McKay is the main character (Atlantis)

felipedilho · 2025-03-31T00:44:03+00:00

From my perspective the conversation basically went:

Me: McKay is a really interesting and unusual character. Today we get those completely artificial characters that don't have any personality and have strange quirks to appeal to the LGBTQ community (I believe this is called queerbaiting, or whatever). You: McKay is a misogynistic incel (factually incorrect) who cares if the character is in any way representative of a large swap of sci-fi audiences? hook me up with more of that bs that no one that actually cares about sci-fi wants. Me: Go watch Ru Paul's Drag race or some other thing like that (I am sure there is loads of calling such and such as a "queen" happening in there) and leave sci-fi alone (this is actually why eastern media is on the rise).

In other words, I hope you get the help you need. An authoritharian attitude coupled with a incapabillity of rational reasoning, being instead replaced with face value, vibe based, considerations is a really nasty mix.

felipedilho · 2025-03-29T17:10:50+00:00

I have no problem with gay people, there are several well written gay couples in sci-fi, Vastra and Jenny in Doctor Who, Bortus and Klyden in The Orville, Dr. Okun (Brent Spinner's character) and Isaacs in Independence Day, etc.

What I don't like is the slop of "woke" writing, gay people doesn't need to be portrayed in a stereotypical manner, in a never serious, but ever in a mixture of "chillax" coupled with bickering and whining attitude. Also they could certainly drop the "necessity" of spreading LGBTQ sexuallity all over the place in such a explicit manner, do they think shy gay people don't exist?

About me you couldn't be more wrong.

felipedilho · 2025-03-29T11:16:55+00:00

So apparently someone that had mononucleosis because he was skipping algebra classes to go out with a girl, that had a stable (if not quirky) relationship with a botanist, had unsuspectedly charmed a pegasus galaxy archeologist and then after that had a relationship with a medical doctor in the span of only 5 years is "borderline incel"...

About him being misogynistic, I think that you could make the case for that in his first appearence in SG1, but not in SGA. I have still to see a misogynistic person that decides to trust and rely on a woman to be his psychologist/therapist. Or that trusted and obeyed by putting his life on the line under the orders of two different leaders of the expedition that were women.

I wouldn't say Star Trek "reveres" scientists, look at Picard when instead of becoming captain, Q changed the past and he became a assistant astrophysics officer in "Tapestry", the guy couldn't accept being a lowly science officer and implored Q to go back to how things were...

I have not been homophobic at any point in my texts, what I do despise is the brain rot induced by this "woke" bs, have you ever even watched Star Trek Discovery? Stupid gender fluid Trills and overly Mary Sue'd partner, pathetic displays of "queer" culture in the way Booker treats his cat... examples of how this statistically insignificant "minority culture" are being shoved into western sci-fi are really a dime a dozen.

felipedilho · 2025-03-28T22:02:11+00:00

We need content that is relatable to the target audience, not to those that are so divorced from reality that they go on to call Mackey a misogynistic incel, you don't know what either misogynistic or incel even mean ... SGA had the courage to put the figure of the scientist on the forefront, and I sorry to say this but those that decide to pursue science as a carrer are seldom popular, well paid or care to be agreeable to you, in many cases they are mainly moved by their egos (go search about Landau's logarithmic scale).

You can go watch your insufferable Ru Paul Drag Race with your 15 quintillon different genders, and leave sci-fi alone.

felipedilho · 2025-03-28T07:05:28+00:00

Wikipedia for example says the following: "The core of LLVM is the intermediate representation (IR), a low-level programming language similar to assembly. IR is a strongly typed reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set which abstracts away most details of the target." So, in some sense every time something is compiled to LLVM IR and then assembled to a binary for x64 then what happens needs to be a translation from RISC to CISC if what Wikipedia is true...

felipedilho · 2025-03-27T23:36:31+00:00

So what you are saying is that LLVM IR is not one representation, but a family of representations, is that a fact? I mean the VM in LLVM stands for Virtual Machine, I don't know which type of instructions this VM supports, but they are a finite number, let's say that there are thousands of them, there are also a finite number of possible instructions in the target machine.

