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Utilities and 3rd Party Applications / Re: Dfhack: Rendermax (and it's subplugin light)
« on: October 22, 2018, 04:42:25 pm »
I'm currently using it, and the only problem I've had so far is FPS. Reducing the number of caverns, setting special.diffuseCount=0 and capping the GFPS at 30 gets me 100 FPS, but it remains to be seen how that will hold up as the fort ages.

I don't know if there's further optimization that can be done – seems most of the taxing stuff is on the dfhack side of the things and can't be moved into another thread.

EDIT: And I'm using a 3x3 fort size. 2x2 would probably be even faster, given that rendermax will have less map to check.
EDIT 2: Actually, fort size probably doesn't matter for rendermax specifically, since it looks like it's just checking the viewport not the whole map.

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Utilities and 3rd Party Applications / Re: rendermax FPS tweaks
« on: October 21, 2018, 07:16:53 pm »
Quote from: Warmist on October 21, 2018, 02:35:25 am
Quote from: Fenrir on October 20, 2018, 03:19:03 pm
rendermax light tanks my FPS. Are there settings I can use to reduce the FPS drain?

Setting special.diffusionCount=0 keeps the graphical FPS from dropping, but it still cuts my tick rate down.
Yeah sadly thats the only one. It's very computationally intense thing as it has to read a lot of map each frame. You could reduce your GFPS max, maybe that would at least save your FPS.
Thanks! That worked.

Is it rechecking the entire map every tick?

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Utilities and 3rd Party Applications / rendermax FPS tweaks
« on: October 20, 2018, 03:19:03 pm »
rendermax light tanks my FPS. Are there settings I can use to reduce the FPS drain?

Setting special.diffusionCount=0 keeps the graphical FPS from dropping, but it still cuts my tick rate down.

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Life Advice / Re: Reluctant NEET
« on: January 15, 2018, 12:23:34 am »
Considering your situation, what you're calling “laziness” may be clinical depression. I recommend seeing a psychologist (not a therapist, a psychologist – the kind with Dr in their name – but a therapist will do if you can't find a psychologist) if you can.

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General Discussion / Re: AI Inspiration: InspiroBot, the Thread
« on: June 25, 2017, 04:06:55 pm »
Quote from: MoonyTheHuman on June 25, 2017, 01:35:18 pm
[sarcasm]PLOT TWIST: these are real posters[/sarcasm]
I'd put a analysis of the bot here, but i dont want to ruin the fun :)
It's obviously some kind of mad-libs thing that isn't really AI, but w/e.

Spoiler: That'll definitely do it. (click to show/hide)

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General Discussion / AI Inspiration: InspiroBot, the Thread
« on: June 25, 2017, 10:15:20 am »
http://inspirobot.me

Spoiler: I'm sure something is wrong with it, but I'm not sure exactly what. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: I'm sorry, what? (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: I mean, I guess? (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: InspiroBot doesn't sugar coat anything. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: CHALLENGE ACCEPTED (click to show/hide)

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Life Advice / Re: Merits of seeking diagnosis?
« on: February 12, 2017, 06:03:23 am »
Quote from: Sappho on February 06, 2017, 12:45:32 am
I don't think you need a psychiatrist to get diagnosed with anything. A psychologist is usually the one who does the diagnosing. Psychiatrists are more for prescribing medications. Unless the whole system works differently in the UK?
I want to second this.

Psychiatrists seem to vary highly in quality, and I can only guess it's because they're multi-classing – they have some psychology training but they're primarily doctors. Psychologists (not therapists, mind!) are the ones with the PhDs in psychology. Psychiatrists, in my experience, are keys to the medicine cabinet, put there to advise you on what to try next and answer any questions you have about the drugs, while also making sure you don't take the wrong dose of the wrong thing and die to death.

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General Discussion / Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Everyone's a Coptic in Their Own Way
« on: January 16, 2016, 05:15:22 am »
Quote from: Rolepgeek on January 16, 2016, 03:28:00 am
Design implies that because that's the way we think of design. Semantics arguments don't really work once you start taking in context. For a timeless being, 'design' is a metaphor at best. Much the same way evolution isn't actually a thing, it's a shorthand way of referring to the tautology that in an environment with limited resources, replicators that are better at replicating will replicate more effectively and come to dominate said environment. Or how nature doesn't 'want' to reach a lower energy state, it just happens that unstable positions tend towards stability by the simple fact that the more unstable something is, the shorter the period of time it spends that way. Given the ability to move either towards stability or towards instability, one will, over time, win out. Which is why half-lives work the way they do.
Yeah, no, "design" implies that because that's what the goddamn word means. And "semantic argument" isn't some catchall objection you can use to dismiss anyone who expects people to use terms that actually have some relationship to what they're trying to say. If someone says something that doesn't make sense, they're not being metaphorical, they're wrong.

And it's obivous that proponents of intelligent design mean the term "design" in the way that everyone else does in most other contexts. "Intelligent" is in the name of the thing, so they clearly mean to indicate that there is some kind of cognitive work going on here. ID rhetoric is full of references to cleverness and planning. One of their favorite things to do is to compare the natural world to human-manufactured objects as "proof" of some kind of grand designer.

