Anderkent

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by Anderkent 8y ago
Financial IT is interpretable, maybe, but is the financial system itself? You have a lot of agents taking actions that you can't really interpret from outside - unless you say something vacuous like this person made this trade because
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by Anderkent 8y ago
Sidestepping comedy for a bit, there are a lot of inscrutable systems that we connect to 'things that matter' all the time. The financial systems themselves are pretty damn inscrutable. Corporations are very often inscrutable.
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by Anderkent 8y ago
Well, sure, it's better than having an even worse type system! No one's saying java's type system is worse than not having anything.
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by Anderkent 8y ago
The bots presumably "learned" that the other heroes act the way that the bot would have acted were they in that position (i.e. all my allies run the same algorithm, so I can predict what they would do)
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by Anderkent 8y ago
"POTM of the moon" is where it's at
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by Anderkent 8y ago
Regular dota players learn to play without the courier anyway, because someone always feeds it away or uses it to ferry themselves a magic stick. So maybe playing without a courier at all would be more representative of the pub experience ;
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by Anderkent 8y ago
Same argument applies to pushing and defending towers, getting rax etc. Assuming that the devs did not hardcode rewards for those objectives, then the AI surely already has to 'understand' events that impact the game in long term.
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by Anderkent 8y ago
> And this is, well, uhm, well... acceptable? It is not. The only purpose of a type system is to prevent broken code from compiling. When it fails to do so, it is broken.
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by Anderkent 8y ago
In what context? Consulting or employment? It would be very weird for someone employed full time in Poland to disappear for weeks.
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by Anderkent 8y ago
Writing is great for one-way communication. If you actually mean to collaborate, if you don't know what you don't know and what to ask the other person, in-person communication is way more efficient. And it turns out if you'r
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by Anderkent 8y ago
Disagree. Main reason why I don't talk to recruiters is the incentive mismatch - they work for the company, not for the job seeker, and I can't really trust their advice. In a model where a recruiter is paid by the jobseeker; i.e.
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by Anderkent 8y ago
The problem they're trying to solve is also not how to recognise actions from pixels, it's how to outstrategise and outexecute players at the game. Conceptual rather than mechanical advantage.
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by Anderkent 8y ago
You can attempt to attack / move to / cast many spells on arbitrary pixels on the map. The bots are shown casting spells on targets that aren't visible in the demo. The amount of available targets probably blows up the count.
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by Anderkent 8y ago
I can see selects for, but breeds seems a stretch. Unless you mean breeds civility within racists and misogynists, which seems beneficial?
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by Anderkent 8y ago
Wait, are you saying you'll take a bet where you pay 10^15 to 1 if we do not find life out there? I'll take you up on that for $0.01 on my side.
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by Anderkent 8y ago
Why can't you estimate probability of something speculative? Of course it must be speculative if you're talking probabilities; otherwise you'd just know if the life is out there or not. If the assumptions are very speculative
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by Anderkent 8y ago
Not sure about that location, but around here they might not actually do anything the first time you call it in, but if it happens regularly they will talk to the landlord.
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by Anderkent 8y ago
So why not call the police?
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by Anderkent 8y ago
Well, rating someone 4/5 is only a problem if everyone else rates 5/5 for merely acceptable service. So perhaps we should evangelise for lower ratings, rather than squeeze everyone into 5/5?
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by Anderkent 8y ago
Right, but what this means is a business often can't support itself via a mix of subscription and ads - if you offer both for the same content the value of your adds will likely crash, so it's mostly equivalent to just being subsc
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by Anderkent 8y ago
The users that can afford and would buy this service are exactly the ones that advertisers want to reach. If you stop showing them ads or only share data for people not willing to pay, the data becomes useless.
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by Anderkent 8y ago
People are risk averse; predictable expenses are easier to plan around than unpredictable ones. What if you're unlucky and it breaks twice in a year? Or the first repair is bungled and you have to go to a different shop, and argue the
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by Anderkent 8y ago
Some laws should be ignored; it's how the law system improves. A law that is obeyed by everyone will never be changed, because the opportunity cost is not made visible.
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by Anderkent 8y ago
Yes, I'm sure that's it and not the fact that no one builds for the 0.1% of users with javascript disabled.
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by Anderkent 8y ago
Except people's expectations and standards are shaped by what they are surrounded by; what's available. Now that you're exposed to way more profiles, that all feel available, standards naturally rise.
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by Anderkent 8y ago
There's no way to address your comment unless you present the alternative definition of "smart" you would like to use. As is, I don't even know whether it's relevant - if you're just discussing definitions, I&#
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by Anderkent 8y ago
Actually there's an interesting statistical phenomena where at the very top of a hierarchy, the correlation between success and the factor that generally drives success becomes low. For example if you look at NBA players, you'll
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by Anderkent 8y ago
Ooor, successful people achieve success, have kids, kids of successful people are 'priviledged'.
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by Anderkent 8y ago
> People tend not to understand weak or loose correlations, and they will assume that race, gender, ethnicity or other factors strongly predict IQ, and that, therefore, systems of prejudice built around those factors can be justified as
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by Anderkent 8y ago
Genetics predicts some part of IQ; not all of it.

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