#policy-initialization

[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…

[elodieunderglass]

Just for the sake of scientific curiosity- is O Holey Thunder a horrible thing with legs?

(In reference to Killie the Jockey OC and his ghastly racehorse frenemy, O Holy Thunder)

Yes! That’s very observant of you! It isn’t immediately obvious, because Thunder is overtly just a horse. But his ghastliness transcends his mortal form, and on the secret plane upon which horsegirls and horses connect psychically, he’s an eldritch horror, sending messages of violence and hatred that corrupt you. Unholy Thunder.

Quick, fantasy AU where most things are exactly the same, but Thunder is a dragon, but it’s exactly the same

“Fuck me about here and you’ll be MINCED for BURGER in FRANCE”

[salt-n-salt]

(sniper dot appears on my forehead) hi guys

[moleshow]

(gift link)

[farmerstrend]

Why Smallholder Farmers in Western Kenya Are Championing Native Tree Restoration

Smallholders in Western Kenya strongly support native-tree restoration due to long-term benefits for landscape restoration, productivity and livelihoods, new research shows. Digital tools and community buy-in are successfully backing restoration projects A farmer waters seedlings along the Nzoia River in Siaya, Kenya. African nations have grand ambitions to green up landscapes with trees; the…

[shafran-saffron]

I love you right tendency communism I love you Deng Xiaoping I love you Nikolai Bukharin I love you New Economic Policy I love you Socialism with Chinese Characteristics I love you Xi Jinping Thought I love you market economy under the dictatorship of the proletariat I love you communism that focuses on bettering the economic conditions of the working class I love you good agricultural policy I love you targeted poverty alleviation I love you using the superiority of state planning to beat the capitalist countries in their own game I love you chinese domination of world trade I love you chinese century I love you the belt and road initiative and helping the global south develop and ditch the west I love you the death of the US empire

[probablyasocialecologist]

At September’s UN General Assembly in New York, Brazil’s President Lula described the international financial system as a “Marshall Plan in reverse” in which the poorest countries finance the richest. Driving the point home, Lula thundered, “African countries borrow at rates up to eight times higher than Germany and four times higher than the United States.” Lula is not alone in this diagnosis. Centrist technocrats par excellence Larry Summers & NK Singh coauthored a report earlier this year arguing that the development world’s mantra to scale up direct financing to the global South—from “billions to trillions”—has failed. Instead, global finance seems to be running in the opposite direction, from poor to rich countries, as was the case last year. Summers and Singh summarize the arrangement thusly: “millions in, billions out.” Added to this is the great global shift to austerity that makes a mockery of climate and development goals. It’s in this context that talk of “green Marshall Plans”—proposed by Huang Yiping in China and Brian Deese in the US—must be received. Negotiations over technology transfer, market access, and finance deals are a permanent feature of the new cold war: call it strategic green industrial diplomacy. Both the American and Chinese proposals, such as they exist, aim to subsidize the export markets of allied countries to build foreign support for domestic industries. For developing countries, this could mean manufacturing green goods to grab a slice of the trillions of future green economic output and develop themselves, and a policy choice to meet their development goals by either making or buying cheap, clean energy generation, electricity storage, and transport. Putting aside the dubiousness of the historical analogy to the United States’ postwar aid program to Europe, the critical element—and the one that seems least likely for either China or the US to pursue in earnest given their domestic political obstacles—is the provision of the kind of financial and industrial support that low- and middle-income countries need. The geoeconomic contest between the US and China rests on which of the two can forge domestic political coalitions that meet the demand of developing countries for local manufacturing value add in green value chains, without which the South will remain merely an export market or a resource colony.

[...]

The optimistic Marshall Plan proposals are not entirely hot air; each attempts to extend aggressive domestic policies globally. China and the US have both made bids on an investment-led partial solution to their respective domestic political and economic challenges, with a focus on clean-energy industries. Their shared formula can be summarized as national strength through industrial renewal. In both countries, domestic industries have been offered ample fiscal support; Biden’s suite of tax credits and subsidies has already spurred more than $400 billion in investment in clean energy and clean-tech manufacturing and generation, and China’s central government, already dominant in clean tech manufacturing, is now concentrating its efforts on next-generation technologies and economic self-reliance.

