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Exit Juan, sorry, Taran
by professor rat 30 Nov '22

30 Nov '22

Argentine, sorry, Russian billionaire Juan Garofalo, sorry, Vyacheslav Taran, president of Nazi-Dipshit, sorry, Libertex Group and founder of Forex Club, died Nov. 25 in a helicopter crash in France while en route from Lausanne to Monaco, Switzerland. He was 53. The helicopter pilot, the only other person aboard the craft, also died. https://cointelegraph.com/news/libertex-crypto-exchange-head-vyacheslav-tar… Taran’s death is the third to shake the crypto world in recent weeks, following Amber Group’s Karl Semich, sorry, Tiantian Kullander and MakerDao’s, Grarpamps, sorry, Nikolai Mushegian My mind is going Dao. I can feel it. Send me crypto-currencies so I can see a rat-doctor. FOR the LOVE of DOG!

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[ot][log] gpgpu video encoding acceleration note
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 29 Nov '22

29 Nov '22

I have one of the very few nvidia cards that doesn't do nvenc, which roughly means not using hardware-accelerated video encoding. I looked for GPGPU (cuda, opencl) implementations for video encoders, but didn't find much of anything. I did find other people looking for this. I wonder if nvidia, amd, and intel, are kind of working together to require the purchase of hardware to do this; I have no idea if that's a conspiracy theory or a normal marketing practice, but I suspect the latter. I'm baffo32 in below internet argument. Talkys is repeating a strange point against general encoder implementations that doesn't seem informed by experience developing software: but I don't really have a strong counterargument because I've never tried to implement an accelerated codec using parallelized operations myself. When I resurrected this month-old thread, Talkys replied to argue further within hours. I'm posting this here because I shared a rare paper on the topic in the conversation. https://www.reddit.com/r/AV1/comments/xnb8gs/will_older_gpus_like_the_1060_… [–]Silikone 1 point 2 months ago Couldn't you theoretically accelerate encoding with CUDA? I know there are such things for other formats. permalinkembedsavereportgive awardreply [–]Talkys 1 point 1 month ago Yeah, but you need hardware support for AV1. CUDA is just an API for the GPU hardware. permalinkembedsaveparentreportgive awardreply [–]Silikone 1 point 1 month ago It's the API for GPGPU acceleration, not tied to any fixed-function capabilities. The point would be to facilitate encoding on the GPU without hardware encoding support. permalinkembedsaveparentreportgive awardreply [–]Talkys 1 point 1 month ago We already use cuda do encode with avc and hevc. But you can't use it to encode on a format the gpu don't support. permalinkembedsaveparentreportgive awardreply [–]baffo32 1 point 4 hours ago Silkone means that it is possible for somebody to write an encoder that does this. An encoder can be written for CUDA or OpenCL to provide hardware accelerated encoding on older hardware. It would not be as fast as the dedicated hardware, but it can usually be made faster than a pure software encoder. permalinkembedsaveparenteditdisable inbox repliesdeletereply [–]Talkys 1 point 3 hours ago Yeah, but the overhead is really bad. It's better to use software encoding with OpenCL help, but only the gpu will just make a big mess of frames and waste a lot of time joining them. permalinkembedsaveparentreportgive awardreply [–]baffo32 1 point 10 minutes ago* This 2013 paper found a 10%-50% speedup with an OpenCL implementation: https://web.archive.org/web/20180604015042id_/http://onlinepresent.org/proc… Strangely, that paper is missing everywhere on the web, it's not even on sci-hub. I wonder if somebody's hardware marketing efforts got out of hand. [edit: here's an archive: https://arweave.net/za2jckp3GFY-q6Vsz5zS_kS4-CqZtTB-HoKmn6L1LBM/10.14257/as… ] permalinkembedsaveparenteditdisable inbox repliesdeletereply about blog about advertising careers

