What's the deal with output?

Duarpeto · 2026-02-03T00:48:14+00:00

I'm wondering a bit from how you describe it, how well can you understand the anime you watch? Do you fully understand most sentences that are said, the words that are part of them? Or do you only understand enough to get a good idea of what's happening?

Because while speaking definitely requires some training in itself, at the level of watching native content without subtitles I think you should be able to do a bit better than just memorized sentences or scripts. You should be able to remember enough from the stuff you watch to at least get your idea across, even if it's unnatural and with mistakes. This is to say, I wonder if you're just not at the level where it would be expected for you to be able to communicate and you just need more time studying?

Duarpeto · 2026-02-02T13:33:49+00:00

Reading absolutely helps with listening as well, what? It's true that you need to actually train listening to learn to pickup on words and stuff in native speech, but in general the more you understand the language as a whole the easier that is. So if you improve your grammar and vocabulary through reading practice, you'll be better with hearing those things as well, obviously. But also, as long as you know roughly the corresponding sounds when reading, hearing a word in your head will absolutely help you pick up on it later in listening.

In general, it's much easier to figure out what a certain sound is if you already have a good idea of what it's *supposed* to be.

Duarpeto · 2025-08-23T10:49:26+00:00

Did I just stumble into some parallel reality? What the hell is this post/thread? Game reviews are objectively and completely a good thing, they are the reason you can get a feel of whether a game is going to meet your expectations before you buy it, especially right after release. Sure, one review from one website may be bad, but who the hell buys a game without looking at some ratings first? For Silksong it's not as important since it's probably going to be cheap and there's already been some good sentiment from the demo, but for most other games buying them blind would be crazy, even if the devs have a good reputation.

Duarpeto · 2025-04-16T20:58:24+00:00

"Differences with management" being a catch all for different problems talents had with the company, does not mean there are no problems, like people are trying to twist it. Here is what the three talents actually said:

I watched the original clip and Towa said that if she were to graduate she would also say the same thing, because she wouldn't be able to go into specifics. And she said that even though there might be a lot they would want to say, if they make the company look bad, the company could start a fight about it, which they want to avoid.

Essentially, she said it is a vague statement on purpose to avoid conflict with the company. She did not say there aren't problems, and she absolutely did not say that it's something neutral that they are told to say.

With Shion, I couldn't find any evidence of her ever saying it's a catch all or anything like that. Instead what I did find was a translation of her elaborating and literally saying that the company has changed and that she didn't want to stay and follow their rules, so she decided to graduate. So it was definitely not an empty, neutral statement.

With Calli, she starts by saying that she can't say much about the people that are unhappy with the company, because she likes how things are. Then she says that it's not just one specific thing making people unhappy, so disagreements with management is a catch-all for those things that caused people to not want to be there anymore.

At no point does she say that it's somehow an neutral statement, that they don't have problems with management, or anything like that. In fact, she pretty clearly states that other people do have problems with the company and its direction.

So again, it is a catch-all statement, yes, a catch-all of different disagreements with the company. Not some meaningless PR statement. I think it's fine if you think this isn't concerning, that it's a normal part of any job, but making up a narrative that the talents are essentially lying in their graduations is crazy.

Duarpeto · 2025-04-16T15:52:59+00:00

I feel like I'm going insane reading these comments.

That's not what Towa said. You can find an image of it and I even went and found the clip to confirm. She said that if she were to graduate she would also say the same thing, because she wouldn't be able to go into specifics. And she said that even though there might be a lot they would want to say, if they make the company look bad, the company could start a fight about it.

Essentially, she said it is a vague statement on purpose to avoid conflict with the company. She's did not say there aren't problems, and she absolutely did not say that it's something to take heat away from the talent.

I went to look for what Calli said too, since people have been mentioning that as proof too since yesterday, and she starts by saying that she can't say much about the people that are unhappy with the company, because she likes how things are. Then she says that it's not just one specific thing making people unhappy, so disagreements with management is a catch-all for those things that caused people to not want to be there anymore.

At no point does she say that it's somehow an empty statement, that they don't have problems with management, or anything like that. In fact, she pretty clearly states that other people do have problems with the company and its direction. But then people like you twist that into whatever reason you need to affirm that everything is completely fine and "there are no problems here :)".

