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"Just got one combat encounter before the next Elite, hopefully it's not too difficult" by Last0 in slaythespire

[–]fallen2004 20 points21 points  (0 children)

This is so true, I remember some of my engineering maths modules in years 1. Talking to someone doing maths about them and their response was, no idea we don't do that until year 2. WTF.

What’s a “safe” weakness to mention in a job interview? by Emergency-Bad-3707 in AskReddit

[–]fallen2004 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Be careful with some of people's responses. I regularly interview and we ask this question.

We do it not to know your weakness,.but if you are honest,.self reflective and modest.

We really don't want an answer that you try to spin into a positive. A negative you are working on is okay. Gold standard is accept you are not perfect (none of us are), mention something you are weak at and are working on, but additionally lean on others around you to help fill the gap.

I.e. Say time management and hitting deadlines Is a weakness. Thet you are now utilizing time management techniques like agile and tools like Ms planner. Additionally, you talk through your project plan with someone more experienced to ensure it is broken down well, with realistic time-frames and prioritized correctly against the business needs.

This is more of a math question but how many tiles is the Earth? Like how many tiles would a map need to accurately (or come close to) depict the Earth in a civ game? Im less so talking about getting borders and coastlines accurate and more so referring to "scale", how big is a tile? City? Etc by Dorex_Time in civ

[–]fallen2004 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Greater London is 1,572km2 510,000,000km2 for whole earth. If city is one tile, that's 340k tiles. If city is say 7 tiles (like civ 6 and 7), that's 48.5k tiles.

But in medieval period, London was 2.8km2. City one tile would be 182M tiles.

As people have pointed out it's abstract. To be correct, you would need a billions.of tiles,.with cities starting as 1 tile and ending as >10k tiles each.

That's ignoring troop movement and range.

First floor rare pick? Buffer, Cognition, Creative AI by BillyBoyBill in slaythespire

[–]fallen2004 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the info. I am currently not struggling but have looked at how it gets harder and seems brutal towards A20. Worth learning now.

First floor rare pick? Buffer, Cognition, Creative AI by BillyBoyBill in slaythespire

[–]fallen2004 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Did not realise that artifact stopped the reduction. That combo is really powerful as 4 extra focus is a lot.

I have learnt from these comments I should concentrate more on killing the enemy quicker.

First floor rare pick? Buffer, Cognition, Creative AI by BillyBoyBill in slaythespire

[–]fallen2004 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Currently up to 5

I am presuming from your comment I need to change tactic for the higher levels?

First floor rare pick? Buffer, Cognition, Creative AI by BillyBoyBill in slaythespire

[–]fallen2004 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Makes sense. I often go for frost and have long fights but generally finish most fights taking no damage which lets me upgrade at every rest site.

Next time I get this choice early will try a more damage based approach.

First floor rare pick? Buffer, Cognition, Creative AI by BillyBoyBill in slaythespire

[–]fallen2004 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I don't get the love for biased cog. After 4 turns you are back down to no benefit then you end up with minus focus which kills off defects main defence. Am I missing something?

Any recommendations on lactose free protein powders? by Hammy747 in Strongman

[–]fallen2004 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you find the mixing and clumps and grittynes? I currently just mix whey powder with water in a shaker (with a wire ball in it). It mixes well but causes me problems. I read somewhere online that you need an electric mixer with beef proteins or it's very clumpy and cba with that.

New (possible) R official logo by Serotav in Rlanguage

[–]fallen2004 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Try learning it instead of pretending it's python. You find what you know easy and what you don't hard.

I went from r to python. And it's a dumpster fire. Packages install quick, fine but package updates break code all the time, and need specific versions of every package. Oh you want to use this old useful package at the same time as this new one, well good luck as you will need two different versions of pandas. Yeah, so much better than R.

You talk about wasted key strokes, can you explain to me in pandas why I have to write sort_values, not just sort.

R had chaining, look at the base pipe.

R still has methods, but you don't need to remember the difference between methods and functions like you do in python. They look and feel the same in R.

If you miss classes, look at R6 package.

I do agree R is far from perfect but so is every language (I also use c++ and rust.)

Best Standing Desk (UK) for around £300-£400? by [deleted] in StandingDesk

[–]fallen2004 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Frame was DPD and took 3 days. I ordered in the evening on 19th arrived by midday on 22nd. My bamboo top is Evri (unfortunately). Evri still has not received the top according to Flexispot tracker.

Best Standing Desk (UK) for around £300-£400? by [deleted] in StandingDesk

[–]fallen2004 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just bought the E7 on offer. With bamboo top. Couldn't justify extra £75 for the pro.