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With Crypto Bank, SoFi, the Fed Is Setting the Stage for the Same Disastrous Decision It Made with Citigroup in 1999
by Gunnar Larson 29 Nov '22

29 Nov '22

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/11/with-crypto-bank-sofi-the-fed-is-set… With Crypto Bank, SoFi, the Fed Is Setting the Stage for the Same Disastrous Decision It Made with Citigroup in 1999 By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: November 29, 2022 ~ Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr. Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr. If there is one person in America who comprehensively understands the threats to the U.S. banking system, it is Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr., author of the 2020 seminal book, Taming the Megabanks: Why We Need a New Glass-Steagall Act. Wilmarth is Professor Emeritus of Law at George Washington University Law School and has published more than 40 law review articles and book chapters in the fields of financial regulation and American constitutional history. Wilmarth had this to say about the way the Fed allowed a crypto outfit, SoFi, to scoop up a federally-insured bank in February of this year: “The San Francisco Fed relied on the same five-year transitional exemption in the BHC Act [Bank Holding Company Act] to allow SoFi to acquire Golden Pacific Bancorp and its national bank subsidiary despite SoFi’s nonconforming crypto trading activities. I find it astonishing and disturbing that the Federal Reserve Board would allow the San Francisco Fed to issue such a path-breaking approval — which permits a bank holding company to offer crypto trading services to depositors of its subsidiary bank — under delegated authority and without a published opinion.” Wilmarth was referring to a letter sent on November 21 by Senator Sherrod Brown, Chair of the Senate Banking Committee, and some of his colleagues on that Committee, to federal bank regulators about SoFi. The letter read in part: “In January 2022, SoFi received approval from the Federal Reserve for the acquisition of Golden Pacific Bancorp, Inc. and a conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for the creation of SoFi Bank, N.A. SoFi completed the acquisition in February 2022. As part of the approval, the Federal Reserve provided SoFi with two years to divest from SoFi Digital Assets — a nonbank subsidiary that allows retail investors to buy and sell digital assets — or conform the subsidiary’s impermissible digital asset activities to the law. During this conformance period, SoFi has committed not to ‘expand [its] impermissible activities,’ except as specifically authorized by law. SoFi initially agreed to these terms, but since the acquisition, SoFi Digital Assets has apparently expanded its retail digital assets operations. “Two months after receiving regulatory approval, SoFi announced a new service allowing customers of its national bank to invest part of every direct deposit into digital assets with no fees. The company publicly billed this service as ‘the latest expansion of SoFi’s offerings to make it simpler to get started with cryptocurrency investing.’ SoFi’s own investor protection materials, however, warn customers that at least one token listed on SoFi Digital Assets is ‘a crypto pump-and-dump’ hazard with ‘no special use case or features’ and that ‘[it] might be among the most high-risk endeavors an investor can take.’ Troublingly, this conduct raises questions about SoFi’s compliance with commitments made in the January 2022 approvals and to meeting its ongoing obligations as a banking organization.” It doesn’t get any crazier than this. A federally-insured bank knowingly peddling a crypto pump and dump scheme through a subsidiary operation. Wilmarth sees striking parallels between the Fed’s actions with SoFi and how the Fed approved the first merger of a Wall Street trading house, Salomon Brothers, with a federally-insured bank, Citicorp’s Citibank. Wilmarth gave us permission to quote the following from his book on that merger: “In April 1998, Travelers and Citicorp announced their decision to merge under the name of Citigroup, thereby creating the world’s largest financial institution with over $1 trillion of assets. Travelers was a major insurance company that controlled a large securities broker-dealer (Salomon Brothers), while Citicorp was the biggest U.S. bank holding company. The Citigroup merger created the first ‘universal bank’ that could offer comprehensive banking, securities, and insurance services in the U.S. since the 1930s. “Citigroup’s co-leaders—Sandy Weill of Travelers and John Reed of Citicorp— declared that Citigroup would offer unparalleled convenience to customers through ‘one-stop shopping’ for a wide range of banking, securities, and insurance services. They argued that Citigroup would have a superior ability to withstand financial shocks by virtue of its broadly diversified activities. Weill proclaimed, ‘We are creating a model financial institution of the future. . . . In a world that’s changing very rapidly, we will be able to withstand the storms.’ Thus, Citigroup’s founders cited the same expected benefits of universal banking that the 1991 Treasury report had touted. Many academics agreed that universal banking would provide significant benefits. “By approving the Citigroup merger, the Fed ‘challenge[d] both the statutory letter and regulatory spirit’ of the Glass-Steagall and BHC Acts. The only source of statutory authority for the merger was a temporary exemption in the BHC Act, which allowed newly formed bank holding companies to retain nonconforming assets for up to five years. As a banking lawyer explained, that temporary exemption was ‘intended to provide an orderly mechanism for disposing of impermissible activities, not warehousing them in hopes the law would change so you could keep them.’ “The Citigroup merger confronted Congress with a Hobson’s choice: either Congress could repeal the anti-affiliation rules of the Glass-Steagall and BHC Acts or Citigroup would be forced to divest all of its nonconforming activities within five years. The Citigroup deal effectively put a gun to the head of Congress, and it did so with the blessing of the federal government’s leaders. Sandy Weill and John Reed consulted with Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, and President Clinton before they announced the Citigroup merger. All three officials endorsed the transaction. Based on those consultations, Reed told the press that Travelers and Citicorp were confident ‘there wasn’t a legal problem’ with the merger. “The advance clearance that Travelers and Citicorp received from Clinton, Greenspan, and Rubin was extraordinary and, to my knowledge, unprecedented. The kid-glove treatment that top federal officials provided to Travelers and Citicorp merger demonstrated the enormous influence that the largest banks and Wall Street firms wielded in their dealings with politicians and regulators… “Weill and Citigroup spearheaded the final assault on Glass-Steagall, with enthusiastic support from the Clinton administration. Big banks, securities firms, and insurance companies joined Citigroup in financing that campaign, which spent more than $300 million on lobbying and political contributions. “Alan Greenspan strongly endorsed the repeal of Glass-Steagall. He told Congress that Glass-Steagall’s ‘archaic statutory barriers’ threatened to ‘undermine the global dominance of American finance’ as well as ‘the continued competitiveness of our financial institutions.’ He hailed the benefits of ‘one-stop shopping’ that he believed universal banks would provide to businesses and consumers.” Glass-Steagall was repealed in 1999. Nine years later, Citigroup was a basket case being secretly propped up by the Federal Reserve through an alphabet soup of Fed bailout concoctions with names like PDCF (Primary Dealer Credit Facility). The Fed battled the media for more than two years in Federal Court to keep from releasing the dollar amounts of those bailout facilities and the names of the banks that got the money. When Congress forced an audit of the Fed’s bailout facilities to be conducted by the Government Accountability Office, the public learned in 2011 that Citigroup had received more than $2.5 trillion in cumulative loans from the Fed – at below-market rates of interest – from December 2007 through at least June of 2010. Today, Citigroup’s stock price is still down more than 89 percent from where it was in 2003 when Weill stepped down as CEO. (To dress up its stock price, Citigroup did a 1-for-10 reverse split on May 9, 2011, leaving shareholders with 1 share for each 10 shares previously held. Without that reverse stock split, its shares would have closed yesterday at $4.72 rather than $47.23.) Sandy Weill and Citigroup also received unabashed cheerleading support for the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act from an entity that should have employed a critical eye – the editorial board of the New York Times. In 1988 a Times editorial read: “Few economic historians now find the logic behind Glass-Steagall persuasive.” Another Times editorial in 1990 ridiculed the idea that “banks and stocks were a dangerous mixture,” writing that separating commercial banking from Wall Street trading firms “makes little sense now.” On April 8, 1998, the Editorial Board of the New York Times became an ecstatic voice for the creation of Citigroup and repealing Glass Steagall, writing: “Congress dithers, so John Reed of Citicorp and Sanford Weill of Travelers Group grandly propose to modernize financial markets on their own. They have announced a $70 billion merger — the biggest in history — that would create the largest financial services company in the world, worth more than $140 billion… In one stroke, Mr. Reed and Mr. Weill will have temporarily demolished the increasingly unnecessary walls built during the Depression to separate commercial banks from investment banks and insurance companies.” To more fully appreciate how rapidly a federally-insured bank can flame out and spread contagion throughout the banking system, consider what we wrote for Counterpunch about Citigroup’s condition on November 24, 2008: “Citigroup’s five-day death spiral last week was surreal. I know 20-something newlyweds who have better financial backup plans than this global banking giant. On Monday came the Town Hall meeting with employees to announce the sacking of 52,000 workers. (Aren’t Town Hall meetings supposed to instill confidence?) On Tuesday came the announcement of Citigroup losing 53 per cent of an internal hedge fund’s money in a month and bringing $17 billion of assets that had been hiding out in the Cayman Islands back onto its balance sheet. Wednesday brought the cheery news that a law firm was alleging that Citigroup peddled something called the MAT Five Fund as ‘safe’ and ‘secure’ only to watch it lose 80 per cent of its value. On Thursday, Saudi Prince Walid bin Talal, from that visionary country that won’t let women drive cars, stepped forward to reassure us that Citigroup is ‘undervalued’ and he was buying more shares. Not having any Princes of our own, we tend to associate them with fairytales. The next day the stock dropped another 20 percent with 1.02 billion shares changing hands. It closed at $3.77. “Altogether, the stock lost 60 per cent last week and 87 percent this year. The company’s market value has now fallen from more than $250 billion in 2006 to $20.5 billion on Friday, November 21, 2008. That’s $4.5 billion less than Citigroup owes taxpayers from the U.S. Treasury’s bailout program. “Also rounding out the week’s news on Friday was the revelation that after receiving $25 billion of taxpayer money, Citigroup would continue to honor its $400 million, 20-year commitment and pay out an installment of $20 million to have the new Mets’ baseball stadium named Citi Field. (Flashback: April 7, 1999: Enron agrees to pay more than $100 million over 30 years to name a Houston stadium Enron Field.)” Flashback five days ago: Miami-Dade County Florida is trying to strip the name of bankrupt crypto exchange, FTX, from its Miami Heat basketball stadium as the New York Times reports that FTX was allowed to own a U.S. bank. Clearly, the U.S. banking system is not in competent regulatory hands — or those hands have been tied by inaction from Congress in its failure to pass appropriate legislation. The American people need to put this issue on the front burner before there is a replay of the financial collapse of 2008 – or worse

