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Submission + - Leak-Proof AI Benchmark Posts Biggest Gain in 20 Years, on One CPU Core (spasim.org)

Baldrson writes: The Hutter Prize for lossless compression of human knowledge has paid out nearly €50,000: its largest advance in 20 years: three entries together cut the record for compressing a 1GB Wikipedia snapshot by nearly 10%: a compression ratio of more than a factor of 10. Every entry ran on a single CPU core, in about 50 hours and under 10GB of RAM, so the gain came from algorithms.

Unlike most AI benchmarks, the prize requires no validation data, so a leak can't inflate a score. The full file is public, and the size of the decompressor counts against the entry, so anything memorized is paid for in bits. Vladimir Ivanov's fx2-cmix-T now holds the record, after earlier 2026 gains by Ibrahim Marcouch and Kaido Orav (cmix-lex) and David Freelan (cmix-obias). Sponsor Marcus Hutter, who advised DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg's 2008 thesis "Machine Super Intelligence," calls it "the largest progress in its 20-year history." With trillions riding on claims of AI progress and data-center power demand, is a leak-proof, energy-limited benchmark the yardstick the industry should be watching?

(Disclosure: the submitter is on the Hutter Prize committee.)

Comment Failure to understand != proof of pet theories (Score 5, Insightful) 114

JAH thinks that the % of people who don't trust the USG is because "The USG refused to take my theories seriously when I edged my way into the deep end of the pool". That says more than enough about how seriously anyone not wearing a tin foil hat should be taking anything he says. Note to JAH: It's not always about you.

Comment Re:Why was he given access to such info? (Score 1) 72

If you believe that russian sources are reliable you also believe that a female NASA astronaut drilled a hole in a Soyuz because she was homesick, that russian soldiers were not offically involved in seizing Crimea, that Zelensky is a Satan worshipping Nazi, that the russian AF has shot down 10 times more Ukranian jets than they have ever had in service, that many russians who crossed Putin died by being crushed from falling out of ground floor windows, that rapists and murderers were transformed into angels by surviving being used as bullet and drone sponges, etc , etc, etc...

"Proof" from untrustworthy sources isn't.

Comment Re:Why was he given access to such info? (Score 1) 72

Being a passenger in Falcon/Dragon being allowed to take pictures of export controlled parts of Falcon/Dragon. This isn't rocket science and you should be able to understand that.

Photographic memory doesn't include being able to determine the dimensions or other many other aspects of objects that pictures can nor does it imply being able to produce an accurate drawing from memory.

Comment Re:MOAR (Score 3, Insightful) 38

First off, none of the people I know that use Starlink see any need to mesh with any other network. Secondly, Starlink is the only SAT ISP using phased array antennas & if/when any others appear commercially, each mesh operator will be using different frequency bands that the antennas need to be tuned to so WTF is there to be "interoperable" with?

If you want to say "I hate Musk" then just say that. I agree+respect that opinion more than dumb bullshit.

Comment Re:What nonsense. (Score 5, Interesting) 177

I recall reading a definitive debunking of the "go fast" video by an optics expert with intimate knowledge of the F18 gun camera. Every claimed "anomalous" movement was explained as being a particular kind of "sun dog" (those ghost suns you can see on complex multi-component lenses that are pointed facing the sun).

So Tim Gallaudet's "proof" of aliens boils down to "an unknown higher ranked officer told the mail system admin to junk the conspirationist bullshit we were trying to circulate".

Proof that higher ranked officers are aliens... /s

Submission + - SPAM: Kaido Orav and Byron Knoll's fx2-cmix Wins 7950€ Hutter Prize Award!

Baldrson writes: Kaido Orav and Byron Knoll just beat the Nuclear Code Golf Course Record!

What's Nuclear Code Golf?

Some of you may have heard that "next token prediction" is the basis of large language models generalizing. Well there is just one contest that pays cash prizes in proportion to how much you beat the best prior benchmark for the most rigorous measure of next token prediction: Lossless compression length including decompressor length. The catch is, in order to make it relevant regardless of The Hardware Lottery's hysterics*, you are restricted to a single general purpose CPU. This contest is not for the faint of heart. Think of it as Nuclear Code Golf.

Kaido Orav and Byron Knoll are the team to beat now.

*The global economy is starting to look like a GPU-maximizer AGI.

Comment Re:Put a wrench in their own spokes (Score 1) 74

> It has been proven it wasn’t a copy

No, it has most certainly not been proven. It has been asserted but that is not proof.

OpenAI has been proven to have deemed that anything that they can use anything they can access on the Internet to train their AIs without any considerations. That there are no currently known tracks between Altman and the Sky voice resembling SJ's voice doesn't mean that he didn't pull Roberts aside and tell her "make it sound like SJ" or that there are communications that they have not revealed and in a jury trial, given how many people find that sky and SJ are more than oddly similar she would likely prevailed had Altman not pulled sky. A court decision is the only proof in this context & OpenAI chose to avoid discovery and a trial.

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