#contrastive

Contrastic - Self-Titled

Holy fucking shit was I not expecting this album to sound the way it is. Whenever I’m going through a death grind or grindcore phase I usually know, for the most part, what to expect. Some low growling. Maybe some bouncy fun riffs with paired down solos. This shit sounds has insane amounts of techno, progressive, black metal, straight up hacking over the riffs, insanely complicated production and on top of it all it just has a great pair of vocalist (at least I think it’s two people) who only show up after about four or so minutes of slow build up. But it’s alllll worth it. Definitely check this out if you’re looking for something different.

Are action-based preferences necessary? One of the key factors of ACT is that the contrastive pairs highlight differences between conversational actions. In “ACT w/ Random Actions”, we additionally examine the importance of action selection by randomly sampling both the winning and losing action when constructing the preference pair, and observe this underperforms normal ACT. Do we need on-policy…