So, no, I'm not buying the "metaphor" dodge. Even if I accepted your point, all you'd be saying is that god is too mysterious and ID advocates are just using aribitrary words and don't really know what it is they're talking about, which isn't a terribly good defense.

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General Discussion / Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Everyone's a Coptic in Their Own Way
« on: January 16, 2016, 02:32:43 am »
Quote from: Bohandas on January 16, 2016, 02:12:47 am
Quote from: Fenrir on January 16, 2016, 01:30:57 am
Quote from: Bohandas on January 16, 2016, 12:56:50 am
Quote from: Loud Whispers on January 14, 2016, 06:31:16 pm
Quote from: Orange Wizard on January 14, 2016, 05:51:26 pm
Quote from: Loud Whispers on January 14, 2016, 05:30:02 pm
When I send my Dorfs to dig a tunnel and they go berserk and drown everyone that does not necessarily mean it was my intention for them to do so, though it was in their capacity to do so
But if you also designed the dorf's AI then you're going to have a fair idea of what they're likely to do
Read Toady's devlog to see why that's wrong

Yeah, but he's not also omniscient.
Entertaining thought I had: god might not actually know anything at all, at least not how we use the term. Why would you need to build a mental model of reality if you have instantaneous and direct access to reality unbounded by time? There's no need to maintain state if you have no latency and you never lose access to anything, and there is no need to predict anything if you can always see the outcome.

I've considered similar ideas as well. A truly omniscent being would have paradoxially have no need to think. It would never need to process information, only to access it.

This is the one tiny concession I'll grant to double-talking ID advocates who claim that god is actually "simple"/"non-complex". It's not much of a concession though as even the greatest thinking mind would be absolutely dwarfed in complexity simply by the data contained in an omnipotent mind; especially one that is also eternal (effective omniscience could be achieved with only the set of all knowledge that's actually going to ever come up, which is likely to be finite for a finite being, but an eternal being on the other hand may be reasonably be expected to encounter a transfinite number of different situations). Complete memorization of every digit of Graham's Number alone would account for more complexity than the entire solar sysyem and in fact quite likely even more complexity than the entire observable universe, let alone memorization of every digit of pi...
Well, this conception of god has problems for ID advocates, since "design" implies some kind of thinking and planning ahead going on. Which doesn't mesh well with gods supposed timelessness, though. If god is timeless as I've heard a lot of theists assert, the idea of god gets nonsensical pretty quickly.

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General Discussion / Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Everyone's a Coptic in Their Own Way
« on: January 16, 2016, 01:30:57 am »
Quote from: Bohandas on January 16, 2016, 12:56:50 am
Quote from: Loud Whispers on January 14, 2016, 06:31:16 pm
Quote from: Orange Wizard on January 14, 2016, 05:51:26 pm
Quote from: Loud Whispers on January 14, 2016, 05:30:02 pm
When I send my Dorfs to dig a tunnel and they go berserk and drown everyone that does not necessarily mean it was my intention for them to do so, though it was in their capacity to do so
But if you also designed the dorf's AI then you're going to have a fair idea of what they're likely to do
Read Toady's devlog to see why that's wrong

Yeah, but he's not also omniscient.
Entertaining thought I had: god might not actually know anything at all, at least not how we use the term. Why would you need to build a mental model of reality if you have instantaneous and direct access to reality unbounded by time? There's no need to maintain state if you have no latency and you never lose access to anything, and there is no need to predict anything if you can always see the outcome.

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General Discussion / Re: How Crazy is Talking to yourself?
« on: January 16, 2016, 12:09:05 am »
Quote from: wobbly on January 15, 2016, 11:43:46 pm
Mostly I find the question of "is this crazy" a little silly. Questions like "Am I enjoying my life" & "Am I messing up other people's lives" seem more important to me. That said everyone talks to themselves, it's just most people don't do it out aloud 'cause people look at you funny. Whether that bothers you is up to you.
So much this.

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General Discussion / Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Everyone's a Coptic in Their Own Way
« on: January 14, 2016, 03:48:11 pm »
I'm pretty sure the standard way Christians deal with god being the originator of sin is some "free-will" handwaving.

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General Discussion / Re: Religion and Spirituality Discussion: Everyone's a Coptic in Their Own Way
« on: January 13, 2016, 09:19:51 am »
Quote from: Th4DwArfY1 on January 13, 2016, 09:08:57 am
Given insanity has been defined as doing the same thing many times and expecting different results, does prayer fit the bill?
That's a terrible definition of insanity. And I think most religious people expect prayer to be a crapshoot anyway.

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General Discussion / Re: Gender quotas
« on: January 13, 2016, 09:08:16 am »
They should be given positions on the basis of their merits, but you can't correct the bias in favor of men by just telling people not to be biased in favor of men. It's a pretty pernicious, self-sustaining kind of thing. A lot of people probably don't even notice it.

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General Discussion / Re: One Change to the Constitution
« on: January 13, 2016, 09:05:56 am »
???th Amendment: No one is permitted to acknowledge the existence of this amendment through word or deed.

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