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Off-Topic Community / Re: General Discussion Thread

Last post by the-pi-guy - Today at 02:52 PM

Anyone know of the best ways to sell magic the gathering cards? I'm looking at TCG player but didn't know if anyone else is either into MTG or sold any?

I have like $600 worth of cards with only maybe 45 cards. Biggest one is worth $100

From searching, it seems like:
- if you want money fast, Card Conduit will take care of it for you. (something like 60-70% of market value)

- if you want the most money, some combination of TCGplayer & Cardmarket, ebay, Facebook market place.

#2

Off-Topic Community / Re: General Discussion Thread

Last post by Legend - Today at 02:44 PM

No clue. I just do garage sales which obviously would be a bad idea for your stuff.

#3

Off-Topic Community / Re: General Discussion Thread

Last post by nnodley - Today at 02:34 PM

Trying to downsize some stuff plus make a little extra cash while I wait for my next project contract to start

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Off-Topic Community / Re: General Discussion Thread

Last post by nnodley - Today at 02:33 PM

Anyone know of the best ways to sell magic the gathering cards? I'm looking at TCG player but didn't know if anyone else is either into MTG or sold any?

I have like $600 worth of cards with only maybe 45 cards. Biggest one is worth $100

#5

Off-Topic Community / Re: AI General Thread

Last post by darkknightkryta - Today at 02:05 PM

Interesting. Most people seem to think the opposite right now, that google is in a bad place and needs help.

My read on what people are currently feeling:
OpenAI great
Anthropic shaming great
SpaceXAI great in some cases
Google falling behind
Open Weight Models shockingly great


My personal thoughts from my own experience:
OpenAI kinda annoying to talk to
Anthropic pure trash I consider it broken with how it talks
SpaceXAI really stupid but fun to talk to
Google a great mix of quality and price, but can be dense as fudge
Never used anything else

People aren't looking at costs.  Google is.  Over the summer I was playing around with different ones.  Grok's token counts are stupid and their monthly fees are stupid.  Elon has deep pockets and even he's feeling the costs.  Hell, if those numbers that I saw at Neogaf are correct, Microsoft just dumped 0.15 Trillion dollars into data centers (Using trillions for dramatic effect) with a return of 1 billion.  This was this past year.  That 150 billion becomes 250 billion next year . The hardware requirements go up drastically the larger the neural net is, and so does the "hallucinations".  So they're spending an exponentially larger amount of money to just end up with a neural net that's the same because of how they work.

#6

Off-Topic Community / Re: Fish tacos thread of makin...

Last post by darkknightkryta - Today at 02:00 PM

Sooooo, Analog discontinued their VGA to Composite video adapter.  That was literally the last chip of its kind.  They discontinued the entire line so I don't think they're going to make a replacement.  I asked Gemini if it's possible to do it discretely.  I have to feed component video into a bunch of flip flops and use a clock to encode the chroma.  No idea if it would work.  It gave me a circuit for component, which I already have, but if their circuit they gave me works, then I'll try their composite circuit.  It was fighting me since I referenced my circuit that I found.  It gave me a logical explanation of why it's circuit was different and didn't "Oops I was wrong" me, so I ordered it.  Just waiting for it to come in.

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Off-Topic Community / Re: AI General Thread

Last post by Legend - Today at 01:57 PM

To be honest, I think Google is the only one that survives.  They've realized larger neural nets become way worse and the hardware costs are astronomical.  Like, I've noticed Google slashed down Gemini's neural net significantly.  Just relying on having it search for info, and then doing a quick and dirty inference on the data to see what's right.  Sounds bad, but when you look at the server costs and how the larger the net gets, the more mistakes it makes, they have the right idea.  "Good enough".

Interesting. Most people seem to think the opposite right now, that google is in a bad place and needs help.

My read on what people are currently feeling:
OpenAI great
Anthropic shaming great
SpaceXAI great in some cases
Google falling behind
Open Weight Models shockingly great


My personal thoughts from my own experience:
OpenAI kinda annoying to talk to
Anthropic pure trash I consider it broken with how it talks
SpaceXAI really stupid but fun to talk to
Google a great mix of quality and price, but can be dense as fudge
Never used anything else

#8

Off-Topic Community / Re: AI General Thread

Last post by darkknightkryta - Today at 01:06 PM

To be honest, I think Google is the only one that survives.  They've realized larger neural nets become way worse and the hardware costs are astronomical.  Like, I've noticed Google slashed down Gemini's neural net significantly.  Just relying on having it search for info, and then doing a quick and dirty inference on the data to see what's right.  Sounds bad, but when you look at the server costs and how the larger the net gets, the more mistakes it makes, they have the right idea.  "Good enough".

#9

Gaming Community / Re: Nintendo Switch 2 |OT|

Last post by darkknightkryta - Today at 01:01 PM

I want that totally fake Zelda Switch 2.  Only reason why I didn't get it yet is to hope that is real.

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Gaming Community / Re: Uncovering Amy Hennig's Un...

Last post by darkknightkryta - Today at 12:58 PM

Alan Turdyk is in everything almost. Kinda starting to annoy me lol.

I've honestly only ever seen him in Uncharted.