My brain is too slow for it but there’s got to be a 9/11 joke in there somewhere.

(Jet fuel can’t melt steel beams, but these villains can?)

The one-word title - “Bind” - for the episode is genius as usual. So many layers / levels of metaphors (? if that is the right term) here: alluded to in the definition of “curse”, Asa’s and Emiri’s friendship, society’s treatment of women / sexism, and possibly more that I missed.

DID THEY SERIOUSLY OFF-SCREENED THEIR FIRST KISS??! That must be a kiss on the cheek, right?! Right??

Is this a pokemon reference? If it is, what do you think is Suzuki’s tera type? Fairy?

I haven’t read the manga, but - you can probably tell since I am all caught up on the anime - yes it is worth watching.

Peak episode; 10/10 towards the end

This last scene accompanied by the soundtrack is just too beautiful. This episode is up there with episode 3 for my favourites episodes of this season (of Medalist).

Banner nomination: idk why but Inori looks like / reminds me of Madoka here

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Sha Ming is spitting facts:

Ooh I’m glad they are going to address Kukrushka, even if it is only at the very end. It’s unreal to think that they would be wrapping everything up in one episode though.

Actual episode discussion:

Seeing Yuri get cyberised this episode got me thinking: have we ever seen Yuri get cyberised previously? Did all of the Gnosia somehow avoid cyberising Yuri, in all time loops? It’s crazy how this hasn’t occurred before.

Also, what are Gnosia really? We know that they are infected, but by what exactly? If people are cyberised, they would get absorbed into the Gnos hivemind, so I can only assume that they are not some cyberised beings.

Why is the Hoshibune cult so intent on cyberising others? It doesn’t seem like the members are Gnosia themselves (or at least not all of them).

Lastly, I’m surprised that there is essentially no interaction between Yuri and Gnos. I thought it would be more eventful, given that this bug Yuri is a special existence created by Gnos. I guess we would learn the purpose behind Yuri’s creation in the next episode.

Banner nomination: 🥵🥵

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This is a no-brainer, but they’ve got to be going to Vash’s and Nai’s original crash site.

I can share these with you 😎

If you were to make a bet, do you think this stalker ghost is harmful or harmless?

I’m guessing

One thing I don’t get is: now that dad is a spirit himself, why didn’t he confront the stalker?

Or perhaps he already did, but this part of the plot just hasn’t been revealed to us? If that’s the case,

Oooh introducing another lady (who’s a teacher!) this late into the story is a surprise. I thought Utage would have a harem to herself.

Banner nomination: 😏

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Ironically, pre-LLM era photoshop may have already used AI (image-processing) techniques behind the scenes.

Easiest cast prediction for the movie: Hoshino Aquamarine as the mastermind / villain / totally-not-Kamisaki-Hikaru.

For Hoshino Ai’s role, now that the original lead is gone, and assuming they are unable to find a suitable outside replacement, it would then have to fall on the existing cast - most likely one of the girls from the main trio: Ruby, Kana and Akane.

Kana and Akane may have the star power, but there’s probably a popular demand for Ruby to take up the role - despite her lack of experience - thanks to her background.

Frill may be the biggest name in-universe, but I don’t see the role going to a side character of the Oshi no Ko anime.

If I have to rank them on their likelihood of getting cast as Ai:

1. Ruby - is basically Ai junior
2. Akane - has proven herself (to us viewers at least) with her Ai impressions + star eyes
3. Kana - has the most filming / TV experience among the trio, but haven’t exhibit any similarities to Ai

Regarding Aqua’s revenge plan:

I’m guessing it’s something very simple: ruin Hikaru’s reputation bit by bit, slowly choking him out.

Edit: one more guess, regarding why Yusa?, the original lead, was done in by Hikaru:

The script for the movie has been revised by Aqua to include bits that hint towards Hikaru as Ai’s real killer. Yusa has those star eyes, and we have seen just how clever these star-eyed characters are. Yusa must have read the script for her role, put the pieces together, and was able induce (or at least had suspicion) that Hikaru is the big bad. Hikaru is plenty smart himself too, sensed that something is up, and got around to silencing Yusa.

