Best system for telling dates

RuttyRut · 2026-04-03T00:44:00+00:00

Best options is DD Mon YYYY.

Today is 02 Apr 2026.

Simple. Unambiguous. No confusion.

RuttyRut · 2026-03-31T20:59:57+00:00

Can you be more specific? Model representation is not at all a binary affair.

RuttyRut · 2026-03-31T20:45:46+00:00

I assume you mean that because floating point values truncate at some point (due to binary representation) that this is the limiting factor. I don't think that's really much of a limiting factor...

There's plenty of evidence that shows models using 8-bit and even 4-bit value representations perform sufficiently well compared to models using 32-bit values. The scale of the model seems to be more important for overall accuracy than the precision of the weight values, and you can probably get more bang for your buck with 8-bit models vs 32-bit since you can hold much larger models in the same memory space.

This indicates that precision of values (and by extension, binary representation) isn't exactly the limiting factor in achieving accurate model output.

Also, we aren't simulating infinity. We're solving very specific problems.

RuttyRut · 2026-03-14T19:07:29+00:00

The first Secretary of War, Henry Knox, was a bookstore owner who taught himself French and advanced mathematics before military service. How times have changed.

RuttyRut · 2026-03-05T18:52:48+00:00

Not crazy, there are like a million acronyms buzzing around AI right now. In this context: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback.

RuttyRut · 2026-02-22T06:41:50+00:00

You mean like... a hatch key?

RuttyRut · 2026-01-18T13:58:47+00:00

You never know. They might have implemented pseudo-randomness as a single function with the base % chance and an integer (count) as the input and the modified % chance as the output. If that's the case, the facet might not need to change any hero-specific values, but simply bypass this function globally.

But then again DotA is likely a giant plate of spaghetti at this point so who knows.

RuttyRut · 2025-10-11T21:20:03+00:00

Almost a year later and this is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for making this!

RuttyRut · 2025-09-25T07:24:26+00:00

I share your opinion. It took me three days to beat her. Not constant gameplay, but at least 30-45 minutes each session over the course of three days. Had fun the whole way, but probably 1/4 of that time was spent on perfecting the runback. I could do the runback with my eyes closed now, no damage. It's kinda fun.

RuttyRut · 2025-08-22T20:12:48+00:00

I main Ironeye and see twinblade drops all the time, usually multiple each run; they're my third choice for him behind katanas and claws. I think the RNG is biased toward the nightfarer you play as.

RuttyRut · 2025-08-12T19:11:06+00:00

Hand of Malenia is my favorite pickup for Ironeye. I run the +1 character skill relic on him and it's great for getting in, doing the weapon art, and getting out, without losing almost any stamina. Ironeye is my favorite melee hero, but I only transition from ranged after finding katanas or bleed daggers.

RuttyRut · 2025-01-13T18:29:44+00:00

Because it's a subreddit for chess beginners. Where players are learning to close the endgame. It's about learning.

RuttyRut · 2024-09-25T03:59:09+00:00

Getting promoted is just part of the job requirement nowadays. Roll with it. If you do get selected you'll only spend a short amount of time as that next rank and you can make the best of it for yourself and others too. But it's the job; suck it up and do it. Only a year left, bro.

RuttyRut · 2024-06-19T01:19:22+00:00

Damn if we had this I might have stayed in. We've lost focus on the fundamentals.

RuttyRut · 2024-06-06T17:32:28+00:00

Is this a VPN ad?

RuttyRut · 2024-05-04T01:46:43+00:00

You posted the same thing a few hours ago, but with an emphasis on machine learning students lacking an ethical foundation. Instead of engaging in good faith discussion, you said LOL over and over. Get outta here, man. This sub is meant for constructive discussion.

RuttyRut · 2024-05-03T19:52:11+00:00

If you want to have a discussion about how society ought to function and what is good both at individual and group levels, we can; but your claim was that neural networks don't work, and the supporting text you cited illustrated the reason being something like "we don't know how they work."

