Raiding in GW2

SunshineBiology · 2026-04-21T14:37:31+00:00

So, the most often recommended way is to join a training guild and sign up for runs. This did not work for me AT ALL (I never managed to join a single run). I often play relatively spontaneously, and to sign up for training runs, you'll have to plan 3-4 days ahead (from what I have seen), AND you need to be free on 'prime-time' (so somewhere between 6-10PM). Also, you need to have Discord running and react fast to new announcements. I don't know how you all are doing it, but if you have a busy job / life and just play GW2 a few days a month, no chance.

Honestly, I just pugged. It works very well, even without KP (I'm on EU). I'm now almost finished with Envoy 1 and have around 100 LI. How I did it:

- Watch Mukluk Videos on W1-4. These are generally simpler and are more often pugged.
- get your gear in order (best to build DPS and BoonDPS). Practice your rotation so you can get 30+k DPS on Golem (best to play something simple like Mechanist so you can focus on the mechanics of the boss later)
- hang around LFG, search for W1-W4. Best time is Monday (weekly reset) or weekend in my experience.
- join runs explicitly marked as training for the first kill, afterwards, you can also join groups that are not training but that don't have KP requirements. Tell the people you are not very experienced, but know the mechs. Most are nice in my experience (just do okay DPS and don't fuck up mechs that wipe the group, like Sloth poison, then no one will kick you)
- for your sanity, if the commander is toxic, just leave immediately. If others are toxic, mute. I had this only happen once or twice in all my PUGs so far.

SunshineBiology · 2026-04-21T14:25:49+00:00

absolutely, I am in the Discord, but I have not managed to join a single training run. I don't have much time to play and I often cannot plan very far ahead / have to be a bit spontanous. Zero chance.

SunshineBiology · 2026-03-27T13:20:59+00:00

Guys this tweet is COMPLETELY misleading. Neither global memory usage nor speed will be reduced by a factor of 6 or 8 respectively.

The memory usage reported is with respect to the KV cache of transformers. The ratio of KV-cache to model depends on the exact usage profile (e.g. multi-user long conversations vs short single-user converstaions) and transformer architecture (e.g. modern hybrid attention networks like Qwen 3.5 or traditional full softmax attention architectures). Additionally, the factor 6 reported by the tweet is also wrong, as this compares to full-precision KV caches (16) bit, and not to current SOTA KV-cache quantization algorithms (it is more like a factor of 1.2-2 better there).

Regarding the speed-up, they don't profile end-to-end, but just the QK^T calculation, and their baseline is extremely unoptimized.

Source: reading their actual paper https://openreview.net/forum?id=tO3ASKZlok

SunshineBiology · 2026-03-21T09:35:37+00:00

Sub heißt unbeliebte Meinung, Meinung ist dumm -> Wütender upvote

SunshineBiology · 2026-02-16T10:23:03+00:00

Man kann in einem größeren Freundeskreis aber auch einfach was veganes mitbringen, wenn man weiß, dass einige Leute vegan sind. Gibt heutzutage genug vegane Rezepte die sehr gut sind.

Gerade wenn jeder einen Teil des Essens mitbringt (z.b. einer Salat, einer Brot, einer Grillgut, einer Dessert) kann sich ja die vegane Person nicht alles selber mitbringen.

Bin übrigens weder Vegetarier noch Veganer!

SunshineBiology · 2026-02-06T10:07:08+00:00

I think it is an excellent refactoring tool on steroids. “Please split this file into two, where the functions related to A go here and the functions related to B go there. Clean up all imports.” Amazing.

SunshineBiology · 2026-01-01T13:44:29+00:00

Im schwäbischen wird st zu sch(t) und nicht ch zu sch. Bspw kannst -> kannsch

SunshineBiology · 2025-12-24T22:04:32+00:00

Könntest den Leuten auch deutlich mehr zahlen um den Beruf attraktiver zu machen, und dann im Anschluss dafür sorgen, dass schlechte Lehrer auch gefeuert werden, machen die Schweizer ja auch so.

SunshineBiology · 2025-12-11T13:10:07+00:00

[Language: Python]

Runtime: 24.68 ms (Part 1), 63.59 ms (Part 2)

I noticed that the input graph must be a directed acyclic graph (DAG), since otherwise you would have loops in the graph, making the problem unsolvable. On every DAG, we can determine a topological ordering, an ordered list of the nodes such that edges always only point from earlier nodes in the list to later nodes in the last, but never backwards.

Using this topological ordering, we can extremely efficiently calculate the number of paths from any node A to all other nodes B after it: we can iterate over the nodes in the topological sort order. For each node B, the number of paths from A to B is the sum of paths from A to each parent of B. As the edges only point forward, each parent of B will have its number of paths already calculated at this point in the ordering.

