demon duck of doom

[blue-voids]

Audrey Corregan - Obviously, 2008

[chaoticbatfam]

I bet there’s an English teacher out there somewhere who reads their kids’ papers and thinks, “that one. That one’s a fanfic author.”

[creamsiclemelt]

hollanov + every kiss ep. 1 - rookies

[queer-cannibalistic-vampire]

[gauffcaraz]

He’s such an interesting individual

[lantaren]

System of a Down - Chop Suey (Osive + ThinkPink Remix) into Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff (Morty UKG Remix)

DJ: SARE

I love this so much. Also, the way I just see women DJs out and about all the time now is so fucking great. When I was a young clubber that did not exist. We need to kill tradwife regressive misogynistic culture hard because what do you mean they are trying to take away the huge amount of VISIBLE progress I have managed to see in my lifetime.

Anyway, now I need a little rave.

[klfg]

[source]

[klfg]

🚨BREAKING: OpenAI published a paper proving that ChatGPT will always make things up.

Not sometimes. Not until the next update. Always. They proved it with math.

Even with perfect training data and unlimited computing power, AI models will still confidently tell you things that are completely false. This isn't a bug they're working on. It's baked into how these systems work at a fundamental level.

And their own numbers are brutal. OpenAI's o1 reasoning model hallucinates 16% of the time. Their newer o3 model? 33%. Their newest o4-mini? 48%. Nearly half of what their most recent model tells you could be fabricated. The "smarter" models are actually getting worse at telling the truth.

Here's why it can't be fixed. Language models work by predicting the next word based on probability. When they hit something uncertain, they don't pause. They don't flag it. They guess. And they guess with complete confidence, because that's exactly what they were trained to do.

The researchers looked at the 10 biggest AI benchmarks used to measure how good these models are. 9 out of 10 give the same score for saying "I don't know" as for giving a completely wrong answer: zero points. The entire testing system literally punishes honesty and rewards guessing.

So the AI learned the optimal strategy: always guess. Never admit uncertainty. Sound confident even when you're making it up.

OpenAI's proposed fix? Have ChatGPT say "I don't know" when it's unsure. Their own math shows this would mean roughly 30% of your questions get no answer. Imagine asking ChatGPT something three times out of ten and getting "I'm not confident enough to respond." Users would leave overnight. So the fix exists, but it would kill the product.

This isn't just OpenAI's problem. DeepMind and Tsinghua University independently reached the same conclusion. Three of the world's top AI labs, working separately, all agree: this is permanent.

Every time ChatGPT gives you an answer, ask yourself: is this real, or is it just a confident guess?

[bigassbowlingballhead]

marcus mumford reacting to sarah sherman saying she hopes they all get a big kiss from connor storrie

[shortace]

I feel like politicians' insults about each other have really gone down hill. These days it's all "moron" and "loser", so childish. Think what you will of Paul Keating, but he gave us such gems as "he's a shiver waiting for a spine", "debating him is like being flogged with warm lettuce", "he's like a lizard on a rock: alive but looking dead", "he's all tip and no iceberg".

Where's the creativity these days?!

[silly-little-diary]

Some of my favourite Paul Keating insults for your enjoyment:

You boxhead, you wouldn't know. You are flat out counting past ten

I suppose that the Honourable Gentleman's hair, like his intellect, will recede into the darkness

He's wound up like a thousand-day clock! One half more turn and there'll be springs and sprockets all over the building. Mr Speaker, give him a valium

Oh, look, it's just Howard being Howard, isn't it, you know? The little desiccated coconut's under pressure and he's attacking anything he can get his hands on

The Opposition could not manage a tart shop

For John Howard to get to any high moral ground he would have to first climb out of the volcanic hole he's dug for himself over the last decade

And my personal favourite:

If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours

[batshit-auspol]

Thankyou for all the tags. Reblogging this, as is our national duty.

