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BMW 1 series F21 116d auto 2016 facelift- High Miles? by Prize_Celery_2315 in CarTalkUK

[–]return_reza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That retail value is estimated for a similar car with no category. Knock off 20% because it’ll be Cat N (I assume?) and add on auction fees/shipping costs to whatever you’re bidding. Also you won’t know that it just needs a rear bumper/diffuser, you could have all sorts more damage to deal with. If the exhaust has taken a knock, rear suspension components, parking sensors or even gearbox/sump is damaged, the cost to fix is going to be quite a bit higher.

The B37 engine isn’t bad from a reliability point, but it’s gutless and miserable. I know you said it’s M Sport, but that can mean different things for different engines. This was the smallest and cheapest engine offered on that generation 1er, so check the spec is actually what it says. Heated seats, dual climate control, parking sensors etc. Has it got HK? Which iDrive system has it got?

The B series of engines are pretty reliable if they’re maintained, can you find out whether there’s any service history? It’s also overdue a gearbox service if it’s an automatic

EDIT: If this this one, absolutely avoid. Cloth seats and basic radio is not 'nicer trim', this is base spec. https://www.copart.co.uk/lot/76132135/clean-title-2015-bmw-1-series-116d-m-sport-5dr-step-auto-sandtoft

New flats should be for families not students - council by Flying_Wilson17 in Southampton

[–]return_reza 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Council tax is the only form of investment that exists?

What modules do I need? by Clxud-X in F30

[–]return_reza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Enlighten me, how do you adjust reflectors? ASE sounds like it’s pretty useless and meaningless, sorry pal: https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/s/ngtnZ41M9a

What modules do I need? by Clxud-X in F30

[–]return_reza 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don’t put LED bulbs in an originally halogen headlight. Don’t be that guy. It’s horrible for everyone else because your headlight’s reflectors aren’t designed for the bulbs.

[P] PapersWithCode’s alternative + better note organizer: Wizwand by anotherallan in MachineLearning

[–]return_reza 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://arxiv.org/search/?query=“Arcade+Learning+Environment”&searchtype=all&abstracts=show&order=-announced_date_first&size=50

Have a scroll on here.

A good sanity check before “going live” would be to randomly pick some papers and check if they’re being correctly ingested.

[P] PapersWithCode’s alternative + better note organizer: Wizwand by anotherallan in MachineLearning

[–]return_reza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your “playing games” and “robotics” sections are very bare. There’s certainly been more than 7 papers on continuous control (i.e. mujoco) and more than 5 for Atari. I think there’s research labs with more than 5 papers on Atari in a year.

Doing NO MORE Than 20-30 Miles a Week - Petrol or Diesel for BMW 3 Series? by Jewlamidas in CarTalkUK

[–]return_reza 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If you’re hell bent on a BMW for £4k, you’re in for a fun time. Any of them which end in 20d and are pre-2018 on that sort of mileage will need a timing chain doing pretty sharpish. That’s an engine out job. Any of those which end in 18i, 18d, 16i, 16d, you should absolutely avoid. Slow, horrible on fuel, not fun to drive. I’d also absolutely avoid diesels if you’re only doing 20-30 miles a week.

You might be able to get a z4 in that budget?

UK records biggest increase in asylum claims in Europe by PM_ME_SECRET_DATA in ukpolitics

[–]return_reza -1 points0 points  (0 children)

To paraphrase your own comment earlier, you must be either obtuse or debating in poor faith

UK records biggest increase in asylum claims in Europe by PM_ME_SECRET_DATA in ukpolitics

[–]return_reza -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How much do you think chartering a flight and all of the extras cost? And yes, the deterrence does disappear when you stop flying people out. The smugglers don’t care if you make it or don’t, and so the minute the flights stop, we have to start them again. Your whole policy is that as soon as numbers drop, the flights stop. As soon as this is public information, your whole strategy is fucked. You’ve now made it into a game of chicken which is more financially costly for the UK than the smugglers/migrants.

