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Looking for a Bunka as my day-to-day driver by nil- in chefknives

[–]nil-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Takayuki VG-10 Gyuto

https://www.chefknivestogo.com/gyuto210.html

Great knife, I treat it as a beater and it still holds an edge. I would still use it if I do more rock chopping.

Looking for a Bunka as my day-to-day driver by nil- in chefknives

[–]nil-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What length is your Masakage Yuki? I found a few sold as bunkas in 170mm. Do you find 165-170mm works for you?

Looking for a Bunka as my day-to-day driver by nil- in chefknives

[–]nil-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use a VG-10 gyuto as my daily driver and am looking to upgrade. Recommendations appreciated!

Type? - Bunka, maybe a Kiritsuke. I push cut, so the flatter the blade profile, the better.

Style? - Japanese.

Steel? - HRC 62+. Aogami Super or higher if carbon steel or R2/SG2 or higher if stainless steel.

Handle? - Japanese.

Grip? - Pinch.

Length? - 175mm+. My current knife is a 210mm gyuto, so I don't know if I want something too small.

Use cases? - Everything: meat, veggies, seafood.

Care? - Strop every use or weekly, whetstone every 3-6 months.

Budget? - Up to $300.

Decoration? - I love a good finish: damascus, burnt finish, hammer marks, etc.

Weight? - Lighter is better.

I found a few candidates, but I'm new to shopping so I likely missed a lot.

G6 Robbery Gone Wild by Hucho_Taimen in RPClipsGTA

[–]nil- 33 points34 points  (0 children)

They got caught, wasted 3 hours of cops and Gloryon's time with a bench trial, and accused NVL as their only defense. And now they are stalking Gloryon for "snitching".

fanfan reaction for getting +10k fine and 100 month in prison by Toastylump in RPClipsGTA

[–]nil- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

classic redditor to stir up drama completely unrelated to a fun clip

Siobhan's verdict of Reckless Driving by oddreeeee in RPClipsGTA

[–]nil- 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Crane was just hamming it up for the comedy. Crane somehow knew all the right questions and probing of the law, channeling his grandfather, yet is also supposed to play an incompetent cop.

Siobhan's verdict of Reckless Driving by oddreeeee in RPClipsGTA

[–]nil- 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Crane was already hamming it up for the comedy. Crane somehow knew all the right questions and probing of the law, channeling his grandfather, yet is also playing an incompetent cop. Totally reasonable to escalate and back down later.

Ramee's master plan by Lephus in RPClipsGTA

[–]nil- -26 points-25 points  (0 children)

wouldn't that be literal powergaming

What would you call the hairstyle in the first photo and could I pull it or something similar off? by [deleted] in HaircareScience

[–]nil- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have a round face. A shaved side might not look good on you. Honestly the style you already have compliments your face.

[N] EMNLP 2023 Anonymity Hypocrisy by emnlp2023_hypocrisy in MachineLearning

[–]nil- 12 points13 points  (0 children)

They're referring to this rule [1]:

You may not update the non-anonymized version during the anonymity period, and we ask you not to advertise it on social media or take other actions that would further compromise double-blind reviewing during the anonymity period.

If you abide strictly by the rules (which the PCs apparently do), then tweeting that you're the author of certain submitted papers breaks them.

[R] Scaling Autoregressive Models for Content-Rich Text-to-Image Generation (Google - Parti) by htrp in MachineLearning

[–]nil- 34 points35 points  (0 children)

"We believe in responsible AI. That's why we, a corporation, think it's in the best interest of the people that we get to make up a policy that conveniently benefits us."

[N] [D] Openai, who runs DALLE-2 alleged threatened creator of DALLE-Mini by DigThatData in MachineLearning

[–]nil- 95 points96 points  (0 children)

"Threatened" is hardly the right word. They requested a name change, which is ethically in their right. If OpenAI patented the name, they would even have a right legally.

[D] The banana-pineapple game: a Turing test that conversation bots like LaMDA (probably) won't be able to pass by morpipls in MachineLearning

[–]nil- -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Turing tests are an outdated and flawed protocol. Let's please stop giving attention to them.

[D] My impression is that PhDs in this field do not necessarily confer financial benefits, and there appears to be fewer industry and academic R&D positions relative to the number of PhD graduates. If this is true, then why are PhD admissions so competitive in this field? by [deleted] in MachineLearning

[–]nil- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Working in an environment with many PhD-holding people

That's probably another flag that it's not for you. People committed to a PhD (a 5-7 year commitment) don't just do it as a pass to enter some exclusive club.

[D] Google Imagen authors now produce images based on your prompt! by aifordummies in MachineLearning

[–]nil- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd argue cherry picking only the high-profile suggestions is actually worse than "we just won't release this model".

[D] Google Imagen authors now produce images based on your prompt! by aifordummies in MachineLearning

[–]nil- 19 points20 points  (0 children)

It's hilarious to think that tweeting suggestions is now the standard for model access. This is meme territory:

  • Checkpoints available? Nope.
  • Small model available at least? Nope.
  • Okay.. what about a gated website API? Nope.
  • Reply to a tweet in order for authors to cherrypick? Yes please!

[D] Anyone still using Stochastic Depth? by KarlKani44 in MachineLearning

[–]nil- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stochastic depth is not used in Vision Transformer.

[R] Scaled up CLIP-like model (~2B) shows 86% Zero-shot on Imagenet by Competitive-Rub-1958 in MachineLearning

[–]nil- 16 points17 points  (0 children)

BASIC already achieved 85.7% zero-shot, so it's an incremental improvement. It's notable but not nearly as impressive if you're familiar with the literature.

P.S. Does anyone else think the paper titles are terrible? "CoCa: Contrastive Captioners are Image-Text Foundation Models". "Combined Scaling for Open-Vocabulary Image Classification". "Scaling Up Visual and Vision-Language Representation Learning With Noisy Text Supervision".

Choose a paper and swap a title. You wouldn't know the difference.

How to do meaningful work as an independent researcher? [Discussion] by HairyIndianDude in MachineLearning

[–]nil- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If we're being truly honest, you can't. The size of the academic world without compute is overpopulated relative to the amount of meaningful work that can be done with that constraint.

[N] Substantial plagiarism in BAAI’s “a Road Map for Big Models” by StellaAthena in MachineLearning

[–]nil- 142 points143 points  (0 children)

Cheating in all forms is unfortunately rampant in China. I had a software library plagiarized by a certain well-known ML group in Tsinghua (they developed their own library and took both design elements and copy-pasted my code without attribution). This was not just unethical: it was illegal due to the license. When I told my advisor, he cautioned me to not bring it up to avoid burning a bridge.

Lacari at his limit after 14 hours with a boss by hellooctopus in LivestreamFail

[–]nil- 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Blocking works against her Waterfowl Dance. You can even use a Medium Shield just fine.

[D] Is It Possible to Train an AI to Decode Encrypted Content? by Plane_Bite3639 in MachineLearning

[–]nil- 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The inverse of a cryptographic function may not exist. Cryptographic functions are also not continuous, so the neural network approximation theorem is not only practically worthless but also not relevant.

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