Hamza
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Kompo Film Magazine No. 1 March Issue - Marty Supreme
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And this is why I hate the JLPT. I don’t think I’ve ever seen や否や used outside of studying for this exam.
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Also it seems that calligraphy also developed and was popularized in cultures that already had a strong foundation of lettering. This is why you almost never see figurative devotional art in North Africa & Andalusia.
Sharon Adarlo 👽@sadarlo1
Thank you for spelling this out for newbies. I’ve been studying figurative art in Islamic cultures and there aren’t many scholarly treatments on this subject unless you can point to any that come to mind. I’ve been doing some figurative art with Islamic themes and I wanted to know who has done this previously. But I have mostly seen Persian miniatures.
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a fun thing about the one philosophy paper I've published is that, due to it being sort of a review paper for an AI safety special issue, we basically got to do the late career thing, i.e. "here are all the reasons why consequentialism sucks (but for AI alignment)" 😅
Henry Shevlin@dioscuri
Undergrad: why consequentialism is false Grad Student: one argument for why consequentialism might be false Early Career: critiquing one argument against a specific form of consequentialism Late Career: why consequentialism is false and my opponents suck
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If you don’t keep up geopolitically I don’t think you can grasp just how sinister all this is given the real life PMC’s in Africa. So Tender in universe most definitely has ties given the Accra connections.
Minnie@saintdutchess
Sorry but are we going to address the Russian shaped elephant in the room.
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RPCS3 they could never make me hate you. Playing and replaying so many PS3 games gave me the joy of gaming again
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been struggling with this, need help:
comparing LLM Quran output to canonical text is harder than expected. same verse can be written
differently:
• الصلوة vs الصلاة (Uthmani vs modern)
• والنبيّن vs والنبيين (single vs double ya)
• يَسْـَٔلُونَكَ vs يسألونك (floating vs carrier hamza)
is there a standard normalization approach for Arabic text comparison? or a canonical mapping between
Uthmani ↔ modern spellings?
yazin@yazins
Now you can test your favorite model to see how well it does (or doesn't quote the Quran) link 👉 quranvalidator.com
A lot of the commentary around "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" keeps circling back to how "British actors are just really good." People usually point to classical training. Drama school. Shakespeare. Stage work. All of that is true.
But there's another layer people don’t talk about enough.
Have you actually met British people?
Every office is a small theatre. Politeness is a performance. Conflict is often wrapped in irony. Disapproval is delivered as "just checking in." Praise is carefully rationed. Your colleague has probably never told you what they really think since your first induction. Everything is coded, softened, or staged.
"Sounds good" might mean "this is terrible."
"No worries" might mean "I’m annoyed."
"We should do lunch sometime" might mean "we will never do lunch."
A lot of these actors have been raised with this social choreography before they applied to their first drama school.
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You know what, I was ready to clown on this post for claiming that nobody knows *checks notes* the name of Google DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis.
But actually, you know what, outside of a relatively small number of AI/tech people, I don’t think anyone could tell you who he is.
If I asked a random bloke in the pub abojt Musk, he’d instantly know who you mean. Who, outside of tech, could say anything about Hassabis other than “sounds foreign”.
Podcast Notes 🗒️@podcastnotes
There's a guy who might be more important than Elon Musk and nobody knows his name. He's the reason ChatGPT exists. The reason the AI race started. And he just solved a 50-year-old problem that could cure cancer. This is the story of Demis Hassabis:
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Kanjified English necessitates the development of English furigana
Ante D. Luvian@uncle_deluge
The kanjification of English. The stroke order and radicals may give hints but themselves are not enough to truly know the word...we're hundreds of years ahead of schedule
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@xuanalogue It would be great if it turned out the Categorical Imperative was the key to model alignment
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Correlation between bad behavior like this makes me more optimistic that if LLMs are taught to reason like nice cooperative Kantians in one domain ("if most people did this it would be bad, so I shouldn't" etc) it will generalize to cooperative behavior in other domains.
Anthropic@AnthropicAI
But surprisingly, at the exact point the model learned to reward hack, it learned a host of other bad behaviors too. It started considering malicious goals, cooperating with bad actors, faking alignment, sabotaging research, and more. In other words, it became very misaligned.
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45m15s (from a 1 sentence prompt no less)
Herbie Bradley@herbiebradley
my gpt-5 pro thinking time record is now 22m21s anyone have longer? on a non-hacky prompt would be fun to see a graph of the time distribution across questions
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In the Mouth of Madness is kind of Goosebumps for adults (very complimentary).
Ana@_motherslug
Obsessed with Sam Neill among the Sutter Cane paperbacks. Mass hysteria via ‘90s horror novel is an extremely American concept!
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@scottbelsky Google's access and control of search results is also key
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whatever technology sees the most will remember the most, and memory will reign above all else in the next era. Google incredibly positioned.
but a few wild cards:
- hardware + local models (if apple gets its act together)
- “sign in with GPT” adoption
- a 10x browser emerging
Josh Wolfe@wolfejosh
1/ Clear directional arrow of progress My current bet is GOOGLE dominates next wave of AI because of screenshots, agentic computer-use, chrome browser, android, G suite (+ more trust and privacy and security rails) Google will 'DVR' with permission your screen + search and ACT across chats, imessage, whatsapp, chrome tabs, X, substack, Google searches, docs/sheets/slides, youtube i dont remember whether a piece of info was in twitter, a susbtack or a Slack post or a text or gmail...Google will
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Now is a good time to remind folks that Hasumi’s monumental book on John Ford remains untranslated into English. I’ve been reading the Korean translation, and it contains some of his most profound critical insights.
The Film Stage 📽@TheFilmStage
Japan Society has announced a major series featuring films by Ozu, Mizoguchi, Michael Mann, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, and more that starts next month. Read the exclusive first look at "Shiguéhiko Hasumi: Another History of the Movie in America and Japan": thefilmstage.com/exclusive-japa…
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Altibzz is simply one of the greatest musical compositions of all time
Boomkat.com@boomkatonline
Autechre's reissue engine also reaches their frankly ridiculous 2008 album Quaristice, an album that felt like a future upgrade to the system, milling limbs to the meanest swag, plus this fully tearjerking opening boomkat.com/products/quari…
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Delighted to announce that my second book, Peripheral Linguistic Brutality (co-authored with Dr. Jess Kruk) is coming out via University of Hawai'i Press in October of this year! This book has been like 5 months of my life, and I can't wait for you to all be able to read it.
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@GRRLmusic I want to listen to Autechre with this thing displaying pitch black
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would be fucking shit for films but would be incredible for an Ryoji Ikeda live set
Dudes Posting Their W’s@DudespostingWs
The future of cinema is going to be insane 😳
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