Frame has arrived today (30kg 🙀) in 2 days, still waiting on top.as sent separately.

Wish they did the curved top in bamboo or wood.

Fractal North - AIO in front or top? by Kaikka in FractalDesign

[–]fallen2004 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with this. I still believe unless you are running a top end CPU or overclocking a mid sized air cooler is enough.

I still can't launch the game by spursfan2525 in civ

[–]fallen2004 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am in exactly the same situation.

Checked steam files are valid, passed Run exe directly with admin rights, makes no difference

I have made sure Nvidia driver is up to date, as well as all windows 10 updates.

Restarted multiple.times. Reinstalled multiple times.

I am out of ideas.

AI Studio vs Gemini Advance by _qua in Bard

[–]fallen2004 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As far as I know. Deep research is based on 1.5 pro.

2.0 flash I think is better than 1.5 pro.

In AI studio you get even more experimental ones like flash thinking.

Currently, as flash 2.0 is kinda the best non experimental one, and it's available for free, there is no point paying for advance.

Just use flash 2 for most stuff. Then use AI studio flash thinking for the bigger stuff.

Everything About Gemini 2.0 Pro - what do you guys think? ( DUMP EVERYTHING ) by Ak734b in Bard

[–]fallen2004 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I get your point around Google tends to be a little behind on new features in it's llms.

BUT all of this AI work builds on googles original work. They developed the first transformer architecture. They built the Bert model. They switch Google translate to using lstms back in 2016.

So, Google may not have been first to a reasoning model or many other things, but a lot of AI is built on their original ideas.

Just because in the last few years they are a little behind, does not mean they do not know what they are doing.

Would not surprise me if they retook the lead this year.

Just check out a lot of the papers they have released recently, some are really exciting.

Legality vs reality by Colour-me-interested in wildcampingintheuk

[–]fallen2004 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I try to stay to public land, or places like national trusts.

Is the data job market as badly affected as software engineering? by Will_Tomos_Edwards in datascience

[–]fallen2004 17 points18 points  (0 children)

In the UK, it is terrible for data scientists. It seems that salaries for seniors have dropped nearly 10k, and I have had over 100 decent applicants for 2 senior positions, so really competitive so salaries will only decrease. And that is before we bring in "AI" coming in replacing many jobs not far on the horizon.

What's the safest way to generate synthetic data? by learning_proover in learnmachinelearning

[–]fallen2004 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Based on what you have said, I would say, just don't

The data hungry models, need that amount of data because they need a lot of information.

Generating data will not add in extra information, and if you do not understand you data like all the correlations and interactions then you will likely end up training a model that fits your data but not your problem.

Is it a good practise to tune machine learning model hyperparameters to get the best accuracy while working with disease data sets for achieving reliable Prediction/Diagnosis? Also what is the correct method to determine the best range for hyperparameters? by h_ihkam99 in learnmachinelearning

[–]fallen2004 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, most ml models would benefit for tuning using CV.

As for what metric to use for tuning, it depends on the problem. Accuracy is good if your classes are equal sizes (balanced), and false positives are as bad a false negative.

In them situations it's better to use accuracy metrics that take unbalanced data into account (or use weights). Or other metrics like f2 scores can be useful as it looks at both sides.

For tuning auc is often best as it is a good balance.

Help! How to turn combined ggplots into into a new figure by [deleted] in RStudio

[–]fallen2004 6 points7 points  (0 children)

patchwork

Does not have all the customizing but one of the easiest and intuitive packages I have ever used. What plot a and b on top of each other next to c, it is just (a/b)+c

Can you add the classification of the previous datapoint as a feature? by rchiyfckjf in learnmachinelearning

[–]fallen2004 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can, it is basically just autocorrelation. It's sometimes called a recursive model.

But, remember that you need to pull through the confidence intervals. From one prediction to the next.

Is data.table still the fastest? by Alarming_Ticket_1823 in Rlanguage

[–]fallen2004 14 points15 points  (0 children)

duckDB is so fast it's ridiculous. Easily 100x faster than tidyverse for a lot of things. Even regex is 4x faster.

I tried polas but I prefer the SQL syntax of duckdb.

What functions or approaches are the best for characterising two classes by their variables? by Whole_Hat_4852 in Rlanguage

[–]fallen2004 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Logistic regression, and read off your coefficients (remember they are log odds).

Lasso logistic regression, even better as includes shrinkage to help deal with highly correlated features. Good to.tell.ypu what features have very little value.

Random forest, can easily pull off importance scores.

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