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by Joof 11y ago
Ah, well. I've been playing a lot of it lately. Its the same with the steam controller except the touchpad is a really nice mouse. The steam controller probably should still work well in scenerioes where a controller is intended. Admit
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by Joof 11y ago
This is one of those things that exists in a continuous feedback loop. China is spying on us, so we have to spy on them; the US is spying on us so we have to spy on them. Thus the digital cold war continues. It's no wonder that our gov
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by Joof 11y ago
It works fine for stuff like Civ and XCOM. Part of it is the experience though. XCOM is pretty easy to watch and doesn't have many complicated menus (there are menues, but they aren't too bad). It's probably a good fit! Civ i
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by Joof 11y ago
You may be on to something; although I think having an actual let's player may be necessary. Now I'm going to get a bit artsy. Games are typically about the interaction between the player and the game and how that player reacts is
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by Joof 11y ago
Its hard to convince people of the utility though. It also has a pretty large ramp-up time. A friend of mine keeps trying mine out on stuff like cities skylines and determining it's no good. Its somewhat unsurprising, skylines is a ver
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by Joof 11y ago
Any chance you are hiring?
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by Joof 11y ago
How do you combat this? Realistically speaking. Here's how: Ask major let's-play channels to explain how it's meant to be experienced firsthand and they should come watch after they've played. Not for money, but for the
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by Joof 11y ago
While most games have some degree of this, there are many games that are designed for other purposes as well. Mobile just happens to be the most soul-sucking thanks to it's profit model. Lately I mostly play Rocket League, which is mos
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by Joof 11y ago
Yes, we do have a measurement problem. I was going to propose a solution, but it's a hard problem and any solution will necessarily have side effects on the surrounding communities as well.
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by Joof 11y ago
There's a lot that those 5 year old PCs can do that those shiny new iPads can't. In most other cases, they get the job done anyway.
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by Joof 11y ago
Define metacognition for me. I wouldn't be surprised if a forest (an organism composed of many trees and such) had a way to store memories for example. Ants have several forms of external memory assuming the colony is a single organism
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by Joof 11y ago
AlphaGo mostly plays against itself, meaning it learns in a very separate environment. It certainly might come up with novel strategies.
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by Joof 11y ago
So far this hasn't mattered much because it's a very difficult game to play. Honestly, if it can play top tier StarCraft matches, I'm willing to be we could apply it to the vast majority of things humans can currently do; alt
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by Joof 11y ago
That's a question where its extroidinarily hard to draw the line. Assuming it is immoral to consume another life form, then there goes 100% of our food source (plants are life and show some intelligence in aggregate). If nothing can co
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by Joof 11y ago
If anyone knows a good way to check proofs by yourself, let me know. I love it, but you pretty much have to have other mathematicians tell you when you're doing something horribly wrong. By the way, did anyone else have to take enginee
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by Joof 11y ago
Don't worry it should only take an hour or two; an afternoon at most!
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by Joof 11y ago
Murder becomes a much harsher crime as well.
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by Joof 11y ago
Could anyone point me in the direction of how quantum hardware is currently designed? I'd love a technical explanation.
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by Joof 11y ago
I like the part where they point out how unskilled they are, but still managed to get the job done.
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by Joof 11y ago
I think there's a decent MOOC on udacity; or at least there was at some point. Linear algebra helps a bit, but you can probably pick up most of what you need to get started.
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by Joof 11y ago
This happened to a Russian nuclear submarine that got caught in a US training exercise near Cuba. 2/3 officers voted to authorize a nuclear attack. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Arkhipov
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by Joof 11y ago
Learning milestones for age 3-4 by WebMD: http://www.webmd.com/parenting/guide/3-to-4-year-old-milesto... Some fun milestones: - Understand the idea of same and different - Follow 3 part commands - Sort objects by
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by Joof 11y ago
I'm a married middle-aged man. Except single and 10 years younger. HN may be an exception; we are odd.
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by Joof 11y ago
So we agree that UWP has good features. That's not under dispute. The problem is that it creates an unfair competitive environment. Steam can't really use these features because it has to instruct each individual user on how to tu
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by Joof 11y ago
We got a lot of this in college. Thankfully it's big enough and I'm ambivalent enough that I can say my college education was largely worthless and the good parts often far less good than they could have been. At a 'good&#x27
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by Joof 11y ago
Theory: If you disliked it, reviewing it poorly could reduce the credibility of your education. If you liked it, you don't care enough to review it.
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by Joof 11y ago
Sounds like adding bias to a study :p. Do a Kickstarter?
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by Joof 11y ago
Looking at [4] they use it to say that a teacher / professor is necessary over coursera or similar. Given that almost all courses I took in college were the lecture / hw / exam model, I don't think that conclusion fits t
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by Joof 11y ago
Why not give them accreditation? Clearly completing them is an accomplishment. There are other reasons to 'drop out'. I like to save courses on coursera because I can't do them during the imposed timeframe. Sometimes I don&#x
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by Joof 11y ago
Saving this. I've said it for years and people just think I'm whiney because I despise lectures.

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