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The classifiers Anthropic puts in front of Fable are too zealous

Posted by karrot-kake on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @04:41PM
from the combine-lab.github.io dept.

https://combine-lab.github.io/blog/2026/07/07/fable-is-not-a-useful-model.html

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Re:Mozilla Thunderbolt on Thursday April 16, 2026 @11:54AM (#47795218)

I agree that Mozilla is a breath of fresh air, and I am happy to see this extending to AI.

Re:Delicious Foods Linked to Alzheimer's Disease on Monday February 05, 2024 @12:14PM (#39263642)

Agreed. IMO it is wrong to group having a steak with having a slice of pizza.

Re:FreeRDP: A Remote Desktop Protocol Implementation on Thursday September 28, 2023 @12:19PM (#37691825)

Thanks for the suggestion. What do you use it for? Is it good for coding? Reading emails? I am in a position where I have to do student work from two computers and I would love to host this on my server and always work using it.

Re:Genomic inference of a severe human bottleneck during the Early to ... on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @12:45PM (#37394413)

This paper is under strong discussion, but it argues that humanity had a period (between around 930,000 and 813,000 years ago) where we had a severe population bottleneck with about 1280 breeding individuals.

Genomic inference of a severe human bottleneck during the Early to Middle [ ]

Posted by karrot-kake on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @12:45PM
from the science.org dept.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq7487

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Re:Why Intervention Often Leads to Worse Outcomes on Sunday February 12, 2023 @04:20PM (#34767125)

> making a change is likelier to be wrong than right.

This agrees with the slightly-neutral theory of evolution. A given mutation is more likely to break something a little bit than improve that something a little bit.

Re:Mexico’s subway drivers depend on WhatsApp to keep the trains running on Thursday January 12, 2023 @12:47PM (#34357576)

It is the other way around. Clients use it so much that they began offering those plans. I'm from Brazil and I saw the change from SMS to WhatsApp happen. Today, several small business rely on WhatsApp for orders and general communication. When the service went off last year, it was quite chaotic.

Re:An ALS Protein, Revealed on Friday March 04, 2022 @04:31PM (#30560871)

The disease may not be genetic. Only a small percentage is. My dad has ALS and in his case is not genetic (lucky me). The disease starts and progresses in different paces for different people - my dad has it for almost 7 years and still talks and eats like before. For him, the first thing to go was his arms; now his legs are almost paralyzed as well.

In his case, it probably is associated with the fact that he worked with agrochemicals his whole life, in a time when regulations and PPE where much loosier. He tells stories of taking baths of substances while his dad worked in orchards.

Re:Caloric restriction in humans reveals immunometabolic regulators of... on Thursday February 24, 2022 @07:12AM (#30453791)

Why the gene is there is a complex question. It may be part of some other metabolic pathways, or it may be just a way evolution found to fulfill a function of the cell. About turning it off, this approach is again, complex. We need to perform knock-out experiments in model organisms first, to understand the overall function of the gene.

Re:It is difficult for the average person to conceive of how useless N... on Monday January 10, 2022 @09:06AM (#29874960)

I agree with you. I think NFTs are being used in a trash way now, but ultimately they will be matured and we will find them useful in some way.