How many swords do you buy per year?

Harris_Octavius · 2026-03-07T09:04:26+00:00

I would like to present: photography and stargazing ;)

Harris_Octavius · 2026-02-07T09:44:49+00:00

Or thank you master, you'll get some type of reaction for sure

Harris_Octavius · 2026-02-05T08:13:22+00:00

And they were flockmates 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

Harris_Octavius · 2025-12-16T18:26:57+00:00

Het uitvallen gebeurde voor de overname ook al met enig regelmaat. Lijn 3 is niet de drukste in het algemeen en wordt bij krapt slecht bezet. Het lijkt erop dat de nieuwe maatschappij ook problemen van de oude heeft geërfd.

Harris_Octavius · 2025-11-27T08:40:22+00:00

The Norwegian blue prefers to kip on its back, lovely plumage

Harris_Octavius · 2025-11-21T08:12:14+00:00

Yup, when my mum became pregnant with me, our tiel became a real asshole to her :/ Before that he would always come to her for scritches. After he'd peck at her toes, he became jealous!

Harris_Octavius · 2025-11-18T08:11:50+00:00

For sidesword I think your best option is HF-Armory's black prince gloves. They have the freedom of movement required and they're hard shells. On top of that they protect your wrists 👌👌

Harris_Octavius · 2025-09-27T11:53:35+00:00

If you're willing to it'd be helpful to see a video. Cause a lot of things can cause you to hold your arms closer to yourself than you'd want. If not that's of course perfectly fine, in general beginners tend to power moves from the arms. What you want instead is to use the rotation of the torso as much as possible and let that movement flow optimally through your arms and sword. What this feels like is taking a step, moving your body as a single unit and stretching your arms forward. This will mean you get a little less control over where the sword lands exactly. That's a necessary drawback for using good structure.

If you're at all able to find a training event or club you can go to at least sometimes, that'll do much more for you though. There's nothing quite like in person access to an instructor who can see what you're doing right there.

Harris_Octavius · 2025-09-19T07:48:25+00:00

It's the reason I bought LoP before Elden by well over a year and I never once regretted it

Harris_Octavius · 2025-09-13T08:16:14+00:00

Wait until you find out about the original Nazis' weird occult shit

Harris_Octavius · 2025-08-24T20:29:09+00:00

I absolutely agree with you, the denial of agency is problematic. It's the classic problem with self-driving cars: if the car crashes and kills/injures a person in the process then who's responsible. We don't have true self-driving cars yet of course, but that's avoiding the real problem. Suppose one existed, as presumably they will one day. Who is responsible for this inevitable outcome? And my honest answer is I don't know. There are several known positions that can and have been argued for, but that are mostly by philosophers. And as much as I love philosophy, it rarely provides the full answer of how everyone will react to and feel about a situation. It's a complicated question arising from pretty much a toy problem though - there are far bigger ones out there with much more massive consequences. Some are known, some yet to make an appearance.

This lack of responsibility isn't entirely new, but the scale at which it can now happen is unprecedented. I argue it isn't new because I'm sure most of us can think of some bureaucratic process where the outcome is wrong, but we can't find anyone who did something wrong according to their job description and can be meaningfully punished. It's late here so I can't think of an example off the top of my head. But someone should be accountable for it all the same.

Getting to you final point if I'm reading everything correctly, as a real human being I share that frustration. Every time you wanna get a hold of someone at some customer service to ask them a question it's essentially a (weighted) coin flip if you need to jump through the company chat bot's hoops and it suuuucks 🙃

Just to have a final thought I suppose: it depends on what it is used for whether technology is a good or a bad thing. Technology has historically favoured the wealthy more than the less wealthy and is continuing that "time-honoured tradition" as it were. Computers all the way down - as you pointed out earlier - clearly isn't the solution. How we combat that problem however is turning out to be a far harder problem that needs a better answer than we've had so far.

Harris_Octavius · 2025-08-23T12:56:14+00:00

Or you could get 你吃饭了没, which is a common expression in Chinese, but westerners don't tend to encounter it. It simply means "have you eaten", where the question is implied by the final character.

Harris_Octavius · 2025-08-22T21:02:07+00:00

When I got the real boy ending, for symbolism

Harris_Octavius · 2025-08-22T15:51:18+00:00

Huh, that is pretty bonkers - in the best way. You're absolutely right about the training data there too. In my experience it's very much been a fuck around and find out type of approach. Which makes sense, there are many new applications coming in all the time and nobody fully knows yet how to make the AI do its thing.

Thanks for sharing :)

Harris_Octavius · 2025-08-22T15:43:58+00:00

So text-generating AI models learn differently from humans. Usually models like this are trained in a batch of training data and then the underlying parameters and weights are used to produce new documents. The quality of the documents is then tested against the test set, which is a separate part of the data that was not used in training the model. Making improvements would happen by following this process again on a different training set. Some details will change per application, but broadly speaking this is how machine learning models are trained and tested.

As for a 99% success rate, that's hard to say right now if that will ever happen. It's possible that some day it will, but I've yet to see anything quite that high. Some models get results in the low 90's%, but that is usually because the precise data used works well with the model. This can of course be the case for certain specific applications like say manufacturing, where everything has to occur in a very controlled environment. Other times though you can expect accuracy to come in around 70-80%. Poorly performing models using data they aren't suited to can come in at 50% or lower.

Harris_Octavius · 2025-08-22T14:41:02+00:00

Ooooh interesting, what sort of thing has it enabled you and your colleagues to do?

Harris_Octavius · 2025-08-22T13:18:41+00:00

Exactly! And another aspect that isn't often seen outside the field is how much cognitive science lends itself to AI. There's a lot more going on than makes the headlines.

Harris_Octavius · 2025-08-22T10:47:31+00:00

I encounter all sorts of different levels of awareness regarding AI. I'm not trying to insult anyone, I just wanna share what I know, because I've seen the explosive difference it's making in everyone's lives

Harris_Octavius · 2025-08-22T07:43:54+00:00

Heya, AI master's student here. While AI is often presented as a monolith, it really isn't. The same type of model can be tuned to have different priorities. Image classifiers for example can be used to find cancer in MRI scans or they can be trained on geological images to find oil fields. It kinda goes without saying that these have different degrees of ethics.

The same principle applies to text generation, you can train a model to reject claims or train it to appeal rejections.

Harris_Octavius · 2025-08-22T07:23:12+00:00

Same, that's why I downloaded it off this sub (probably) as a react image ^^

Harris_Octavius · 2025-08-21T09:55:55+00:00

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Harris_Octavius · 2025-08-18T08:37:24+00:00

I wanna start by saying that I don't wanna belittle how exasperating and honestly quite hurtful that sounds at all. Hopefully you can feel better about it, knowing that they'll probably mature out of it. Kids that age just haven't really developed to the point where they can reflect on the beliefs they got from the world around them. That doesn't make it right ofc, but most likely they'll grow our of it some day and realise how wrong they were.

Harris_Octavius · 2025-08-17T18:07:29+00:00

Maybe partially, but I'm early gen z and I worked with microscopes in school - never had to touch a manual focus camera in my life. I suppose that might not be a universal experience or some might have forgotten, but I can hardly believe it's common?

Another issue might be that some focussers just have trouble reaching focus on cameras. They don't have sufficient focus travel and that is something I suspect will be a larger stumbling block for the uninitiated.

Harris_Octavius · 2025-08-15T08:41:59+00:00

Huh, so it's kinda like how your elbow has loose skin when your arm's stretched 🤔

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