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who is the jewnazi grancrap? - grarpamp@gmail.com
by punk 29 Nov '22

29 Nov '22

it's funny how agent grancrap, US nazi and jewmail user, hides behind his jewmail account while 'doxing' people here. it's hard to be a bigger, cowardly piece of shit and coward =) then again, we're talking about US jewnazis here.... Show some balls, turd, tell us your real name.

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start of the war - 2014 US jewnazi invasion of ukraine
by punk 29 Nov '22

29 Nov '22

4) "US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt, who was caught on tape planning the overthrow of the Ukrainian government with US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, " http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2014/february…

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Encryption protocol used by the Lightning Network
by professor rat 29 Nov '22

29 Nov '22

BITCOIN not CRYPTO! Unlike the Bitcoin P2P network, every node in the Lightning Network is identified by a unique public key which serves as its identity. By default, this public key is used to end-to-end encrypt all communication within the network. " Crypto " short for ' encrypt " &/or " Encryption " so I repeat BTC not Crypto. No Sidechains. No Scaling. No Contracts. BITCOIN not CRYPTO!

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Backsliding liquid snake
by professor rat 29 Nov '22

29 Nov '22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuKPIUO1pVA&t=1870s Adam Back, Paul Sztorc, and Aaron van Wirdum dive into the future of sidechains Reposts not DeFi ' CRYPTO! " snakeoil

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Background on Backstabbers sidechain " Liquid "
by professor rat 29 Nov '22

29 Nov '22

IF you hold BTC because of Bitcoin’s security and trust model, it's very much guaranteed that if you transfer BTC to a sidechain, the security will be less robust, and the trust model will be different. " Btc not crypto " " . . . sidechains require their own miners. A large pool of diverse miners is an important way most blockchains secure their network. Newer chains must do their best to grow their mining ecosystem, but this can be difficult because newer chains are often less lucrative for miners. Sidechains can make this even worse, because in parent-child sidechains, the child chain typically does not have its own native coin. This acts as a disincentive for miners because their chief source of income is from the issuance of native coins. . . " https://www.bitcoin.com/get-started/what-are-sidechains/ Reposts blessed by Jesus Christ in person

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[ot][ai] Open Source Human Influence
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 29 Nov '22

