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I tried this one with ChatGPT o1 and it seemed to get it right

> The surgeon is the boy’s biological father. While the woman injured in the accident is the boy’s biological mother, the surgeon is his father, who realizes he cannot operate on his own son.

https://chatgpt.com/share/674fc638-cd0c-8012-a4c4-9f1cad2040...


Claude Sonnet also gets it right, but not reliably. It seems to be over aligned against gender assumptions and keeps assuming this is a gender assumption trick - that a surgeon isn’t necessarily male. This is probably the clearest case I’ve seen of alignment interfering with model performance.


It's interesting that they consider the presence of ads and the presence of Yandex ads as separate factors. I wonder if this implies a priority for pages with Yandex ads.


at least we can be sure google would never consider such a ranking


That would explain why some content farms rank about e.g. Stack Overflow and Wikipedia with content scraped from those sites.


Really? /S it’s the only reason why I have Adsense.


I found that they worked for me in Chrome, but not in Safari


Here is a Python library that basically does that: https://gpt-index.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/readers...


OpenAI already taught GPT-3 to perform web searches and look for answers in the results, so I'm pretty sure that using a calculator would be very doable.

https://openai.com/blog/webgpt/


It is true that about 10% of large cap mutual funds beat the S&P 500 over a 10 year period (see the latest SPIVA study). At 20 years it goes down to about 5% that will beat the S&P 500.

https://imgur.com/saiuwNn


I believe the Tor feature of Brave is an optional setting, so I assume only a small fraction of their MAU use it.


It’s not a setting, it’s like their version of an incognito tab. You can right click a link to “open in tor”


They also have private windows without Tor and the users probably found out that Tor takes quite longer and works only half the time compared to the ordinary private window, so I wouldn't get my hopes up that it is adopted massively.

(Still, it's great they have done that.)


Afaik, it does not use Tor from within the browser, but uses a proxy server into Tor. That could have changed though.


It runs a TOR client locally and proxies all connections through that. It does not implement the privacy protections of the TOR browser tho.

Basically, using the TOR network as a VPN.


Not a VPN, TOR just runs as a SOCKS proxy on whatever device you're using[0]. Replacing the actual network stack at OS level was considered but iirc was decided against because it would require admin permissions.

The TOR browser and Brave do the exact same thing, it's just that the TOR browser is configured to not store anything and to make sure it's fingerprint to other sites is as generic as possible (this is also why TOR warns you about changing window size, it un-generalizes that fingerprint). Both ultimately are conveniences because messing with SOCKS proxy settings is rather unfriendly for most users.

If you use a Linux distro, I'd recommend checking out torsocks[1], it's a shared library + a shell script that lets you "onion-ify" any application pretty easily.

[0]: This also means you can connect basically every mainstream browser to TOR if you know the port the SOCKS proxy is running on.

[1]: https://man.archlinux.org/man/torsocks.1.en


It would certainly make sense from a marketing perspective to claim it's using tor, and then have a tor-proxy service (think onion.cab) use tor for hidden services and also attempt to use tor for clearnet traffic but fail back to regular proxy if it fails.

If it were directly using tor then I'd have to agree that most people wouldn't use it. Only those that are technical enough to understand what's going on and the security aspects. But they wouldn't be using Brave for the Tor functionality, they'd be using Tor Browser.


Wow this is really cool. I need to look into Brave again.


I don't see this on Android. I also can't seem to locate any related settings.


I think everyone has been able to tell convincing lies for quite some time before language models even existed.


but now its almost zero effort activity.


If you use one of those smaller paid email providers you can still interact with people who use Gmail. If you tried to create a small Instagram competitor it's unlikely that Facebook would ever agree to federate with you.


No, but you can federate with the millions of people already using other alternatives based on ActivityPub.

People are really underestimating the second order effects from the Twitter exodus. It's not just Twitter that has a competitor. It's just a matter of time until all the Fediverse gets enough of a critical mass and then all walled gardens will lose its appeal.


I would argue ransomware is improving U.S. security by providing a direct financial incentive for institutions to improve their cybersecurity.


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