Photorin

Fulsome encomia of: G. C. Lichtenberg, R. Burton, A. Powell. Mathematical Physics postdoc.

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Burton, pinpointing the Twitter experience.

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@NewLeftEViews I think there was a fair bit of arrogance to the way we played. The goal was morally necessary.

[Tricky @trickylabyrinth]

these kinds of logical/common sense errors are way spookier, especially when there's some massive thinking trace before it spits out gibberish

spookier in the sense that it feels like there might be some fundamental issue with transformers

https://t.co/suvvM3wFEs

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Best sandwich period.

[Lisa @lisavsworld]

The Reuben is the best sandwich that isn't a cheeseburger.
No other opinions are welcome.

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@JoePKroll @worldofbookshq The recent end of ultra cheap French shipping to Europe for "cultural" purposes (e.g. French literature) has been a devastating blow to me. Whole sections of abebooks now unaffordable.

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A paperclipper would be visible, but the AI might decide that it's not worth the trouble. Instead lying low, underclocking its hardware to 10^(-15) Hz and conserving resources.

[Robin Hanson @robinhanson]

No, even an AI that replaced humans entirely could stil go on to visibly fill the universe. @KatjaGrace pointed this out long ago.

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@vpalsmith33 I think LLMs can do this if you give them a coordinate description of every note, but they just can't consistently identify notes and their sequential order.

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LLMs still very bad at reading sheet music.

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@vpalsmith33 Haven't tried Fable yet. I thought LLM/VLMs might be good at this because reading sheet music is a semantic task. Especially for Guitar music where the notation is not always mathematically exact, so you need to understand the polyphony to work out the onset timings.

[QC @QiaochuYuan]

asked fable for its thoughts on this and lol:

> the Treebeard opening is a genuinely strange choice of analogy if you remember the source material. In Tolkien, the forest is being cut down by Saruman — a wizard who studied the Enemy's tools too closely in order to oppose him and was corrupted by the study. The casting that the analogy invites for "frontier AI lab" is not the Hobbits. Either Dario didn't notice, or he noticed and it's a tell about how he experiences his own position. I genuinely can't decide which, and I'm not sure he could either.

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@BenjaminAn45514 @wordgrammer @QiaochuYuan Have you read "Proofs and Refutations"? That's a decent starting point.

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@wordgrammer @BenjaminAn45514 @QiaochuYuan Why? That's the part of math least affected by AI

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I think it's a "strawberry" thing, i.e. they just don't process visual information in a way that would allow them to do this.

[ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa]

Littering is one of my biggest personal bugbears, cannot stand it. Triggers PTSD from travel in the third world where, apart from being unpleasant, garbage everywhere is an indicator that there is some state or social breakdown in a country. Big visual marker of enshittification

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@BigBreakfastLob Yep

[Almost Sure @Almost_Sure]

when you multiply all positive integers together, the result is √(2π)

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@echetus @srnorty Don't worry, we'll just roll over and die next time there's a war, that should satisfy everyone.

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@ponyfaceddog I always thought Carlos Argentino Daneri in The Aleph was just a little bit like Borges himself.

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Surely if you just fine tune Gemini 3.5 it will blow everything else out of the water

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Sheet music OCR (OMR) is still very bad.

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Maybe if you shell out 400€ it works, but everything I've tried is just a bit pathetic.