artofpongfu

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by artofpongfu 1y ago
You should try GeoGuessr if you haven't already. But there as well there are things that ruin the fun: "meta" knowledge, like if you see this tear in the sky, or this or that Google car then it's this country. I purposef
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by artofpongfu 1y ago
1) What
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by artofpongfu 1y ago
Many things are obvious in retrospect. In this case, it seems few truly understood that all information will be made digital, and that print, audio, video etc are all just different kinds of information. Just imagine what should be obvious
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by artofpongfu 1y ago
Not all advice have to applicable to 100% of the population. If you're on HN reading this you are most likely in the 10%, and you probably have some room to save money, or prepare to start your own business. If needing a job bothers yo
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by artofpongfu 1y ago
Personally, the moment I started working was the moment I knew I needed to become free at some point. Jobs come and go, sometimes they're quite enjoyable, but you're always one bad boss, one health condition, one recession away fr
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by artofpongfu 1y ago
Could AI have written this touching, funny article? There will still be a market for great writers, for now people crave connection to a real person at the other end. In this case, I'm reading it to understand something about being hum
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by artofpongfu 1y ago
You'll quickly find that working in "Virtual Reality" constitutes remote work since you inhabit a different reality and is not allowed.
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by artofpongfu 1y ago
Left-handed, one one leg, one eye closed and a mobile phone instead of a racket. Reminds me of a clip of Truls Moregardh playing a reporter with a phone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EJaT1b8QmA
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by artofpongfu 1y ago
I could concede it as "lower intermediate", but the span is huge. I don't think it can beat an upper beginner consistently. It all depends on what ELO you consider intermediate.
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by artofpongfu 1y ago
Yeah, but I don't think anyone who's played TT regularly would call this "intermediate". It's like calling someone who managed to code fizzbuzz an intermediate programmer.
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by artofpongfu 1y ago
Very cool, but "Our approach lead to competitive play at human level and a robot agent that humans actually enjoy playing with": I would not call that remotely near "human level" yet. I think we'll get there at some
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by artofpongfu 1y ago
Sure thing, also good to share experiences on VR dev
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by artofpongfu 1y ago
Cool, I bet my son would love to throw stuff at me
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by artofpongfu 1y ago
I'm working on a human-like AI opponent for VR table tennis. It's something I really want myself, love playing table tennis in VR, but with online play you get the latency issues, people that have adopted a playing style which bas
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by artofpongfu 1y ago
So he sets up a toy problem (drawing from a baby names distribution), then never explains how to solve this problem. The intuition is, you set up a graph where the vertices are names, and the edges are based on name similarity. Two names ar