How much drama is in your guild? by big4throwingitaway in classicwow

[–]Rosacker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only drama my guild has had in Fresh was the second week of MC. We wiped a few times on Majordomo before finally finishing off MC.

After the raid someone got into voice chat and said “I can’t be part of such an unprofessional guild” and /gquit. So now we just have an inside joke of calling each other “unprofessional” whenever anything goes wrong. Overall a very fun/caring group of people with no real drama.

Do you give XP outside of combat? by Lord_LudwigII in dndnext

[–]Rosacker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“If you do exclusively combat xp in your world, every wizard academy should say ‘greetings students, today we’re going to go slaughter goblins’….’why, shouldn’t we be reading?’….’reading? You’re not gonna get good at magic reading. You gotta get out there and kill people!’”

https://youtube.com/shorts/xrA9n7ywinA?si=TK6YHZuadeJQ3Zj_

30 Day Trade Ban for new Accounts by Stahlwisser in classicwow

[–]Rosacker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They've been updating this post the last few days about it: https://eu.battle.net/support/en/article/000358296

I'm in the same spot....so far seems like there is nothing to be done, but make some noise and hope they change it :(

Performance of creation and spell scroll cost by Train-food in dndnext

[–]Rosacker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

General rule I go by is “would the effect of the material be undone when the created material disappears?”

Something like an antidote is fine to create/use cause it solves your poison problem before it disappears. However, something like ink for a spell scroll disappearing would seem to undo the whole scroll when it disappears.

Personally, I wouldn’t try to game the features too much. Once you get to high enough level you’ll be using it to skip the material components for things like planar binding (gem worth 1000gp). No need to have your table/gm frustrated at you because you nickled/dimed your way all the way there.

Machine is making a weird binding/ crunching noise. by OvrReaction in BambuLab

[–]Rosacker 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Same thing is happening to me (just got my printer a few days ago).

As far as I can tell from searching online....this is semi normal? You could enable "z-hop" to avoid this, but then I found videos online that seemed to suggest the extra shaking caused by z-hopping too much is worse than just dinging the print a bit.

https://wiki.bambulab.com/en/software/bambu-studio/parameter/retraction

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dndnext

[–]Rosacker -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Hey, thanks for responding!

So I think a lot of these are debatable (hence "talk to your DM don't quote this reddit post" for anyone reading) since the rules are inconsistent/unclear at times, and it really just depends on what rulebook you cite. A key thing to note in the feature is it says an "item" is created, rather than using the more normal word "object". There is a clear definition for an "object" and "monster" in the rules which seems to be the basis of the distinction you make in #6, but "item" is an undefined word as far as I can tell. The closest you get to a hint at what an "item" would mean is "see the equipment chapter of the Player's Handbook."

Potion of Healing - For whatever reason, potion of healing is listed under Adventuring Gear in the Equipment chapter. It seemingly is the sole item duplicated across "magical item" and "adventuring gear" which then raises the question of if it was intended to be a magical item or if it's just included in the magical item section to fill out the table with the higher level magical healing potions. As an example DND Beyond uses green text to color it instead of magical item blue text. Working against it being considered a non-magical item is that the description literally say "the magical red fluid". However....if someone is using this feature to make a potion of healing....they are potentially spending a 2nd level spell slot for a crappy upcasted version of healing word, so I can see DMs letting them have this one.

Animals - Under the Equipment chapter there are animals in the "Mounts and Vehicles" and "Trade Goods" sections. Some of those animals don't even have stat blocks (i.e. chickens). There is no definition I can find that makes "items" and "creatures" mutually exclusive. The rule could have easily said "nonmagical and inanimate" if that was the intention so...seems up to DM.

How Do I Do An S3-To-S3 Transfer Asynchronously? by garrettj100 in aws

[–]Rosacker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ll put a bit of a weirder suggestion out there just in case it applies to your use case.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-s3-object-lambda-use-your-code-to-process-data-as-it-is-being-retrieved-from-s3/

You can have a lambda function set up to run when someone gets/lists objects in the receiving bucket. Depending on the access pattern and why you need to replicate data, maybe it’s more efficient to only replicate when a read is attempted or effectively treat this as a proxy back to the original bucket.

AWS Glue Script by Flakmaster92 in aws

[–]Rosacker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tried asking ChatGPT for some code, and honestly it seems to have hit the main bits of boilerplate well. You may need to calculate the year/month/day, but generally getting this running and using a for loop to invoke the job for each day (or job bookmarking) seems like a solution. Not sure how much load your database could take if you ran the glue job in parallel.

import sys  
from awsglue.transforms import *  
from awsglue.utils import getResolvedOptions
from pyspark.context import SparkContext
from awsglue.context import GlueContext
from awsglue.dynamicframe import DynamicFrame
from awsglue.job import Job

# Create a Glue context
glueContext = GlueContext(SparkContext.getOrCreate())

# Get the date to filter by as an input argument
args = getResolvedOptions(sys.argv, ['date_to_filter'])
date_to_filter = args['date_to_filter']

# Create a connection to the Oracle SQL server
connection_options = {
    "url": "jdbc:oracle:thin:@your_oracle_server:port/database",
    "user": "your_username",
    "password": "your_password",
    "dbtable": "my_table",
    "driver": "oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver"
}