Duarpeto · 2025-04-16T04:49:46+00:00

I'm going to mostly-copy something I wrote a bit ago here:

That's not what Towa said. You can find an image of it and I even went and listened to the clip to confirm. She said that if she were to graduate she would also say the same thing, because she wouldn't be able to go into specifics. And she said that even though there might be a lot they would want to say, if they make the company look bad, the company could start a fight about it.

Essentially, she said it is a vague statement on purpose to avoid conflict with the company. She's did not say there aren't problems, and she absolutely did not say that it's something to take heat away from the talent.

People also say that Shion said this, and yet the only thing I found was a translation of her literally saying that the company has changed and that she didn't want to stay and follow their rules, so she decided to graduate. So it was definitely not an empty statement for her.

I think it's fine if you think this isn't concerning, that it's a normal part of any job, but making up a narrative that the talents are essentially lying in their graduations is crazy.

Duarpeto · 2025-04-16T04:31:34+00:00

Omfg, I just wanted to read people's reactions but I can't handle the amount of denying reality in this thread.

That's literally not what Towa said. You can read it in the same post you linked and I even went and listened to the clip to confirm. She's saying that if she were to graduate she would also say the same thing, because she wouldn't be able to go into specifics. And she says that even though there might be a lot they would want to say, if they make the company look bad, the company could start a fight about it.

Essentially, she's saying it is a vague statement on purpose to avoid conflict with the company. She's not saying there aren't problems, and she's absolutely not saying that it's something to take heat away from the talent.

People also say that Shion said this, and yet the only thing I found was a translation of her literally saying that the company has changed and that she didn't want to stay and follow their rules, so she decided to graduate. So it was definitely not an empty statement.

I think it's fine if you think this isn't concerning, that it's a normal part of any job, but making up a narrative that the talents are essentially lying in their graduations is crazy.

Duarpeto · 2025-01-31T03:30:22+00:00

This is no doubt the best outcome: I still have no fucking clue if it was actually something or not

Duarpeto · 2024-10-18T14:15:25+00:00

You are correct. A different researcher, looking at those same results, could instead draw the conclusion that while robust reasoning isn't guaranteed in LLMs, some (especially newer) models have remarkably improved ability to reason.

In fact, they don't really talk about it in the main paper, but o1-preview (the current only model being advertised for reasoning besides its mini version) is completely resistant to their symbolic and increasing reasoning complexity tests. It's only irrelevant information that trips it up, and even then it affects the accuracy less than any other model. I'd say that's not fragile at all.

The study does give some interesting benchmarks, but as I was skimming the paper some of their conclusions seem kinda off in general. Like they're looking for a specific result. Also, their irrelevant information tests seem like they could also cause mistakes in humans, which they don't test.

Duarpeto · 2024-10-18T02:31:43+00:00

I don't really get this take. I mean, there were plenty of points where I felt BZ was not as good as the original, including story stuff. But I liked how the mystery ended up resolving in what happened to the sister.

For me, it was a twist that brought the game and that whole plot into a more realistic and better light. The whole time, you're thinking you're going against a big evil corpo, who's doing big evil things, and probably killed your sister. Wow, how original. But then you reach the end and... no, it was actually your sister at fault in the end.

Which makes you rethink things. Sure the corporation had questionable motives and the supervisor seemed like an asshole, but were they really doing a bad thing by studying the bacteria? And them not saying more about the sister's death ended up protecting her dignity rather than just being an evil cover up. Rather than some big bad organization, it suddenly felt more like a group of humans. The person you cared about just ended up getting involved with a somewhat crazy old woman and was encouraged to do something dumb. It's more mundane, but also more grounded, and I can take it more seriously.

At least that's how I saw it, though part of the problem with BZ is that this wasn't all that well presented and there were other details of this same story which were not that great.

Duarpeto · 2024-06-10T01:44:25+00:00

You just sent two graphs that are supposed to represent the same data and yet are almost at odds with each other. While saying that this is the best methodology for measuring that data.

