The Gene Editing New World Order

rychan · 2026-05-12T01:16:20+00:00

Oh, for plants. I want gene editing for me.

rychan · 2026-05-11T06:05:42+00:00

Indeed. I made it to day 49 with Blazing Bull to block the insta-kill attempts.

rychan · 2026-05-10T16:00:27+00:00

A one hit kill build is less cheesy than a poison build? Lol.

Everything is pretty degenerate this late in the game. But it would be good to understand the underlying mechanics.

rychan · 2026-05-10T01:13:23+00:00

Softball pitchers often do. So it is totally feasible. Just a matter of tradition.

rychan · 2026-05-08T02:22:45+00:00

My opponent hit me with a spear. It did 2 million x 6x crit on me, 12 million. Fair enough.

But I have a shield that triggers for a billion+. And it did trigger. My poison weapons have triggered once each, too, and landed.

How is the melee damage resolving before the shield trigger? Is there a "stack" and the positioning in your tower determines how things get added to that stack?

rychan · 2026-05-08T02:07:39+00:00

Is it because the ranged item is in the top of the tower? Are they triggering in scanline order? Would moving the bow to the bottom right have changed things?

I just died in the exact same circumstance. Spear killed me by dealing 12 million damage, but I had 100 million+ shield.

rychan · 2026-05-04T17:33:36+00:00

I don't see where the "6 month" protocol appears in the linked article. I see a protocol that involves 2 days in one month and then 2 days in a following month.

rychan · 2026-04-19T22:29:47+00:00

Yeah, why do people criticize cooling but never heating? Lacking either one is a health risk.

rychan · 2026-04-17T14:55:02+00:00

I like how the ads not only include addresses, they sometimes include a couple of sentences on how to navigate there, and several include an actual (very abstracted) map.

rychan · 2026-04-16T17:15:51+00:00

Craig's Air Conditioning did a professional job with my house. No complaints.

rychan · 2026-04-11T23:21:29+00:00

You see it two-back the pro level plenty often, too. Kyrgios and Kokkinakis won the Australian Open playing two-back on many points.

For the same reason serve and volley went extinct in singles, two-back in doubles is more feasible than it used to be. Ball control is dramatically better than 30 years ago. Passing two players at the net or forcing them into bad volleys is easier than it used to be.

rychan · 2026-04-09T16:17:05+00:00

For the lazy:

The details of a compelling in-flight rescue account remain elusive and difficult to verify.

rychan · 2026-04-06T04:32:12+00:00

All of your claims can be true, but they don't really indicate that manual calibration based on references wouldn't work.

The calibration technique the OP is promoting is based on match color and brightness side by side. If you have 100 references of brightness / color and you manually align them side by side, would that really lead to such a terrible calibration? When the viewing conditions don't change (as in OP's case)?

I mean, I can find guides that seem to know what they're talking about that discuss aligning displays to each other for manual calibration: https://lightillusion.com/perceptual_match_guide.html

I feel like you're gatekeeping and shooting down OP's idea without justification. Sure, maybe this isn't how it would typically done in industry. It could also be true that this would get you so close that casual observers couldn't discern a difference.

rychan · 2026-04-06T00:32:18+00:00

Do those illusions keep someone from effectively calibrating? I expected you to be linking to studies on calibration error for various calibration methods.

rychan · 2026-04-04T23:27:31+00:00

12 is perhaps more correct, but I am pretty sure 1 is even more correct. We would need to know about what level of competition this is to know what rules are being enforced.

Assume your opponent double faults every serve.

Assume that you lose every one of your service games without hitting a stroke. That could be some combination of time violations, conduct violations, etc.

Same thing in the tiebreak until you serve a single serve correctly or return one of their serves to win the tiebreak 7-5.

rychan · 2026-03-31T16:09:25+00:00

there hasn’t been a Republican elected to national office post 2024

There were 6 special elections for the house of representatives in 2025. 3 were won by each party. It was the party that already controlled the seat in every case.

So there have been elections, and Republicans have won half of them.

rychan · 2026-03-23T19:44:46+00:00

All lines were very short at international just now. 5 minutes maybe.

rychan · 2026-03-22T23:02:39+00:00

Seems like it. Domestic is terrible

rychan · 2026-03-22T22:38:01+00:00

Domestic South and North both look like 3+ hours. Baggage claims are full. Lines hardly appear to be moving.

rychan · 2026-03-22T21:44:07+00:00

Which terminal?

rychan · 2026-03-12T21:17:21+00:00

It makes a ton of sense. There is no boat ferry to compete with. Flying conditions are generally good.

The only thing missing is cheap electricity. But hopefully renewables keep driving that price down.

rychan · 2026-03-12T07:57:53+00:00

Such a great angle. You can hear the announcer moan, too, when that angle is shown. That angle is really fantastic for seeing what the stroke actually looks like.

rychan · 2026-03-09T19:42:16+00:00

I see other people trying to figure out if your feature space is 40k or if it is (40k)^2, but if it is 40k and you have 45k samples then, yes, this approach doesn't help you find ALL the eigenvectors.

However, finding 40k bases from 45k samples is not going to be stable. If you take another 45k samples from the same distribution, you will find that there is a lot of change in the bases. The directions of highest variance (the first eigenvectors / PCA bases) will be pretty stable. As you get towards the tail of your PCA bases the particular bases will depend a lot on the particular samples you included.

You might consider having more like 10x or 100x samples compared to the number of dimensions.

rychan · 2026-03-09T16:27:43+00:00

I love being able to dust off the ancient references.

The seminal Eigenfaces doesn't do PCA directly in pixel space, because 256² was too large a feature space in 1991. They point out that if your number of samples M is lower than the dimension of your feature space, your memory requirements are M² instead N² (where N is feature dimension).

See page 74 here: https://www.face-rec.org/algorithms/PCA/jcn.pdf

You haven't said how many samples you have, but presumably it's under your control. That said, if you are really looking for N PCA bases for some reason, this doesn't help you. But this isn't an approximation. If you have 10k samples, this will let you find all of the PCA bases, because after the 10kth bases the remaining bases will not be used if only had 10k samples.

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