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mmonnin

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Message 118614 - Posted: 25 Mar 2026, 20:29:43 UTC

For pointing out on two posts, how to get the the other locations, and saying the admin made a standard BOINC function worse. I believe 'broke' and 'made worse' were as negative as the post got but actually answered the question. 12 years like duuude.

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616 weeks 6 days
I made post 61 and 62, it must have given me 10 weeks for every older post.
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Message 118621 - Posted: 26 Mar 2026, 8:00:08 UTC

From the Axiom forum:

The project architecture, experiment prompts, runtime design, and how everything works is documented in detail here: https://github.com/PyHelix/Axiom

Specifically regarding the 16KB script concern — the experiment scripts are small because they are job inputs, not the runtime. The client binary is 25MB (CPU) or 1.8GB (GPU with CUDA libraries). The scripts call functions like numpy.linalg.eigh() that are bundled in the binary. This is the same pattern every distributed computing project uses: a large runtime with small job-specific inputs. Full explanation here: https://github.com/PyHelix/Axiom/blob/main/Axiom_Runtime_Architecture.md

The ZachXBT investigation quote is fabricated. There is no such investigation. That text was generated by feeding our project to an AI chatbot and presenting its hallucinations as fact. The user who posted it has been banned from our forums for harassment and threats.

Anyone is welcome to inspect the code, the experiment scripts (served from https://axiom.heliex.net/experiments/), and the results. Happy to answer specific technical questions here.
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Message 118623 - Posted: 26 Mar 2026, 8:29:31 UTC

Full explanation here: https://github.com/PyHelix/Axiom/blob/main/Axiom_Runtime_Architecture.md
I know it is over 50 years ago that I studied maths at uni so I may be missing something. However, the explanation to me looks suspiciously like waffle.
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Message 118628 - Posted: 26 Mar 2026, 10:04:24 UTC - in response to Message 118621.  

I did read through and study the so called "experiment" section and have to conclude that much of it is total waffle, probably AI generated.
Indeed the claim that the source code is open is an absolute LIE - the only bit that is "open" is the generation of awards. Thus I have to conclude that this so-called "scientific project" is either a means of conning victims into generating some form of crypto-currency or a means of skimming user (personal) data for some other means.
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Message 118630 - Posted: 26 Mar 2026, 10:49:04 UTC - in response to Message 118628.  

The personal data bit wouldn't get them much from me because I only tried it in a VM. I will however avoid it as, if I were to go into mining bitcoin from the light on my panels, it would be nice to have it for myself!
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Message 118632 - Posted: 26 Mar 2026, 13:33:02 UTC - in response to Message 118630.  

At least you wouldn't directly paying for the electricity used, I'd be paying some over bloated utility company's executive's bonus....
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