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by tristanj 2mo ago
There is no bounty, RSA labs ended the $75,000 reward in 2007.
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by tristanj 2mo ago
But Anthropic isn't paying for the electricity and cooling. They don't run their own data centers, they rent compute from providers who cover those costs. That's entirely why they can blow compute on the fun projects like thi
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by tristanj 2mo ago
If you've already paid for and reserved a whole cluster of GPUs, any idle capacity is capacity you've already paid for. Using it is effectively free. So might as well use it to solve fun math puzzles. Though, it would make more fi
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by tristanj 2mo ago
Internal leaks, these happen frequently. Employees have access to these devices for months prior to launch. Someone ran a benchmark and uploaded it on a machine they weren't supposed to.
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by tristanj 2mo ago
That was a mistake and I updated it - only the M2 Max benchmarks leaked prior to announcement, not the M2. Those M2 Max Geekbench benchmarks appeared on November 30, 2022. Apple announced the Apple M2 Max chip on January 17, 2023. Similarly
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by tristanj 2mo ago
Not accurate, both leak very frequently. Leaked prior to launch - Leaked Benchmarks Confirm M2 Chip is Up to 20% Faster Than M1 https://www.macrumors.com/2022/06/15/m2-geekbench-benchmark/ Leaked pri
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by tristanj 2mo ago
These have leaked pretty much every single year for the M-series chips, a few weeks before launch. Occasionally for the A-series.
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by tristanj 2mo ago
Singapore will not be the first. Albania banned private vehicle ownership for over 40 years until 1991.
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by tristanj 2mo ago
Apple's current implementation doesn't integrate LiDAR. And LiDAR wouldn't be enough here, it's trivial to block the projector and hide the dot pattern. No dot pattern = iPhone thinks the object is far away, which is wha
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by tristanj 2mo ago
This would work for close up shots taken on iPhone, but not landscape shots. The infrared dots the iPhone LiDAR projects are too weak to appear over long distances. Also the dots can be trivially blocked by putting your finger over the sens
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by tristanj 2mo ago
Apple doesn't address the modified photo replay situation, where you take a picture of an already edited image. Photoshop / AI-gen an image -> display on a high-resolution monitor -> photograph the monitor with iPhone 18 Pro
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by tristanj 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_s... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starshield
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by tristanj 2mo ago
I actually misworded this. OpenAI did not ask to remove a co-author, they only invited Buckmaster as a coauthor and not Alpöge. Having Alpöge (an Anthropic employee) on an OpenAI paper is bad optics, so they only wanted Buckmaster.
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by tristanj 2mo ago
You realize 1) There were no personal threats, you're being deceptive here and 2) Bushmaster threatened Bubeck (of OpenAI) first? Bushmaster redacted 90% of their conversation to stir up as much FUD as possible, but you can review Bube
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by tristanj 2mo ago
False. A usage agreement between two private companies is not considered public access. Your definition falls apart upon basic scrutiny. Under your current definition, Mythos is currently in public access.
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by tristanj 2mo ago
The author put zero rational thought into this. If Anthropic is legally required to release the weights of any publicly accessible model, their logical response will just be to stop offering public models. Anthropic gets most of its revenue
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by tristanj 2mo ago
Not when you have 10,000 concurrent agents attacking the problem. OpenAI brute-forced their way to a solution. They likely tried every approach in published literature, which includes the 2023 approach by Luis and Diego.
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by tristanj 2mo ago
1) OpenAI and Buckmaster did not solve the same problem. Per https://x.com/IlinVasily29521/status/2097554700321329393 , here is a breakdown of who solved what. Tristan + Levent: 3D incompressible Euler with fo
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by tristanj 2mo ago
Relevant, but it's already rumored that OpenAI and Anthropic have made very significant progress on two more Millennium Prize problems. They're in a race to solve the next problem. OpenAI needs to solve another to shut down the (b
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by tristanj 2mo ago
You might be right. At this rate, if AI solves the remaining five problems, we're heading towards a hilarious situation where all the Millennium Problems are solved, but nobody wants to claim the prize money.
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by tristanj 2mo ago
Interesting. It seems this carve-out was added when they rewrote the rules in 2018. In the original rules [0], it says: Before consideration, a proposed solution must be published in a refereed mathematics journal of world-wide repute,
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by tristanj 2mo ago
It's worth mentioning that OpenAI will not be eligible for the Millennium Prize for quite a while. Per the rules listed https://www.claymath.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/millenni... , Clay Mathema
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by tristanj 2mo ago
Smart move by them for waiting until the drama died down before making a completely neutral statement. The statement is so sterile they don't even mention who solved it. The word "OpenAI" doesn't appear at all.
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by tristanj 2mo ago
It's baseless speculation and unfounded accusations of plagarism. OpenAI now categorically denies this: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/science/tristan-buckmaste... “We can say categorically that
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by tristanj 2mo ago
The team also had access to internal Anthropic models.
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by tristanj 2mo ago
> Expensive, yes, impossible, no. The comment by tedsanders you linked directly contradicts your claim. From your linked comment: There's no reason to believe that anything they did in ChatGPT led to our solution; it's ju
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by tristanj 2mo ago
The timeline here does not support your argument. Quoting from Buckmaster's statement: For most of the past year progress was slow. We worked through the literature and upgraded various preliminary results, up to obtaining finite t
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by tristanj 2mo ago
It is very unlikely to be plagiarized, and claims of plagiarism are largely unfounded and show a lack of understanding of the situation. They fall apart when reviewing the timeline, and what was actually solved. This is the timeline: On Jun
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by tristanj 2mo ago
Option A can be accidentally undone with a few clicks. Option B is legally binding and permanent.
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by tristanj 2mo ago
They're not equivalent. The one in ChatGPT settings only applies to ChatGPT. The one on the OpenAI privacy portal applies to all OpenAI products, present and future.

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