a fast, highly detectable rocket motor, it uses a small gas turbine and passive infrared seeker to silently loiter in a combat zone and then ambush aircraft without ever triggering their traditional radar warning receivers.

We have attacked their “legacy” air defense systems. We cannot really degrade their ability to use their anti-aircraft loitering missiles which don’t rely on radar.

https://cat-uxo.com/explosive-hazards/missiles/358-missile-S...

They mention "not malicious", but I wonder if current controls are strong enough to prevent malice if the objective is to "interpret intentions disastrously". Isn't this irresponsible?

You’re not using Claude Code?

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47247645