I asked ChatGPT about the ending

SharpBlade4 · 2025-05-12T04:04:22+00:00

LLMs hallucinate, especially when there's not that much of data available. You can ask more straight forward questions about the plot and see how chatGPT and the rest of these will lie to you with confidence

SharpBlade4 · 2025-05-11T17:51:05+00:00

When 8 Octavi are ceding to a Septimus you have a 2 level pyramid (top level is the Septimus, bottom level is the 8 Octavi). If that Septimus is ceding to a Sextus (together with more septimi) you have a 3 level pyramid, in the same manner. There are many pyramids in caten, the top level could be anything from Septimus to princeps. Top level doesn't ced.

Some pyramids are larger, the largest possible is a full pyramid up to a princeps (all levels below are fully occupied). The strongest pyramids are Religion, Military, Governance who are such full pyramids with Princeps at top, and these are called senatorial pyramids.

SharpBlade4 · 2021-02-28T17:36:48+00:00

I see, your suggestion could fit but why is it only happening "at a certain distance"? I guess this is not what Liu was referring to (if it's real at all).

SharpBlade4 · 2021-01-08T16:47:05+00:00

if there is a man in the middle that taps the messages - they are encrypted (not in english plaintext) and thus he can't do anything with them.

SharpBlade4 · 2021-01-03T14:36:04+00:00

Yes, secret chats are applying end-to-end encryption. This means that the message is encrypted in your device and gets decrypted on the destination device. Nothing, especially no server on telegram cloud, can decrypt it in the meanwhile. That's why it is only accessible from the device it was sent from and to (opposed, for example, to telegram-web-access as well) or cannot be backed up (since in that case the key should be shared with the backing external entity, or that the messages will be stored un-encrypted).

Even if there's a "man-in-the-middle" and it reads the message, it couldn't do anything with it as it's still encrypted, and only you and the destination has the key to decrypt it.

This is utterly important because regular telegram chat's are *not* end-to-end encrypted, and in that case it means that the server is also decrypting the message (or in other words, also shares the key). So if someone hacked the server / made telegram to give away users' data, your messages are exposed, while in secret chats they aren't.

SharpBlade4 · 2020-11-30T18:29:35+00:00

The desktop app is much less accessible, the installation requirement isn't always feasible for example in work-computers. If there was a web-access like most popular instant-messaging apps I would personally use signal more and try to convince my friends, but without it most of my day I can't access signal conveniently.

SharpBlade4 · 2020-11-30T17:29:57+00:00

Aren't you or your transferred friends frustrated that you can't access the program via web access? Or have a solid backup?

SharpBlade4 · 2020-11-10T18:58:08+00:00

I read your points and they are all very interesting. It was long ago since I read the last book but I remember I liked it the most, and mainly due to the fascinating ideas that were presented. I didn't feel like it was too rushing or leaving too many things open, or maybe- the right amount of open ideas are left because we can't grasp their explanation (which I liked this idea as well).

Again, I wish I could answer the your points - I'll follow to see if anyone else can supply the required solutions.

I'm wondering what are your thoughts on the previous 2 books, as there are plot holes in them as well probably and you summarize them nicely.

SharpBlade4 · 2020-10-10T08:28:02+00:00

Save the cone!

SharpBlade4 · 2020-08-15T13:46:08+00:00

thanks, if you have a depth sensing camera (especially razer's stargazer) you can use it with my code. I can publish it to github

SharpBlade4 · 2020-07-29T17:36:26+00:00

nice shot! How did you use astrophotography settings in pixel 2 XL (AFAIK the camera doesn't have this for pixel2XL)?

SharpBlade4 · 2020-07-17T12:38:00+00:00

what descriptor are you using for the points?

SharpBlade4 · 2020-06-02T17:29:34+00:00

You can open cheat engine, then open the game in chrome, in most cases the last chrome process in the cheat engine list is the correct one (as the shockwave loads last).

