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@heynavtoor @glengyron Anyone who works with it all day knows its limitations.

🚨SHOCKING: Apple just proved that AI models cannot do math. Not advanced math. Grade school math. The kind a 10-year-old solves. And the way they proved it is devastating. Apple researchers took the most popular math benchmark in AI — GSM8K, a set of grade-school math problems — and made one change. They swapped the numbers. Same problem. Same logic. Same steps. Different numbers. Every model's performance dropped. Every single one. 25 state-of-the-art models tested. But that wasn't the real experiment. The real experiment broke everything. They added one sentence to a math problem. One sentence that is completely irrelevant to the answer. It has nothing to do with the math. A human would read it and ignore it instantly. Here's the actual example from the paper: "Oliver picks 44 kiwis on Friday. Then he picks 58 kiwis on Saturday. On Sunday, he picks double the number of kiwis he did on Friday, but five of them were a bit smaller than average. How many kiwis does Oliver have?" The correct answer is 190. The size of the kiwis has nothing to do with the count. A 10-year-old would ignore "five of them were a bit smaller" because it's obviously irrelevant. It doesn't change how many kiwis there are. But o1-mini, OpenAI's reasoning model, subtracted 5. It got 185. Llama did the same thing. Subtracted 5. Got 185. They didn't reason through the problem. They saw the number 5, saw a sentence that sounded like it mattered, and blindly turned it into a subtraction. The models do not understand what subtraction means. They see a pattern that looks like subtraction and apply it. That is all. Apple tested this across all models. They call the dataset "GSM-NoOp" — as in, the added clause is a no-operation. It does nothing. It changes nothing. The results are catastrophic. Phi-3-mini dropped over 65%. More than half of its "math ability" vanished from one irrelevant sentence. GPT-4o dropped from 94.9% to 63.1%. o1-mini dropped from 94.5% to 66.0%. o1-preview, OpenAI's most advanced reasoning model at the time, dropped from 92.7% to 77.4%. Even giving the models 8 examples of the exact same question beforehand, with the correct solution shown each time, barely helped. The models still fell for the irrelevant clause. This means it's not a prompting problem. It's not a context problem. It's structural. The Apple researchers also found that models convert words into math operations without understanding what those words mean. They see the word "discount" and multiply. They see a number near the word "smaller" and subtract. Regardless of whether it makes any sense. The paper's exact words: "current LLMs are not capable of genuine logical reasoning; instead, they attempt to replicate the reasoning steps observed in their training data." And: "LLMs likely perform a form of probabilistic pattern-matching and searching to find closest seen data during training without proper understanding of concepts." They also tested what happens when you increase the number of steps in a problem. Performance didn't just decrease. The rate of decrease accelerated. Adding two extra clauses to a problem dropped Gemma2-9b from 84.4% to 41.8%. Phi-3.5-mini from 87.6% to 44.8%. The more thinking required, the more the models collapse. A real reasoner would slow down and work through it. These models don't slow down. They pattern-match. And when the pattern becomes complex enough, they crash. This paper was published at ICLR 2025, one of the most prestigious AI conferences in the world. You are using AI to help you make financial decisions. To check legal documents. To solve problems at work. To help your children with homework. And Apple just proved that the AI is not thinking about any of it. It is pattern matching. And the moment something unexpected shows up in your question, it breaks. It does not tell you it broke. It just quietly gives you the wrong answer with full confidence.

Thousand murdered inside Iran by the US with its illegal aerial bombing — but hey, let’s empathise with one US pilot. ‘The risky night mission to rescue downed US airman deep inside Iran’ smh.com.au/world/middle-e…

US and their sidekick Israel have bombed 760 schools and 350 health centres in their ILLEGAL war upon Iran. Where is the United Nations?

@JEscobalM @IRanMediaco Can you count? Is that statistically significant? You wiped out more than that in one school full of civilian girls

@IRanMediaco 👆🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥

Dear Americans, Iran does not have the missile range to strike your country; if an attack occurs, it would most likely be carried out by your own GOVERNMENT or ISRAEL.

@IRanMediaco @farzluscious Israel continues to destroy southern Lebanon.

