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Comment · 2 months ago
Here's potentially another one (notice the name "OpenResearchHelper"): https://www.wikiservice.at/gruender/wiki.cgi?action=rc&days=... (I used GPT-6 Astra to find this)
And a few more:
- https://www.ludism.org/scwiki?action=browse;diff=1;id=SandBo... and edit history: https://www.ludism.org/scwiki?action=rc;all=1;from=1;showedi... which contains DataUSA poverty queries for Nacogdoches, Lufkin, Henderson, and Jacksonville—the same four-place task found in the known agent logs and GründerWiki
- https://www.ludism.org/mentat?action=browse;diff=1;id=SandBo... and edit history: https://www.ludism.org/mentat?action=history;id=SandBox
- https://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/WikiSandbox?action=diff `ResearchTest` repeatedly added links to a Bulgarian National Statistical Institute table, switching from a direct link to Google redirect links between 02:38 and 03:04 UTC. An administrator removed them at 06:57. The previous recorded edits were from 2016.
- https://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/Sandbox2?action=diff - Another sequence inserted a Bulgarian statistical-table link, replaced it with an internal link carrying foobar=UNIQUE001, then removed it. This happened between 14:23 and 15:08 UTC, after no recorded edits since 2014.
Comment · 1 year ago
We agree, that's the thesis behind our tax development coding agent: https://www.columntax.com/blog/introducing-iris-our-ai-tax-d...
Comment · 1 year ago
We tested models with knowledge cutoffs in 2025 so expect them to have knowledge of Tax Year 2024 forms in their weights. We also tested models with ability to do web search to get any other forms it thinks necessary: https://github.com/column-tax/tax-calc-bench
That all being said, we agree, which is what we've built with our internal tax coding agent, Iris: https://www.columntax.com/blog/introducing-iris-our-ai-tax-d... (ability to get just the right Tax form context on a per-line basis to turn the tax law into code).
Comment · 1 year ago
Hi, author of this paper + repo here. This dataset is particularly hard to come by, so we’re really proud to be open sourcing it.
Let me know if you have any questions, happy to discuss!
Comment · 1 year ago
Author here. I said "random _to find_". But thank you for giving me an incredibly classic top HN comment :)
Comment · 5 years ago
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