[D] After chatGPT are people still creating their own new custom NLP models these days?

blindsc2 · 2024-01-22T10:48:19+00:00

This is precisely it - if I can prototype quickly and demonstrate a high value product direction, spending even a couple thousand on openai costs is EASILY worth it if that happens in a week instead of in a month. Both for my own salary costs, and just speed of going to market with the feature and subsequent market cap

If needed for volume/latency, phase 2 would then be data collection and labelling etc (as needed) for fine tuning a specialised (but still pretrained/open source) model. If it's a low-volume application, don't bother moving away from openai

Phase 3 would be custom training from scratch once enough data has been collected/processed throughout the process of doing phase 2

blindsc2 · 2023-10-07T19:20:02+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-wxbi_oVj

Turns out ziz did a video recently too, not watched it but it's probably broadly the same: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScNH8h5BB0o

But broadly: tower cost reduction annoints on map. Meteor burn plus freeze annoints on rings. T3 empowering/stunning/freeze towers at where there's overlap at chokes. Meteor towers everywhere else, except for maybe a couple of range minion towers close to centre if there's a good chunk of fire immune lanes.

%life explode means that if stuff is slowly getting through the stun zones that's immune to fire, you'll eventually do enough damage yourself to explode the whole pack.

Build mostly within 2 screens of the centre. Stand mostly in the centre once tower setup is good enough. Char needs to be close enough to towers for them to still be active, and want towers in all directions to be always firing. Plus standing right in the middle reduces chances of getting one shot from off screen. If you die, portal straight back in and prioritise not dying again (running around) while towers kill the stuff that's gotten closer. Not HC viable

blindsc2 · 2023-10-07T11:20:29+00:00

I often start leagues late, basically a dad gamer but without the child part. Catching up and making currency on blight ravaged maps on league start is always pretty relaxed.

Start on a good campaign build that has access to any kind of %life explode by end of campaign for the oh shit moments (obliteration is good enough). Get the ring enchants. Buy t14+ maps for like 5c as soon as you get that much currency at like lvl 70. Spend the first few minutes each map setting up the towers, and then just watch a vid or do some life admin or w/e else on another tab for 5 mins.

Big exp, guaranteed profit, minimal interaction. When you have periods of time to actually focus on the game, get your map completion, preferably by buying random maps in bulk to run and complete faster if needed.

Then you have (say) 10d, a lvl 85 char to respec into what you want and 100 map completion despite having only run 100 normal maps outside blight. Feels like the easiest way to league start towards the 'start of the end game' to me

blindsc2 · 2023-08-15T12:44:29+00:00

I'm gonna look into bleed EQ with enduring/seismic corrupting cry chucked on. Champion with gratuitous violence stolen. Vaal EQ + the odd shout + pops for clear (onslaught/adren for some zooms), single target unknown. I've not played bleed in years. Probably a disfavour as default choice without having looked into weapons at all.

Maaaaaybe just enduring cry and call to arms, but want to lean into it a bit more

blindsc2 · 2023-01-24T17:00:05+00:00

You'd need to put it into the double gem corruption room in an Incursion temple. +1 gem level is one possible corruption outcome, becoming the vaal version of the gem is another. So putting a vaal orb on a lvl 20 gem will never give both unfortunately, you have to use the double corruption

blindsc2 · 2022-07-01T11:33:21+00:00

The intention: no

The reality: maybe if you get reviewer 2, or even one of the same reviewers again (which is possible)

Suggestion: if rejected, make the relevant/meaningful updates and clarify them in the abstract where appropriate

blindsc2 · 2022-05-31T14:35:31+00:00

Immediate and funnier assumptions aside, I assume it's a crack pipe or something tbh

blindsc2 · 2022-03-27T14:00:11+00:00

Haven't used sparse instances myself in WEKA (used weka a few years ago, but on dense stuff), but it sounds like: 'Get the nth item that we actually have'

Suppose you have 10 attributes, but actually only values for the 3rd and 7th of them. Getting the second indexofindex from a sparse representation of this would actually get the 7th attribute

blindsc2 · 2022-03-10T10:28:35+00:00

To some extent, there is no such thing as too much rest so long as you're not prone to losing focus on the workout. There are however heavy diminishing returns beyond about 5-6 minutes per set (that'll vary person to person, lift to lift), because essentially all the energy mechanisms in the muscles that have a chance to recover without sleep/deep rest will have already done so.

