#expert-iteration

[indirezioneostinata]

Dal Pre-training all'Expert Iteration: Il Percorso verso la Riproduzione di OpenAI Five

Il Reinforcement Learning (RL) rappresenta un approccio distintivo nel panorama del machine learning, basato sull’interazione continua tra un agente e il suo ambiente. In RL, l’agente apprende attraverso un ciclo di azioni e ricompense, con l’obiettivo di massimizzare il guadagno cumulativo a lungo termine. Questa strategia lo differenzia dagli approcci tradizionali come l’apprendimento…

[faunandfloraas]

The Nobleman or 양반 (yangban): The smiling face represents the bluff and composure that an aristocrat is often known to have. The chin is a separate piece from the top of the mask, and the actors can lean forward and back to make the mask smile or frown as needed.

This monk who abandons his doctrines, or 취발이 (chwibari): Chwibari was originally a monk, but he had no intention of joining the monastic order, so he came down to the world and wanders. Represented with a forehead full of wrinkles and spots.

The widow or, 부네 (Punae/bune): represented to be a widow, or a kisaeng ( a woman who sang, danced, or played an instrument to provide entertainment for company at a drinking party), or a mistress of the Yangban. She has a very small mouth, round cheeks and forehead- giving a general look of happiness good-humor.

[alfairy]

Some of the characters in transformers one were kinda like “Man, B-127 talks wayyyyy too much, I wish he would shut up”

Meanwhile, every time someone mentioned how he talked too much, I was sitting there in the theater like

[apparentlyautistick]

I just like drawing this dude with insanely long ears!

[shkika]

You seem like the best person to ask this to (I consider you as lore expert)

What are the little white spiders in pebbles' memory conflux(?? is that the place) they repair the red wall things

I AM?? Well then where is my invitation to a trivia show then smh! /j

In all seriousness wow I'm flattered, but I think I will disappoint you by saying that I have ZERO CLUE for sure?? Iterator anatomy is easily my weakest point, because the game tries to keep them vague as far as I am aware and without text to analyze I lack the real technical knowledge to draw comparisons...

As far as I have searched there is NO canonical explanation or anything really as to what they are, but you did compare them to spiders so let's go from there! Perhaps they are there to repair the grid if noisy slug cats like you break them. Kind of like how an actual spider might repair it's web. Perhaps they also modify it's structure if necessary?

[rawliverandgoronspice]

ok guys in an extremely tragic twist of faith my hyperfixated brain betrayed me and the article will actually just be about female characters in game in general using EoW as a jumping board, which does fill my soul with dread and weariness instead of joy :((

(perhaps for nothing, maybe it will be great but still I'm SO DISAPPOINTED)

[simcardiac-arrested]

drop the iterator gender pronouns

For u brother i go to the ends of the earth

wt - genderfluid (they/them)

ris - bigender (he/him)

cd - weird girl thang creature something something non binary (she/they)

soar - gender as vast as space (any)

ns - you will never know their gender (they/he)

fta - girl adjacent boy who’s non binary (he/she)

nwb - ?????? gender (he/him)

son - just some guy. agender probably (they/them)

[articskele]

Hello... pardon me. Excuse my interruption. Can I ask you something? Do you know of VOCALOID? If so, can I show you a site I am working on? It is a wiki.

Oh, hello! I checked your blog and saw that you were working on an english translation for Moegirlpedia? I don't know much about Vocaloid myself, much less wikis and how to edit them, but I wish you good luck! ouo

[groupalpha]

*sigh*

A borzoi is a dog with a really long nose

And you probably don't know what a dog is..

EPS: Wh- I know what a dog is! I research animals for countless cycles, it's my job! I just haven't heard of that particular species, not to mention that many of them have evolved into something else over the course of time.

...

Regardless, a dog with a long snout... it's better than the other insult.