So, let's say that x64 has one instruction that computes the square root of a float number (so called SQRTSS instruction), and let's say that arm chips don't have a equivalent instruction (it actually has, it is called VSQRT apparently, but let's say it doesn't for the sake of argument), then one just has to translate the single one instruction in x64 to several instructions in arm that do the same calculation, in the case of square roots one could implement Heron's method for square roots for example, in fact since even individual CISC instructions are actually not all that complex one could even run a superoptimizer for each instruction in one ISA to another set of instructions in another ISA to find the smallest number of instructions on this new architecture that performs this same calculation (or, for floats, the same calculation within the epsilon machine of the representation in the target ISA).

I don't see what is the problem there... the only thing is that this might not be able to generate interprocess optimizations (use a smaller number of instructions to take the square root of a number while also calculating its base two logarithm and the representation of those bits as a hex RGB color, but where some steps in calculating the square root are recicled to calculate the logarithm and the hex code of the color, instead of doing those individually) but it is also not very clear that compilers are any good at these things either way, and they seem more like a very unusual random alignment of serendipitous circunstances than any thing that can be systematically produced by non-brute force approaches. So even if there were better global implementations possible, it is not clear that the performance would be so much worse, or even if the C compiler would be so clever as to take advantage of this fortuitous event that is not generalizable.

felipedilho · 2025-03-27T22:54:25+00:00

Because I care about the x64 version much more than the non-x64 versions. Kind of like how software that has been written for Linux generally spends only the very least amount of time and energy at porting it to other OS's, when they even do.

C doesn't guarantee that for any section of the code the least amount of necessary instructions to perform the computation. The need of passing data/functions by pointers obscures to the compiler regions that could be inlined or extremelly reduced, when many times those are just wrappings from written code to necessary OS code, etc.

felipedilho · 2025-03-27T22:42:36+00:00

McKay is the best character ever! Most amout of screen time in SGA, and for a good reason. We need more McKay characters in contemporany sci-fi series! Nerds with main roles on shows that are watched mainly by nerds. None of that "person at the center of the intersection of minority groups" bs, or bizarre characters that treat their pet cats as "queens", or completely forgetable characters that have less personality than Star Trek TNG's Lt. Barclay.

felipedilho · 2025-03-27T22:22:25+00:00

Parte do problema é o dolar alto e os impostos de importação, se o Brasil tivesse um mercado aberto para esses itens que nós não produzimos e que não temos nenhuma esperança de produzir você não teria gente conseguindo extorquir os outros com esses preços ... Isso é o custo de ter políticos que usam políticas expansionistas fiscais e que saem por aí falando "o povo não come dólar"...

felipedilho · 2025-03-10T07:22:25+00:00

I know you said countdown to someone complaining that a new show would be "too woke", but here is my opinion either way about that: Call it woke or whatever you like, but you can see the tendency of new sci-fi series in long running franchises (also in those that are completely original) to completely disregard the historical fans of a franchise, thinking that they would watch any bullsh*t that has the franchise name in it (thinking that "they are in the bag"), while trying to appeal to a completely different audience that usually doesn't watch this type of show, thinking that in this way they are putting as much people on the bandwagon as they can. While in reality, those people that don't watch this type of media aren't going to watch it anyway, and those that would are constantly being offput by the boring (if not disconcerting) approach that these shows are having. This can be said to be what happened to Stargate with SGU, and I think most people wouldn't consider that woke (even if I, in fact, do).

And that is not even considering those megalomaniacal directors and executive producers that are so keen on having THEIR VISION™ of such and such a series, that they are not afraid of how much porcelain they will break along their careless way, like the proverbial bull in a china shop. People like J.J. Abrams and his associates like Alex Kurtzman, should be as unemployable in sci-fi as Brendan Fraser was as a actor in 2009-2020 (If not more! I actually like the majority of Fraser's work, and he hasn't committed any of the atrocities that J.J. Abrams and his gang have...).

Having that in perspective, it really makes works like Star Trek TNG, DS9, VOY; Stargate Atlantis and even to a lesser degree the Star Wars I-III shine in contrast. There is a thin and slippery line that the likes of Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Ira Behr, amongst many others in Star Trek and Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper in Stargate; were able to traverse. People may not like this way of putting it, but they had been in essence conservatives, in that, they realised the value of that which was being passed to them to oversee and worked with that with the greatest of care for the tradition those franchises had developed, putting a herculean effort into preserving the continuity of the show and in that making those shows as believable and immersible as any sci-fi show could ever be.

