Radim

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by Radim 11y ago
I rest my case. For your info: professional ranks do not reflect strength. They are honorary and based (typically) on achievement and seniority.
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by Radim 11y ago
Looks quite nice, at a glance. What am I missing?
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by Radim 11y ago
This is great news; with the CS & ML basics covered, we in the industry [1] are only left with instilling some common sense into the graduates :) In academia, it's publish or perish, so much of the cutting edge research is over-eng
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by Radim 11y ago
I believe the OP refers to global/local as they are used in Go. There, global/local play is a concept taken for granted by humans, with explicit names like "sente" and "tenuki". I think the OP simply implies Al
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by Radim 11y ago
Sure. Check out the "game of the century". There Go Seigen, the genius who brought about the Go revolution that Redmond talked about at post-game conf today, was beaten by Honinbou Shusai + his students . Also, "lesser"
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by Radim 11y ago
Alas, time is not on meat's side in this one.
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by Radim 11y ago
Challenging Ke Jie is way too small a goal for DeepMind at this point. I wonder if even the idea from the AGA stream today, to get all the best pros in the world together and challenge AlphaGo as a team, is enough. Perhaps releasing the cor
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by Radim 11y ago
In a recent interview [1], Hassabis (DeepMind founder) said they'd try training AlphaGo from scratch next, so it learns from first principles. Without the bootstrapping step of "learn from a database of human games", which in
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by Radim 11y ago
It's a creative game only to the degree your logic (reading) is not strong enough :) I mean, deep down, Go is a perfect-information-zero-sum-discrete-2-player game. I think a more successful pitch is showing that the strategies and s
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by Radim 11y ago
Yes, AlphaGo's progress is amazing. I don't think there's any disagreement there :) But I don't think you know much about Go, if you can say Fan Hui is "just" 2 dan professional. What do you reckon the strengt
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by Radim 11y ago
It can be hard to bite your tongue when you see the other (non-native) speaker struggling for words... Andrew Jackson's role is invaluable in clarifying MyungWan Kim's thoughts: the infamously opaque "play this one, and then
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Go, Games, Strategy and Life: The Big Picture(rare-technologies.com)
3 points by Radim 11y ago|0 comments
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by Radim 11y ago
Many thanks! I checked their youtube channel many times during the game, hoping they would cast this, as I found the Redmond commentary a little too shallow. I don't understand how the AGA live stream didn't appear there for me?!
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by Radim 11y ago
Beating humans in Go is, in itself, not all that exciting. Go bots have been beating strong humans for quite some time now (just not the very top humans). There are other implications that make this AlphaGo progress super exciting though.
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by Radim 11y ago
I don't think AGA had the rights to stream and comment this match. Where did you find this 9p AGA commentary? I don't see it in the list of AGA videos on youtube.
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by Radim 11y ago
This is naive beyond belief. Reciprocation is a fundamental concept in keeping social systems healthy and balanced. Read up on the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma (or any number of the copious academic research on this subject; but PD is a
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by Radim 11y ago
Where do you live that "dozen of authorities" can come around and inspect your property at will? I see where you're coming from, but as is probably obvious, I don't subscribe to your "If you've got nothing to h
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by Radim 11y ago
Right. Let's give government the right to check on people, see where they live, where they sleep, for how long. Hell, let's throw "with whom" in there as well, why not, honest people have nothing to hide. And if the secr
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by Radim 11y ago
Right. Let's send a secret police on "random surveys" to "suspect properties", checking to see who lives in people's homes :-) Did I mention "slippery slope"? You don't have to be a diehard liber
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by Radim 11y ago
Too naive, I'm afraid (as well as, in my opinion, misguided). Just put yourself in the shoes of the investor. Government announces they're gonna make you pay through your nose if no one "lives" in your apartment. Leaving
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Swivel: Google's successor to word2vec [pdf](arxiv.org)
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by Radim 11y ago
Out of curiosity -- how was I supposed to read your original comment? What I saw was the OP saying "I saved time commuting, all good" (doh). Then you came in with "no way you could pay me to give up family time", which s
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by Radim 11y ago
Re. Czech Republic -- nothing has changed, in the sense that drinking tap water was perfectly safe ten years ago, as it is now. I suppose that demonstrates the dangers of your "ask some local" approach :) Though the safety of tap
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by Radim 11y ago
No, I am replying to a concrete argument. I quoted it at the top of my post. That the family-work ratio cannot be extreme, and is very much a personal tradeoff, was the whole point of my post. I am baffled -- what exactly are you arguing ag
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by Radim 11y ago
There is no way you could pay me to give up a year and a half of my family. You're very special if there is "no way" someone could pay you to trade "family time" for "work"! By agreeing to particip
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by Radim 11y ago
For me, the memorable pieces of code are those that made me "want to become a programmer", to choose the path I chose, way back in the day. Unsurprisingly, these were games: 1) A C64 "SnakeByte-like" game, whose exact na
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by Radim 11y ago
This is charmingly naive. Why not find 10,000 consultants, make them manage each other, become rich like Zuckerberg instantly? With no "time sink"! "How to draw an owl? Draw two circles; draw the rest of the damn owl"
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by Radim 11y ago
This applies to many activities, not just programming. That sweet spot when you know just enough to be dangerous... Dunning-Kruger and all. Combined with a conformist, non-confrontational PC culture where the loudest voice wins, this phen
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by Radim 11y ago
Your harsh judgements of Japan's trajectory make assumptions that are not evidently true (to me). What do you mean, " problems with low fertility"? That looks a highly desirable outcome to me, a blessing in disguise. Sure, m
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by Radim 11y ago
Not the OP, but my guess is "nostalgia". I'm sure there were people who insisted on using horse driven carriages, long after automobiles took over. "It's just the proper, cultured thing to do. And you can tip your h

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