[ekkoh]

one thing about me is that i will go my entire life without caring about a piece of media but when i get sucked in i have to do research on its entire history

[marketxcel]

The New Product Development Process: Stages and Expert Tips

This blog delves into the stages of this process, from ideation to product launch, emphasizing the significance of meticulous planning, market research, and validation. Additionally, we have expert tips for you to facilitate a smooth journey from concept to market.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

Full Tech Day One pic today from kiko laureano (denizen of skid row / ensemble) & video (that's four seconds of "ya never know" playing over the static image) from & ft. marcia milgrom dodge (director / choreographer) double captioning "there might be puppets in this musical ;)" & "Well Shake my hand! Come see LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS @guthrietheater featuring @actually_will_roland's hand!"

[morhido]

Sighs. Okay yeah i have thoughts about cgi toothless.

First of all, why does he look so... slimy? He feels too smooth. Like they just stretched some scaly skin over a skeleton and let it walk around. Immediately offputting.

His body language is. Fine? Am i being nitpicky or does it seem just the tiniest bit less expressive? I'm guessing this is either the scene right after hiccup cuts him free, in which case he should be way more intimidating, or the fish-sharing scene, in which case he should feel a little friendlier and more curious around hiccup. It's a quick shot so i won't put a ton of expectations onto it, but i think it's worth noting.

Okay this is a legitimately cool detail though. He has a secondary eyelid!! You can see it slipping away when he opens his eyes. That's a detail exclusive to the books so i like that they included something as small as that.

Sighs again. And this is the shot that prompted me to make this post.

Look at the original, and then look at the cgi version. I could write an essay about how inferior the cgi version is in comparison.

First off, they flattened his face. I swear every iteration of night furies after the first movie has just been compressing their snouts until they're sufficiently 'cute' enough for the audience to forget they're supposed to be sleek and aerodynamic.

Second, his eyes. Absolutely radioactive. I understand using a brighter colour for his eyes, especially in a relatively darker environment to make him stand out and seem more fantastical. But. They're just so bright. It's mildly unsettling how saturated they are compared to everything else.

Third, his eyes. Again.

Toothless is supposed to be terrified but still threatening in this scene, and the original shot conveys that perfectly. If it's a threat, then by all means hiccup should kill it or at least run, but instead he draws a connection between both of them being scared of the other and decides to cut him loose instead. And that's the core of their relationship. Toothless is staring him down with a slitted pupil that could just as easily be interpreted as "fuck around and find out" but hiccup just acknowledges that there's a frightened, injured animal in front of him that needs help, and he helps.

Is any of that conveyed in the cgi version? No!! It's trying so hard to be cute that it's gone full circle back to just being scary. The wide-eyed stare, the dilated pupil, he's basically just saying "🥺🥺 uwu pwease i'm so cute and innocent don't kill me aha 👉👈". Which is a lot less of a compelling reason for hiccup to free him!! Plus the fact that toothless turns up to look at him instead of lying and accepting his fate like in the original, which only makes it seem even more like he's trying to show off how apparently adorable he is.

Idk. Just the difference between the in-your-face sanitised cuteness of "teehe you wouldn't kill little old me would you? 🥺" and the expert subtlety of his "please don't hurt me" of the original doesn't give me high hopes for a toothless that stays true to his character from the first movie. Even from something as small as this. He's gonna get woobified. I can feel it.

[ancientcharm]

Digital model of Ancient Rome released

Image Credit: FLYOVERZONE

Rome Reborn 4.0, a digital model of Ancient Rome has just been released by archaeologist, Dr Bernard Frischer. Published by Flyover Zone, the model is a reconstruction of the entire city of Ancient Rome for academic study and virtual tourism. Rome Reborn provides a birds-eye perspective of the complete digital model, enabling users to glide above the historic landmarks while listening to expert narrations about 43 monuments, temples, structures, and locations.

Dr Frischer said, “Rome Reborn 4.0 is the culmination of more than twenty-seven years of collaborative international work in using digital tools to research cultural history and bring it to life.” According to the project leaders, the virtual tour can be used by teachers on Yorescape, a mobile and web app that takes their students on virtual field trips, or by armchair travellers to explore the heritage sites of the ancient capital of the Roman Empire.

