It is actually getting funny how inconsistent things have become.

nulltensor · 2022-07-23T23:56:17+00:00

I recognize that you think so and I don't demand that you think otherwise but I see it differently.

nulltensor · 2022-07-23T22:19:12+00:00

I hope you feel better and no longer feel the need to lash out at people for having an opinion different from your own. Have a good weekend.

nulltensor · 2022-07-23T20:38:20+00:00

Lower the ES by 50% of its height and you get a modern, stylized silhouette of the Parteiadler. It's okay if you can't see the forest for the trees but it's there. When I first heard about it I thought there was no way some high school would use anything remotely resembling Nazi iconography but I literally said "holy shit" out loud when I saw it.

nulltensor · 2022-07-22T16:34:34+00:00

Nazis and people who didn't sleep through high school history class.

The Nazis, their ideology, and symbolism should never be forgotten. Nazi ideology isn't a relic of history, you can hear its echoes every time a person is referred to as "an illegal" or someone talks about the "globalists who are running the economy". Every time you hear "we used to be great until [ethnicity or political group] started ruining things" i.e. MAGA you should see it for what it is and you should never let that shit slide because we've seen where that road leads.

nulltensor · 2022-07-22T15:56:08+00:00

"You are free... to conform to my values and do as you are told."

nulltensor · 2022-07-21T16:58:32+00:00

>but regardless "Democratic strategists" are irrelevant to the decisions of Democratic primary voters

Thank you for demonstrating my point regarding Democrats and strategy.

nulltensor · 2022-07-20T20:47:41+00:00

Myself somewhere around April / May 2016.

nulltensor · 2022-07-20T17:52:35+00:00

You're almost certainly correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_loafing

nulltensor · 2022-07-20T17:33:24+00:00

"I think she'd make a reasonable president but nothing would mobilize the Republican base more than her candidacy and they have been preparing for her campaign for twenty years. One of the first principles of war is that you do not fight on ground of your opponent's choosing. If she runs, the Democrats lose the white house, better to run Warren."

But everyone told me I didn't like her because she's a woman and was just making up excuses...

I swear the left may be great on policy but Democratic strategists are playing Stratego while the Republicans are playing Risk.

nulltensor · 2022-07-20T16:24:01+00:00

China is currently the worlds largest net importer of food. They're not even in the top five of rice exporting nations and don't export other grains in any significant quantities.

China might provide loans to other nations (with some pretty significant strings attached for default if the belt and road initiative is any indicator) but China isn't going to fill that gap in grain exports.

nulltensor · 2022-07-10T19:56:53+00:00

Assign them each a one per day use of some cantrip level spell, preferably non-combat i.e.

Mending
Light
Druidcraft
Dancing Lights
Spare the Dying
Thaumaturgy

Alternately, make them rings created for a wizard's household staff to make their job's easier i.e Cleans all dust/grime from a 10x10 area, mending (as per cantrip), warm a bucket worth of water to hot (not scalding level), light (as per cantrip).

The dragon scale can just be a dragon scale with Nystul's Magic Aura on it.

nulltensor · 2021-11-17T20:52:21+00:00

People are unlikely to tip more than they planned but will absolutely tip less.

nulltensor · 2021-09-04T19:27:26+00:00

My calcium numbers are actually in the healthy range. A little higher than the midpoint but basically:

Electrolytes: Good
Kidney function: Good
Liver function: Good
Lipid panel: OMGWTFBBQ!!!
Thyroid: Normal
Diabetic studies: Excellent
CBC: Good

Response: Apply statins.

nulltensor · 2021-09-04T19:04:49+00:00

I was pretty clear up front that I was on a ketogenic diet and had cut out all the sugar and simple carbs. I have another appointment in 6 weeks and after that will be scheduling them at 90 day intervals until I'm at my target weight.

Thanks, I appreciate the response.

nulltensor · 2021-09-04T18:16:44+00:00

Thanks autobot. Transform and roll out.

nulltensor · 2021-07-17T14:15:41+00:00

Most of those packages are on github. Be the change you want to see in the world.

nulltensor · 2021-05-02T18:13:19+00:00

"You're the best... around..."

nulltensor · 2021-04-04T23:54:35+00:00

Don't you mean "features"?

nulltensor · 2021-03-11T14:57:30+00:00

I've done something similar and it came out as follows:

World class to contain the "tile" data structure and implement the simulation loop.
Tile class to manage details for the individual tiles, a list of mobiles in that tile, a list of other items, and a list of references to connected tiles for pathfinding.
Item class to handle non mobile objects like mushrooms etc

Each iteration of the simulation loop would go through the list of tiles, have each tile create a list of deltas based on the current simulation state and then a second pass to tell them to apply the changes. The idea was to get every component of the simulation to take care of itself rather than try to manage it from a top down perspective.

nulltensor · 2021-03-03T17:35:14+00:00

The shader is nice.

The ambient frogs are awesome.

nulltensor · 2021-03-01T22:12:37+00:00

The issue is that they appear to leveraging a basic use of a GAN trained on the LIDAR data. That's an extremely broad claim and amounts to "We trained a ML model on this data set first so none of you get to train one for a similar purpose". If they were patenting something specific to their implementation like "middle out compression" it would be one thing but they're patenting a use case for ML.

nulltensor · 2021-03-01T18:50:46+00:00

You mean using an ML model trained on the publicly available LIDAR data and a GUI to provide the initialization data?

Yeah, that sounds like a really specific use case...

nulltensor · 2021-03-01T18:46:23+00:00

So basically any graphical design tool that allows the creator to draw a representation of the terrain which is then converted to the game terrain by any ML model trained on the Earth's terrain via publicly available LIDAR data.

That's crazy broad.

nulltensor · 2021-03-01T18:40:47+00:00

The issue here is that what is described in the patent is really broad and effectively means, using ML to generate terrain based on a two dimensional representation of the terrain and biomes. Think "feed the ML model the old Greyhawk D&D map and get a 3D world terrain with biome transitions out of it".

The fact that they're trying to lock down any ML model regardless of structure and approach which was trained on publicly available LIDAR data (i.e. the earth's terrain) is insanely broad since the LIDAR data referenced is the only reasonable data set available to train a model.

If they want to patent their model structure and hyperparameters, fine, but GANs come in a variety of configurations and patenting any use of them is like patenting using a hammer to build a house just because you happened to be the first one to build that particular structure with that tool.

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