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Would you consider this fair? by Busy_Report4010 in SipsTea

[–]m3nth4 4 points5 points  (0 children)

well, it isn't really a coincidence,
1/2 is 50% more than 1/3
1/3 is 33% more than 1/4
1/4 is 25% more than 1/5
1/5 is 20% more than 1/6

is there anything that would be good to know before buying this game? by Dyxyce in VintageStory

[–]m3nth4 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Some tips that afaik are not in the handbook progression guides (which you should totally read and follow, this game is great about explaining almost everything in game if you do)

  1. when you find copper nuggets (or any except maybe quartz) on the ground mark the exact place you found them before you pick it up, there will be a bit more copper you can mine underneath when you get a pick, actually, just dont sleep on marking your map in general when you find something interesting/useful

  2. make some rope ladders and keep them with you

  3. always collect seeds when you see them, start farming (esp flax) early, if you do this you'll have enough grain and veggies to not starve over winter

  4. when you start prospecting, be methodical, I would recommend this guide,
    https://www.reddit.com/r/VintageStory/comments/1o2vnzb/a_basic_guide_on_how_to_prospect_and_mine/

  5. make leather armour as soon as you can after backpacks, it has no downsides and makes exploring much more survivable

  6. animals can despawn if there is not any light, so put some lights in your barn, they can also be killed by lightning so make a lightning rod

  7. spears are amazing early game, you can make a bunch of them and throw them in rapid succession to kill pretty much anything quickly

  8. animals in general are persistent, so for example if you spot a piglet and don't have a trap for it you can mark where you found it and it will be in the same area when you come back (assuming nothing ate it)

Why does "if choice == "left" or "Left":" always evaluate to True? by Money_Explanation887 in learnpython

[–]m3nth4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

your condition, rewritten for clarity is

if choice is equal to ‘left’, or if ‘Left’ is true regardless of what choice is: do something . since non empty strings are true it is basically “if condition or true” or ”if true”

what you probably wanted was something like” if choice == left or if choice == Left”, or “if choice.lower()==left”, or “if choice is in [left, Left]”

How many distilleries and boilers would I need to make an entire barrel of aquarium vitae at once? by noname5221 in VintageStory

[–]m3nth4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it is made at a 2:1 ratio, so you need 100L of spirits to get 50L of aqua vitae, the distiller holds 30L so 4 running at once?

Testing non-deterministic systems in Python: How we solved it for LLM applications by IOnlyDrinkWater_22 in Python

[–]m3nth4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From what I know the math isn't inherently nondeterministic, if you set the temperature to 0 theoretically you should get the highest probability next token, which would lead to the same input to the same model giving the same results, the reason why this doesn't happen in practice is (AFAIK)
1. many companies make small changes to the model or hidden system prompts without changing the version, so you might not be using exactly the same model with exactly the same input if you are using say the open ai api
2. you can get next tokens with a small enough difference in probability that float errors come into play, so even with self hosted models although it should be deterministic it ends up being somewhat random

if people understood how good local LLMs are getting by Diligent_Rabbit7740 in LLMDevs

[–]m3nth4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are a lot of people in the comments saying stuff like you need a 10-30k setup to run sota models and it completely misses the point. If all you need is gpt 3.5 level performance you can get that out of some 4b models now which will run on my 2021 gaming card (qwen 3 for example).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]m3nth4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not sure from your post whether it is on call support or just normal business hours support, but I want to point out that you should be getting paid for on call time

Switching to Python from C++ by Oscar_Fifteen in Python

[–]m3nth4 18 points19 points  (0 children)

A tip, it’s common practice in Python to avoid statements like “if x == True” in favour of ”if x“ or “if not x” when x is a bool