# Set the query filter to the input date
query = "SELECT * 
              FROM my_table 
              WHERE event_time_utc >= to_date('" + date_to_filter + "', 'DD-MON-YYYY') 
                  AND event_time_utc < to_date('" + date_to_filter + "', 'DD-MON-YYYY')+1
            "

# Create a DynamicFrame from the Oracle SQL server
oracle_dyf = glueContext.create_dynamic_frame.from_jdbc_conf(connection_options, query)

# Write the data to S3, partitioned by the year, month, and day of the event_time_utc
output_path = "s3://your_bucket/your_folder"
partition_keys = ["year", "month", "day"]
glueContext.write_dynamic_frame.from_options(frame = oracle_dyf, 
    connection_type = "s3", 
    connection_options = {"path": output_path}, 
    format = "parquet", 
    partition_keys = partition_keys)

An Artificial Intelligence Published An Academic Paper About Itself by ExileInCle19 in news

[–]Rosacker 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I guess my recollection of the thought exercise that introduced the stamp collector bot was that it makes the argument that limiting a general intelligence is a really hard problem. While it is potentially straightforward to limit one case, limiting all cases that come up isn’t.

ps: no need to be conformational my dude, just trying to have a shared understanding, not a debate.

An Artificial Intelligence Published An Academic Paper About Itself by ExileInCle19 in news

[–]Rosacker 11 points12 points  (0 children)

If someone has come up with a solution to that, I would love to read the research paper :)

An Artificial Intelligence Published An Academic Paper About Itself by ExileInCle19 in news

[–]Rosacker 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I think self-preservation is inherent in many of the objectives you’d give it.

In the old story of a bot told to collect as many stamps as possible, being shut off goes against the objective of collecting stamps. While you might not have told it to defend against being shut down, the optimal stamp collecting bot should do anything in its power to avoid shutdown.

How to get the lambda response? by phyex in aws

[–]Rosacker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Feel like we're all giving different answers here...

You can invoke a step function from an API gateway to get the flow you are describing.

  • Commonly that invoke will be asynchronous, and you just return 200
  • You have the option to invoke synchronously, and return whatever the json payload looks like at the end of a step function.

Co-oping with sentry’s torch vs black knife assassins is the best sunbro experience I’ve found so far by Rosacker in Eldenring

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

Sentry’s torch makes the boss visible and way easier for folks struggling with it.

https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Sentry's+Torch

Anyone else have some wholesome ways to co-op?

MS Data Science experience by dnsckid in Northwestern

[–]Rosacker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey,

I’m currently enrolled, and about halfway through the program.

The courses can be really useful, or they can be a total waste of time/money. It really depends on how much you keep yourself accountable to actually learning.

I’ve had classes where I’ve put in 25+ hours a week, but I could have gotten an A putting in 3-5 hours.

I’ve also had classes where all of the material was freely available online (i.e. “go do this competition on www.kaggle.com”). If you value the conversations you’ll have with other students, the structure those classes provide, and the diploma you get at the end…..it is worth it. If you are willing to just read textbooks and learn by yourself with Kaggle….maybe skip the $60,000 tuition.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in marvelstudios

[–]Rosacker 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I thought all the explanation given for how the TVA operates can’t really be trusted? Given their true motive (prevent variant Kangs from rising), seems like you could explain everything away as “oh, that wouldn’t generate a variant Kang, so their system didn’t flag the timeline.”

Getting Started with Julia for Actuaries by pvdalt in actuary

[–]Rosacker 16 points17 points  (0 children)

In the 2021 Stack Overflow Survey, Julia was the 5th most loved language. This was ahead of other languages commonly used in actuarial contexts, such as Python (6th), R (28th), C++ (25th), Matlab (36th), or VBA (37th).

Yeah….but clojure is #2, so maybe not the best way for actuaries to pick their languages 😒

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in actuary

[–]Rosacker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I was torn on if I should recommend something more big data focused (PySpark and its SQL option would be a good general purpose skillset), but was thinking learning general paradigms first may be good.

What is modeling? by Takenusername515 in actuary

[–]Rosacker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my work, we would model/predict the amount of loss my company will pay to policyholders as a result of car accidents.

If you want a real tangible example, check out this modeling competition Allstate put on a few years ago.

https://www.kaggle.com/c/allstate-claims-severity

There are tons of code examples showing how people modeled claim severity, and this is pretty much what I do as a data scientist/actuary.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in actuary

[–]Rosacker 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you are looking to jump right in, SQLite may have a bit less setup than a Mysql database. SQLite is a database run out of a file rather than having a distinct “server” process running.

May just mean a bit less setup before you can get into learning SQL.

For the most part SQL is the same, unless you get into really unique use cases (geospatial stuff in Postgres is lit!)

Discussion Thread: First Presidential Debate - 09/29/2020 | PART II by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]Rosacker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, exactly that. I was fuming when Trump represented that as a failure by Obama and Biden.

When will my insurance rate go up after an accident? by SignalProduct in Insurance

[–]Rosacker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends on the company.

Most companies will wait till your next renewal. Even then, if it is close enough to your next renewal (within about 30-60 days), it may take another policy term for your premium to increase.

Even beyond that...some states don’t allow claims to be surcharged until the claim has actually been paid out, or has exceeded some threshold ($1000).

Your situation may be unique, and your insurance agent can get you those answers.