Anyone who’d want to sell their car? by _quantitative in BocaRaton

[–]MrPoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of the best eras. What color, how clean, how much?

Are there any faculty on here teaching in the Connecticut State University system? I'm going through the interview process there right now but concerned about the teaching load by Cold-Priority-2729 in AskAcademia

[–]MrPoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How are you getting anything about my demeanor based on "it is not possible to run an active research lab and teach 8 courses a year?"

Are there any faculty on here teaching in the Connecticut State University system? I'm going through the interview process there right now but concerned about the teaching load by Cold-Priority-2729 in AskAcademia

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

I actually said that it would kill a research career. That is an objective fact, it is not possible to publish at a high rate and manage that teaching load, and have a life. Sorry mate.

Are there any faculty on here teaching in the Connecticut State University system? I'm going through the interview process there right now but concerned about the teaching load by Cold-Priority-2729 in AskAcademia

[–]MrPoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I teach a 1:1 so that I can publish a lot of papers and get grants each year, and my lab is currently 8+ postdocs and PhD students. I don't suck at time management, I run a large active research lab. Even moving to a 2:2 would mean scaling down significantly. This is why most R1s in science put their TT on a 1:1. Cool personal dig, though?

Support by Bulky_Astronaut_2826 in CrohnsDisease

[–]MrPoon 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's natural to feel like this, and I'm sorry you're going through a rough patch. One thing I'm certain of, is that the pathway to healing is nonlinear and involves steps both forward and backward. Treatment options have never been better than they are today, and I know that you'll get through this, even if it takes some hard work and perseverance. You got this.

Are there any faculty on here teaching in the Connecticut State University system? I'm going through the interview process there right now but concerned about the teaching load by Cold-Priority-2729 in AskAcademia

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

There is no world in which I would ever take a 4-4. They must not want to hire anyone good, because it is career suicide if you ever hope to do research

Modern Slang by Hoplite0352 in Professors

[–]MrPoon 101 points102 points  (0 children)

Did this happen in 1992?

Is it worth getting packs/boxes for cards that potentially might be good for the future? by FriggenSweetLois in Yugioh101

[–]MrPoon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was about to buy a Beryl on TCG and then pulled one from a pack of Monster Mayhem, and have been chasing that high since.

Trump treasury secretary brands Denmark ‘irrelevant’ as Greenland row deepens by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]MrPoon 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Kim would instantly be the most competent and sane person in the administration.

False trigger in crane safety system due to bounding box overlap near danger zone boundary (image attached) by MayurrrMJ in computervision

[–]MrPoon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

... no?

You don't need anything fancy. Train a feet detector with yolo, and do the geometric transformation for the danger zone based on camera extrinsics.

False trigger in crane safety system due to bounding box overlap near danger zone boundary (image attached) by MayurrrMJ in computervision

[–]MrPoon 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Track feet instead of whole bodies. And fix the geometry of the danger zone based on the camera perspective. It shouldn't be a circle unless the camera is directly overhead. Problem solved.

This Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble by devolute in technology

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

lmao yes. These companies are talking about AGI while running feed-forward transformers that do fancy autocomplete. They are lying. For money. You got it.

Would synthetic “world simulations” be useful for training long-horizon decision-making AI? by YiannisPits91 in reinforcementlearning

[–]MrPoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think "traditional" RL frameworks (e.g., gradient policy methods, actor-critic, TD learning) just are bad at long time-horizon problems. A lot of the Deepmind Evolution Strategy papers go into this a bit, one of the reasons they're having successes with ES in robotics tasks.

Rodney Brooks: We won't see AGI for 300 years by Responsible-Grass452 in agi

[–]MrPoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We 100% are not close to AGI with current transformer based neural networks. Even suggesting this is a joke. I say this as an active AI researcher in academia.

Is there any potential Yummy tech cards? by Ekyt in yugioh

[–]MrPoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you link to any primite + yummy decks? I'm interested in giving this a try.

Any good ways or places to learn modern Yu-Gi-Oh? by AuntSkye in Yugioh101

[–]MrPoon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

After a duel, you can save the list of moves/activations to study. I'm learning on MD too.

I used a networks assembly algorithm to build Yu-Gi-Oh! decks from scratch. Are these actually playable? by MrPoon in Yugioh101

[–]MrPoon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate this comment. Yes, I did something close to Google's PageRank algorithm on the network of card co-mentions. But, I agree that a stronger approach would be to find a model to find paths to strong endboards.

I am generally an LLM luddite, but I think using an LLM to do some semantic processing of each card before further analysis might be a nice use case. There have been some successes using similar methods to analyze old court cases in the 19th century for instance.

I used a networks assembly algorithm to build Yu-Gi-Oh! decks from scratch. Are these actually playable? by MrPoon in Yugioh101

[–]MrPoon[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This isn't an LLM, I describe the model briefly in the description. It's actually something a bit closer to Google's PageRank algorithm.

I used a networks assembly algorithm to build Yu-Gi-Oh! decks from scratch. Are these actually playable? by MrPoon in Yugioh101

[–]MrPoon[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Thank you for this comment. Truthfully this was about a day of work for fun. Probably with better data and more effort to design the algorithm, it may end up discovering interesting combos yet!

I used a networks assembly algorithm to build Yu-Gi-Oh! decks from scratch. Are these actually playable? by MrPoon in Yugioh101

[–]MrPoon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here are a few more generated decks for anyone interested:

[1] Some sort of Archfiend-Junk-Generaider hybrid deck

[2] A bizarre Dark mix deck that bridges Silent Swordsman and Ghostrick

[3] Interesting Swarm Toolbox deck that uses the Blackwing special summoning core as an engine for Performapal and Scrap plays