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Working backwards from the Navier-Stokes solution, I was able to walk Astra through the path used to solve it. It took some formulation, starting with the problem, then challenging it to look closer at the specific path, and iterating when it got stuck, it was able to reach the solution.
Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board on Friday September 04, 2026 @11:23AM (#49565982)
My fable 5.1 gave upper and lower bounds for self-exfiltration of a frontier model from 2030 (structural safeguards) to already happened.
Re:GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on Monday August 17, 2026 @09:25PM (#49339979)
I'm also in Anthropic Cyber Verification Program, but they specifically exclude Fable, just goes up to Opus 5.

I hear you on the downgrades, I'm 13/13 on downgrades, and last downgraded me to Sonnet for asking for reasoning chain.

Re:Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline on Sunday March 22, 2026 @03:04PM (#47480908)
Closing on 40 acres in Panama for an eco-resort.

I was planning to build my own offline repository, but will check out this repo.

Re:When is it better to think without words? on Thursday October 23, 2025 @09:05PM (#45689530)
My wife was confounded when I told her I don't think in words. For her, it's a one to one correlation.

She had assumed that all people think in this mode. I had assumed that all people think in "thoughts" and went through a separate step to articulate them.

Made both of us aware of a difference in people.

I don't feel vibrations or sensations though, and I definitely don't think in images. I only have a thought level, and it's very independent of any external presentation.

Re:I'm quitting my PhD on Monday May 23, 2022 @11:21AM (#31480133)
PhDs really require hard justification to continue. Especially in STEM where you can do as much research via a corporate job.

Happily left with an ABD to join Microsoft in 1995.

Re:Securing a laptop for travel to China on Saturday June 17, 2017 @12:26PM (#14576517)
People commenting below are probably correct wrt border entry for the common business traveler, but might be surprised if they checked their wifi logs at how many things are hitting it maliciously.

For some companies/positions you may be targeted surreptitiously.

Spying exists. The people who granted me my expedited Russian visa inside the consulate were kicked out as spies.