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[Nathaniel3W]

I was contacted by a government contract company. If you're a government employee, and you give a contractor your name one time, they'll contact you for the rest of your life. They had just landed a big contract and were looking for more people to fill it. They wanted my latest CV and salary expectations to see if they could place me. I told them my desired salary and I honestly thought they wouldn't respond... But then they did.

So now I'm waiting for interview number 2 and I'm brushing up on some things so I don't sound like a complete idiot.

My experience with AI and machine learning is basically understanding the concepts, and then importing a library and using it. I decided I really wanted to learn the details and I started writing a neural net from scratch. Right now it has a lot of loops that I'll eventually want to rewrite for parallelization. And there are a lot of places where I wrote code, and the book's code is a lot cleaner because the author points out "But as you can see, this is the same thing as a dot product, and we can replace this whole part..." and he also writes code very pythonically, whereas I just don't think like that and I have to see the extra steps written out. But the biggest challenge right now is this one very important backpropagation function/formula that the writers of these different books keep putting off. They keep explaining it conceptually, and calling a function to do this thing, and saying, "Trust me. This is what it's doing." And it's the most important part, and it's the one part of my neural net that I can't write from scratch yet.

 

[Hybrida]

Congratulations to Nintendo. The Switch is the fastest selling console this year. Christmas hasn't been factored in yet, obviously. It says a lot about their success. The toy company from 1889 is going strong. Feels great to be a fan (since 1989).

Also, Microsoft has big plans next year. I wish the xbox division good luck on the launch of Xbox Scarlett. According the Phil, Xbox will always have the power advantage for now on.

 

[Jason]

Nope, PS4 is still outselling the Switch this year;

 

[Hybrida]

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ninte ... 0-6463977/

https://www.destructoid.com/nintendo-sh ... 5649.phtml

Obviously I was talking about in the USA. You know I don't give a shit about anything outside of America. Posting global numbers are irrelevant to Americans. We simply don't care. That's just how it is.

Anyway, remember I said "fastest". This means it sold at a higher rate in a short duration of time. I never said outsold. Besides no one cares about PlayStation anymore. They're even skipping E3 next year. Arrogance and stupidity at its finest.

 

[Jason]

You've literally just changed the goalposts to suit your needs. You should have said in the US from the start. And it's a bit moronic to say nobody cares about PlayStation anymore when it's quite clearly still selling extremely well after five years. By all means you're allowed to be a fan boy, but you can't deny facts, otherwise you'll be grouped with flat earthers or something lol.

 

[coyotecraft]

You have to acknowledge that there wasn't a goal to begin with. You took a shot at him. He didn't have to defend anything, but he's a good sport and played your game anyways.

 

[Jason]

You have to acknowledge that there wasn't a goal to begin with. You took a shot at him. He didn't have to defend anything, but he's a good sport and played your game anyways.

Oh please, there's always a goal with him, it's Hybrida, he takes any chance he can to praise Nintendo/Microsoft and say bad things about Sony. In this case, due to him not being specific, I was able to prove him wrong based on his original post. He said he was obviously talking about in the USA, but nothing he said made it obvious whatsoever, and it wasn't until his second post where he backed his claims up with links that both say in the US. If he included them in the first post then it'd be fair game.

 

[Jason]

Also it's hardly taking a shot, more along the lines of correcting him.

 

[Hybrida]

Correcting what? You just assume I was talking about sales numbers, when I clearly wasn't. The chart you posted was totally unnecessary. Just another blind sony fan who throws around sales numbers. That's all they can do until that's gone.

Sony guys are all the same. The toxic blindness since the PS1 is why I never want to be a part that community.

 

[Jason]

Correcting what? You just assume I was talking about sales numbers, when I clearly wasn't. The chart you posted was totally unnecessary. Just another blind sony fan who throws around sales numbers. That's all they can do until that's gone.

Sony guys are all the same. The toxic blindness since the PS1 is why I never want to be a part that community.

Actually these days I spend more time on my Switch than anything else due to Smash and Mario Kart, lol (I even chose Switch over PS4 for Warframe), but nice try regardless (Although I AM playing the Kingdom Hearts games on PS4)

And of course I assumed you were talking about sales numbers, you literally used the words "fastest selling". Selling implies sales, so y'know... I was simply pointing out that the Switch isn't the top selling console yet. But of course you're going to make your own assumptions, as you already have, and claim this that and the other, which is gonna' be fun to see.