[sconesfortea]

RIP Anthony Stewart Head (1954 - 2026)

[great-and-small]

One of the things I really like about Tumblr is there seems to be a healthy appreciation for invertebrate biology here, which I don’t always see as much on other social media websites. Tumblr users overall seem to love bugs, and it’s important to me that every person who loves bugs knows the name Charles Henry Turner. If you’re not yet familiar with this man, I’m delighted to introduce you to one of the most remarkable minds ever born of this earth, and a true pioneer in the field of entomology and animal behavior.

Charles Turner was born in the United States just a few years after the end of the civil war. His brilliance was evident from the start, and after graduating valedictorian of his high school class he quickly went on to earn his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in short order. While in school, Turner’s relentless curiosity became his greatest advantage. He was drawn to and fascinated by topics that were largely ignored by modern science at the time, namely the cognitive behaviors of insects and other invertebrates. While many of his colleagues believed insects to be mindless automata acting on instinct alone, Turner felt deeply that the brains of these oft overlooked animals were far more complex than the scientific community suspected. He performed extensive experiments to test his theories and found overwhelming evidence of problem solving and individualism among organisms as small as ants and spiders.

By the time Turner earned his zoology pHD in 1907 he had published dozens of papers in highly esteemed journals and had even co-authored a book. It is likely that Turner was the first African American to earn a pHD from the University of Chicago. With such a sparkling academic reputation and enormous body of research, one would expect this candidate to have no issues obtaining a professorship at a prestigious school. Though by every right Turner should have been head of science department at a top university, the systemic racism that permeated academia meant that doors a white man would have walked through were locked and bolted shut for Charles Henry Turner.

Turner did not allow this prejudice to dim in any way his blindingly bright passion for knowledge. He took a job as a high school teacher, and continued to perform and publish research on his own all while he instilled his students with a love for zoology. He published more than 70 papers in extremely respected journals and he remained passionately curious for the entirety of his life. If I tried to list here all of the incredible discoveries Turner made in his lifetime it would take me days to sufficiently express the impact he had on the field of invertebrate behavior. His experiments were so ahead of their time that entomologists today marvel at his research and wonder how much more we would know if Turner’s work had been given the attention and respect of other scientists working at the time. Turner’s mind was about a century ahead of those entomological contemporaries who had no interest in giving him a seat at the table. His tombstone simply reads “scientist”

Like many people of color throughout history, Turner’s exceptional contributions to our world have been unfairly overlooked by many. His name has historically been left out of entomology textbooks and courses, despite laying down groundwork that is still used today. I really recommend that anyone interested in entomology or even biology in general read up on Charles Henry Turner and his works. This is an excellent article that discusses his many challenges and triumphs in the field.

[kaelio]

Recipes from Portland's famous but long-closed Rheinlander restaurant. This cookbook was produced in a limited window before Chef Mager's death. All of these fucking slap.

[ladyvean]

For my fellow vegan/vegetarians, these sound scrumptious and look pretty simple to make substitutions!

[kaelio]

just to be clear

[certifiedsoupposts]

certified soup post

[kaelio]

It's sooo good

The lentil soup post is yeah beyond amazing. I know lentil soup doesn't seem like it could be that good. You simply don't Know how beloved the rheinlander lentil soup was. This was a famous soup here.

[dogpuppy]

[larkandkatydid]

Never thought I’d say “we used to be a proper country” while specifically thinking of that summer that Jack Parsons (founder of the Jet Propulsion Lab and inventor of solid rocket fuel) and L Ron Hubbard (you know who that is) spent reciting satanic incantations and jacking each other off, only to end when Hubbard ran off with Parson’s girlfriend and all of JPL’s money.

But, when pondering the rumor that Elon Musk is making a cuckhold of Stephen Miller, I cannot forget that Jack Parsons made rockets that worked.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

something I think about not infrequently is how in the original wizard of oz the scarecrow could unstuff himself which I really think could be used for fun sex purposes. but no one is talking about this

[nostarfights]

i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again, i NEEDDDD to sit on his lap

[torturelabyrinth]

Season 2 of heated rivalry should follow a completely normal plotline except every time there's a tv on in the background it's on a news channel saying something like "Another mysterious death in Montreal; authorities on the hunt for 'vampire' killer who drains victims of blood"