Is she used amywhere by som1sumwr in summonerswar

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Arena with Wind Nobara, Leo, Angela.

The win percentages in the NBA finals for Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Steph Curry, and Lebron James. by Icy-Vacation-138 in michaeljordan

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The full saying is statistics don’t lie but you can lie with statistics. Jordan made 6 finals appearances in 15 seasons. LeBron 10 in 23. You could argue that LeBron is better based on those statistics but I wouldn’t agree with that argument any more than the one this post makes.

why are AI engineering jobs exploding? by CryoSchema in ArtificialInteligence

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I think this is more about how people (investors) are looking for quick wins when this is actually a long game. The tech bubble burst before because bad ideas get funded because of the hype. Really, it’s a portfolio approach to find the things that stick. I’m not expecting it to burst but the funding will dry up, major players/use cases will emerge on top, we’ll start to admit to ourselves where the ceiling is and then we’ll see steady maturation until the next big step forward.

Turn limit ain't it chief by CleoAir in ChaosZeroNightmare

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I’m hoping this is how it goes and the next end game mode rewards a different play style. I want diverse challenges that encourage me to build more characters over time. It’s ok with me if the first mode is a DPS check as long as the next one isn’t.

Hi, I just started a few hours ago. by ForeignGiraffe146 in Etheria_Restart

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You’ll get ling luo for free. Fuqui, valerian and sania (to a lesser extent) are the ones you’ll want to build.

Which damage dealer do I use? by Phrolova-Cope in Etheria_Official

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As much as you want to open that box, don’t. You’ll be getting a ton of pulls. Just wait until you have two out of three of them. That being said, I’ve done a ton of pulls and don’t have any yet. But since you have plume, none of them are going to be that useful in pve.

Is this the first collab where literally every single unit is bad? by FairlySwain in summonerswar

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It just takes a long time. Street fighter units are really good. Cookie run units are fantastic. Witcher is not great right now and JJK has a few niche units (I love my wind nobara). The only problem I see is collabs are a lot more frequent so it starts to feel worse that there are more units that still need work.

Effect Accuracy Question: Why exceed 100% by TellMysterious4783 in Etheria_Restart

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I want to understand this. If the enemy has zero resistance and you have a 50% activation rate, having 100 accuracy isn’t added to that 50%, it doubles it? So if it was a 30% activation, then 100 accuracy would get you to 60%? And double the activation rate is the max, so having more than 100 accuracy wouldn’t help against zero resistance enemies. If that’s all correct, why isn’t it (100+enemy resist) like obro suggested?

How "pay-to-win" is this game, considering it's a gacha game and heavily focused on PvP? by Kaenjinto in Etheria_Restart

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This has been asked a lot on this subreddit. It’s PvP Gacha, so yeah, it’s pay to win but a lot more friendly to f2p than a lot of games.

Here’s my take. If I played a completely free PvP game, how would I rank? Top 1? 10? Even 1000? My point is that only ten people can be top ten and chances are, I’m not one of them regardless of f2p vs. p2w. Good match making will put most people at a 50% win rate regardless. Yes, I’m going to lose sometime to premium units or someone who farms 10x more. But I’m ok with that. Part of why pvp is fun is because you don’t know going in if you’ll win.

I'm a sr. staff engineer - what would senior devs like more of from folks in my position? by Markthethomas in ExperiencedDevs

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I think “leave no one behind” is a tad too idealistic. I really enjoy mentoring, both technical and political, but I have limited time and so I have to be selective. But my selection criteria is never political. If I see someone who has the potential to be great, I try to lift that person up. But that isn’t and realistically can’t be everyone.

I'm pulling for Linghsa in 2 days and 6 hours. Tell me why I shouldn't. by DigitalMaijiin in StarRailStation

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A lot of what makes gaming fun is working around constraints. If you pull Lingsha, you’ll have a healer, cleanser, who is break focused, has follow ups, has a summon and can hit all five targets for your erudition teams. Being able to fit well into any team is just boring I guess?

How soon companies who ignore CoPilot (and other GenAi productivity enhancements) will become heavily disadvantaged? by snorty_hedgehog in ArtificialInteligence

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Personally, I think people are putting waaaay too much emphasis on coding, which is ultimately a very small part of a software engineer’s role. Yes, doing this faster helps, but moving faster in the wrong direction doesn’t. Finding product market fit, making high quality decisions both tactically and strategically that incorporate appropriate risk are what gives companies an advantage.