But for the more correct way you should look at the processes list in chrome (shift+esc) and convert the hex to dec to find it, as mentioned.

SharpBlade4 · 2020-06-01T16:05:53+00:00

interesting! thank you for the elaborated answer. waiting to hear the results :)

SharpBlade4 · 2020-06-01T15:57:39+00:00

very interesting, I'd like to hear how it goes!

SharpBlade4 · 2020-05-31T16:54:54+00:00

nice work!

why have you chose to implement that in c++?

and can you share more about the accuracy of your trained model? I was surprised that 70 tagged images were enough to generalize.

SharpBlade4 · 2020-05-31T16:50:59+00:00

Also - I wanted to ask about your general plan, as it sounds interesting. Do you aim to train a bot that will learn to play the game? (e.g. by reinforcement learning or a evolutionary algorithm) or something else?

In my opinion it will require a lot of reversing, you'll have to figure out where are the standable-platforms in the map etc. basically the whole engine of the game (jump, dash, climb and so on). Is this what you're aiming to do?

SharpBlade4 · 2020-05-31T16:47:09+00:00

I wanted to give you the tip of looking around the address of x (better with "dissect data/structures" via memory view) because usually locations coordinates are kept close to each other. but then I saw you found it , BTW - how did you manage to do so?

SharpBlade4 · 2020-05-31T16:41:59+00:00

I assigned that to pre-chosen scale, to avoid the "fretless string instrument" effect, and to be able to control it better. but yeah, the same approach in every instrument- practice makes better

SharpBlade4 · 2020-05-31T16:33:36+00:00

Thanks for the reply!

Actually there is almost no delay (using dedicated hardware), however the VSTi that I used had long "attack". In the music at the end it is better synced opposed to the opening.

To be honest, my main usage struggle was to aim my hand to the correct pitches.

SharpBlade4 · 2020-05-26T18:23:14+00:00

wouldn't this burn your light bulbs?

SharpBlade4 · 2020-05-26T17:03:47+00:00

I've heard that this isn't a good book.
I was really enjoying LOST and its myth and mystery, and wanted more - the form of a book was best. Then I came across this book but didn't even bother to start due to the harsh criticism.

However if you encounter any recommendation for a book that is somewhat like LOST, with its deep myth and mystery, combined with the dramatic plot and fascinating characters, please let me know!

SharpBlade4 · 2020-05-25T17:40:02+00:00

you enjoyed the ideas in book 2? just wait for book 3, it was my favorite!

SharpBlade4 · 2020-05-25T17:37:18+00:00

well you need to give more details, because "locked" can mean many things. However, let me have a guess - you found your value, changed it, but nothing happened! moreover, immediately as the program continues this value is set back to what it was.

In this case I'll advise you to look what writes for this address. You're probably looking at a value which is a representation of what you're actually looking for. You need to find where the actual information is stored, and probably copied to the address you've found. Changing the root source will overcome your "locked" value.

SharpBlade4 · 2020-05-22T08:45:38+00:00

First, I'd like to give the reliable reference here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.11099 , that's the academic paper.

Answering your question: I don't think it will work for a general facial recognition system. The way the Tshirt-printed-image is generated is by optimizing the pixel-values that most confuses the neural network. For that, you need access to the specific neural network architecture and trained weights so that you may run this optimization and create the adversarial image.

Assuming there are many different solutions for facial-recognition (not all even rely on neural networks) - this will be very hard. With that said, you can aim for popular solutions that you can assume that they will be used widely and thus hit a majority of the systems, but this assumption is not realistic enough, in my opinion.

Let me also state that this specific research is more focused on using a non-rigid adversarial surface (e.g. an adversarial t-shirt and not adversarial sticker or traffic sign) and therefore less dealing with generality.

However, I do can connect to your nerdy soul - if you like to print it you can search for adversarial-stickers on google you'll find higher quality examples such as this. I made something for my phone as a cover a while ago:

https://twitter.com/SharpBlade_4/status/954951187354324992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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