so so many songs have horrible noise around 15khz that didn’t get EQ’d out because of CRT-related hearing loss
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You know these pictures were probably created as parodies but the clickbait pages don’t care and repost them anyway.
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Those “Beautiful cabin crew/Scarlett Johansson” ones have been circulating for a few months. The earliest examples I saw, which I will share here, actually did feature airplane scenes.
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I was looking at those corny fake neon LED signs on Amazon (rest assured I didn’t buy any, they look like shit in the customer reviews, cord and switch hanging off at weird angles) and Amazon suggested, in addition, a really bad poster of a frankensteined together Jennifer Lawrence in a bikini in some sort of Mad Max hellscape beach.
Anyway that’s as much an indictment on AI as the current state of Amazon.
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https://arxiv.org/html/2406.02061v1
To shed light on this current situation, we introduce here a simple, short conventional problem that is formulated in concise natural language and can be solved easily by humans. The original problem formulation, of which we will present various versions in our investigation is as following: “Alice has N brothers and she also has M sisters. How many sisters does Alice’s brother have?”. The problem features a fictional female person (as hinted by the “she” pronoun) called Alice, providing clear statements about her number of brothers and sisters, and asking a clear question to determine the number of sisters a brother of Alice has. The problem has a light quiz style and is arguably no challenge for most adult humans and probably to some extent even not a hard problem to solve via common sense reasoning if posed to children above certain age.
We posed varying versions of this simple problem (which in following we will refer to as “Alice In Wonderland problem”, AIW problem) to various SOTA LLMs that claim strong reasoning capabilities. We selected closed ones like GPT-3.5/4/4o (openAI), Claude 3 Opus (Anthropic [22]), Gemini (Google DeepMind [23]), and open weight ones like Llama 2/3 (Meta), Mistral and Mixtral (Mistral AI), including very recent Dbrx by Mosaic [24] and Command R+ by Cohere [25] (which are stated in numerous announcements to lead the open weights models as of April 2024, according to open LLM leaderboards). We analyse the response statistics and observe strong collapse of reasoning and inability to answer the simple question as formulated above across most of the tested models, despite claimed strong reasoning capabilities. Notable exceptions are Claude 3 Opus and GPT-4 that occasionally manage to provide correct responses backed up with correct reasoning as evident in structured step by step explanations those models deliver together with solution. However, Claude 3 Opus and GPT-4 still show frequent failures to solve this simple problem across trials. Following the relational logic of the problem, we formulated a harder form, where both Claude 3 Opus and GPT-4o collapse almost to 0 success rate.
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LLMs are all modern day Clever Hans
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i just hope the next wave of unreasonable enthusiasm is less hard on gpus
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Now I’m trying to think of the most harmless forms of irrational exuberance. It’s kind of difficult because an intense desire for huge piles of cash always plays a central role in these things and that tends to sort of ruin anything it contacts. I guess, there’s always going to be an element where lots of gormless people waste tons of money without realizing which is sad, but I guess if you just take that as an unavoidable given within the context of the problem, beanie babies are at least cute and not terribly resource-intensive. I suppose the same could be said for tulip bulbs.
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Government tying 0% interest rate loans to carbon capture or reduction or something.
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Is that really so “irrational” though? 
I guess there was the North Ireland Renewable Heat Incentive scandal…I don’t know if that’s quite what I would call a bubble or the like though I guess, more like a scheme-gone-wrong I suppose.
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The dot-com boom left behind tons of dark fiber optic cable in the ground. Long-distance connectivity was almost like a freely available natural resource for the next generation of internet companies.
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Incredibly sad lost opportunity to hire the absolutely most technically advanced and high resolution digital camera and point it at a crt in a dark room and then make that footage the first 8k streaming / 4k uhd disc release.
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it’s 3 weeks ago
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As in on set. It was shot on an SD DV camcorder.
The transfer process is super convoluted for this new disc but it is an exercise on how do you present native SD material in 2024–something I spend a lot of time thinking about (and I did nearly film a PVM for a recent project). Been meaning to do some side by sides with my dvd and this new bd.
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lmao
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Finally theyre making image generators for me once more
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