Thomas Urquhart
PulseAugur coverage of Thomas Urquhart — every cluster mentioning Thomas Urquhart across labs, papers, and developer communities, ranked by signal.
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Claude Fable 5.1 cracks 370-year-old cipher, baffling humans
Claude Fable 5.1 has reportedly solved the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher that had stumped human cryptographers for centuries. The AI model successfully deciphered the 64-number cryptogram by realizing the key w…
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Scott Alexander's ACX Open Thread 450 features AI safety jobs and biotech roles
Scott Alexander's Astral Codex Ten open thread for week 450 includes several announcements and job postings. Apollo Research is hiring for various roles focused on AI safety and security, working with companies like Ope…
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Claude Fable 5.1 cracks 373-year-old cipher in 44 minutes
The AI model Claude Fable 5.1 successfully deciphered the Cyphral Distich, a 373-year-old cryptographic puzzle left by Scottish writer Thomas Urquhart. The model determined that the numbers in the text were instructions…
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Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 Solves 17th-Century Mathematical Riddle
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 has successfully deciphered the 'Cyphral Distich,' a complex mathematical riddle posed by Sir Thomas Urquhart in 1653. This ancient puzzle had resisted solutions from human researchers for c…
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Review of Thomas Urquhart's Rabelais Translation Focuses on Translator's Life
This article is a review of Thomas Urquhart's translation of Rabelais, focusing on Urquhart's life and background rather than the translated work itself. Urquhart, born in 1611 into a prominent Scottish clan, received a…