Sin à Tes Souhaits

Poet, Editor, Consultant...📍Eastside Vegas...words @poetsorg @TheSunMagazine, @medium @desertcompanion & others...LL Pops 🖤🦋✨

[National Homelessness Law Center @homeless_law]

BREAKING: The Louisiana Senate passed a disturbing anti-homeless bill that pushes homeless people into jails, forced treatment, and unpaid labor. Hours earlier, the same lawmakers voted to give themselves $1,000 to cover housing expenses, recognizing housing is too expensive.

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

ADHD people being mentally and physically exhausted but still staying up because they didn't get enough "me time" after surviving the whole day.

[PsyPost.org @PsyPost]

A new study shows that individuals with similar levels of autistic traits are naturally drawn to one another. Brain scans reveal they use alternative, highly effective neural strategies to connect, challenging traditional deficit-based models of autism. https://t.co/6YgJpV6iHU

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The lack of news on Gaza isn’t because the genocide is over.

It’s because Israel slaughtered the journalists and Western media pretends there’s a ceasefire.

[Sin à Tes Souhaits @sinfromvegas]

This! You have to teach kids to sound words out to read. Hooked on Phonics still exists though!

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

In the early 2000s, schools foolishly replaced phonics instruction (which is very effective at teaching kids to read) with something called “whole-language learning” (which is not). This method encourages kids to “guess” a word based on the first letters. It has been a disaster.

[Sin à Tes Souhaits @sinfromvegas]

if Nia Long is texting me, that's the only thing in my calendar period

[Rain Drops Media @Raindropsmedia1]

Nia Long, who requires NDAs, says, “If I text you and you take a day to reply, I’m never talking to you again.”

[Me @KirkWrites79]

It’s not just a litmus test for misogyny. It’s also a clear sign of illiteracy. You can see you didn’t read transcripts or don’t have an understanding of the legal system. Who reads and believes fake news. Who only get their news from blogs and podcasts.

[Sin à Tes Souhaits @sinfromvegas]

“people forget about the Las Vegas Strip when they think of Las Vegas” is possibly the dumbest thing i’ve ever heard

[Jedi Rich @jedirich_]

Saturday morning Strip drive in Las Vegas 🎰 Calm, clear, and absolutely perfect. This is the side of Vegas people forget about. #vegas

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

Very cool “free market” you got there

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

Confirms my warning that the Kennedy Center’s failure under Trump was a mob bust-out gone wrong (usually you keep the place running while you loot it).

“Renovations” are the pretext for closing a venue they had looted and run into the ground.
https://t.co/ZxL14ogtIx

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

A'ja Wilson, the WNBA's first ever four-time MVP, is signing a three-year, $5 million supermax contract to return to the Las Vegas Aces, sources tell me and @Andraya_Carter. The deal, which is the largest in WNBA history to date and fully guaranteed, was negotiated by Jade-Li English of Klutch Sports Group.

[Sin à Tes Souhaits @sinfromvegas]

@LVAces @KentuckyWBB this gotta be Chelsea little cousin

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Not only did Disney pay nothing in income taxes this year, it received a $1.428 billion tax refund after making $12 billion in profits.

"Corporations will create jobs if you give them more tax breaks" is a total scam.

[Block Topickz @BlockTopickz]

Remy Ma performs her new track “Why You F* king Lying” for @OnTheRadarRadio

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

“Girl student”

No one writes like this @Reuters.

[Gugulethu Mhlungu | Gogo Mpendulo @GugsM]

Also Kanye isn’t just an anti Semite, before he was selling Swastika tees, he sold tees of Diddy assaulting Cassie. His former assistant accused him of sexual assault. In another case, another woman has accused him of assaulting and strangling her on a video set in 2020.

[Bruce Fenton @brucefenton]

Israel has now killed more people in Lebanon than Hamas killed on October 7.

So by current logic does this mean Lebanon could mass murder 70,000 Israeli civilians and say “we have a right to defend ourselves”?

[Sin à Tes Souhaits @sinfromvegas]

this would be surprising if i had not tested ChatGPT’s ability to tell me how many words were available in the NYT spelling bee game and watched it fail repeatedly

no matter how it was asked, the model could not accurately determine the answer, which is available in the app!

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨SHOCKING: Apple just proved that AI models cannot do math. Not advanced math. Grade school math. The kind a 10-year-old solves.

