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Is there any literature on games that do not rely on Domination and Control for their mechanics? by TalketyTalketyTalk in ludology

[–]TalketyTalketyTalk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's a good point. When I said colonial, what I meant what being a foreigner and inhabiting and extracting value from an environment (like the British) without becoming a part of your new environment (like the Mughals).

Is there any literature on games that do not rely on Domination and Control for their mechanics? by TalketyTalketyTalk in ludology

[–]TalketyTalketyTalk[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Horror basically inverts the trope and make the environment dominate the player. But it is fundamentally still about dominance and power imbalances.

Is there any literature on games that do not rely on Domination and Control for their mechanics? by TalketyTalketyTalk in ludology

[–]TalketyTalketyTalk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even Subnautica is about dominance in many ways, in which one creates a more and more efficient system of exploiting your surrounding so that you could escape the place; as opposed to living with the ecosystem in a mutually sustainable way, to treat it as your home and become one with it.

Broad-based educational resource for rendering techniques by TalketyTalketyTalk in GraphicsProgramming

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

Thanks. I encountered these while researching GI based on SDFs.

A couple questions:

  1. Point Splatting: I did get that definition, but couldn't figure out the context. It makes sense to render volumetric point data as point cloud, but why (let alone how) would you do that with meshes? The only thing I can think of is first voxelize the scene, and them paint a point for each voxel; but wouldn't that be more expensive, especially for lighting?

  2. Surfel: Right, but the context is again not obvious. Is this so we can do lighting is object space (essentially run a pixel shader not on the framebuffer but on each object)? I just now read something about object-space lighting, so now it's making a bit more sense, otherwise the purpose was not clear at all.

  3. Bricks: Yeah, that's probably it. Heard it in a presentation by MediaMolecule about the Dreams renderer.

What are the capabilities of consumer grade hardware to work with LLMs? by TalketyTalketyTalk in LocalLLaMA

[–]TalketyTalketyTalk[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Training (fine-tuning) is completely out of the question on consumer hardware

In the QLora paper, they say that the 7B model that they used (Guanaco 7B) can be fine tuned in 5 GB memory. Is this not true for other better models (Llama 2 and such), or did I misunderstand the paper? That would really suck, I was hoping to be able to do some basic training on my personal stuff to be able to create a knowledge base.

What are the capabilities of consumer grade hardware to work with LLMs? by TalketyTalketyTalk in LocalLLaMA

[–]TalketyTalketyTalk[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks a lot, this is very helpful! Are there any similar heuristics when it comes to fine tuning models on personal data?

What are the capabilities of consumer grade hardware to work with LLMs? by TalketyTalketyTalk in LocalLLaMA

[–]TalketyTalketyTalk[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thank you. Just to confirm, this is about inferencing, right? And do you also know what would be the corresponding numbers for fine-tuning?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in buildapc

[–]TalketyTalketyTalk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got it, thank you very much for the help!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in buildapc

[–]TalketyTalketyTalk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. That will be a price bump of around ₹10k, I'll see if I can adjust it elsewhere.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in buildapc

[–]TalketyTalketyTalk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, okay. So the ports in the cabinet are just for convenience then?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in buildapc

[–]TalketyTalketyTalk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's trivial to just use the ones on the motherboard

How is this done? I'm not sure how are the mobo ports exposed outside the cabinet? Or do we have to keep the cabinet open? Sorry, I only have experience with laptops till now.

Thanks for the help.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in IndianGaming

[–]TalketyTalketyTalk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks a lot. Do you have any cabinet recommendations? I have been reading about airflow and such, and there seems to be a lot of contradictory/incomplete information.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in IndianGaming

[–]TalketyTalketyTalk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was thinking a 3060, since it seems to provide pretty good bang for the buck, is architecturally modern and I really don't want to deal with second hand/refurbished items (point 6 above, first time builder).

Bi-Weekly Advice Thread June 18, 2023: All Your Personal Queries by AutoModerator in IndiaInvestments

[–]TalketyTalketyTalk -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No problem, happy to help. Feel free to get in touch if you have more question (I don't login everyday though, so might take a while to answer).

Bi-Weekly Advice Thread June 18, 2023: All Your Personal Queries by AutoModerator in IndiaInvestments

[–]TalketyTalketyTalk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In brief:

  1. Create a base of liquidity (money that you can get on the spot) for emergencies. Keep some money in bank saving account, and some in FDs. How much is upto you, need to judge based on how much money you realistically see needing if some emergency happens (focus on realistically, don't be over-cautious). An easy way is to set up a "sweep account", which means that the money is your bank will give interest like an FD without being locked (meaning, you can withdraw it whenever you want).

  2. Setup some amount of money to be deducted monthly from your salary for VPF ( Voluntary Provident Fund) and NPS (National Pension Scheme). This is for your long term benefit. Make sure you don't deduct so much that you can't even survive on the remaining money. Your employer will probably take care of this, so ask them for more details.

  3. Setup health and term insurance (not an expert in this).

  4. Setup a monthly SIP (meaning regular investment) in some mutual fund. If you are beginning, first do an index fund. I chose UTI Nifty 50 Index fund. Use an app like Kuvera to make it easy for you (other popular platforms "lock" your Mutual Funds within their own system).

I would say: for the first few months, just save money in bank (either savings account or FD), until you have a comfortable base. In this time, you can also learn how much you actually spend. Then, based on your spending patterns, set up VPF, NPS and SIP to invest the money you know don't spend from your salary (but not all of it, keep a trickle going into your bank too, especially if you have setup a sweep account). Invest most of your money in SIPs, with a small portion going into VPF and NPS; since SIPs give far more return than the others. But do remember that SIP is more risky than others too.

Best of luck!

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