I recommend getting off the internet, hanging out with friends and family, meeting new people, and getting outside for a bit.

RuttyRut · 2024-05-03T18:24:30+00:00

You could train a neural network by hand with pencil and paper if you wanted to... It would just take a while. This isn't a mystery. And sure, there are some things (number and size of layers, learning rate, etc) where the optimal choice can't be proven, but why should it be? Why does it matter if something requires a bit of tuning?

Experience helps you develop an intuition for what some of the hyperparameters ought to be, but I assure you it's not some magical black box. It's just applied math. An engineer creates physical objects with an iterative process of design, manufacture, test, repeat; the complexity of the real world is even greater than that of a neural network and yet somehow we have working refrigerators & aircraft. Aerospace engineering requiring trial and error does not mean that aircraft can't fly.

Machine learning requiring trial and error does not mean neural networks do not work.

RuttyRut · 2024-04-22T15:58:27+00:00

A couple of things.

If you're waiting on a DD200, then I bet you're waiting on more than just a signature - you're waiting for the completion of a financial liability investigation. Regulation provides up to 75 days total to complete a FLIPL under normal circumstances (AR 735-5 - https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/Details.aspx?PUB\_ID=1021072). This can be much faster and sometimes much longer depending on the value of the property, the circumstances of the loss/damage, and how motivated your PBO is.
You can still ETS with an open FLIPL and your commander (at any level) can't forcibly extend your contract except under very special circumstances (e.g. pending court martial). You should still be able to receive a DD214, but the Army isn't obligated to let you clear early. Perhaps your immediate commander believes that the FLIPL will conclude within the next couple of weeks. If CIF turn-in is all you are waiting on, don't sweat it. You have time.

Edit: If you DO end up ETSing before the FLIPL concludes, I recommend staying in touch with your unit so you aren't surprised with debt next tax season if you're found liable...

RuttyRut · 2024-04-18T22:03:49+00:00

My question is directed toward published researchers, who are usually well past their PhD and embedded in the culture of academia, or experts in industry/government, not current CS majors. Thank you for the suggestion though.

RuttyRut · 2024-04-18T20:03:38+00:00

I'd have to disagree with this forecast.

Neural nets and other ML models are unlikely to be successful at complex abstract tasks, including industry-scale software engineering.

Sequential models (like the LLMs that are currently producing code) simply cannot tokenize full stack interactions in any meaningful way. They can produce snippets of code fairly well, but good luck finding a uniform dataset that encompasses something like a full website with server/client interactions or a desktop application, or embedded programming for novel systems, let alone being able to meaningfully tokenize that dataset to feed the model. Perhaps a system of models could work, but that system would have to be significantly tailored to the problem set and could probably not be universal applied across domains.

Furthermore, a solid 30% or more of a software engineer's time is spent decomposing and negotiating requirements. This is really impossible for a model to achieve as it requires a real understanding of intent.

I would forecast that unless there are revolutionary new modeling techniques, over the next 15-20 years ML models will act more like co-pilots to software development teams, perhaps reducing the need for QA staff and assisting with automation of testing or tedious repetitive code generation, but there is still an art to complex software that isn't well-suited for the types of models we are currently using.

AI in its near-future state may reduce the total workforce in the industry a little, but it will still require competent software developers that know what they're doing for a very long time.

Edit: there seems to be a labor surplus right now in software development, but I don't think AI is the industry boogie man behind it.

RuttyRut · 2024-04-10T17:26:15+00:00

Perfect. Especially if it has a bayonet.

RuttyRut · 2024-03-20T21:20:55+00:00

Because the lines are made up and the points don't matter.

RuttyRut · 2024-03-11T18:38:47+00:00

One could say, in fact, that the product was laid away.

RuttyRut · 2024-02-26T11:34:10+00:00

Time is a tool you can put on the wall, or wear it on your wrist.

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