The math Italy just handed Netflix is terrifying for every subscription company on Earth. 5.4 million Italian subscribers. Up to €500 per Premium user, €250 per Standard user. Netflix launched in Italy at €11.99/month in 2015 and hiked four times to €19.99 by 2024. The court said every single increase was illegal because the contract never stated a justified reason for any of them. The total refund exposure is somewhere in the hundreds of millions of euros. For a single country with ~2% of Netflix's 325 million global subscribers. Here's what nobody is pricing in: Germany and Spain have already filed identical challenges using the same EU Directive from 1993. Berlin and Cologne courts already ruled that generic price-change clauses are void. Italy just gave every consumer group in Europe a finished legal template. Netflix hiked prices globally on March 26. Six days later, this ruling dropped. The company is now simultaneously raising prices worldwide while a court in its fourth-largest European market ordered it to roll prices back to 2015 levels. The real exposure here isn't Italy. Netflix can absorb hundreds of millions. The real exposure is the legal principle: telling customers "we're raising your price, you can cancel if you don't like it" is not consent under EU law. That logic applies to every subscription service operating in Europe. Every SaaS company. Every streaming platform. Every telecom. The freedom to cancel is not the freedom to agree. That one sentence just repriced the entire European subscription economy.

Muqarnas is a geometric system used in Iranian-Islamic architecture to articulate transitions between surfaces, commonly applied in domes, vaults, and entrances. The element is composed of tiered modules arranged in a three dimensional pattern, creating a honeycomb like structure. These layers break down solid surfaces into smaller facets, allowing light to interact with depth and produce shifting shadow across the surface. Often combined with tilework, muqarnas integrates structure, geometry, and ornament into a single system. It operates as both a spatial transition and a surface articulation, linking planar walls to curved ceiling forms through precise repetition. 📷ghasem baneshi 📍Isfahan, Iran

@ShiannonC I feel like the link between belief in (and propagation of) disinformation/conspiracy theories and narcissism doesn't get discussed enough. psychologytoday.com/au/blog/strang…

@MikeLevin @7Veritas4

The Army Chief of Staff, a combat veteran with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, asked Pete Hegseth why he was blocking the promotions of two Black officers and two female officers who had earned them. Hegseth refused to answer. Then he fired him. Nine U.S. officials told NBC News that Hegseth has blocked or delayed promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military. Hegseth has now fired or sidelined more than a dozen generals and admirals. He is an out-of-control, unqualified former TV host and nobody in the Republican Party will say a word about it because they don’t want to make Trump angry. nbcnews.com/politics/natio…

An hour after announcing his resignation, the US Army Chief of Staff says: "A madman is about to lead the great US military to ruin."

This elderly man shows more strength than an entire Israeli brigade 💯🔥

Not enough people remember when the CIA deliberately introduced African Swine Fever into Cuba 🇨🇺 as part of their biological warfare strategy.

“None of us carries any weapons.” “We carry nothing but kindness, goodness, love and prayer.” This Easter, we remember the words of Father Pierre El Rahi. Israel killed him in South Lebanon. A priest with prayers. Murdered in broad daylight.

It’s time the Labor Caucus grows a spine and demands that the Cabinet and Hegseth’s mate Marles unequivocally condemns Trump, Netanyahu and Hegseth. Religious extremism underpins this illegal,disastrous war. Working class Aussies will pay the price not warmongering politicians.

Jewish Supremacy is disgusting. This man knows his protest could cost him his life. This is the reality the Zionist entity of Israel has imposed on millions of Palestinians living under a regime of Jewish Supremacy.

Sky News Australia host gets completely dismantled in a surreal interview. They accidentally bring on the wrong guest an anti war academic and it backfires instantly. Former U.S. Army Colonel and State Department official Anne Wright flips the script and absolutely roasts the host on air.

Iran just dropped the M.O.A.T. (Mother of All Trolls) video on Pete Hegseth… holy mother of fuck, this is top-tier propaganda.😳But the concepts/track? Absolute fucking banger. 🔥🤣

A friendly reminder that, in late Ottoman Palestine, Jews, Muslims & Christians celebrated each other's holidays together: 1. Jews & Muslims celebrated Orthodox Easter w/Christians. 2. Muslims & Christians dressed up and partied for the Jewish holiday of Purim. 3. Jews & Christians joined Muslim pilgrimages & holidays It was a world before Zionism contaminated relations between Jews, Muslims & Christians in Palestine. palestine-studies.org/en/node/78121 I dive deeper into this history here: palestinenexus.com/courses