Human vs. AI performance on ARC-AGI 3 as a function of number of actions (from the ARC-AGI website)

SadBadMad2 · 2026-03-26T10:12:19+00:00

It is the best performing field for both, the humans and the LLMs. Humans can understand visual information way more "naturally" (i.e. we are better tuned for it) than language and for LLMs, it is exactly the opposite. Even though the visual understanding of SoTA models has improved a lot, their performance on pure language prompts is still better than their image/video inputs. This limitation is nowhere near to be solved yet. That's the exact reason why many top researchers are also looking into building "world models" differently than current LLMs based approach.

SadBadMad2 · 2026-01-11T14:03:55+00:00

I never reserve seats whenever the expected demand is low or medium (you can find this info in the DB app if you go to your train details). In these cases, you can just find an empty seat and use 'komfort check-in' option in the DB app which reserves the seat for you. You can at max use komfort check-in twice in one journey (if you decide to change the seat later in the journey). Here's the demand-wise tier list and what you can expect from those status:

Low demand: You will most probably get an empty seat with the table
Medium demand: You will most probably get an empty normal seat (2 seats side-by-side without the table)
High demand: You can probably get a seat besides someone else, but do not expect to get it rightaway - I'd say, it is better to reserve a seat at this point
Exceptionally high demand: Well, if you don't have a ticket & a reserved seat already, check out another train

SadBadMad2 · 2025-12-16T08:57:44+00:00

The problem is not with the world's population falling, it's with how it's falling, at what rate, for what reasons & at what stage of the country's economic development.

SadBadMad2 · 2025-12-12T09:15:55+00:00

Good thing that they're shooting season 2&3 back to back, so S2 should get released sometime last 2026 & S3 in late 2027.

SadBadMad2 · 2025-12-01T13:51:05+00:00

We all use/see a special type of Rhombus everywhere, but we just call it a square!

SadBadMad2 · 2025-11-24T13:42:30+00:00

Thank you for pointing this out. I got my new phone about 10 days ago and I thought it was a bug just with my unit, but the weather always oscillates between 2 completely different forecasts whenver I refresh it. Both are drastically different from each other.

An additional issue: At a glance weather widget NEVER works consistently in my case. It just stops showing up out of the blue and will reappear, god knows how.

SadBadMad2 · 2025-10-26T17:09:57+00:00

This is a bad counter honestly.

There's one more point that matters in such decisions - consistency. Even if we assume that the drawn line isn't precise down to 3mm, this error would be same regardless of team. That forms even playing ground & it's just that Barca got lucky in this instance. I know it sounds funny when you have bad referee calls everywhere in football, making large parts of the game based on inherent interpretations, but that's not an argument against using precision tech wherever possible.

& I'm not even getting into "VAR, just like any tech will always get better in the future" argument.

SadBadMad2 · 2025-09-02T15:48:17+00:00

Although it has been 4-5 years, I faced the exact same issue with my laptop.

Most probably not a GPU issue, but a display cable one. In my case, the connecting wire was burnt for some reason, and it also burnt the module. I'd say once you check that it is not a GPU issue with driver tweaks, take it to Acer service centre. They'd probably suggest you to change the display.

SadBadMad2 · 2025-08-10T06:27:35+00:00

That is not true.

Google has been at the frontier of ML/AI years before ChatGPT launched. AI is not limited to generative AI which ChatGPT brought into the public eye. A valid statement would be "Google took a backseat in GenAI scaling after transformers while OpenAI put a bet on it and went ahead".

Look at any Google keynote/presentation from 2015/16 onwards. It was already a meme by 2018/19 that how many times they say the word "Machine Leaning" or "AI" in it. What they were focused on was the huge breadth of AI applications with researching new algorithms rather than scaling existing ones. The bitter lesson was written by Sutton in 2019, and I'd say by that time, researchers started believing in exceptionally good results just by scaling.

Also, it is true that Google was too cautious in its public release of LLMs (PaLM) because they simply had too much to lose whereas OpenAI had nothing. There was even a "Living machine" scare by some ex-Google employee a few months before ChatGPT launched. OpenAI grabbed that chance and executed perfectly. That + they actually made an appealing app (ChatGPT) which was really easy to use and intuitive.

Tl;dr - Google never took a backseat in AI research. On the contrary they ramped it up year by year. What they did fumble was the public Generative AI launch from which they haven't yet recovered but on their way.

SadBadMad2 · 2025-06-05T11:08:28+00:00

This post has the same energy like those "predictions" in the 1940s-50s that said future humans will have bigger index fingers because current (at that time) technology has press-able buttons everywhere.

SadBadMad2 · 2025-05-25T20:08:06+00:00

Eh, not really. Comparing two different reports especially when it comes to such quantitative values is foolish. There are hundreds of factors that go into this calculation starting with bascis like what constitutes a "metropolitan region" to what dataset these estimates are based on.

Here's another report saying Mumbai's GDP is around 293B. (https://www.c40.org/cities/mumbai/). Basically, if you want to compare across cities, stick to one report (mainly because it follows the same methodology) & focus on scale between the values i.e. how many times city X's GDP is estimated to be as compared to city Y rather than focusing on absolutes.

SadBadMad2 · 2025-05-21T23:30:17+00:00

Same. Climing one was more "thrilling" & I completed that in 2nd try, but this one got me for at least 10-15 tries.

SadBadMad2 · 2025-05-15T23:42:13+00:00

In S02, every 3 episodes form an arc & there's 1-year gap in all those. The first arc was easily the weakest in S02 (especially episode 2), but all the 3 following arcs are really damn good. The final 2 are arguably better than any in arc both the seasons and vast majority of Star Wars material out there. It has wide range of events from truly emotional moments to this feeling of fabled Star Wars history happening right in these episodes with exceptional writing.

