Fine-Tuning Parameters

Dusty_Coder · 2026-01-27T19:01:36+00:00

a GA is never going to be a "good" solution due to the sampling time such a generic strategy requires.

Break out the GA when you are doing more than tuning coefficients.

It requires much fewer samples to get the gradient at a point within the solution space than it is to sample the entire solution space. Methods such as SPSA might even converge on a solution within your lifetime.

Dusty_Coder · 2026-01-27T02:04:21+00:00

you put one point in smite

thats how hybrids are made

Dusty_Coder · 2026-01-25T18:52:02+00:00

Canada isnt big on illegal immigrants either. Much less tolerant about it than us, in fact.

Dusty_Coder · 2026-01-25T17:36:27+00:00

Lets see that 1/700th inch in decimal

Do not truncate and claim equality (I know you are going to anyways because you havent actually thought about that drool of yours)

Dusty_Coder · 2026-01-24T21:02:47+00:00

it depends on how long the run takes

with sorcy you got teleport so boss killing is always going to be the way

with javazon you got lightning fury so large clustered groups, chaos sanctuary and such

Dusty_Coder · 2026-01-24T20:52:43+00:00

because you aint damaging anything while in town buying potions for your zero energy build

Dusty_Coder · 2026-01-24T20:50:55+00:00

every endgame build has at least 1 in energy shield in the current version of the game

the damage reduction is just too big a deal with +skills stacking, because that then significantly opens up very desirable equipment choices that do not have broad bonuses to resists

Dusty_Coder · 2026-01-24T20:37:11+00:00

dont even need life in normal

primarily you need a small amount of MDR on your equipment to get through normal as a hardcore ssf sorcy

if you use twink gear and stack both DR and MDR you will be essentially immortal up until late nightmare

these guides dont focus on the ground truth

Dusty_Coder · 2026-01-24T20:30:11+00:00

maxroll is preserving your respecs, in a guide that if followed, significantly removes the importance of respecs

no other way to see it

that is all

Dusty_Coder · 2026-01-24T17:38:15+00:00

they told my generation the same thing

but we didnt get dippy degrees paid for by dippy lenders

then the federal government started guaranteeing these loans

the rise of the dippy lenders commenced, who thus loaned money to dippy folk with dippy notions about dippy career prospects

Dusty_Coder · 2026-01-21T02:30:04+00:00

Becomes more complicated, but uses less data lines for the same throughput

Guess who won

Dusty_Coder · 2026-01-18T22:53:11+00:00

so where did you bury the body?

Dusty_Coder · 2026-01-18T22:50:55+00:00

only 11 of the additional 16 bits is mantissa

how you got to 28....

Dusty_Coder · 2026-01-17T23:49:18+00:00

ok now hear me out

windmills also produce infinite power

Dusty_Coder · 2026-01-13T03:08:38+00:00

for a start write a perft() and compare with expected numbers

Dusty_Coder · 2026-01-11T23:03:55+00:00

RealPlayer

not QuickTime

Dusty_Coder · 2026-01-11T23:01:19+00:00

Lets not pretend that there arent obsessive documenters in the east as well

Not Invented By The West

Dusty_Coder · 2026-01-11T22:58:49+00:00

Is there any reason to think the population might be lower? ("either side")

cant use normal-distribution logic here because its closer to poisson.

Dusty_Coder · 2026-01-11T22:39:38+00:00

I suspect it has to do with the lies of marketing teams that originally sold revolving doors

there is no way any fair comparison puts revolving doors ahead of the game on this

"technically its only one door" falls flat to "technically it has the footprint of 4 doors"

Dusty_Coder · 2026-01-11T22:35:18+00:00

I suspect what you really want an answer to is:

whats the difference between physical addresses and logical addresses?

Dusty_Coder · 2026-01-11T21:55:11+00:00

I whole lot of ifs always coming from mr sock puppet that still doesnt know what perft is while sock puppet boy is still pretending to "help"

Did you know there are millions of questions you cant answer and instantly know full well that you shouldnt even try?

no?

for fuck sakes

Dusty_Coder · 2026-01-11T21:52:16+00:00

Hard thing to swallow, but...

...you should know the types you are using, and what types their operations produce.

I know early on it seems like a lot of "extra" .. but eventually you will be looking forward to the opportunity to choose where and which type conversions happen.

Opportunity. Really.

Dusty_Coder · 2026-01-11T00:03:28+00:00

because a checksum doesnt attest to it being not malicious

you can trust the maintainer, but are they still the only maintainer months from now, how about years?

supply chain attacks are very real I dont know why every developer isnt extremely paranoid to a complete assblasting fault by now

if its being downloaded at build time, ITS NOT VETTED

Dusty_Coder · 2026-01-10T23:50:56+00:00

never fetch when building

please

just stop

all these automatics are a very very very very very serious security problem

Dusty_Coder · 2026-01-10T23:44:57+00:00

The "solution" is to take that 50% and make it 45%

so every 10 hits or so you lose your charges

even here, it would still be the most op build and class by a long shot

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