Rome Reborn 4.0 represents the most recent iteration of an urban model that Dr Frischer has led since 1996. Rome Reborn has been a globally collaborative project from its inception, uniting specialists in Roman archaeology, computer graphics, and Virtual Reality design. The project’s earlier versions include 1.0 (2007), 2.0 (2008), and 3.0 (2018). Video fly-throughs of these previous versions have been viewed by millions of people worldwide. Similar to its earlier versions, Rome Reborn 4.0 portrays the city as it might have appeared at its zenith in the year AD 320, just before the capital’s relocation to Constantinople. According to Flyover Zone, “This reconstruction of ancient Rome’s urban landscape adheres to scientific accuracy based on the available but fragmentary historical evidence. As new findings and interpretations of this evidence emerge, the Flyover Zone team continuously updates Rome Reborn to ensure it remains a dependable and comprehensive visualization of the city.”

BY :Mark Milligan

[maniculum]

Editing next week's episode of the podcast, and I noticed we introduced our guest as having a PhD from Notre Dame.

At the time, I thought nothing of it, because usually when one says that, it's understood that you mean the university in Indiana, and that is in fact the case here -- she has a PhD in Medieval Studies from the University of Notre Dame, the one in Indiana.

But, as we all know, Notre Dame just means "Our Lady" -- i.e., Mary -- and so lots of things are named that, especially when Catholics are doing the naming.

There are of course other educational institutions called "Notre Dame". When I was growing up, we were all aware of the nearby "College of Notre Dame of Maryland" -- not because of any particular prestige the college possessed, but because its initials spelled CoNDoM, which is a very funny thing to happen to a Catholic institution.

I double-checked this when making this post, and apparently they changed their name to "Notre Dame of Maryland University" in 2011 after over a century of being called CoNDoM.

But you could iterate this idea into absurdity.

There is of course the cathedral:

"Yes, I have a PhD from Notre Dame." "Oh, the one in Indiana?" "No, the one in Paris. You know, Quasimodo and all that." "I didn't know they granted degrees." "Well, it's honorary."

A variety of just... places:

"Yes, I have a PhD from Notre Dame." "Oh, the one in Indiana?" "No, Notre Dame Bay. In Newfoundland." "Um..." "The Lady of the Bay, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft a sheepskin from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I was an expert in my field."

And, naturally, the original:

"Yes, I have a PhD from Notre Dame." "Oh, the one in Indiana?" "No, Notre Dame. Our Lady. Mary, Mother of God." "Sorry, what?" "She appeared to me in a vision and said I had a doctorate now." "I wasn't aware her authority extended to the granting of terminal degrees." "You want to tell her that?"

...this whole post is just such nonsense. Maybe that fever hasn't really dissipated yet.

I don't think this one deserves them, no.

[violent138]

I love imagining the Watchtower as an insane houseflipping group effort. Hal grabbed the rawest iteration of it by getting a defunct Lantern base and then Bruce became the World's Greatest Interior Designer and made multiple building plans and schematics that the Flash speed edited based on suggestions from all the alien and mystical metal experts they were subtly consulting. Clark got veto power on most of the decisions, and strongly advocated for integrating alien tech. He helped put it all together along with Diana, Arthur and J'onn (who was ridiculously helpful during repairs because he could phase into any problems Clark or Hal found and fix them). Diana shuttled Bruce, Arthur and Barry to the tower with her jet while the zeta tubes got built with Wayne Enterprises embezzlement money. Arthur contributed ethically-sourced rare metals from under the sea (which decreased Bruce's financial crimes a little). Clark and Bruce volunteered their respective bases for Hal, J'onn, and Barry to test out the occasionally volatile extraterrestrial tech they were integrating in (which Bruce was highly paranoid about). Diana designed all the training facilities, forced Bruce to inject some life into the designs, and had a lot of fun when things blew up. Which was often. There were also frequent arguments but the Watchtower became too important for any of them to abandon it, or the League they were building together.