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Comment · 8 months ago
The llm accusations go out of hand nowadays. Cant see any typical AI slop here.
Comment · 8 months ago
Source?
Comment · 8 months ago
The test is rigged because they used non thinking models.
Comment · 8 months ago
If you follow the jurisdictional trail in the post, the field narrows quickly. The author describes a major international diving insurer, an instructor driven student registration workflow, GDPR applicability, and explicit involvement of CSIRT Malta under the Maltese National Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure Policy. That combination is highly specific.

There are only a few globally relevant diving insurers. DAN America is US based. DiveAssure is not Maltese. AquaMed is German. The one large diving insurer that is actually headquartered and registered in Malta is DAN Europe. Given that the organization is described as being registered in Malta and subject to Maltese supervisory processes, DAN Europe becomes the most plausible candidate based on structure and jurisdiction alone.

Comment · 8 months ago
> Since MCP is a common language for all agents at Stripe, not just minions, we built a central internal MCP server called Toolshed, which hosts more than 400 MCP tools spanning internal systems and SaaS platforms we use at Stripe.

Are there ecisting open source solutions for such a toolshed?

Comment · 9 months ago
An Agent Team of Opus 4.6 should be able to reverse engineer the simulator in a day or two, instead of 3 years. But it wouldnt be so much fun I guess.
Comment · 9 months ago
Thats not good advertising for raris Performance claims.
Comment · 9 months ago
I still think it is just a matter of time until scrapers catch up. There are more and more scrapers that spin up an full blown chromium.
Comment · 9 months ago
One way to sharpen the question is to stop asking whether C is "fundamental" and instead ask whether it is forced by mild structural constraints. From that angle, its status looks closer to inevitability than convenience.

Take R as an ordered field with its usual topology and ask for a finite-dimensional, commutative, unital R-algebra that is algebraically closed and admits a compatible notion of differentiation with reasonable spectral behavior. You essentially land in C, up to isomorphism. This is not an accident, but a consequence of how algebraic closure, local analyticity, and linearization interact. Attempts to remain over R tend to externalize the complexity rather than eliminate it, for example by passing to real Jordan forms, doubling dimensions, or encoding rotations as special cases rather than generic elements.

More telling is the rigidity of holomorphicity. The Cauchy-Riemann equations are not a decorative constraint; they encode the compatibility between the algebra structure and the underlying real geometry. The result is that analyticity becomes a global condition rather than a local one, with consequences like identity theorems and strong maximum principles that have no honest analogue over R.

I’m also skeptical of treating the reals as categorically more natural. R is already a completion, already non-algebraic, already defined via exclusion of infinitesimals. In practice, many constructions over R that are taken to be primitive become functorial or even canonical only after base change to C.

So while one can certainly regard C as a technical device, it behaves like a fixed point: impose enough regularity, closure, and stability requirements, and the theory reconstructs it whether you intend to or not. That does not make it metaphysically fundamental, but it does make it mathematically hard to avoid without paying a real structural cost.

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