I know. It’s just that the phrasing is kinda weird.

Everyone wants a taste of that bussy 😩😩

Well, you know the saying: once you go black, you never go back 😏

This is probably the most naive words that Aresh have uttered to date. I wish the camera panned to his attendants so that we can see their reactions.

Thoughts:

I take back what I said about the bishop being the big bad. The shady dude - the church’s accountant? - next to him looks way more sus. The bishop is probably just a puppet / useful idiot while the church accountant conspired with the rich to embezzle money.

Now that Aresh and the holy maiden are away, they are definitely taking the opportunity to make a move.

Here’s a semi-bold bet: their attempt on Seiichirou’s life would fail, but put him on the brink of death. Naturally, he’s going to need someone’s magical energy to recover. The hotties we have seen over the course of this season would then fight over the role of the one to give Seiichirou an injection 😏 Before it can be settled, Aresh would come back in the nick of time - probably with a dramatic entrance - and fuck Seiichirou good, giving us a happy ending.

(This bet is only semi-bold because this is such a cliche development)

The article’s title is:

Iran’s women’s team decline to sing national anthem before Asian Cup tie

The post title made it sound like they are disrespecting South Korea or something…

May I trouble you to update this post to show the top 3 nominees for each category, along with their final vote count?

Super Smash Bros Ultimate. The final smashes are all the same. I miss the final smashes of Super Smash Bros Brawl.

Captain Celebrity is going to die, isn’t he? Having a baby on the way is like, the biggest death flag, ever.

Disclaimer: I am honestly a layman in this field. I may get a bunch of stuff wrong, but am happy to learn from experts. Feel free to point mistakes out and destroy me in the replies.

Simplifying and phrasing my understanding, an LLM works like - Given a prompt: Write a program to check if input is an odd number (converts the prompt to embedding), then the LLM plays a dice game/probability game of: given prompt, then generate a set of new tokens.

This feels like an oversimplification. Unfortunately, I can’t think of a good analogy without anthromorphosising LLMs.

IMO this anime scene works well enough as an analogy at a super high level: anime_irl

“Comprehending what other people is saying is one step” - encoder

“Thinking about how to answer is one more step” - working with the feature representation

“Putting the things that popped into my mind into words is another step” - decoder

Now my question is, how are the current LLM’s are able to parse through a bunch of search results and play the above dice game?

By current LLMs, I am going to assume that you are not referring to the raw models, but platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, etc with UIs for you to interact with the underlying models.

There are fundamentally two different problems here: searching the web for answers, and putting the answers into words.

Like at times it reads through say 10 URLs and generate results, how are they able to achieve this?

If I ask you: “What is the colour of fire engines?”, I imagine you would answer “Red”, sometimes “Yellow”, off the top of your head.

What if I ask you “What are the 10 longest rivers in the world”? I believe you won’t be able to give me an answer right away. What you can do is a web search, find the answer, then present the results to me. You can give it to me in 10 short bullets points, or you can come up with an essay with paragraphs describing each river.

You probably got my point by now, but to make it explicit: finding an answer and putting it into words are two different processes. They are independent of each other, so the final text output can be as long or as short as need be.

For these LLM platforms, when the model “doesn’t know” the answer, they probably have a subroutine that searches the web, then feed the answer to the underlying model. The model then packages the search results into readable form - in words instead of vectors - to you.

What’s the engineering behind generating such huge verbose of texts?

Sorry but I can’t think of a good answer to this at the moment; leaving it to others for now - unless I managed to think of something good.

Cause I always argue about the theoretical limitations of LLM, but now that these “agents” are able to manage huge verbose of text I dont seem to have a good argument. So what exactly is happening? And what is the limit of AI non theortical limit of AI?

Same for this question.

Hope the partial answer helps; tried my best to ELI5.

She probably just forgot; no need to I wouldn’t read too much into it.

I daresay it could be the same situation as Makio and Minori.

But now that you brought this up, this can be a source of conflict to further develop the plot. So now I’m betting that Asa and Emily are going to have a fight in a future episode.