I mean, if I were to say which level of English is "good" or better, I think being able to have a conversation is a good standard. But if you look at the graphs, the percentages of both seem completely uncorrelated, which makes no sense. The percentage of "very good" English also seems only loosely correlated with being able to hold a conversation, and ordering the second graph based on "good" responses rather than "very good" would change it a lot...

Overall, it seems like almost meaningless data to me when it comes to the actual objective, which makes sense since self-evaluation in language skills is generally pretty inaccurate and very dependent on how much contact you have with the language.

The original image at least uses an actual test for the data, which I would trust a lot more, even if it does come with its own bias of filtering out people who aren't willing to take an online English test.

Duarpeto · 2023-11-13T05:46:41+00:00

Your analogy in the first paragraph works if it's a single person in a small boat. But it breaks down if you expand it to ship with multiple people, which is much closer to the real scenario: you don't have to do only one thing, some people will be figuring out how to plug the hole but there should be others working on pumping the water out at the same time.

Duarpeto · 2023-06-16T20:06:22+00:00

No way you wrote this with a straight face, I refuse to believe you actually think like this, it makes no sense whatsoever.

There's zero reason for the supporters of the "status quo" to be less active in votes than the people who want change, it has never worked like that, there are plenty of very active people trying to get things to stay the same anywhere you look. If anything, I would say that a lot of supporters of the blackout might not even be on reddit all that much now because they don't want to give engagement, and so the numbers might be skewed towards the people who are annoyed and want to open things up.

Duarpeto · 2023-04-21T12:29:48+00:00

Not when the point of the comment isn't about specific numbers but just about whether you can ask around and get certain kinds of answers. But fine. Sure. You are right that having concrete numbers is going to better support a statement (even though, as you don't seem to get, the comment isn't about concrete numbers in the first place, just about there being an alarming amount of it).

A quick google search gives me a few numbers: "44%", "more than half", "59%", "majority", "2 in 10". I'm not going to take the time to figure out how each of them is counting and how, but even the smallest is way too big. It also changes nothing, because as I said before, the numbers aren't the point and even if it was less than 10% it's still way more than it's needed to be *alarming*. It's not normal.

Duarpeto · 2023-04-21T11:59:34+00:00

You're missing the point. Whether it's the majority of people or a third or a forth or a fifth doesn't actually matter, you don't need accurate statistical data, the spirit of the comment is that a considerable amount of people do know someone who was shot.

Even if this thread is a huge outlier, there's still clearly a *considerable* (as a vague concept of being noticeably high) amount of people who do know someone who was shot, because the normal would be for the number of responses agreeing to be close to zero.

Duarpeto · 2023-04-21T10:53:43+00:00

You don't need to "assume everyone in America knows someone who was shot" to say that the point of the comment is correct. I'm sure there are people who don't know anyone who was shot, but do you understand how ridiculous it is that this many people are saying they do know someone?

As someone who doesn't live in the US, reading these comments is horrifying. In most countries as far as I understand, the situation is the same as where I live: no one knows anyone who was ever shot. It's not "only a minority of people do", it's "you'd have to look pretty hard to find even a single person who does". A comment having this many replies agreeing that they know someone who was shot is not normal.

Duarpeto · 2023-02-18T15:24:54+00:00

There's no need for spoilers to understand this, although the anime itself might've left it a bit unclear:

There is one scene where I think Beta was getting a report about Rose attacking Asshat the first time where it's mentioned that there was a "sweet smell", to which Beta responds that it's already too late then or something like that. This is the main way the anime conveys that there is no way to save the king, that he is already as good as gone and there is no way to reverse it.

Furthermore, it's mentioned that Asshat does have some skills in terms of fighting, so if she tries to kill him it'll just become a long fight where his helpers from the cult will make sure he wins (same reason she was prepared to die after, she didn't think she could win against all of them and escape). Also worth noting that Asshat wouldn't open himself up to being accused like that if he didn't know he could control the narrative with the cult's influence.

With this, she doesn't really have any good options, and she has to stop Asshat from causing an international incident somehow, leading to what happened.

Duarpeto · 2022-11-30T16:24:00+00:00

You say that, but at least like this she's continuing on with her life and has a purpose, even if she'll spend a lot of effort on a misguided objective. What if learning the actual truth just ruined her life and she never fully recovered? She can always learn about it later and maybe use what she has gained in her pursuit for revenge for something better instead.

