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apetresc commented on Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos   github.com/3b1b/manim... · Posted by u/pykello
sansseriff · 4 days ago
I remember listening to a podcast where Grant Sanderson basically said the opposite. He tried generating manim code with LLMs and found the results unimpressive. Probably just goes to show that competence in manim looks very different to us layman than it does to Grant haha
apetresc · 4 days ago
I wonder if that’s also because Grant uses his own branch of manim from which the mainstream public one (manim-ce) has diverged quite a bit.

I can imagine LLMs being very confused being asked to write “manim” when everyone talking about “manim” (and the vast majority of public manim code) is actually the subtly-but-substantially different “manim-ce”.

apetresc commented on AI is different   antirez.com/news/155... · Posted by u/grep_it
apwell23 · 11 days ago
you couldve given me an example instead of this butthurt comment :)
apetresc · 9 days ago
Sure! Here's the results of Scott Alexander's fairly large-scale "AI Art Turing Test": https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-did-you-do-on-the-ai-ar...

Note that this was already almost a year ago, and the results should be even more one-sided now.

apetresc commented on It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges   social.anoxinon.de/@Codeb... · Posted by u/moelf
delusional · 12 days ago
Making a proof of work algorithm do some actually useful work is very much an unsolved problem.
apetresc · 11 days ago
I don’t necessarily mean “useful” in the sense of scientific research or something. Simply transferring value to the creators of the resource being accessed (a la a blockchain) instead of doing throwaway work would be an improvement.
apetresc commented on Is air travel getting worse?   maximum-progress.com/p/is... · Posted by u/mhb
jdminhbg · 12 days ago
> Business is representing an ever increasing % of travellers

Is it? I thought that trend reversed in 2020.

apetresc · 11 days ago
I’m not sure you can accurately track any airline-related trend through the years 2021-2023, for obvious reasons.
apetresc commented on Is air travel getting worse?   maximum-progress.com/p/is... · Posted by u/mhb
Der_Einzige · 11 days ago
Business class is 20x the price of economy (it should be no more than 4X and that should be taxpayer funded), isn't enough of the plane and is constantly sold out months before the flight on long flights.

"Premium economy" and similar doesn't give meaningful legroom improvements and is generally a scam.

The only option for tall people (not overweight) is exit rows which are also the first seats taken or the few "extra legroom" seats usually in the front of economy by the bathrooms. These seats are also taken months in advance.

Americans are tall because we are fed well. Our tallness is partly why we are so dominant during wartime. The world bends to our will, not the other way around.

We need widespread and popular "passenger revolts" to force the FAA to change policy. Make the lives of the airline executives hell and use political power to nationalize them yesterday. Privitization of the air was a massive mistake.

apetresc · 11 days ago
Business class should be taxpayer funded? I would love to hear the case for that.
apetresc commented on AI is different   antirez.com/news/155... · Posted by u/grep_it
apwell23 · 12 days ago
> Book and music album covers are often done with AI

These suck. Things made with AI just suck big time. Not only are they stupid but they have negative value on your product.

I cannot think of single purely AI made video, song or any form of art that is any a good.

All AI has done is falsely convince ppl that they can now create things that they had no skills to do before AI.

apetresc · 11 days ago
I mean, test after test have shown that the vast, vast majority of humans are woefully unable to distinguish good AI art made by SOTA models from human art, and in many/most cases actively prefer it.

Maybe you’re a gentleman of such discerningly superior taste that you can always manage to identify the spark of human creativity that eludes the rest of us. Or maybe you’ve just told yourself you hate it and therefore you say you always do. I dunno.

apetresc commented on It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges   social.anoxinon.de/@Codeb... · Posted by u/moelf
viraptor · 12 days ago
The check has to apply to people and bot visitors the same. If you're expecting a blockchain registered spend before the content is visible, basically nobody will visit your website.
apetresc · 12 days ago
I don’t think OP meant you pay directly, just that you volunteer to do some part of the PoW (of some chain designed for this purpose) on behalf of the site, to its credit.

That’s not much of a different ask from Anubis. It just commandeers the compute for some useful purpose.

apetresc commented on Dial-up Internet to be discontinued   help.aol.com/articles/dia... · Posted by u/Kye
apetresc · 19 days ago
I didn't even know AOL was still around, let alone AOL dial-up.
apetresc commented on GPT-5   openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd
vasco · 20 days ago
Well I for example don't give a shit what prediction markets do and never participated, but if someone thinks they're wrong, they should just participate and get free money. Otherwise why complain.
apetresc · 19 days ago
I wasn't complaining per-se, I was asking for (and expecting) a legitimate reason. Which I got: that the market is resolved purely based on LLM Arena which Anthropic has never done well on (which says more about the benchmark than about Anthropic).
apetresc commented on GPT-5   openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd
Buttons840 · 20 days ago
Polymarket betters are not impressed. Based upon the market odds, OpenAI had a 35% chance to have the best model (at year end), but those odds have dropped to 18% today.

(I'm mostly making this comment to document what happened for the history books.)

https://polymarket.com/event/which-company-has-best-ai-model...

apetresc · 20 days ago
How on Earth does that market have Anthropic at 2%, in a dead heat with the likes of Meta? If the market was about yesterday rather than 5 months from now I think Claude would be pretty clearly the front runner. Why does the market so confidently think they’ll drop to dead last in the next little while?

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