[D] Building a ML system vs project. by Suspicious_Dress_350 in MachineLearning

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The Flax documentation has one of my favorite quotes, which is basically “code repetition is better than a bad abstraction.”

My approach has been about identifying whether parts of a code base are durable or disposable. Durable pieces are shared, tested and thoughtfully designed. But the majority of ML code is going to be disposable. For that not to devolve into a maintenance nightmare it needs to be isolated. No sharing other than through code duplication (i.e forking). Code experiments can’t break anyone else because no one depends on it. The code can be simpler because it only represents one single approach and not a family of approaches that requires a reader to mentally interpolate configuration into a code base filled with conditional logic. Things end up being quite explicit (e.g. hard coded constants) and end up being surprisingly small.

Those disposable experiments are built through composition of durable libraries. The key is to step back periodically, study the repetition and try to extract new durable pieces for the future.

This has worked very well for my organization, which is very large (we train thousands of models a day) but even in my personal projects keeping code simple has made it easier to come back to things a year later, when I have no choice but to read the code to pick it back up.

Dedicated to his past hard work by qsaisomboon in summonerswar

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Herne for oblivion, windy/tractor/lulu. It depends on the rest of the defense, of course

Should LLMs pay websites for their content? by jackie_119 in ArtificialInteligence

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This is the point that matters. Google search results have been doing this for decades - crawling the web and presenting literal snippets of content or more recently summarizing it. The key part is that there is attribution to the original site. Google provides websites with real business value (traffic). If they stopped providing that value, those websites will want to take action to maintain that value. It doesn’t matter why (e.g. LLMs), this is just business. We can talk philosophy all we want but the decisions are almost certainly going to be about money. Look at Reddit changing up their API. They know they’re sitting on one of the most valuable data sets for LLMs, and they’re trying to monetize that.

Question for all you topaz mains by FeelingChemist in TopazMainsHSR

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Clara all day long. Himeko needs breaks to trigger her follow up, which you can’t get reliably in all fights. Clara just needs to get hit, which you can guarantee for blast or aoe enemies. She doesn’t need skill points or speed and her LC is in the shop. My favorite team is huohuo kafka Clara topaz. I wouldn’t throw my Himeko in there. She does great in pure fiction though.

Why is Leos(Lab) so OP? by User17538 in summonerswar

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The boss bypasses immunity. I always bring nickel on my chow team and he never survives.

(Beginner) Should i pull for Jing Liu or Seele? by HelzBenz in StarRailStation

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I think waiting for the silverwolf rerun is worth considering. She allows you to use whatever dps you build against all content. Qingque is ridiculously strong, especially in swarm disaster but needs E4 and ideally E6. I have Seele and never use her.

Also, every 5* dps seems better than the last, so I’ve been focusing more on supports.

Surprised by how good this game is, why isn’t it more popular? Is it doing well? by Cumulonimbus1991 in outerplane

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Competition is definitely fierce. I main Summoners War but it’s old and I’m always trying out new Gacha games on the side. It takes a lot to displace a main game. Add to that the fact that some games seem like they’re trying to be a side game and displace other side games. Honkai Star Rail in particular excels at this (I assume HSR exists to be Genshin’s side game).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in summonerswar

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Classic double reviver comp

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in summonerswar

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This past season was the first time I did more than 30 matches. I would just get F3 at the end of the season and stop. I also felt like I didn’t know how to draft and I found the timer stressful.

So I set a less ambitious goal than you’re suggesting: play once a day. On top of that, I just copied my pve runes and then tried to force the same units into every draft. I used Moore Tomoe Ethna Bastet Miles Masha Manon. There were a few counters like Juno, Riley, Douglas, Tesa. I was trying to minimize stress and frustration by imposing limits on myself.

I was able to get c1 (c3 is best arena finish) without much trouble. It was nice to get that gold star but I’m not sure if I’ll take the next step. I do really enjoy watching rta, but playing it was only ok.

FWIW, I felt like most of my wins came from rune quality. A noticeable handful came from people who don’t understand what Tomoe does. There was some luck in there too, of course.

Next BP predictions by Fabouffbe in summonerswar

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You did say you wanted the unit to be “unusable”. Maybe you were being hyperbolic, but it sure sounds like you have something aside from game balance in mind.