11 October 2024

[stoshasaurus]

i still cannot fucking draw feet and refuse to learn.

anyway, more work with poses and an experiment with cell shading and some half-tone brushes i have. this one actually turned out decent, the hands most of all.

[harriswalz4usabybr]

Speech Vice President Harris gave in Lincoln, NE!

~BR~

[your-fave-is-christian]

Jeremy from regretevator

Jeremy from Regretevator is Christian!

[delicatelysublimeforester]

Breaking the Silence: Creating Safe Spaces for All

[not-so-superheroine]

April 6th is coming up soon :)

i have been asked to film a short video of my testimony of the book of mormon.

i want to know how it has impacted your life. the scripture within. what parts speak to you. why you consider it to be sacred scripture.

i don't know what i will do yet but i think i may speak on how it convinced me of continuing revelation, contains messages of liberation and is anti-wealth inequality, it gives solid spiritual advice in growing your faith in God (and has grown my faith and my relationship with my Creator), a focus on the Living Christ, and is spiritually empowering.

i'm going on too long because i started planning. but does anyone else want to join in and post theirs (not necessarily as a video but a text post. but use any medium you'd like.) on April 6th?

not sure of a good tag, but lmk if you have a better one than

#BoMTestimony

lmk and i'll update.

and yes, nuanced views are totally okay. mine certainly is. i'd love to see them.

if you want it up anonymously, you can anon DM me on anon. i will, of course, screen those.

i also ask that we keep it to the Book of Mormon and the Restoration as a whole rather than a specific church to be inclusive of those in other mormon sects.

and be careful to not insult other non mormon religions.

i haven't seen any religious insults on #tumblrstake , i think y'all are respectful and chill. i just like to cover my bases bc i have seen it elsewhere. but the vibes are much different on tumblr than on reddit. thank you all.

[wonder-worker]

A.J Pollard’s biography on Edward IV was so cringe lol (generic; minor but frustrating inaccuracies; intensely judgmental at times and oddly dismissive at others while never considering the broader context; entirely diminished and trivialized Elizabeth Woodville as both queen and wife of his main subject in the name of "defending" her; created a false dichotomy between Edward and Henry VII’s styles of ruling and lauded the latter at the former’s expense even though Henry literally followed Edward’s example for the very things Pollard was criticizing Edward for; had a downright nonsensical and thoroughly misleading conclusion about Edward’s legacy & Richard’s usurpation that was based entirely on hindsight, Pollard's own assumptions, and the complete downplaying Richard’s agency and actions to emphasize what Pollard wrongly and misleadingly claimed were Edward's so-called 'failings', etc, etc)

I wanted to buy his book on Henry V but after reading this shitshow and the synopsis of that book, im guessing it's going to be 10x worse, so...no thanks

[butchlifeguard]

they honestly fumbled what could have been the easiest political stunt in history

[narrative-theory]

Iran's Reformist President – Scott Ritter

[saltcherry]

type of guy so old it feels new discovered:

learned my brother voted third party for something called the american solidarity party. I went down the rabbit hole of their website and their platform can only be described as 19th century reformer imposed morality meets left-of-Dems socioeconomic policy. I mean it is basically socialism lite for liturgical-doctrinal Christians who are anti-abortion hardliners, a.k.a. European Christian Democrat-ism for the US, but reading their platform in this country is a trip. yeah we're the anti-choice, anti-gay rights, anti-trans, anti-no fault divorce, Patriarchy Unlimited Party, and we're also pro-worker, pro-environment, pro-reparations, pro-tribal sovereignty, anti-nuke, anti-imperialism, anti-drill, anti-IMF, anti-prison, anti-death penalty, and anti-corporate.

I mean I think there is a vicious insidiousness in a viewpoint where the implicit utopia is a post-racial society with open borders, no war, and women mostly stay at home with the kids, but it's at least internally consistent. and it's fucking embarrassing for Dems to be outflanked on the left by the Carrie Nation Moralizing Patriarchy Party.