DaFranker

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by DaFranker 12y ago
Translation: "Tunnel Vision" and "Lack of diversity"
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by DaFranker 12y ago
SALE!: Buy 650 Pull Request Points for the low cost of $39.99!
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by DaFranker 12y ago
> We all sit on the trading floor. Ouch. How do your engineers ever get anything done?
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by DaFranker 12y ago
The trick here is the required 2000$ deposit upon obtaining a reserved spot in the course. This 2000$ is refunded (with fees deducted, I would guess) 6 months after the end of the course if no job offers were made to you. I'm guessin
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by DaFranker 12y ago
Playing the Enemy here: What happens if what you have isn't 100R, but a company that hires one contractor part-time to build houses and make food at a flat 1$ upstream resource cost using machines that currently have 90% idle time? Wou
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by DaFranker 12y ago
The key: Whatever works for you.™ Each team's needs will vary. But that's probably not very helpful. By "for programmers", I assume you want something that can be relatively unobtrusive when needed, that keeps conversati
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by DaFranker 12y ago
>The logistic curve looks exponential right up until it isn't. Moot point if the logistic curve leads us well past the human-imaginable level of intelligence before reaching a zero with its cost/benefit differential.
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by DaFranker 12y ago
Rather than asking such a vague, generic, unhelpful question, ask yourself whether the knowledge you're obtaining from the information you digest (see brd's comment about knowledge vs information) will: 1) Give you more prediction
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by DaFranker 12y ago
>It shouldn't. Truth can't be found by forcing others to believe in your version of it. The acceptance of any given fact will naturally follow a normal distribution, and those on one side or the other of that curve aren't
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by DaFranker 12y ago
Yes, a delicious twist of irony.
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by DaFranker 12y ago
Well, this whole situation just might be what makes him "notable" enough to have this wikipedia page. He is, after all, the only australian freelance journalist whose essay on how his own wikipedia page bypassed the wikipedia nota
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by DaFranker 12y ago
Yes, I derailed substantially there. I think it was just another case of needing to vent about Someone Is Wrong On The Internet, and your comment was the convenient outlet for this particular one. In retrospect I'm quite happy you didn
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by DaFranker 12y ago
Yeah, some talented thinkers could come up with some pretty good schemes. The real problem lies in the numbers: To put it simply, the cost (salaries + funding) to research this issue and evaluate a good scheme and then implement it could be
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by DaFranker 12y ago
This "if you don't like it, go elsewhere / vote otherwise" attitude really gets on my nerves. It seems to presume the simplest possible Game-Theoretical scenario is fully representative of reality, and ignores all the fa
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by DaFranker 12y ago
That would be all sorts of counterproductive, starting with the simple fact that maybe the person had a reasonable 20%-likelihood guess and considered that high enough to bring police into it. Move just one step up and you've got peopl
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by DaFranker 12y ago
> I think if we never had to do NATs we would be a lot better off. Multiplayer gamers everywhere just did a giant Hoo-ah to that. I think the network admins are already drunk.
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by DaFranker 12y ago
This "solution" is about on the same level as saying that you just have to pour more stronger lasers into a bigger thicker metal cage that contains hydrogen in order to obtain fusion reactors. That won't get you the pressure
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by DaFranker 12y ago
> Having a non-cheating bot beat a human is a major achievement. (for some categories of games!) I'm almost nitpicking here, but it's important to understand the distinction where when trying to build "human-like" AI
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by DaFranker 12y ago
Caveat/warning: Oftentimes, learning how to translate your game data into an A* -traversable graph is harder than implementing the A* algorithm itself.
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by DaFranker 12y ago
Creating "AI/bots" for games comes in three parts/flavors/divisions: First, and the most critical to most games, is basic behavioral AI. This includes things like pathfinding, locating targets, attacking, and otherw
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by DaFranker 12y ago
Keyword: "directly"
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by DaFranker 12y ago
celticninja replied to you here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8734653
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by DaFranker 12y ago
I do it entirely, exclusively, only, purely because it requires less punctuation typing. It returns a list anyway. The performance hit is virtually unnoticeable in almost every use case (unless this is a function taking in input strings for
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by DaFranker 12y ago
Because then what if: rel q(y) y = true y = false rel p(s, x) if(s = ‘a’) x = 0 else x = 2 rel main() k = q() if(k) s = 'a' else s != 'a'
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by DaFranker 12y ago
>I would rather see everyone who thinks this is interesting contribute to the Webtorrent project Um. I'm not quite sure the set "thinks this is interesting" is entirely included within "has the ability to contribute t
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by DaFranker 12y ago
Disclaimer: I am not a data scientist. I just know a few, and I have some Google-fu. > Should I learn R or Python (nltk, scikit-learn, pandas etc.)? Honestly, whatever is most convenient at first. Getting a good grip on your first one
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by DaFranker 12y ago
They're two different official categorizations. "Rare" = 99 in 100 people have this antigen, while you do not. "Very Rare" = 9999 in 10000 people have this antigen, while you do not. That's all it says. If you
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by DaFranker 12y ago
> (...) so-called metadata describing the phone numbers called, the calls received and their date and duration." Uhm. This already includes phone numbers called, calls received, dates, durations. Also, it's well-known among eve
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by DaFranker 12y ago
> So you seem to be claiming that these are distinct legal categories which affect the admissibility of evidence at trial. Ah. There's the hiccup. It wasn't my intent to be communicating anything about admissibility of evidence
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by DaFranker 12y ago
My claim is that the above terms and concepts, in a legal courtroom, are not automatically equal, and a judge may or may not rule completely differently on a case whenever any one of those factors change. Notice, if you read correctly, that

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