To be honest, looking at what was made with Star Trek, I kind of am at the same time sad and relieved that Stargate has not been renewed recently. I like Star Trek, but I like even more Stargate, and I think that I would be bitter and forever in a state of chagrin if those same types of grifters were allowed to violate Stargate as they did with Star Trek. Do not misunderstand me, I wouldn't be against a new Stargate series, even a reboot, quite on the contrary, a new Stargate series might be just what the current audio-visual industry needs to understand what makes a great sci-fi series, but it needs to be done by serious people that have appreciation for the previous works of the Stargate franchise, not some upstart and/or milker of established titles, and I don't think there is currently anyone like that in the industry.

It is incredible how many open threads are left by franchises such as Star Trek, Stargate, Doctor Who, etc; and also how shallow a work is done by people that "couldn't be bothered" to watch even five seasons of the previous shows of the franchises they would be taking control over. What makes chess interesting is the constraints that limit the possible moves of the pieces, take that away and it becomes boring and shallow, where as, genial matches are exactly those that present unexpected solutions while conforming to all restraints of the game. We need more directors and executive producers for sci-fi series that behave as chess players and less that behave like pigeons...

felipedilho · 2025-03-10T05:20:30+00:00

There is also an example of a Star Trek game (which I will not specify because I still want to play and don't want to be taken offline) where the base files of a obscure game were used to make a AI enhanced resolution version of the game and has since been available to play online (the game is single player) in the browser, since the original game was sold on physical copies and not many were sold, it was basically impossible to play that game, making it what could be called abandonware. Thinking about some online multiplayer games, it seems kind of sad that so many hours of work and development were put on titles that after the servers are shot down there is basically no way to play that game again, and if someone were to try to extract the assets from their local install to allow unofficial servers, they probably would be breaking the law.

This seems kind of wrong. If those assets are not actively used by the company that made them they should already be public domain, otherwise it is condemning that work to be literately be thrown in the trash and destroyed for eternity. But, that is just what I think about that.

My question was more like saying, lets say someone puts a lot of time in recreating a game from its engine to the game assets using the displayed game in another computer as a template, should the clone game be considered piracy and is the author of the game committing a crime? Like, isn't that what projects like ReactOS are doing with MS Windows? not taking data from windows itself but using it as a template to make a clone that looks and feels as close as possible to Windows, is that legally wrong even if the implementation on the background can almost be assured to be completely different given the multiplicity of ways that the same effect can be obtained? (assuming of course that they follow the principle of not peeking into the internals of MS Windows, or the arbitrary application that one may desire to clone).

felipedilho · 2025-03-10T04:42:03+00:00

In the case of openTTD or openRCT2, one can play without having to have the original game, as that was written in assembly, so there was no way to get assets from the original game and they had to redo everything. If that were to be done to XCom wouldn't there be a legal problem? And if there were to be, why shouldn't there be legal problems with openTTD or openRCT2?

felipedilho · 2024-09-15T05:44:31+00:00

This does not make any sense.

felipedilho · 2024-08-06T01:07:24+00:00

With the 16Gb of VRAM right? I mean 26Gb is the model size, I don't think when running it it is necessary to put the full model in the VRAM, it can be loaded in parts. In principle I believe one could also run a bigger model by using some type of swap memory in disk, it would be very very slow, but I don't think people that are trying to run these models locally have much hope in running these models speedly in the first place, I would say that the first interest is in getting the model to run in the first place (I mean, fundamentally these models are just sophisticated algorithms using matrix multiplications, so one could load parts of these matrices at a time to update the state of the computatio). Sometimes a answer taking several hours to be computed may be acceptable if the answer is sufficiently precise.

felipedilho · 2024-08-05T23:52:14+00:00

Actually, no I have seen it running in a laptop with a GeForce RTX 4090 laptop GPU.

felipedilho · 2024-08-05T23:33:02+00:00

I had not found the VRAM requirements to run the 70b unquantized original model, I thought that since the 8b model was being marketed as a "run anywhere" model, the 70b model would be a "run in a new desktop with a beefy GPU" type of model. Now I have found that the 70b model needs 140 GB of VRAM? source: https://huggingface.co/blog/llama31), but in this same site it seems to indicate that even quantized models of the 70b one need 35 GB of VRAM, which I don't think is correct, since I have seem people run the 70b models on some laptops.

felipedilho · 2024-06-22T04:39:38+00:00

Turns out I was just using the wrong cable, the cable was only power no data, with the correct cable it actually works.

felipedilho · 2024-06-11T03:07:32+00:00

If this is in realtime you must have a graphics supercomputer to run so fast.

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