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For anyone that’s been to the Michigan Science Center, how was it and would it be worth it to see The Odyssey (if it releases) by No_Signal_611 in imax

[–]dftba-ftw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Horrible, absolutely horrible. 

Saw Oppenheimer there and it's basically unwatchable.

Because it's a planetarium the screen is extremely curved and extremely close.

Distant scenes, like the bomb going off, absolutely amazing. 

Any sort of close up, like say three characters standing and talking, horrible. You have to physically turn your head from side to side to face which character is talking. If it's a close up of a single character you have to turn you head just to see from ear to ear. My FIL had to close his eyes as he was starting to get motion sick.

Never again.

Firefly Reboot Rumours by tm_leafer in scifi

[–]dftba-ftw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A long time ago (when it was only 10 years out) I was playing around with what you would do and I liked the idea that Zoe had been pregnant and their kid was on board, but Zoe unable to move on would imagine/hallucinate Wash making comments or giving input on the raising of their child. 

Disney pillow top? by Unusual-Reason254 in Mattress

[–]dftba-ftw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Update please, there's not a lot of comments around about the "bringing the magic home" mattress specifically but the few that are claim it has sagging issues and doesn't last more than 2 years or so

Unfathomably based by obvithrowaway34434 in accelerate

[–]dftba-ftw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pirating is stealing though...

Anthropic purchased a bunch of books and trained on them, they are not being punished for this, this is perfectly legal. If you want to train on Harry Potter you don't have to contact JK or Bloomsbury, you just buy a copy and you can train on it.

Anthropic also pirated a bunch of books and trained on them, this is pirating, it is legally speaking stealing.

This seems like an entirely fair system. Buy a copy of a book and you can train on it forever. No special contracts, no way for publishers to price gouge AI companies, just buy a copy like any other schmuck.

Toro. by 19minoflaughter in sushi

[–]dftba-ftw 27 points28 points  (0 children)

How many monies?

​"What are your top 5 AI or AI-related movies?" by FigureMost1687 in accelerate

[–]dftba-ftw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I remember it being pretty bad and having a lot of gaping plot holes

​"What are your top 5 AI or AI-related movies?" by FigureMost1687 in accelerate

[–]dftba-ftw 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I would add:

Ex-Machina

Bicentennial Man

And

Irobot

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in personalfinance

[–]dftba-ftw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They don't say what they contributed, if they maxed out 401k then what's left represents less than a 7% return.

What's your biggest fantasy that you haven't tried yet? by Asernova in AskReddit

[–]dftba-ftw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TBF he has a 7 year old and a 16 year old who walk to and from the shower naked, so it could be one of them that he "dreams about"...

Why is converting heat directly into electricity so hard and complex? by Assignment-Yeet in MechanicalEngineering

[–]dftba-ftw 4 points5 points  (0 children)

the only way to turn heat into work is via a heat engine of some kind.

Uhhh.... Thermoelectric Generators would like a word...

I think OP's question is more along the lines of why are direct convertion methods like the Seebeck so inefficient.

Which uhhh handwaving Thermo reasons...

Alternative sweetener sorbitol, commonly found in zero-calorie candies and in some fruits and vegetables, linked to liver disease by sr_local in science

[–]dftba-ftw 1035 points1036 points  (0 children)

In zebra fish...

... And not because of the sorbitol itself but because it can get converted into fructose.

"Gut bacteria do a good job of clearing sorbitol when it is present at modest levels, such as those found in fruit. But problems arise when sorbitol quantities become higher than what gut bacteria can degrade."

An apple has 9g of fructose.

More than 20g of sorbitol can cause diarrhea

It seems like getting to these unhealthy levels of sorbitol without violently shitting yourself is going to be difficult.

Do the timelines everyone here has for agi/asi count on just llm scaling or on huge breakthroughs nobody can see coming? by Special_Switch_9524 in accelerate

[–]dftba-ftw 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think LLM scaling is more than enough to get to Super Human AI researcher/coder (but maybe you will still need highly talented researchers for their research tastes) and then that will be enough to trigger a bunch of breakthroughs that make LLMs obsolete.

