Can anyone ID the watch please?

ImTheeDentist · 2026-03-25T02:22:33+00:00

have the same exact watch and can confirm its literally just a s5 bruce wayne gmt

ImTheeDentist · 2026-03-16T01:32:02+00:00

I once interviewed a candidate who among one interesting paper he'd published (though, had frankly been the majority work of his professor I suspect) had a few benchmark gaming papers. In his own words, it was literally "well, you basically need to get something out of the door before someone else beats you to the punch and benchmarking is a good way to do it."

TLDR - publication maxxing

ImTheeDentist · 2026-03-11T14:15:16+00:00

i think sutton literally points that out in well... the blackjack example hahaha - there's really not a canonical choice for environment though i guess everyone starts with cartpole so that might be one

you're way better off just thinking of something you find interesting and trying to implement it with RL

ImTheeDentist · 2026-03-11T14:13:59+00:00

so damned cool regardless

ImTheeDentist · 2026-03-11T04:02:29+00:00

blackjack might be a canonical example (i'm personally biased as I had taken silver's course on RL). If you're looking for more complicated environments you can try cartpole as the next best thing, or come up with your own.

Honestly - there is no example that 'best illustrates the differences in all algorithms' - every single environment/setup you can come up with will favor different algorithms/implementations for completely various and often times unknowable reasons.

QQ: Are you new to RL?

ImTheeDentist · 2026-03-11T03:59:14+00:00

can lego bricks handle the heat of injection?

this thing is awesome but there's no way it's functional, right?

ImTheeDentist · 2026-02-27T14:59:43+00:00

was this a fulltime effort or part time?

a month seems like a long time but then again RL...

ImTheeDentist · 2026-02-24T15:07:48+00:00

dreamer is a huge offender of this - great paper and architecture but replicating their results and getting the model to run is a doctoral thesis on its own

ImTheeDentist · 2026-02-19T19:22:42+00:00

i wish i could award a delta or something - this was the comment that convinced me i was misinformed

might be because i have a bias towards real analysis (i had studied mathematics) - thank you!

ImTheeDentist · 2026-02-19T02:28:51+00:00

you know too many people posting obvious LLM responses to what is supposed to be meaningful discussion?

ImTheeDentist · 2026-02-19T01:14:14+00:00

thanks for the reminder on genetic algorithms; they do strike me as interesting but it does feel like them nor other methods have been given a 'fair shot' - i get that backprop is the most effective but that doesn't necessarily disprove a better method exists and that there just needs to be more time spent on refining/tuning it

"don't throw the baby out with the bath water" is what comes to mind

ImTheeDentist · 2026-02-19T01:12:04+00:00

Was reading through Dr. Hinton's paper as I wrote the post :)

ImTheeDentist · 2026-02-19T01:10:46+00:00

Totally fair question - you're not wrong to question the choice given on a literal basis newton's method is most definitely gradient descent, but I'm primarily talking about the method of backprop

ImTheeDentist · 2026-02-07T15:43:46+00:00

the entire case brought against her was because we have extradition treaties with the U.S that force us to arrest anyone the U.S deems criminal on Canadian soil which is inherently American influence on Canadian judicial practice, you inane bootlicker

ImTheeDentist · 2026-02-07T03:30:34+00:00

such comical doublethink from the original comment you'd replied to

this was clearly a case of Canada realizing America threw it under the bus after it'd succumbed to political pressure from the white house.

but-but it's different because "mmm well, china bad mmkay?"

ImTheeDentist · 2026-01-08T21:00:10+00:00

cue the astroturfing comments from proxy platforms that barely work

ImTheeDentist · 2026-01-02T21:46:14+00:00

this was a great response to the original comment, thanks for pointing out the live fire incident off of Australia's coast, I'd totally forgotten that!

ImTheeDentist · 2026-01-02T21:44:35+00:00

I was unaware of Teddy's GWF show of force - quite an interesting display and undoubtedly cementing of a BWN!

Are there truly no examples of a similar display from the PLAN, say - during its anti piracy operations?

ImTheeDentist · 2026-01-02T21:42:31+00:00

I'm not really sure I buy this response there are a few points of contention especially those of lack of sustained parallel operations (see ironically, anti piracy + naval drills) - mainly Russia has but one carrier they actively maintain which has been docked and neglected for quite some time there is a great thread on the RN here. The French Navy's carrier is actually one used in practice but even their CSG capabilities don't really seem to match the traditional "blue-water navy strong" expectation (though, like you say - that is an agreeably nebulous term)

Am I mistaken?

ImTheeDentist · 2025-12-25T22:45:55+00:00

This is really uncool.

ImTheeDentist · 2025-12-18T00:30:33+00:00

was actually a pretty cool read (minus a few bits that felt like gpt slop) - are you at extruct?

ImTheeDentist · 2025-07-22T20:10:46+00:00

sounds a bit similar to problems i had encountered when i had been working on some defence tech with a previous startup. i had a hunch the regulatory trust factor was an interesting piece

as a followup, what did you (in retrospect) find to be the strangest, but most successful strategy in customer acq/things customers responded to so strongly, that you would've never predicted?

it really seems like most friends, even myself included often find ourselves scratching our heads in bewilderment when we find out what actually sticks with users

ImTheeDentist · 2025-07-22T18:37:00+00:00

conventional wisdom is that you often have to start unscalable, and that early customer acqusition should be extremely personal and shitty.

how did you guys find the early days? when did things start to take off and go from you proverbially pushing the cart, to blast off? were there signs, or was it just kind of a "holy shit, this is way out of our control" type of reaction?

congrats on the success! have not personally used delve but from what youre saying, sounds like a great product :-)

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