 

[Jason]

Also Sony fans have more than hardware sales to throw around, they also have the games too, and weirdly enough... you might find this insane; Some people, myself included... actually have fun playing both Sony AND Nintendo consoles... and get this, right, we even have them... side by side in our entertainment rooms!

... The only console I don't actually own is an XBO, although once Game Pass comes to PC next year I'll be subscribing to that, since there's a few games I fancy playing.

 

[Xilef]

I would like anyone who wants to make games to read my crazy idea: viewtopic.php?f=23&t=79764

I don't own any current console, to my knowledge. I just imagine them gathering dust. Everything is done on my PC, why would I game on anything else when everything is already right in-front of me? I do not believe most gamers have this situation, so I understand why people game on consoles. The Switch is the most likely console I'd buy, and if a 2nd generation model is made then I probably will pull the trigger and buy it.

Arguing about game consoles feels very 2012 era. Do people really argue about this shit still?

 

[Jason]

I would like anyone who wants to make games to read my crazy idea: viewtopic.php?f=23&t=79764

It's a pretty interesting idea I'll give you that, admittedly I've not read it all, I'll drop a reply in the thread once I've done so.

I don't own any current console, to my knowledge. I just imagine them gathering dust. Everything is done on my PC, why would I game on anything else when everything is already right in-front of me? I do not believe most gamers have this situation, so I understand why people game on consoles. The Switch is the most likely console I'd buy, and if a 2nd generation model is made then I probably will pull the trigger and buy it.

Honestly I'm actually hoping they do release a new generation of the Switch, it's a great console and has the enormous benefit of being portable too, so I can, and do, take it with me to work and on journeys places, it's definitely a design I'd love to see Nintendo stick to in the future, the focus now should be more power and battery life, it's a winning formula as is, but as always, could be improved upon.

Arguing about game consoles feels very 2012 era. Do people really argue about this shit still?

I mean, I wouldn't really call it an argument, at least not on my side anyway, more along the lines of... let's call it an intentional misunderstanding, lol. As for the question of if people still argue about games and consoles? Indeed they do, have you ever been on IGN, you'd need a radiation suit to wade through all the toxicity! I find reddit to be a pretty chill and helpful place when talking about games though. Besides, as the world is now, I'd rather debate games than politics, lol :P

 

[Hybrida]

Arguing about game consoles feels very 2012 era. Do people really argue about this shit still?

Yes. It never stopped. Just today N64 vs PS1 got to damn near 500 posts on 4chan /V/. That battle is 22 years old, and still going... Some people are actually passionate about things. They're called
"Fans."

Console wars never went anywhere. It's going stronger than ever. Nintendo and Microsoft even made a commercial together to shame Sony for not doing crossplay. Hell, I can start Xbox live on my Switch. Possible via mine craft. O_O

Temporary alliance until the inevitable Sony self-destruction. Sony strong censorship on anime games isn't helping them.

 

[Hybrida]

The desolation is overwhelming (Christmas is near). Maybe I should share a story I'm writing. I love to post in IRC format aka chatroom style. I'll post it in the creativity section. It'll be clean. (I promise.)

I gotta spice up my vocabulary a little. I type simple, but talk like a professor in real life. I can't spell half the shit I say. LOL.

 

[Hybrida]

Photobucket is easing up a bit. Glad they allow the images to show. They placed a fixed water mark that can be effectively countered by calculated empty space at the bottom of your images. I'm sure they'll counter the obvious counter.

Spoiler: Raptor stardart

 

[Fayte]

Still playing FFTCG?

Absolutely.

How did your buddy do at the north American championship?

Not so good.. but he said he learned a lot

 

[Byron]

Describing uni to my family is interesting. It really is the most everything I've ever been.
The most stressed but the most productive. The happiest but also the most depressed. The most overwhelmed yet so well-suited.
I love it so much and I kind of hate being back in the old places I've lived. I guess I've moved on and found a place I feel I belong.

 

[Fayte]

SOMEWHERE I BELONG. I WILL NEVER KNOW MYSELF UNTIL I DO THIS ON MY OWN. I WILL NEVER FEEL ANYTHING ELSE UNTIL MY WOUNDS ARE HEALED.

Sorry. HiPoyion reminded me of better days.

 

[Hybrida]

Happy holidays to the six people who still come to this place.

And to those relentless bots who love HBG so damn much.