[Ads-l] -maxxing

[Jonathan Lighter]

https://www.gq.com/story/is-your-proteinmaxxing-hurting-your-gut :

Is Your Proteinmaxxing Hurting Your Gut?

(There's potentially no limit to "maxxing." And the double x makes it cool,
like "Exxon.")

JL


On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 4:56 PM ADSGarson O'Toole <
00001aa1be50b751-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> Here is another -maxxing example.
> It is commonplace for new AI models to outperform previous AI models
> on multiple benchmarks. Yet cynics suggest that AI models have been
> fine-tuned to do well on these tests. This strategy is called:
> benchmaxxing.
>
> https://x.com/andrewlamb1111/status/1952386263450841233
>
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> Andrew Lamb @andrewlamb1111
> Benchmaxxing (verb): to add specific optimizations that only impact
> benchmark results and are not widely applicable to real world use
> cases.
> 11:08 AM · Aug 4, 2025
> [End x-tweet information]
>
> Garson
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 2:31 PM Jonathan Lighter
> <00001aad181a2549-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
> >
> > <goog_1753615211>
> >
> https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/men-fear-hair-loss-embracing-160529287.html
> > <
> https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/men-fear-hair-loss-embracing-160529287.html
> >
> >
> > In the ever-expanding universe of "maxxing" slang – from "fibermaxxing"
> to
> > "frictionmaxxing" and "looksmaxxing"– there’s a new term circulating:
> > "baldmaxxing."
> >
> > JL
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> > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> truth."
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