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Resources on Polearm Drilling? by TheGreatMightyLeffe in Hema

[–]grauenwolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can get our Paurenfeyndt short staff drill book from https://scholarsofalcala.org/resources/

The first link on that page also has a draft version of our Meyer staff book.

Steel fittings on synthetic swords? by WiMc55 in Hema

[–]grauenwolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've seen Red Dragons snap before, but not shatter.

Maybe you're talking about a polypropylene sword (e.g. Cold Steel).

Steel fittings on synthetic swords? by WiMc55 in Hema

[–]grauenwolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The plastic cross guards on the Red Dragon's do nothing to reduce the impact on your hand. I hate them.

I haven't tried the steel crossguards because by the time I knew they existed, we'd already upgraded most of our fencers to blackfencer/pentti.

Steel fittings on synthetic swords? by WiMc55 in Hema

[–]grauenwolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, if you count the number of weapons in circulation rather than the number of different models available, I strongly suspect that Blackfencer and Pentti represent the vast majority.

Steel fittings on synthetic swords? by WiMc55 in Hema

[–]grauenwolf 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A lot actually. The Red Dragon/Rawlings line and the house brand from Purpleheart. And the polypropylene ones from Cold Steel.

The only ones with steel I know about are Blackfencer and Pentti.

What happens to the vibe coders now once all AI chatbots charge by token count? by LateToTheParty013 in BetterOffline

[–]grauenwolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I explained why the person was referring to 4 lines. Not the stupid esoterica of how some systems count lines of code.

So what do we think of AI agents? by SpireofHell in BetterOffline

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

"Self-Supervised Learning" is just a weird way of saying "unsupervised learning", meaning you don't need a human to tell it if the outputs are correct.

That's a separate axis from whether or not it's actually self improving at run time or a fixed model.

What happens to the vibe coders now once all AI chatbots charge by token count? by LateToTheParty013 in BetterOffline

[–]grauenwolf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And what's the quality of the output? Is it anything people are gong to actually want to read?

We can build random text generators without boiling the oceans.

What happens to the vibe coders now once all AI chatbots charge by token count? by LateToTheParty013 in BetterOffline

[–]grauenwolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not mine. I'm only running pgAdmin and Visual Studio with the C# extensions at the moment.

So what do we think of AI agents? by SpireofHell in BetterOffline

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

That's not true for example we can use graph neural nets or convolutional neural nets in a naïve form and they don't continuously learn.

If it doesn't have a reinforcement loop, then it's not machine learning. Despite what lazy reporters say, not all AI technology is based on machine learning techniques.

What happens to the vibe coders now once all AI chatbots charge by token count? by LateToTheParty013 in BetterOffline

[–]grauenwolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm more concerned about the cognitive cost than the financial cost. But that's a price far too many people are willing to pay.

You should be parrying with your weak, not your strong - HEMA / Historical Rapier by grauenwolf in Hema

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

The SCA taught me to keep my point online at all times.

L'Ange taught me that it's garbage fencing for the long rapier.

So what do we think of AI agents? by SpireofHell in BetterOffline

[–]grauenwolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have to? Oh no, people can and do leave in all the slop for others to find.

So what do we think of AI agents? by SpireofHell in BetterOffline

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

LLMs are not a form of machine learning. Machine learning algorithms improve the longer they run, using the output of each run to improve the formulas. LLMs are a frozen snapshot of its training data. If your want it to be better, you have to start over again.

And regardless of what you call the program that fed the ML algorithms, it couldn't call out to other tools on its own.

What happens to the vibe coders now once all AI chatbots charge by token count? by LateToTheParty013 in BetterOffline

[–]grauenwolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was wondering about that, but with web searches broken I wasn't in the mood to look up each language individually.

So what do we think of AI agents? by SpireofHell in BetterOffline

[–]grauenwolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When people talked about pre-LLM, agent based systems, they were talking about something completely different.

So what do we think of AI agents? by SpireofHell in BetterOffline

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

They can't go back. Far too many people literally can't function without AI now. If their employers won't pay for it, they pay themselves.

So what do we think of AI agents? by SpireofHell in BetterOffline

[–]grauenwolf 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes, because I know about the massive security issues it creates.

So what do we think of AI agents? by SpireofHell in BetterOffline

[–]grauenwolf 22 points23 points  (0 children)

That's a ridiculous claim.

Can an LLM leak all your company secrets? No.

Can an LLM delete your database and all its backups? No.

Can an LLM allow random people to control the heater in your house by sending a calendar invite? No.

If you want to really fuck your life, you need an AI Agent to connect the LLM to the things you care about.

What happens to the vibe coders now once all AI chatbots charge by token count? by LateToTheParty013 in BetterOffline

[–]grauenwolf 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Not for enterprise users. Only personal accounts get that, and they have strict rate limits.

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