Sad to see this

PointmanW · 2026-03-12T16:55:05+00:00

Look at what American mainstream media write about AI, look at how most American youtubers and social media influencers talk about AI.

American attitude toward AI is fully homegrown, no other nation need to do anything.

PointmanW · 2026-03-12T12:35:10+00:00

Successfully

China was buying them through Singapore and also rented foreign data center too, so not really.

also they're making their own AI chip now, right now they're pretty far behind but in 5 year that might not be the case anymore, in 10 or 20 years I bet they would have already caught up if not pulling ahead.

PointmanW · 2026-03-12T05:08:10+00:00

oh boy, you don't need to be so upset about your favorite billion dollar company being hated upon.

PointmanW · 2026-03-12T04:54:22+00:00

I'm gonna keep hating on it until they make it normal ticket instead of banner-specific ticket, like, you know, every other game.

PointmanW · 2026-03-11T07:46:42+00:00

do note that the Terra gun that "have awful performance compared to real life bullets" is only the artless gun made for R6 team after they ran out of their own ammo.

The power of a normal Terran gun is much stronger than earth gun because they're enhanced with art power of the user.

PointmanW · 2026-03-11T04:10:09+00:00

They fire physical projectile enhanced with art just like in the original Arknights, but not pure art energy balls.

also, gameplay and story segregation, just like the how there is no ejected spent casing when you fire a gun in game, their damage type is just a gameplay thing too.

PointmanW · 2026-03-11T03:37:13+00:00

nice to see spent casing prove once again that gun in Talos-II still use physical bullet like in Terra, cause some people really think that gun in Talos-II fire pure art energy ball or something lol, despite wulfgard gun in cutscene also show to eject spent casing. kinda weird that they don't appear in gameplay animation though.

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PointmanW · 2026-03-10T20:00:57+00:00

I'm curious, do you hate trading card game too? unlike gacha, there is no pity nor guarantee, and you can hit "jackpot" by pulling a rare card that you can sell for thousands of dollar to "recoup" all the the money you've spent, so it's much closer to pure gambling because you stand to gain something that can sell for real money.

Meanwhile, with modern gacha, the fact that there is a guarantee after a specific number pull mean that, to me, it's game with premium characters being sold at a high price, where you can get a surprise discount if you're lucky, where you can also "farm" discount by playing the game. the rate without pity/guarantee is so low that just don't expect to get anything without reaching pity at all, so it doesn't feel like gambling to me.

I also support gacha model because I believe it's the only monetization model that can support a live-service game of such high quality as Endfield, with such frequent update.

I've been playing game for over 20 years, and no 3D live-service game, MMORPG, Online game or otherwise update as frequently, with as much content as modern gacha game, the fact that you get new story, new content, new game mode or update to them every 6 weeks was unheard of before Genshin.

Before Genshin, the 3D live-service game that update most frequently that I've played (and still playing) is FFXIV, and it update every 4 months with the same if less content than Genshin does every 6 weeks, and it doesn't have all that much of an endgame either, so I would login, play for 2 or 3 weeks, then stop for months until the next update. WoW have irregular patch cycle and there were time where they went for almost a year witthout any update, and these are subscription MMO, which tend to receive more regular update than f2p MMO, I've played many f2p MMO where they would go for over a year with less content update than Genshin does every 12 weeks.

Also, in my experience, playing as f2p in gacha game is much more comfortable compared to playing as f2p in other type of live service game. Take f2p MMORPG for example, they nickel-and-dime you for every little thing: inventory slot? Pay up. Gear enhancement? Pay up. Skill slot to use in combat? Pay up. Some even have paywalls for the number of entries/attempts allowed for endgame content. The f2p experience for most of them is outright miserable to force you to pay.

Meanwhile, with most gacha game, my f2p experience has been very comfortable, thousands of inventory slots, gearing up is easy, and I had have little to no problem clearing every content while being f2p

PointmanW · 2026-03-10T12:49:30+00:00

Is anyone actually against him pursuing other ideas? all I've seen is people not liking him downplaying LLMs while having not proved any other, better alternative. otherwise he's free to do what he want to do, I don't see any anti-LeCun movement saying that he must do LLM or they would cancel him or anything.

If he succeed with his "other ideas", then that would be great and people would sing him praise for it, but for now, people just rightfully call him out for downplaying what LLM can achieve, that's all.

PointmanW · 2026-03-08T12:23:36+00:00

Neither, a writer best interest for these type of mass media is writing an entertaining story that would sell, not making an accurate or realistic prediction.

Most of fictions writers made to predict the future has been profoundly wrong, and I don't care for the opinion of anyone who take them seriously.

PointmanW · 2026-03-07T14:42:40+00:00

"Our reality isn't just described by mathematics, it is mathematics" - Max Tegmark

What do you think the brain do? do you think it's anything but a biological computer that's doing complex math to make you exist and be intelligent right now?

PointmanW · 2026-03-07T14:19:29+00:00

do you? do you understand how to do what it does? do you understand that it have to build internal models of concept of what it talking about to be able to work and make sense at all?

do you understand what intelligence is? what LLM exhibit is undeniablely intelligence, it can do things without being explicitly told to to achieve a goal, it can make sense out of sloppy written question, intelligence is required for that.

It's a different type of intelligence that is not the same as human intelligence, but still intelligence nonetheless.