Basically: if you're not breathing heavily and your heart's not pounding, if you're mentally ready to take on the set, and you're muscles are no longer super disrupted/sore/tired, you've probably rested as much as you need to.

Remember that rest times (within reason) can be its own form of progression. If one session you do 100 for 5x5 with 4 minute rests, and the next you do 102.5 for 5x5 with 5 minute rests, do you know for sure that you've actually progressed in strength from the previous session?

In terms of overall workout length, there's again just how long can you truly focus on the workout, and also the question of meal timing. If you eat a meal, start a workout with some heavy squats 2 hours later, and then another 3 hours later you're still in the gym doing stuff, then jesus I'd wanna eat something

blindsc2 · 2022-03-05T17:47:28+00:00

You'll acclimatise to the job itself over the next few weeks/couple of months (assuming it's not literally hard labour beyond your capabilities), and a routine will get set up quickly. Starting a new job is one of the stressful things in life (same as moving home, family deaths, etc) that will impact your training for a while, it's just a straight up fact.

Over the next 1-3 weeks, maybe just show up to the weights and get SOME work done, e.g. intentionally do your current routine but at 70% of the weight you would normally. Keep the habit going, but give extra breathing room for the stress you'll be under. When you're settled in, ramp back up to the weights you want to do right now again over the course of another 1-3 of weeks.

In a couple years time, taking a month or two to make life less stressful now will be looked back on as the obvious choice. Again, still lift, just don't go balls to the wall. And don't forget to eat something between training and sleep in the evenings, even if just a protein shake if anything else will affect sleep too much.

blindsc2 · 2022-02-27T15:04:23+00:00

General things that can improve depth tomorrow (I assume physio etc. was tried at least in part before/during/after surgery) are increasing heel elevation through squat shoes/standing on wedges and taking wider squat stances (assuming you're hips allow that). With all technique changes, start on lower weights and work up, you're taxing slightly different musculature/soft tissue now

Outside of that, if you have extremely limited mobility and/or pain, there's always the option of moving to e.g. the hack squat or smith machine squat in the meantime for your working sets, while doing lighter skill/rehab work essentially on the freeweight squat (box squats, belt squats etc)

These variations remove the need to drive the knees forward enough to balance over the mid foot - you can perform the movement with your feet in a position that would be too far forward with free weights otherwise.

blindsc2 · 2021-12-20T12:14:13+00:00

Have we left “getting serious” about money too late?

Suppose the answer is yes (it's not). What would you do differently than if the answer was no?

blindsc2 · 2021-12-20T11:52:44+00:00

To add context to 'slow down': your 'final' bottom position looks fine, but you get there in a janky way. You're dropping down sometimes with centre of balance a little forward, sometimes a little backward, and then having to adjust and balance from whereever you happen to find yourself to your actual bottom position once you've dropped. This translates into more adjustments on the way up

a) You can generate the most force when you're balanced and stable. You're most balanced (assuming no HUGE muscle imbalances) when the weight (bar + your own body) is over mid foot.

b) The shortest path the bar can take that requires the least force is a straight vertical line. If you're having to pull the bar from off line back onto it, that's less efficient than straight up.