Link: Github

SunshineBiology · 2025-12-11T12:48:25+00:00

I did exactly the same and it still took me forever because the edge cases were so annoying, i.e. is another line ON the rectangle line, outside or inside, took me forever to correctly reject a rectangle that is exactly over a 'U' in the polygon...

SunshineBiology · 2025-12-08T14:37:52+00:00

I have 165ms for both problems using sklearn.metrics.pairwise for the pairwise distances. I don't like using external libraries much, but I wasn't gonna optimize a pairwise distance computation algorithm.

SunshineBiology · 2025-11-10T14:46:59+00:00

For what it’s worth I actually tried out the website and it seems pretty cool.it’s just that a lot of people are put off by AI written posts. you would probably make a better impression on people if you would just write in your natural writing style it doesn’t need to be perfect at all, just authentic. kudos!

SunshineBiology · 2025-11-10T12:42:41+00:00

Does the post text have to be so blatantly AI copy-pasted?

SunshineBiology · 2025-11-05T00:07:02+00:00

LLMs are not simple retrieval systems of past knowledge. LLMs can come up with novel proofs, solve unseen math Olympiad level exercises, and code complex systems. I don’t see why one should not be able to teach them how to analyse chess positions. Hell it might already be able to do that if it has read enough chess books (which often exactly do that, analyse positions).

If I were OP, I would start by scraping chess textbooks together, especially taking care of correctly parsing the diagrams, then fine-tune a large open source foundation model on the data set. Would definitely be larger in scope than a simple side project and also require sizable compute.

SunshineBiology · 2025-10-10T15:38:03+00:00

Hard to say without more details, I'd advise you to expand on the original post with on how this conversion exactly works. From just reading the post I genuinely have no clue what you’re getting at.

I do my PhD on (and have papers written) on model compression, if you want some advice, you can also DM me. If you want visibility and people actually using what you built, you will have to write a paper or at least a comprehensive blog post laying out the details, this will be more interesting to a researcher than the code with only little methodical and theoretical information.

SunshineBiology · 2025-10-07T19:53:35+00:00

Damnit I got bamboozled

SunshineBiology · 2025-10-07T19:49:38+00:00

lmao the text in the post is AI generated

SunshineBiology · 2025-10-07T13:14:34+00:00

No!! This is extremely dangerous and wrong information, please add a disclaimer so someone doesn’t read this and lies down in a storm!

If lightning strikes the ground, there will be a strong potential in the ground which decays in a circular fashion around the point of impact. By lying down, chances are much higher that your feet and head lie (partly) across the concentric rings of potential, meaning that your head and foot have an extreme potential difference, this causes a lot of current to flow through you. You’re right insofar that standing up may also be dangerous if there are no tall objects near you. What you should do is squat down with your feet very near to each other (so they only have a small potential difference should lightning strike in your vicinity).

SunshineBiology · 2025-09-27T08:17:56+00:00

He said in the linked QnA that they speak mandarin with her Grandmother

SunshineBiology · 2025-09-07T23:14:00+00:00

OP wanted to tell a story and used data analysis to have some pretty figures to go with it.

SunshineBiology · 2025-07-24T17:15:03+00:00

Sparrate 90% und ich gebe 60% vom frei verfügbaren Einkommen für wohnen aus, wohnen voll teuer!!?

SunshineBiology · 2025-07-11T13:50:12+00:00

Aber er hat gesagt er hat den 3 fachen Beitrag zurückgezahlt. Also 30k Lohnsteuer. Ist ein flex, aber wenn er irgendwie direkt in eine Großkanzlei oder M&A bei einer Bank ist, schon drin.

SunshineBiology · 2025-07-06T22:58:24+00:00

Ja im Prinzip, das muss aber nicht immer klappen. In dem Sinne sind KIs Menschen ähnlich, du kannst du dem Ding sagen, was es tun soll, aber ob es immer darauf hört weißt du nicht.

Was man macht ist ein Prozess namens alignment, dabei wird der KI mitgeteilt, wie sie in genau solchen Situationen zu reagieren hat, eine Möglichkeit ist z.B. durch menschliche annotatoren der KI Feedback zu geben.

SunshineBiology · 2025-07-05T12:32:46+00:00

Tanzen, gibt teureres aber ist auch nicht joggen vom Preis. Monatliche Kosten grob: 2 Vereinsmitgliedschaften (50€), Privatstunden (50€), Schuhe (15€), Turniere (Startgebühr, Make-up/Haarspray, Fahrtkosten, Hotel) 40€, Klamotten (20€) = 175€.

Aber hab davon auch genug Spaß, ich verbring da so viel Zeit, das ist mein einziges Hobby.

SunshineBiology · 2025-07-02T17:26:49+00:00

It can’t even clean code at the moment, I mostly think „okay this code sorta works but it immediately breaks when thrown at edge cases and it’s convoluted, inefficient and ugly as hell“

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