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by Joof 10y ago
This particular bit might, but demoing the vive convinced me that VR is here to stay. It's biggest obstacle is price; the hardware itself is incredibly pleasing.
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by Joof 10y ago
Mindset I guess. To me, chilling out involves a feeling of accomplishment. Programming, reading, playing music, brewing alcohol, exercise, etc.
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by Joof 10y ago
Certainly. It was just the best/easiest way I could think to describe it in a single sentence. Dwarf fortress is fairly unique in style. I could say it's style is good, but I'd have to describe the game, it's culture, it
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by Joof 10y ago
I know a professor working on a potentially important project that won't release his code and I suspect it's precisely for this reason. The communuty would tear him apart for sure, but it would be worthwhile to release it anyway.
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by Joof 10y ago
I'm sure he keeps regular backups. There's also his brother. If Tarn dies, his brother will probably release the code or have fans help recover it.
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by Joof 10y ago
Sorry; many are not acquainted with dwarf fortress. This is Tarn's style -- no style and all substance. It's worked for him for a long time because the substance is so substantial. He's developed a procedural story generator;
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by Joof 10y ago
Fair enough; homicides are indeed ~12% of the state prison population. I can't do it now, but I'm still very curious. There are dozens of other factors that could go into it as well; if one race has a higher average sentencing tim
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by Joof 10y ago
Homicide is a small percentage of violent crimes (close to 0.1%), so it isn't necessarily what skews the prison population. Thankfully, by your logic, violent crime in general would do that, but it becomes much less clear using that da
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by Joof 10y ago
Fair enough. In many cases we would prefer to model it how we want the world to be in order to overcome human misconceptions that have caused the world to be as it is currently.
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by Joof 10y ago
If the data itself is bad and known to be bad, the results will reflect the bad data. In the case of policing, the arrest record is racially biased (the US releases data that shows this bias and it's well researched). If you train on a
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by Joof 10y ago
Would still recommend Halo. It has diversity in enemy types in a similar way to DOOM. Graphical fidelity prevents experimentation by making things too expensive to try. That's why we have indie games! Go play some! It's like Sunda
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by Joof 10y ago
Read the comments first. I assumed they had finally just given EvE a full excel interface and allowed imports/exports until about halfway through the comments.
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by Joof 10y ago
Learn to multiply matrices (you can probably Google this). Note that A B != B A in matrix math. Learn derivatives and how to do them with a lookup table. Learn what log() means (the inverse of some number to a power). That's enough to
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by Joof 10y ago
This seems likely to be a case where they say, well if you're going to torture them, here's how you do it and do minimal damage.
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by Joof 10y ago
Unlikely. Plenty of independent games are very popular on steam. This is more because they are good than because they require high performance.
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by Joof 10y ago
Its a bit too far, I agree. His right wing authoritarian base is a bit terrifying though.
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by Joof 10y ago
Nobody really knows. Refueling is more like the first number, but it may need repairs, refits or otherwise.
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by Joof 10y ago
I read a book involving that once. People had been bred using a lottery system over generations, this made them incredibly lucky. Ringworld? I don't quite remember.
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by Joof 10y ago
Local maxima!
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by Joof 10y ago
Out of curiosity, how does them working all day and buying things drive meaningful innovation? Less resource usage per person might instead free up people to do innovative work because fewer people need to do the other work. Bored, educated
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by Joof 10y ago
The planes aren't bad, but likely set a precedent for drone surveillance.
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by Joof 10y ago
The ideal of being honest and law-abiding fits with your story. There is pressure for them to be perceived this way, whether or not it is true.
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by Joof 10y ago
Jit.si Works in browser, no account, encrypted by default.
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by Joof 10y ago
Well we already have mail-in voting and coercion could happen at some shadier physical locations. Would it be possible to add another vote that invalidates the first, but preserves anonymity? Then there's no guarantee that someone does
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by Joof 10y ago
Voting is done by entering a short key. No characters appear on the screen. Only last vote counts.
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by Joof 10y ago
Plants do still absorb green and are arguably better off if they do (although the latter may be less certain). The bits that absorb green are more sparse, but light will bounce around inside the leaves until it hits one.
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by Joof 10y ago
Well, I've compressed pi into a much smaller space.
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by Joof 10y ago
This reminded me that there are other NN variants that might help provide some clues in that direction. Hopfield nets for example provide associative memory. It may not all be groundbreakingly efficient, but very worthwhile.
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by Joof 10y ago
He said something along the lines of it having variance within some region which matches up with what you said.
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by Joof 10y ago
No, but they won't be nearly as catastrophic or as expensive.

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