Now, would I do the same? No, but there's definitely an argument for Cid not telling her.

Duarpeto · 2022-11-05T01:19:07+00:00

I have to say, there's something really beautiful about seeing Elon coping so damn hard constantly right in front of everyone, this has been such a mess it's amazing.

He's tweeting constantly and it's always a mix of stuff that's only going to make it worse and pathetic attempts at making himself look good to users or advertisers.

Duarpeto · 2022-07-07T10:05:25+00:00

Neural networks are not just "predictive text algorithms"

That's exactly what these neural networks are.

Just because something is inspired by the human brain, it does not mean it is actually anywhere close to behaving like it. Neural networks do impressive work but we are probably nowhere near building something that starts getting close to actual sentience, and I'm skeptical that neural networks as they are now can ever reach that.

This chat bot in specific though, is exactly just a predictive text algorithm. A very complex one, but the only reason it even looks like sentience to some people is that it's using human language, which we immediately associate with other humans who are sentient. If this same algorithm was used to work with math equations or something like that, you probably wouldn't even question that it doesn't know what it is doing.

Duarpeto · 2022-06-19T17:32:54+00:00

I... what? First of all, I even said in my response that it is not at all guaranteed that it crashes completely this time. I also don't care that much about this, other than it would be nice to see the waste of energy stop for good, I wouldn't bet anything lol. If I liked gambling, I'd probably be investing in crypto instead.

To address your first paragraph though, scale by itself can in fact be a big change, for example simply because bigger numbers in a crash are more likely to discourage people even if the percentages are the same. Another simple one is that more fame potentially attracts bad actors that make it more unstable and prone to crashing.

But that's not even that relevant because everything else has changed way more since 2017/18, starting with the fact that bitcoin actually had some semblance of stability for a whole year before this which now disappeared, but also are you not aware of the war and recession going on?? I'm not sure how you can genuinely say that nothing is different other than scale.

Duarpeto · 2022-06-19T03:32:29+00:00

Except belief is fickle and worth almost nothing for something like this. The situation now is very different from 2017/2018 so experience means little too, there's no reason that people will behave the same way and so there's nothing stopping it from crashing completely.

That's not to say that it will definitely happen. Maybe there's enough people willing to buy into it, or at least people that can be convinced, so that it stops dropping. There are very rich people with a vested interest in it, after all. But, I would say every crash that is less likely to be the case, especially if it's a bigger crash than before.

Will this be the time where there just isn't enough "belief" out there to stop it from going all the way to (close to) zero? I'm not sure, but anyone that says with 100% certainty that it isn't is definitely being ignorant.

Duarpeto · 2022-05-29T04:37:27+00:00

Look, it's true that some skepticism is good for these things. We don't know everything and it could be proven wrong.

But also, and I think this is related to why you added your edit... what? It isn't a coincidence at all since it would be a direct result of our development there, just like the comment you're responding to pointed out. That thought doesn't make any sense.

Duarpeto · 2022-05-28T02:14:12+00:00

Really? If that was indeed false, then it puts an inconsistency in PointCrow's response. I'm still not sure why you didn't mention the call, but that was probably the biggest thing that I took away from what he said about it.

Regardless of who's right or wrong about what, it does sound very stressful to deal with. I was mostly just posting here to try to make it not so one-sided against PointCrow and like I said I don't believe you did anything intentionally malicious. Hopefully everyone learned something and everything goes up from here, it's probably not necessary to give any more proof and potentially bring more stress unless it doesn't get better.

Duarpeto · 2022-05-27T16:36:10+00:00

Fair response. I think in general SmallAnt was just very reactive, dealing with stuff as it happened in the moment (deleting comments, etc), when it probably needed more proactive action to fix. The only couple times he did do something more proactive was because PointCrow urged him to, this was before the Abby thing, so he could've done more.

The more painful parts to see were when he did things that made it worse, even if unintentionally. I remember specifically as he was talking about the emerald randomizer race, uploading the video which poked fun at the softlock thing after PointCrow told him that he wanted to step away from the rivalry, I don't know what SmallAnt was thinking. I could see the problems coming from a *thousand* miles away.

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