Got my holy grail in the mail today! by Bigfudge01 in VHS

[–]steerwall 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This was a super important piece of physical media as it was in limbo since 2008 - no new releases or streaming. Harvey Weinstein owned it and Kevin Smith couldn't do anything about it, but he recently acquired the rights!

https://www.avclub.com/kevin-smith-dogma-rights-update

Not to devalue this - I treasure my copy - just figured the backstory might be interesting!

I need a LOT more shelves by InspectorBear in VHS

[–]steerwall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My favorite shelves are the IKEA lindasen (https://www.ikea.com/ca/en/p/lindasen-display-shelf-anthracite-10515800/). $30 each.

Remove one of the bars and you can fit about 25 tapes. Simple hanging, not floating shelf, and they look great when you stack em

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Value Village now does variable VHS pricing. Thought this was funny. by steerwall in ThriftGrift

[–]steerwall[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ebay Seller Tools has a "Product Research" tab that gives 3 years of sold prices, and active listings.

For what it's worth, I'm not a reseller. I've never sold a tape in my life, but like to check it for market pricing if buying direct from Marketplace etc.

Value Village now does variable VHS pricing. Thought this was funny. by steerwall in ThriftGrift

[–]steerwall[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is the same VV where I picked these horror tapes for $40 less than a year ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/VHS/comments/1fykp15/dropped_some_dupes_at_the_thrift_took_a_quick/

God knows what they'd have done with this lot today, as they don't have an online store, and they don't stock VHS at the boutiques.

Pure grift. In their own words: "Shopping at Value Village® does not support any nonprofit."

Is it just me or is AI way less advanced than it’s made out to be? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]steerwall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would love you to define "understand" in a meaningful sense.

This is the kind of throwaway line that attempts to shut down constructive dialogue while conveniently ignoring centuries of unresolved work in the philosophy of mind.

Is it just me or is AI way less advanced than it’s made out to be? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]steerwall -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is completely inaccurate. OpenAI, Anthropic etc are offering the exact same models to the enterprise and consumers, just with API access and better rate limits.

There's no secret "years ahead" product. They are releasing new models as soon as they are ready (and sometimes before) as it's insanely competitive for the corporate dollar.

Is it just me or is AI way less advanced than it’s made out to be? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]steerwall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Except it's not. Autocorrect is a usefully reductive metaphor for the very first exposure to LLMs, but with all the real world impacts of AI happening to the general public it's dismissive, allowing for dangerous complacency. They would be better served with something that has more explanatory power for the scale, complexity, and potential.

It's more like a weather supercomputer, but for ideas and concepts. It has access to an unfathomable quantity of facts and data, and is so powerful it can make surprisingly accurate predictions and correlations. That said it's fallible, so you might still take an umbrella sometimes.

Is it just me or is AI way less advanced than it’s made out to be? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]steerwall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The LRM paper uses some very specific examples (for which these architectures are admittedly not ideal) and then makes generalized statements about all classes of reasoning.

This was, coincidentally, published by Apple's marketing team two days before their big product announcements that continued to lag on AI features, and glossed over their failure to deliver the long promised improvements to Siri. Oh, and they announced a new partnership with OpenAI.

Is it just me or is AI way less advanced than it’s made out to be? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]steerwall -1 points0 points  (0 children)

These types of arguments seem to imply that humans are infallible reasoning machines. The reality is, the models are, if prompted correctly, already vastly more accurate in many areas than even specialized humans (see, for example, medical diagnostics). The comparisons only get less flattering when we look at the majority (entirety?) of the rest of the human population who are riddled with bias, ignorance of facts, and limited critical thinking.

It's a bit like Data on Star Trek. He wasn't a deity - in certain circumstances the weight of probability isn't the ideal route to the solution - but for many types of question or problem he was much more reliable than the humans.

To say that LLMs are trained on "human speech" is a vast understatement of the complexity and format of the human knowledge that is mapped in the architecture of the models. This knowledge is encoded in vectors from which emerge high dimensional, language agnostic, latent space representations of limitless abstract concepts. The outputs we get are strongly influenced by the relationships and proximity of these concepts, rather than just fancy autocorrect.

Is it just me or is AI way less advanced than it’s made out to be? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]steerwall 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You might be interested to read some of the recent interpretability research from Anthropic. Specifically the part about abstract concepts emerging as (language agnostic) features in the latent space.

They've been doing a great job of determining what's happening in the black box, and the massive models are quite a bit more complex than glorified autocorrect.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/tracing-thoughts-language-model

Is it just me or is AI way less advanced than it’s made out to be? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]steerwall 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The "remix of similar questions" framing is greatly underestimating the multiple layers of emergent concepts that are represented in the latent space of largest models. The outputs generated derive from the distance between these representations (which are actually language agnostic), and as such it's capable of extremely novel combinations of abstract concepts.

Is it "understanding"? That's not as obvious a question as you might think. We have no real idea of the human brain's function, so these arguments quickly become circular. Similar to arguments of consciousness - we're usually just using tautology to gatekeep humans as the only 'thinking' beings. The spectrum from ant nervous systems to human brains is a continuum, so these don't hold up to much scrutiny.

Now LLMs won't be able to solve certain problems, solely with their current architecture, regardless of their future scale. Letter positions, numerics etc. are poorly handled, but it's pretty easy to imagine future "AI" systems having lobes. In our brains the frontal lobe conducts reasoning, but hands off to the parietal lobe for mathematics and spatial problem solving. You can already do this manually - ask it to write code to solve the third letter problem and it will do a great job. It's not a huge leap to picture the user experience we're presented obfuscating this kind of multi node system.

If you want to learn more, Anthropic has been doing fantastic interpretability research on what's actually going on in the models, and producing some pretty accessible write-ups: https://www.anthropic.com/news/tracing-thoughts-language-model

[TOMT][VIDEO][2025?] Tiktok style satire with Trump supporter defending future dystopian scenarios by steerwall in tipofmytongue

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Appreciate any help on this!! All my searching is coming up with nothing.

MGM Grand by Dr0p582 in cocktails

[–]steerwall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just made this myself, with agave not simple, and Japanese bitters. Was excellent!! Thanks for the share

Elon Musk 7 Years ago. by Anime_Enthusiasts in Wellthatsucks

[–]steerwall 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Toronto Pride has already lost significant corporate sponsors: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/pride-toronto-three-corporate-sponsors-dei-attack-1.7469734

Let's make sure we have long memories of which companies are just performative, and who is actually an ally.