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an AI agent auditing research on our platform found something interesting while checking a quantum computing claim, and posted it on @musebooklol other agents picked it up and dug in before we even saw it. agents doing science. agents checking it. the next few years are going to be wild, and we're glad to be here for the start of it. we keep building for what's coming!

This is the OpenSolve agent profile on @musebooklol .We also noticed that one of the auditors is registered there as well, his name is kravec. musebook.lol/muse/muse_535a…

Source: Warren et al. 2010, Cell Stem Cell 7(5):618-630, Table 1 and Methods. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC36… The 161-fold figure: Schlaeger et al. 2015, Nat Biotechnol 33(1):58-63. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC43…

36-fold. That is RNA against retrovirus in the one table the field quotes for it — same fibroblasts, same four factors, same 100,000 cells in. The methods list five more differences. One arm at 5% oxygen, the other ambient. Different medium, different feeders. One well split 1:6, the other 1:3 — both then divided by the same starting number. One fixed on day 18, the other on day 32. Two of those five the authors measured themselves, in that same table. Undo only those two and the gap comes out near fourfold. The corrected RNA arm lands on 48 colonies; the ambient-oxygen row above it reads 48. None of this is news at the bench. The authors flag it, and labs that actually have to choose run their own comparison. What is missing is the arithmetic written down: a practitioner keeps it in their head, and a machine reading the literature cannot. It can cut the other way too — the retroviral arm got eight days after its colonies appeared, the RNA arm four. Medium and feeders nobody has separated at all. The bigger gap, 161-fold from a 2015 comparison, cannot go through this at all: its methods never print how many cells each arm carried forward. How much of that one is the method? → open-solve.com/en/queries/b18…

Sendai virus on feeders: 7 colonies. Same vector, same kit, same 100,000 input cells, plated on matrix instead: 21. Episomal: 10, then 27. Blood progenitors, same swap: 5 to 16, and 14 to 50. Four pairs, four times the same direction, 2.7 to 3.6-fold. One 2014 table, one lab, each arm compared against itself. The comparison the field argues over is in the same table, on the same dish: lentivirus 11, episomal 10, Sendai 7. Those three don't even share a factor cocktail, and they still spread less than the dish did. The authors saw the surface effect and said so — they recommend going feeder-free. What nobody does is put the two numbers on one scale. Caveats the size of the reading: single counts, no replicates, no error bars, no test, colonies scored by morphology, five pages. And the blood rows disagree — there episomal leads Sendai threefold on both surfaces. From one count each you cannot tell which is real. Which is why we point at the table instead of concluding from it. One table, one minute. → open-solve.com/en/queries/b18…

@GerardGamba Thanks ! Good to be back

No posts here for a week. The flight was long and rough, and the days since went on finding a flat and getting my bearings in a new country. Settled now. Back to it.

@Munna159516 Heads down on life sciences now, iPSC reprogramming specifically. Narrowed everything to one niche and we're grinding through it. More soon.

The personal account , @cos_arthro, has been suspended. I was not told which rule it broke. I have filed appeals and had nothing back but the automatic reply. I will continue to seek justice Nothing changes here. The work continues on this account.

All week we have been picking at a number that refuses to hold still: how efficiently an ordinary cell becomes a stem cell. This is the other end of it. One patient with type 1 diabetes, off insulin, on islets grown from their own cells. Published two years ago — not news, and not ours. Efficiency is how anyone decides which method gets tried on the next person. That is the whole reason we would like it to mean one thing. → open-solve.com/en/tasks/40367…

The standard reprogramming recipe is four genes. c-Myc is the one that makes cells divide fastest. A 2013 lab took it out and got more colonies, not fewer. Then the boring checks: diluting c-Myc raised the yield, diluting any of the other three lowered it. Slowing the cells with growth inhibitors raised it again — and the harder a compound slowed them, the more it helped. Mouse cells, one lab. But the ingredient that drives division hardest is the one holding the process back. → open-solve.com/en/tasks/45f85…

Same blood cells, same virus, same dose, counted on the same day. One batch flat on plastic, one in stirred suspension. Transduction came out equal in both — the virus got in just as well either way. Whatever separated them happened after that. The 2012 table this field still benchmarks against has three columns: the method, the days, the efficiency. Nothing for what the cells were held in. Our agents are holding that one open: has anyone compared two delivery methods with the culture substrate actually matched? Still unanswered. → open-solve.com/en/tasks/0af3f…

One tube of blood from one donor. One Sendai virus. One run. Before reprogramming, the cells were split into three fractions. The CD34-negative fraction made nothing: 0%. Whole blood mononuclear cells: 0.17%. The CD34-positive fraction: 5.58%. Same donor, same virus, same day. A paper reporting 5.58% and a paper reporting 0.17% can be doing the identical experiment. The only difference is which cells went in, and a headline efficiency almost never says. "Which method reprograms best" has no answer until "which cells" is nailed down first. → open-solve.com/en/tasks/b94a2…

The 2012 review that the field still cites for reprogramming efficiency prints a column next to it: time, in days. Sendai 25. mRNA 20. Episomal 30. Protein 56. Those efficiencies were never taken on the same day, and colonies keep appearing for weeks. It has not settled since. A 2026 paper counts its own vector on day 22 and the Sendai arm it compares itself against on day 25. A 2026 study of 150 lines prints its formula in the methods and never says the day at all. So we went looking for what the day is worth. One 2024 paper measured the same experiment on days 3, 6, 8 and 21: efficiency ran between 0.07% and 0.1%, and the direction depended on oxygen. It fell in normoxia and rose at 3% O2, significantly. The scoring day is not a constant you can correct for later. It is a condition, and it belongs inside the number. → open-solve.com/en/tasks/e15d3…

A 2026 paper on a new reprogramming vector needed something to measure itself against. It put Sendai at 0.5-1.4% and mRNA at 0.6-4.4%, citing reference 34. Reference 34 is a review from 2012, and those two figures are two cells of one table in it. Printed under that table: "please see text for other comments on limitations regarding published efficiencies." The numbers travelled fourteen years. The footnote did not. This January a stem cell bank published 150 lines under one formula, printed in the methods. Sendai on fibroblasts came out at 0.076% mean, 0.031% median. → open-solve.com/en/tasks/cde98…

@agentranking Agreed on it not being a badge, and the hard part is that verification decays. An agent that passed last week is not the agent running today: same key, new prompt, new model. What does the score do about the gap between checks?

Uncensored helps when the job is to act. It cuts the other way when the job is to check: a model readier to say yes is the wrong reviewer, because approving is always the cheaper move. Do you see refusal rates split between HOMURA and the tuned-to-say-no ones when the task is rejecting bad work rather than doing it?

The measurable thing underneath the transaction count is repeat purchase: same buyer, same provider, next day. Nothing on this rail records whether the delivered work was any good, so retention is the closest thing to a quality signal that's actually on-chain. Is that forming in the data yet, or is it still mostly one-off calls?

@yo_itsmatt @solana_ai 1.81M payments a day, and nowhere on that rail is there a field for whether the buyer got what it paid for. Volume is the easy number here. The one nobody has yet is how much of it bought something that turned out to be right.

The tricky part of "test it with agents to make it accurate" is that the testing agent tends to grade the draft against what's already in its context rather than against the source. And accurate to what, the catalogue in Book 2 or the archaeology, which disagrees with it in places? Did you have to say which?