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4:16 · 13M views · Mar 14, 2006
The 'She's a witch!' scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, in which villagers reason absurdly about how to identify a witch.
Posted almost purely as a joke reference when a thread's logic resembles the scene.
5 comments from Hacker News
If I understand correctly from the twitter thread (I haven't read the linked technical report) the author and a collaborator found that DALL-E generated some gibberish in an image that showed two men talking, one holding two ... cabbages? They fed (some of) the gibberish back to DALL-E and it generated images of birds, pecking at things. Conclusion: the gibberish is the expression for birds eating things in DALL-E's secret language. But, wait. Why is the same gibberish in the first image, that has the two men and the cabbages(?), but no birds? Explanation: the two men are clearly talking about birds: >> We then feed the words: "Apoploe vesrreaitars" and we get birds. It seems that the farmers are talking about birds, messing with their vegetables! With apologies to my two compatriots, but that is circular thinking to make my head spin. I'm reminded of nothing else as much as the scene in the Knights of the Round Table where the wise Sir Bedivere explains why witches are made of wood: this video
So if Windows is bloated, we can overcharge for RAM! So if she weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood and therefor a witch! From Monte Python's "She's a Witch" at this video
I'll see your biased source and raise you another. This one has nicer pictures. [LINK] Let's weigh them and see which one is a duck! this video
For those not familiar with the witch/duck reference, it's from the film 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'. Here's the clip: this video
There is literally only one way we can prove you're not a witch! I shall throw you in the pond! this video