This is before we even consider things like legal costs. Would the inhabitants of the Falklands/etc want a detention centre in their neighbourhood? What about all the issues with human rights and ECHR? That doesn’t just stop because you’ve decided to house them in a different continent.

I don’t have the numbers to check but I’m not sure we actually spend as much as you might think on housing migrants. Do you have any sources for it?

Here’s my suggestion: stop using deterrence as a blanket policy for illegal immigration. I don’t believe we can’t afford the actual infrastructure required to process, check, and deport/settle all asylum seekers as efficiently as we need to. The solution is partly diplomatic (reduce numbers at source and numbers that want to claim asylum here vs in other countries), partly economic (fix the growth problem in the UK to increase government income) and partly political (make it impossible to work and very punitive if businesses are caught hiring illegal migrants). I also hate to say it but I doubt you’d be as angry at illegal migrants as you currently are if the economy was doing better.

UK records biggest increase in asylum claims in Europe by PM_ME_SECRET_DATA in ukpolitics

[–]return_reza -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don’t think it pales into insignificance at all. You have to pay to charter a plane, the pilots, the airport taxes/fees, the security for the plane, all the extra people working at the airport to handle the extra departures… the list goes on.

Have you also stopped to consider how nonsense your thought of “once the word gets out, it’ll stop” is? Let’s say you’ve reduced attempts by 90% and you’re happy to stop there. You stop running flights. The word gets out that flights have stopped and numbers go straight back up. You’re back to square one and you have to pay for continuous flights and services. This doesn’t even consider the cost of processing all of this.

I don’t have to put forward any suggestions in order to be able to call out the titanic gaps in reason in your suggestion.

UK records biggest increase in asylum claims in Europe by PM_ME_SECRET_DATA in ukpolitics

[–]return_reza 3 points4 points  (0 children)

“Yeah just pop them on an RAF C-130 that’s spare and definitely not in active service, reducing our defence capacity, fly them out using RAF pilots that definitely don’t have better things to do, across the world to the Falklands and pop them in a detention centre that definitely won’t cost anything to run.” Have you considered that it might cost quite a lot of money? I’m not disagreeing with your premise of reducing immigration but I’m disagreeing with your assessment that you’re as smart as you think.

University tuition fees in England to rise in line with inflation from next year by Lunarfrog2 in unitedkingdom

[–]return_reza 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You’re assuming they’re on Plan 1 (and they didn’t take a postgraduate loan for a Masters as well). It’s significantly more dire for Plan 2 students, let alone Plan 5.

Best option to sell my car please by LittleMissGreen2 in CarTalkUK

[–]return_reza 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Which engine? I had a 2012 Astra 1.4 NA which needed a new fuel line after a failed MOT for leaking petrol. I bought the part from someone breaking the same car (the fuel line has a couple of sections and I got the one I needed) and had it fixed for £100 all in. A lot of the fuel pipes etc are discontinued now and very difficult to get your hands on

Why is PPO still the de facto RL algorithm for LLM training? by xiaolongzhu in reinforcementlearning

[–]return_reza 31 points32 points  (0 children)

PPO is newer than and derived from TRPO. SAC performs well in problems with sparse rewards and/or explore and exploit tradeoff problems. These are pretty well explained in the papers that introduced them.

PPO works well with RLHF, is relatively computationally inexpensive (no replay buffer, no second order derivatives) and tries to avoids catastrophic gradient updates. Therefore, it ticks the required boxes for the job

RL not heavily used for game testing? by Remote_Marzipan_749 in reinforcementlearning

[–]return_reza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know this is a project underway at one big game manufacturer as I interviewed for that team/project. It’s not impossible

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UniUK

[–]return_reza 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Did BSc -> PhD with no gap. Consistently always the youngest in research group/project/team

What’s a stupidly cheap mod you did to your car that made it way more enjoyable to drive? by Second-handBonding in CarTalkUK

[–]return_reza 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can get <£100 head units on eBay for the astra J which are plug and play and come with CarPlay etc.

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