TheEzEzz

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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
There is a risk associated with emulation research, but I'm not convinced it would so certainly lead to unfriendly AI as you suggest. Moreover, you yourself have stated how difficult FAI research is. The real question then is whether or not
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
I've seen it happen multiple times in the context of groups of friends. A large group of 10ish people, roughly half male and half female, all close friends, usually originating in college. The group is close enough that any two of the membe
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
Articles explaining why we are in a tech bubble pop up constantly. This is the first article that I can recall in the last half year taking the opposite position.
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
This is true. Knowing what doesn't work is a great way to constrain the future search space.
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
Considering how broken YouTube comments are, I'm always curious to see new ideas for video commenting. This looks very interesting.
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
I implement something like this for any sufficiently large (game) project I work on. I can tune the location/size/color/etc of any object on the screen in real time, just by scrolling my mouse left to right. The time saving is invaluable.
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
Good point, not sure what I was thinking. For me the strain of moving my index finger from J to H is more than the strain of moving my middle finger from K to I, but that's probably quite subjective.
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
I use JKLI. The two main advantages are that you don't use your pinky finger repetitively, and the layout of JKLI makes intuitive sense as to what each key does.
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
I will gladly take your money, sir/madam! Things sounded pretty solid when we talked to Valve, so a PC version will definitely be in the works.
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
You're right, I was over dramatizing things a bit. It's only getting easier for small indie studios to get their games out and be successful. This really is the indie golden era.
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
The fire spinners have been in the game for 3 years, and we've debated them for 3 years. I can see both sides. They're clearly a direct homage to Mario, but it's just one small piece of our game, and the overall package is really nothing li
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
Glad you liked it! Co-op is the big focus for us. The insane levels are twice as insane when there are four people on the screen.
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
Our goal isn't actually to make a hard game. Our goal is to make a game that suits your skill level, whatever it is. As for whether we've succeeded, we've tested the game on a few hundred people, both hardcore and casual, and have only had
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
Asking people for money scares me. A lot. We could certainly use some though. This post was just a quick tongue-in-cheek piece, mostly to calm my own nerves. We didn't post it to HN and weren't looking to get a lot of attention.
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
(pwnee programmer here) Hard and fun are completely different things, I agree. I spent about 3 months on the basic algorithm, making sure the levels generated were feasible and interesting. The remaining 3 years have been spent making the g
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
Hi danso, I agree it's difficult to correctly gauge how others will react to any piece. For this blog post I had my three sisters read it -- as well as about half a dozen other people from diverse backgrounds -- and no one found it offensiv
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
Hi all, pwnee programmer here. Thanks for all the support! I'm headed out to our meeting with MS in about an hour. I'd like to quickly add: I'm good friends with all the people in the pictures (except the monkey). The humor was meant to be
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
It's actually a big man.
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
> even if robots are eventually as effective. What about when robots become more effective? Drastically more effective? I would not let a modern day robot work on my teeth, they are too stupid, but I can imagine a day (fairly soon) when
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
App stores only take a non-majority share of the revenue. They also provide the hardware platform, which is not easily replicated. Elsevier, on the other hand, takes ALL the profit, and does not have a difficult to replicate position on a h
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
Yes! This is what we need. Big shots in academia pointing out the obvious, paving the way for the revolution.
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
> There is some loss in accuracy, but floating point arithmetic is still deterministic. Not in a multi-core setting. When you do a floating point reduce operation the order in which you reduce your floating point numbers matters, but th
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
Due to round off error correct programs are not a subset of replicable programs. Scientists do trade replicability for speed.
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
It would be nice if there were an app with it, that I could pull out when I was at the voting booth. The app would recognize my location, bring up the candidates I was voting on, and show me which ones I have liked and disliked.
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
Imagine you're born into a tribe that has evolved to purposefully die, but you are a mutant that lives twice as long and has twice as many kids. What stops your genes from quickly spreading? All known species die of old age. This includes s
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
This is a group selection argument. Why do you think the group selection pressure outweighs the selection pressure on individuals (which favors organisms who can produce the most offspring, and hence favors organisms who have long reproduct
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
I don't use line numbers in VS, because clicking on an error message takes me directly to the line I care about.
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
This is still the spirit of collusion, and is prone to defectors. There should be large incentives for one company to leave the cartel, make a simple service, and sell it at the same price of their competitors. They would save money by redu
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
I considered this as an idea for a startup. Whenever legislation like this comes up, you pull up an app on your phone and express support or opposition. Then, whenever you go to vote, the app will infer which candidates you are looking at b
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by TheEzEzz 15y ago
According to wikipedia[1] the converse of the Shell Theorem is (nearly) true: Suppose there is a force F between masses M and m, separated by a distance r of the form F = Mmf(r) such that any spherically symmetric body affects external bodi

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