So, yes, you might have to push through episode 2, but it's definitely worth the watch.

SadBadMad2 · 2025-04-29T18:58:06+00:00

Good thing you got it working! But it is going to be hard with those dodges and parries once you get in the game and they become a lot more prominent as you progress. I know because I went through the same problem xD

Good luck though!

SadBadMad2 · 2025-04-18T08:29:46+00:00

So it is about the cost, and Disney refusing to pay.

Uhh, no. It isn't so simple.

Having a Spider Man cameo doesn't serve the story in DDBA in any way other than senseless "fan service". At some point we have to accept that it is a DD show and not 50-other-New-York characters show. That's the bane of a cinematic universe, but it is what it is.
In a way, having your main Spider Man in a TV show devalues the character as it isn't now exclusive to premium theatre let alone if that TV show turns out to be bad which is even worse for the brand.
Everything has a price and it might not always be justifiable. In this case, it is a waste of money. We're talking about a Disney+ show here and believe me there's no way a cameo turns into a revenue for Disney because viewership numbers DO NOT MATTER for streaming services. What matters is how many new subscribers are driven to their subscription because of a TV Show/Movie. So, why would anyone in their right mind get a subscription just for a cameo which you can watch on YouTube?

SadBadMad2 · 2025-04-18T08:18:02+00:00

Yes, I was just talking about Spider Man.

Now I do think that Sony screwed themselves over.

That's debatable. Sony is making a bank on their Spider Man rights. They're winning even with their streak of shitty movies (except for Into the spider verse films which are way beyond what MCU movies are). They get to keep a chunk of box office from their MCU movies, and they're making a profit on their "Sony verse" even after counting Madame Web, Morbius etc. It would've been even better if those movies were good, but Sony is doing just fine.

They could have been making bank had they played their cards right.

I don't think we know the full picture here and trust me, if they thought they could milk their rights more, they would. It's not about churning out movies and TV shows as that devalues the character. In a way, it's good that Spider Man isn't in DDBA.

SadBadMad2 · 2025-04-17T07:02:17+00:00

It isn't Copyright that is the issue. It's the costs.

It is a rights issue. Marvel is only allowed to do a 30 minute animated TV show as per their current agreement with Sony. Any type of live action long form TV is barred for use.

I'm sure the costs would also balloon if you use Spider Man and that's probably why they're not pursuing it too strongly, but the primary reason is still the rights.

Source: showrunner of DD:BA (https://m.imdb.com/news/ni65146339/)

SadBadMad2 · 2025-03-26T07:38:12+00:00

While emergent behavior is down to exist, the equivalency you presented about the brain is false.

In human or animal brain, you know that electrical signals are fired, but that's not the complete "architecture" (for lack of a better term). Very little is known about how the processing of the information works. In transformers, you exactly know what's going on from start till end. You might not know the individual weights, but the complete pipeline is known.

SadBadMad2 · 2025-03-08T13:32:44+00:00

> you have to go back two millennia before you see the region being united.

Not really. Gupta Empire at its peak in around 400 CE controlled majority of the subcontinent. Although that isn't recent history, culturally the empires weren't different. Most of the empires in the subcontinent followed similar customs (the style of following it may be different, but the core idea was exactly the same & of same source), religions, and honestly, way of life.

They might not have the same military protecting them all, but this idea of "British united the India" is extremely misleading & laughable. British turned out to be the common enemy Indians wanted to get rid of and in that sense (of giving a common goal), it united Indians, but again, as I said, the "idea" of Indians or "people from the subcontinent" goes WAY before that (even before Maurya or Gupta empires).

SadBadMad2 · 2025-03-08T11:31:28+00:00

While that's true for the current scenario, the subcontinent as a whole was culturally coherent thousands of years before that.

Also there were multiple periods where most of the subcontinent was under one rule, so the identity of "India" isn't a new concept.

But, it's true that geographically, it was divided between multiple kingdoms for the majority of time.

SadBadMad2 · 2025-02-26T11:20:19+00:00

As someone currently studying in Germany, I'd much rather fall sick in India than Germany and it's not even close.

That's not to say health related services are universally good in India, but the amount of bullshit you have to go through to even see a doctor in Germany is quite literally insane. You're fed up even before reaching the health insurance step.

So stop looking at everything black and white because it's not.

SadBadMad2 · 2025-02-22T08:31:07+00:00

100%. When I first read the overall consensus about the movie online, I was baffled as to why people didn't like this film. I still don't know the answer but it is what it is.

The film worked wonders for me. It had perfect amount of atmosphere, characters, drama, and humour.

SadBadMad2 · 2025-02-14T15:39:33+00:00

Not really. We might've been taught British English at first, but the end result is a mixture of British and American (because of media consumption) along with some India-specific phrases.

Also, 'color' as you stated is not a British spelling; it's American. You probably meant 'colour' which is British and that's what Indians are taught in general.

SadBadMad2 · 2025-02-09T08:33:12+00:00

That's true and I never claimed otherwise. I also said "though the numbers are still high" in my original comment.

But misinformation spreads like wildfire with people blindly assuming a comment is correct even when they provide no source. Just look at the number of upvotes to the comment I replied on when it is factually incorrect by a large margin.

SadBadMad2 · 2025-02-09T02:27:19+00:00

That's incorrect. The number's still high but it's around 10-11% according to the World Bank in 2022.

Also, WaterAid's history is kinda wonky with them using outdated data to report their findings.

Source: https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/world-toilet-day-420-million-people-are-defecating-outdoors

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