This is an Iranian movie, and the landscape and scenery are stunning—dusty, sandy hills decorated with colorful trees. In the movie, a character tells a joke that was my dad’s favorite, one he used to tell me often when I was little:

A Turk goes to see a doctor. He says, ‘When I touch my body with my finger, it hurts. When I touch my head, it hurts. My leg—it hurts. My belly, my hand—it all hurts.’ The doctor examines him and says, ‘Your body is fine, but your finger is broken.’

The movie: 7/10.

The knowledge of what is mine and what is not mine, what I can and cannot do. I must die. But must I die bawling? I must be exiled; but is there anything to keep me from going with a smile, calm and self-composed?

~ Epictetus, Book I

I love the clothing people wore in that time. I do wonder how the heck this company is profitable—it seems like all the employees do nothing all day. 6/10.

DeepSeek-R1 has surpassed O1 from OpenAI, which had previously been the leading state-of-the-art foundation model by a wide margin. Despite this, DeepSeek-R1 had far fewer parameters, making it cheaper and capable of running on consumer computer hardware. However, I was skeptical about the numbers they achieved on the datasets, as most of them were likely contaminated to some extent

Danny DeVito is in it, as the best character in the movie. 7/10.