I wear a few hats, but as a chemist and I'm not happy with fable. As a statistician I'm not happy with fable. As a data scientist I am not happy with fable. As an academic and a researcher I am not happy with fable. It's useless. I'd be surprised if anyone can get any output from it that couldn't easily be replaced with a search from wikipedia. Given how verbose claude models have become, wiki articles are probably less verbose too, and the tok/s is unmatched for a wiki article pull.

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pbgcp2026 36 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

"the tok/s is unmatched for a wiki article pull." This is absolutely wonderful, thank you for making my day!

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pneumic 38 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I work on software that talks to mass spectrometers and it consistently refuses to refactor even an input file parser, presumably because it can infer it’s related to biology? Useless indeed.

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flexagoon an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Given how verbose claude models have become, wiki articles are probably less verbose too

Telling models to respond in the style of Wikipedia is one of the best ways to make their output bearable in my experience (for chat models, not agents)

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nonethewiser an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>I'd be surprised if anyone can get any output from it that couldn't easily be replaced with a search from wikipedia.

I dont understand. This is just hyperbole right? The outputs are basically infinite and wikipedia most certainly isnt infinite.

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TylerE 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I’ve been working on a rather complex mapping project and have been getting MUCH better results with Fable than Opus.

	▲	TylerE an hour ago \| parent [-]
		So as not to be vague, and since I just pushed a version I'm starting to be vaguely happy with... https://tylereaves.github.io/uk-rail-map/ This is the result of probably a few hundred round trips. The really interesting part of the problem is keeping it both relatively true to real geometry, while greatly exaggerating it horizontally so you can actually see the individual running lines/sidings, like a signaling schematic.

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enraged_camel an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

To make the discussion constructive, can you give specific reasons (ideally with examples) about why it is so useless for you? How exactly are you using it that you think any output from it can easily be replaced with a Wikipedia search?

	▲	SuperShibe an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The cybersecurity and bioweapons filters reach so far that they set in as soon as the model even glazes anything STEM-related. It might give a good impression of ones ex or write a decent fanfiction but anything that could bring humanity forward is strictly off-limits.