> Hutter Prize being where you are paid if you can compress wikipedia small enough. LLMs do very well at that, if, big if, you ignore the cost of initial weights.

then.

If all you care about is compressing Wikipedia, but ignore the size of the actual data, what is it that you are actually trying to do?

Well, then Wikipedia itself is a very good compression that only needs the title to perfectly predict the full article.

Discussed here: https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/33550

Thus, if a news article, research article, book, student paper submission, blog post, HN comment, etc, bears the mark, it could be automatically flagged as such.

It helps detect low effort slop.

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Caveat. If you write your own creative work and send it to Claude for "cleaning up grammar", it might insert the watermark.

The problem was: out-of-sync device clock prevented software updates which in turn prevented cloud syncing. You don't need software updates or cloud syncing for the device to work.

The fix is to set the clock and do the software updates.

In your opinion, what is SOTA here?

77 points, 24 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48639165

https://zenodo.org/records/17720178

Note that Zenodo is a DOI-provider, not a (scientific) journal. Anyone can upload anything to Zenodo. It's less strict than arXiv.

Edit: The "paper" is written by one Hiroko Konishi, an independent researcher (she is a voice actress).

> There exists a raven such that the vector of hours.

The vector of hours what?

Rule 3.9.2: No piece can be moved that will either expose the king of the same colour to check or leave that king in check.

Check out symmetric difference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_difference