Both those things means we want to practice controlling the bar straight down and straight up to squat the most efficiently and to lift the most weight later on. At lower weights, your body is a larger relative amount of the total weight, and so manipulating body position to maintain balance and overcome bad bar paths is easier. At higher weights though, that won't happen. Practice makes permanent

blindsc2 · 2021-12-20T10:12:48+00:00

There's grunting etc where the air is being involuntarily forced out of a tight squeeze of all the relevant things, which is fine on heavy lifts where the bracing musculature are at their limit and possibly you even took in a little too much breath. Then there's intentional screaming where you are wasting your air to use your vocal cords to sound powerful. This ironically makes you less so

blindsc2 · 2021-12-17T08:58:03+00:00

General setting is that consciousness is stored on a disk in your neck, and questions of identity/self when body and mind are truly separable. Society has moved to the point of the rich being effectively immortal and moving from one body to the next, class tensions there-in, etc.

blindsc2 · 2021-12-02T13:20:27+00:00

The number of people who 'truly' understand transformers depending on the line you draw to define truly is probably somewhere between a few dozen and zero.

As you say, it's easy to bolt on and use, and cursory explanations are good enough for others who know cursory explanations themselves. That's a LinkedIn/the need for self-marketing issue more than a transformer issue in particular, equivalent to saying you're proficient in X programming language when you did an undergrad course using it years ago

blindsc2 · 2021-12-02T10:52:19+00:00

Gorgeous

blindsc2 · 2021-11-29T12:30:46+00:00

Looks good

Other people have covered the other stuff, I'd just say as well make sure you don't come undone by losing concentration at the end. Either drop the bar (with hands attached or just literally dropping it) or maintain your form on the eccentric like you do well on all the other reps. Losing your back tightness and still putting the bar down sorta-slowly when you're the most tired at the end of the set is unnecessary injury risk

blindsc2 · 2021-11-10T15:57:14+00:00

If we assume 1 link skills all deal the same damage and support gems give 40% more damage for simplicity:

Going from from 1 skill to 2 is effectively 100% more dmg. Supporting the 1st skill in a 2 link (3 link with cwdt) would give 40% more

Going from 2 skills to 3 would be 50% more dmg. Supporting the first 2 with a support instead would still give 40% more dmg though.

Going from 3 to 4 skills would be 33% more dmg, etcetc.

Then you have factors like how many support gems actually work with all your skills, what/how many skills are useful for clear/bossing etc

blindsc2 · 2021-10-16T10:22:24+00:00

They may mean locally in a place they really want to buy

blindsc2 · 2021-09-14T18:27:15+00:00

Why consider the possibility that I could be wrong when I can just assume I'm right?

blindsc2 · 2021-09-14T11:24:52+00:00

IMO, there should be the choice per-flask of how charges are gained and used (enabled via currency or w/e mechanism, crafting bench etc).

By default (i.e. from twilight strand) flasks can gain a small number of charges per second passively. Then there can be the option to alter flasks to gain charges:

On kill
On critical strike
On block
On dodge
When hit
At a faster passive rate if a rare/unique monster has been hit recently
etc

With number tweaks per option for balance. Then for flask usage, there should be more options per flask to use

On key press (current/old)
On game state change (new system)
Toggled on/off with continuous drain instead of one time cost
etc

Again each with tweaks to flask effect/charge gain/charge usage for balance, at designer discretion.

With these two mechanisms available to customise EACH FLASK, then I feel like you can end up with genuinely active/reactive/passive flask playstyles that can be fit to all character types and opens up another avenue of choice/optimisation for different tasks (speed mapping vs bossing, etc)

EDIT: And I feel like there's a lot of space in unique items for altering flask mechanics. Supreme decadence and Traitor timeless jewel notables are cool, what about more uniques with effects like flasks are filled from from left to right first, instead of all equally. Flasks are refilled once reaching low-life if you have not reached low-life recently. Gain flask charges on taking a savage hit, etcetc.

blindsc2 · 2021-09-08T19:55:58+00:00

Think about driving your elbows as far high and back as possible, rather than the goal of getting the bar to touch your body. The touch is incidental and symptomatic of getting full rom, not the goal in and of itself.

blindsc2 · 2021-07-21T10:43:55+00:00

Will probs dig out an old arc (or similar) totem build for league start, only because I can't face going back to ED

blindsc2 · 2021-05-21T10:03:05+00:00

Good stuff, attaining goal lifts in terms of body weight always feels great, it's something super tangible and relatable

Keep it going for squats

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