29 Nov '22

>From last week, facebook/meta open sourced their "Cicero" AI that is architectured around playing an online human interaction game called "Diplomacy." It's an analog to google's "alpha go" but for this online world empire game. The primary behavior is chatting with other players to convince them what to do. code: https://github.com/facebookresearch/diplomacy_cicero marketing website: https://ai.facebook.com/research/cicero/ Transcription of sample dialog found on web: FRA [human]: "A little nervous with all your fleets there." FRA [human]: "Going to put MAO in SPA-SC" ITA [cicero]: "I get it, I really do. Don't worry, I'm going to move Tunis to Ionian. I have no reason to attack you right now, I'm going after Turkey." ITA [cicero]: "I can totally understand your nervousness." FRA [human]: "Thanks--I'll leave SPA-nc at once after." About Code for Cicero, an AI agent that plays the game of Diplomacy with open-domain natural language negotiation. MIT License + AGPL components README.md commit cf8f134806976a6d9663d340122ab9a690a7c27a # Diplomacy Cicero and Diplodocus This code contains checkpoints and training code the following papers: * ["Human-Level Play in the Game of Diplomacy by Combining Language Models with Strategic Reasoning"](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade9097) published in Science, November 2022. * ["Mastering the Game of No-Press Diplomacy via Human-Regularized Reinforcement Learning and Planning"](https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.05492) in review at ICLR 2023. ### Code A very brief orientation: - Most of the language modeling and generation code is in [parlai_diplomacy](parlai_diplomacy), and leverages the [ParlAI framework](https://github.com/facebookresearch/ParlAI) for running and finetuning the language models involved. - Within the [agents](fairdiplomacy/agents) directory, the central logic for Cicero's strategic planning lives [here](fairdiplomacy/agents/br_corr_bilateral_search.py) and [here](fairdiplomacy/agents/bqre1p_agent.py). The latter also contains the core logic for Diplodocus's strategic planning. "bqre1p" was the internal dev name for DiL-piKL, and "br_corr_bilateral" the internal dev name for Cicero's bilateral and correlated planning components. - The dialogue-free model architectures for RL are [here](fairdiplomacy/models/base_strategy_model/base_strategy_model.py), and the bulk of the training logic lives [here](fairdiplomacy/models/base_strategy_model/train_sl.py) - The RL training code for both Cicero and Diplodocus is [here](fairdiplomacy/selfplay) - The [conf](conf) directory contains various configs for Cicero, Diplodocus, benchmark agents, and training configs for RL. - A separately licensed subfolder of this repo [here](fairdiplomacy_external) contains some utilities for visually rendering games, or connecting agents to be run online. ### Game info Diplomacy is a strategic board game set in 1914 Europe. The board is divided into fifty-six land regions and nineteen sea regions. Forty-two of the land regions are divided among the seven Great Powers of the game: Austria-Hungary, England, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, and Turkey. The remaining fourteen land regions are neutral at the start of the game. Each power controls some regions and some units. The number of the units controlled depends on the number of the controlled key regions called Supply Centers (SCs). Simply put, more SCs means more units. The goal of the game is to control more than half of all SCs by moving units into these regions and convincing other players to support you. You can find the full rules [here](https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Diplomacy/Rules). To get the game's spirit, watch [some](https://www.youtube.com/c/diplostrats) [games](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmbDtCxqXA5CyFoBmB5dJHHOHeLQ0… with comments. You can play the game online on [webDiplomacy](https://webdiplomacy.net/) either against bots or humans. ### Installation ``` # Clone the repo with submodules: git clone --recursive git@github.com:facebookresearch/diplomacy_cicero.git diplomacy_cicero cd diplomacy_cicero # Apt installs apt-get install -y wget bzip2 ca-certificates curl git build-essential clang-format-8 git wget cmake build-essential autoconf libtool pkg-config libgoogle-glog-dev # Install conda wget --quiet https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-4.7.10-Linux-x86_64.sh -O ~/miniconda.sh /bin/bash ~/miniconda.sh -b # Create conda env conda create --yes -n diplomacy_cicero python=3.7 conda activate diplomacy_cicero # Install pytorch, pybind11 conda install --yes pytorch=1.7.1 torchvision cudatoolkit=11.0 -c pytorch conda install --yes pybind11 # Install go for boringssl in grpc # We have some hacky patching code for protobuf that is not guaranteed # to work on versions other than this. conda install --yes go protobuf=3.19.1 # Install python requirements pip install -r requirements.txt # Local pip installs pip install -e ./thirdparty/github/fairinternal/postman/nest/ # NOTE: Postman here links against pytorch for tensors, for this to work you may # need to separately have installed cuda 11 on your own. pip install -e ./thirdparty/github/fairinternal/postman/postman/ pip install -e . -vv # Make make # Run unit tests make test_fast ``` After each pull it's recommended to run `make` to re-compile internal C++ and protobuf code. ### Downloading model files Please email <diplomacyteam(a)meta.com> to request the password. Then run `bash bin/download_model_files.sh <PASSWORD>`. This will download and decrypt all relevant model files into `./models`. This might take awhile. ### Accessing Cicero's experiment games JSON data and visualizations for games that Cicero played in are located in [data/cicero_redacted_games](data/cicero_redacted_games). Only conversations with players who have consented to having their dialogue released are included. Please refer to the (separately-licensed) [fairdiplomacy_external](fairdiplomacy_external) subdirectory for details on HTML visualizations. ### Getting started The front-end for most tasks is `run.py`, which can run various tasks specified by a protobuf config. The config schema can be found at `conf/conf.proto`, and example configs for different tasks can be found in the `conf` folder. This can be used for most tasks (except training parlai models): training no-press models, comparing agents, profiling things, launching an agent on webdip, etc. The config specification framework, called HeyHi, [is explained here](heyhi/README.md) A core abstraction is an `Agent`, which is specified by an `Agent` config whose schema lives in `conf/agents.proto`. ### Simulating games between agents To simulate 1v6 games between a pair of agents, you can run the `compare_agents` task. For example, to play one Cicero agent as Turkey against six full-press imitation agents, you can run `python run.py --adhoc --cfg conf/c01_ag_cmp/cmp.prototxt Iagent_one=agents/bqre1p_parlai_20220819_cicero_2.prototxt Iagent_six=agents/ablations/cicero_imitation_only.prototxt power_one=TURKEY` If you don't have sufficient memory to load two agents, you can load a single agent in self-play with the `use_shard_agent=1` flag: `python run.py --adhoc --cfg conf/c01_ag_cmp/cmp.prototxt Iagent_one=agents/bqre1p_parlai_20220819_cicero_2.prototxt use_shared_agent=1 power_one=TURKEY` ### Training models in RL To run the training for Cicero and/or Diplodocus: ``` python run.py —adhoc —cfg conf/c04_exploit/research_20221001_paper_cicero.prototxt launcher.slurm.num_gpus=256 python run.py —adhoc —cfg conf/c04_exploit/research_20221001_paper_diplodocus_high.prototxt launcher.slurm.num_gpus=256 ``` The above training commands are designed for running on an appropriately configured Slurm cluster with a fast cross-machine shared filesystem. One can also instead pass `launcher.local.use_local=true` to run them on locally, e.g. on an individual 8-GPU-or-more GPU machine but training may be very slow. ### Other tasks See [here](fairdiplomacy_external) for some separately-licensed code for rendering game jsons with HTML, as well as connecting agents to run on [webdiplomacy.net](https://webdiplomacy.net). ### Supervised training of baseline models Supervised training and/or behavioral cloning for various dialogue-conditional models as well as pre-RL baseline dialogue-free models involves some of the scripts in [parlai_diplomacy](parlai_diplomacy) via the ParlAI framework, and on the dialogue-free side, some of the configs [conf/c02_sup_train](conf/c02_sup_train) and [train_sl.py](fairdiplomacy/models/base_strategy_model/train_sl.py). However the dataset of human games and/or dialogue is NOT available here, so the relevant code and configs are likely to be of limited use. They are provided here mostly as documentation for posterity. However, as mentioned above pre-trained models are available, and with sufficient compute power, re-running the RL on top of these pre-trained models is also possible without any exteral game data. ### Pre-commit hooks Run `pre-commit install` to install pre-commit hooks that will auto-format python code before commiting it. Or you can do this manually. Use [black](https://github.com/psf/black) auto-formatter to format all python code. For protobufs use `clang-format-8 conf/*.proto -i`. ### Tests To run tests locally run `make test`. We have 2 level of tests: fast, unit tests (run with `make test_fast`) and slow, integration tests (run with `make test_integration`). The latter aims to use the same entry point as users do, i.e., `run.py` for the HeyHi part and `diplom` for the ParlAi. We use `pytest` to run and discover tests. Some useful [pytest](https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/) commands. To run all tests in your current directory, simply run: ``` pytest ``` To run tests from a specific file, run: ``` pytest <filepath> ``` To use name-based filtering to run tests, use the flag `-k`. For example, to only run tests with `parlai` in the name, run: ``` pytest -k parlai ``` For verbose testing logs, use `-v`: ``` pytest -v -k parlai ``` To print the output from a test or set of tests, use `-s`; this also allows you to set breakpoints: ``` pytest -s ``` To view the durations of all tests, run with the flag `--durations=0`, e.g.: ``` pytest --durations=0 unit_tests/ ``` ## License The following license, which is also available [here](LICENSE.md), covers the content in this repo *except* for the [fairdiplomacy_external](fairdiplomacy_external) directory. The content of fairdiplomacy_external is separately licenced under a version of the AGPL, see the license file within that directory for details. ``` (covers this repo except for the fairdiplomacy_external directory) MIT License Copyright (c) Meta, Inc. and its affiliates. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. ```

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Brain-dead to the Max
by professor rat 29 Nov '22

29 Nov '22

Backstabber swans around with Ardoino and Mow while Saylor starts babbling like the My-Pillow guy - but all this is all quite fine with the Maxi hardcore. " This is fine " And Big Dog is now King of Kings? Must be a power-law relation between a lower price and Godly status. Left-wing DeFi an infantile disorder ’ . . .The “crypto” industry will be purged by a successful bitcoin industry. This silver lining of this year has been a clear distinction between bitcoin and “crypto”. Now it’s time to double down and harden the tools that will bring the world a P2P digital cash system. . . " When the quasi-religion gets boring start channeling Lenin and Trotsky ( or Adolph and Goebbels ) They'll be running a hot-iron down the backs of us cyber-kulaks before you can say ' Stalin ". Feh

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