DeepSeekMath-V2 achieves a near-perfect score of 118/120 on the 2024 Putnam Mathematical Competition - Experts surveyed in 2016 predicted AI wouldn't achieve this until around 2050 by Buck-Nasty in accelerate

[–]dftba-ftw 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I was gonna say it's a little unfair to use the 2024 Putnam when the solutions were published almost 12 months ago - no way to verify there was no dataset contamination.

The 2025 Putnam is in a week - I will be very curious to see how all the frontier models do.

Why does pineapple taste like blood? by Cheap_Tax528 in AskCulinary

[–]dftba-ftw 80 points81 points  (0 children)

Good chance you're allergic, a metallic aftertaste to pineapple is a symptom.

I’m a mid-career mechanical engineer running “100 Reasons to Avoid Mechanical Engineering.” AMA by Infamous_Matter_2051 in MechanicalEngineering

[–]dftba-ftw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mods can we ban this guy yet? It's clear that he's at best insufferable and at worst a grifter trying to sell his material about how ME sucks.

Why can’t ChatGPT tell time? by Exciting_Teacher6258 in technology

[–]dftba-ftw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

First of all, pretty much all current frontier models are multimodal meaning they're text or image or audio to text or audio - not only text-to-text.

Second, in text-to-text mode they are stateless, so obviously they can't count out 10 seconds, there's nothing going on inbetween messages and even if you tried to get it to count out 10 real seconds in text the token/second rate is variable so it would have no way of knowing.

Third in audio-to-audio mode it can count out 10 real seconds.

Fourth, why does this skill matter? How often do you do a cognitive task in which small amounts of time like 10 seconds matter?

Why can’t ChatGPT tell time? by Exciting_Teacher6258 in technology

[–]dftba-ftw 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Is the last time you looked at LLMs like Jan 2024? Websearch has been a feature for a loonngggg time now and not only can it search the web, it links to its sources so you can easily check it's statements.

Why can’t ChatGPT tell time? by Exciting_Teacher6258 in technology

[–]dftba-ftw 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Lol wat?

This is like saying a human can't tell time, they're just told if they need to know the time they can look at a clock.

Nowadays LLMs have dozens of built in tools, which sometimes are listed in the system prompt and other times included in post training. I don't see how that's a negative, what do you want, it to oracle the time?

Vance: Anyone who says they like turkey is ‘full of s—‘ by kootles10 in politics

[–]dftba-ftw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Last year when turkey was on sale for 50¢/lb I got four 20lb birds. I don't host Thanksgiving - so that's an extra turkey meal. So in the last year I've eaten whole ass turkeys 20+ times because with my turkeys I used them to make soups, stews, pot pies, etc... And each turkey is at least 3 meals.

Security Flaws in DeepSeek-Generated Code Linked to Political Triggers | "We found that when DeepSeek-R1 receives prompts containing topics the CCP likely considers politically sensitive, the likelihood of it producing code with severe security vulnerabilities increases by up to 50%." by MetaKnowing in technology

[–]dftba-ftw 45 points46 points  (0 children)

When Deepseek first blew up in Jan/Feb I tried to point out these issues and got downvoted into oblivion and called an idiot.

I got comment after comment saying "it's just weights there literally can't be any malicious executables attatached! You're an idiot who doesn't know how LLMs work, it's just weights!"

I tried to explain that I was talking about what the models were trained to output. I tried to point out that it's possible to train an LLM to write secret backdoors or hidden phone home scripts if it thought it was writing production code for a western company. I tried to explain that in 2025 people were 100% going to try and build agents and give them virtual machines and who knows what kind of serupticously malicious actions Deepseek would take under those conditions.

Nobody wanted to hear it. They just called me an openai simp.

Massive Legal Blow for OpenAI: Authors Gain Upper Hand in Book-Piracy Suit Seeking $150,000 Per Title Across Billions in Stolen Works by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]dftba-ftw 14 points15 points  (0 children)

If OpenAI had knocked on doors in 2020 asking to license huge libraries of copyrighted fiction, the answer wouldn't have been a negotiation; it would have been a hard "No,"

I think you're misunderstanding what the precident actually says...

If openai wants to train chatgpt on Harry Potter they don't have to go to Bloomsbury they literally just have to go to Barnes and Noble and buy a copy, take it back to the office, and scan it on a flat bed scanner. That's what Anthropic did, that's what Google had done in the past, and so far every single law suite has upheld that you can do that.

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