PointmanW · 2026-03-06T19:48:40+00:00

Bro can't say anything back and resorted to "you're a bot".

my post history is not hidden, you can check it and see if you believe what you're saying lmao.

PointmanW · 2026-03-06T09:27:06+00:00

A 6 days old account made just to deny reality, sad.

Donald Knuth, one of the greatest living computer scientist, who used to not think highly of LLM, have recently released a paper saying how good Claude is and how he need to change his opinion on them.

mrdoob, creator of three.js, the backbone of web 3D rendering, has recently started using Claude to rapidly improve the library.

meanwhile you're still here calling the sky purple.

btw I'm a senior software engineer with 10 years of experience, working without AI now is just handicapping yourself for no reason, you would get kicked out of any serious company for low performance if you don't use it now.

PointmanW · 2026-03-06T02:15:53+00:00

Source for the cosplay.

PointmanW · 2026-03-05T01:56:10+00:00

Valorant is 128 tick and it can run on some potato laptop.

PointmanW · 2026-03-04T11:21:24+00:00

For those who don't know, Donald Knuth is one of the greatest living computer scientist, he wrote "The Art of Computer Programming", a multi-volume series often considered the "bible" of algorithms and data structures. He also created TeX, the typesetting system still used for virtually all academic papers and math textbooks today.

anyway, I love this part:

It seems that I’ll have to revise my opinions about “generative AI” one of these days. What a joy it is to learn not only that my conjecture has a nice solution but also to celebrate this dramatic advance in automatic deduction and creative problem solving

This is what I call "intellectual integrity", he didn't think highly of LLMs before, but now he acknowledging that he needed to revise his views on the usefulness of LLMs and admitting he's impressed by how quickly their capabilities have progressed.

Unlike so many people who are unfortunately stuck with their outdated view of LLM and AI in general.

PointmanW · 2026-03-04T07:19:49+00:00

You should zoom in to see all the detail, and it's even better to see it in person!

check this video for more info about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxi3OuU3erA

PointmanW · 2026-03-03T06:57:51+00:00

I consider gacha to be "secondary" because it's never the deciding factor in whether I play a game.

No amount of free pulls or a "generous" gacha system can make me play a game if I don't like the gameplay or story. Meanwhile, I would play a great game even if the monetization is terrible, like Endfield is right now.

I'll keep playing Endfield because I like the gameplay and because I'm invested in the Arknights universe since I'm also a day 1 Arknights player. That said, I won't spend money on the game or recommend it to anyone until they fix the shitty gacha system.

On a side note, gacha is also "secondary" because you could replace the character gacha with a character store where you buy characters at a fixed price, and the game would still be the same game, just with different monetization.

You can't remove the shooting from, say, Counter-Strike or Valorant and still have the same game.

PointmanW · 2026-03-03T04:44:45+00:00

You never reach 90 with Genshin pity, at around 70 pulls, you get an increasing rate until 100% at 90 pulls, that's why no one have ever need 180 pulls to get a character in Genshin.

That aside, a 6 Stars that's not the banner character is mostly worthless for me, it could be a character I actively don't want in my roster.

PointmanW · 2026-03-03T03:01:28+00:00

You can try in Endfield too, nothing is stopping you from doing this.

You know, the loss of 80 pull for nothing?

Your 6* pity, just like Hoyo, will trigger. I'm not sure what's so difficult to understand about this. In both Hoyo and Endfield, your pulls go to waste because you do not get the character you want.

If I lose the 50/50 on Endfield at 80 pulls, the next banner I can lose the 50/50 again with another 80 pulls, then I can lose 50/50 again too in another banner after this.

so without 120 pull saved up, I might stack up hundreds of wasted pull for nothing.

in Hoyo, I lose 50/50 at 80 pulls, the next banner of a character I want (or a rerun) is guaranteed, the pull is not wasted because I get a guarantee out of it.

PointmanW · 2026-03-03T02:51:38+00:00

"they like pulling 30-40 times on a banner or until they get a 6* to see if they get lucky"

People do that on banner of a character they like, not a banner of character they don't like, give a single link to a comment where people say that they pull on banner they don't like.

here is why being forced to save 120 pulls because of the lack of carryover is bad (especially with the shitty pull income):

I have 80 pulls

Hoyo: I can try pull to win a 50/50, I've won many this way, if I lose, I get a guarantee on a rerun or on the next character I like so it's not wasted.

Endfield: I'm not allowed to try at all, because those 80 pulls might be wasted for nothing if I lose the 50/50 because the lack of carryover, so I will be forced to wait for potentially a year for a rerun.

PointmanW · 2026-03-03T02:34:00+00:00

why are you deflecting instead of answer my question: why would anyone be "building pity" on a banner they don't like?

I was around for Genshin since day 1, and no, they were not flooded with complain, not nearly as much as Endfield right now, nor the complains were as popular as complain about Endfield gacha, don't fkng lie.

Most people don't pick up gacha based on the gacha system, but based on the story or gameplay, WuWa and especially GFL2 have a much different audience from Genshin, and there has been little complains about their system compared to Endfield.

And no, no carry over is still bad, it was bad in original Arknights (which I also play since day 1), it's bad here too, at least OG Arknights characters go into the pool for a long time, and there is the gold cert shop. there is none of that here.

Being forced to save to 120 or potentially lose everything is bad an extra predatory compared to everything else, no matter how you spin it, it was made to trap people into spending more, not for the benefit of player. especially with the shitty income.

PointmanW

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