And the way they proved it is devastating.

Apple researchers took the most popular math benchmark in AI — GSM8K, a set of grade-school math problems — and made one change. They swapped the numbers. Same problem. Same logic. Same steps. Different numbers.

Every model's performance dropped. Every single one. 25 state-of-the-art models tested.

But that wasn't the real experiment.

The real experiment broke everything.

They added one sentence to a math problem. One sentence that is completely irrelevant to the answer. It has nothing to do with the math. A human would read it and ignore it instantly.

Here's the actual example from the paper:

"Oliver picks 44 kiwis on Friday. Then he picks 58 kiwis on Saturday. On Sunday, he picks double the number of kiwis he did on Friday, but five of them were a bit smaller than average. How many kiwis does Oliver have?"

The correct answer is 190. The size of the kiwis has nothing to do with the count.

A 10-year-old would ignore "five of them were a bit smaller" because it's obviously irrelevant. It doesn't change how many kiwis there are.

But o1-mini, OpenAI's reasoning model, subtracted 5. It got 185.

Llama did the same thing. Subtracted 5. Got 185.

They didn't reason through the problem. They saw the number 5, saw a sentence that sounded like it mattered, and blindly turned it into a subtraction.

The models do not understand what subtraction means. They see a pattern that looks like subtraction and apply it. That is all.

Apple tested this across all models. They call the dataset "GSM-NoOp" — as in, the added clause is a no-operation. It does nothing. It changes nothing.

The results are catastrophic.

Phi-3-mini dropped over 65%. More than half of its "math ability" vanished from one irrelevant sentence.

GPT-4o dropped from 94.9% to 63.1%.

o1-mini dropped from 94.5% to 66.0%.

o1-preview, OpenAI's most advanced reasoning model at the time, dropped from 92.7% to 77.4%.

Even giving the models 8 examples of the exact same question beforehand, with the correct solution shown each time, barely helped. The models still fell for the irrelevant clause.

This means it's not a prompting problem. It's not a context problem. It's structural.

The Apple researchers also found that models convert words into math operations without understanding what those words mean. They see the word "discount" and multiply. They see a number near the word "smaller" and subtract. Regardless of whether it makes any sense.

The paper's exact words: "current LLMs are not capable of genuine logical reasoning; instead, they attempt to replicate the reasoning steps observed in their training data."

And: "LLMs likely perform a form of probabilistic pattern-matching and searching to find closest seen data during training without proper understanding of concepts."

They also tested what happens when you increase the number of steps in a problem. Performance didn't just decrease. The rate of decrease accelerated. Adding two extra clauses to a problem dropped Gemma2-9b from 84.4% to 41.8%. Phi-3.5-mini from 87.6% to 44.8%. The more thinking required, the more the models collapse.

A real reasoner would slow down and work through it. These models don't slow down. They pattern-match. And when the pattern becomes complex enough, they crash.

This paper was published at ICLR 2025, one of the most prestigious AI conferences in the world.

You are using AI to help you make financial decisions. To check legal documents. To solve problems at work. To help your children with homework. And Apple just proved that the AI is not thinking about any of it. It is pattern matching. And the moment something unexpected shows up in your question, it breaks. It does not tell you it broke. It just quietly gives you the wrong answer with full confidence.

[Sin à Tes Souhaits @sinfromvegas]

Israeli army killed thousands and destroyed an entire town.

[Linda Mamoun @mamoun_linda]

Israel can kill thousands of people, raze entire neighbourhoods, and still manage to keep its name out of the headline.

[Sin à Tes Souhaits @sinfromvegas]

man wore a Blacc KKK robe + said slavery was a choice + went full MAGA and ppl gloss over the harm he has done to blacc ppl.

that’s to say nun of the transphobic shit, diddy aplogism, etc. etc

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Wireless Festival has been cancelled after the Government blocked Kanye West from entering the UK

"Wireless Festival is cancelled and refunds will be issued to all ticket holders. As with every Wireless Festival, multiple stakeholders were consulted in advance of booking YE and no concerns were highlighted at the time.

"Antisemitism in all its forms is abhorrent, and we recognise the real and personal impact these issues have had. As YE said today, he acknowledges that words alone are not enough, and in spite of this still hopes to be given the opportunity to begin a conversation with the Jewish community in the UK"