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by backpropaganda 8y ago
I wish there was actually a tvtropes.org-type listing of game mechanics employed in video games. I think the design space isn't that large, and most games tend to reuse the same mechanics which work well. A lot of games use rock-paper-
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Facebook Canada Invests $2.5M for Local News Accelerator(techvibes.com)
1 points by backpropaganda 8y ago|0 comments
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
We embrace that as well: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.5997
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
Do you know why TLO's APM is sometimes so large? Did he actually peak at 2000, or is he using a repeater or something like that?
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
What kind of evidence is going into this analogical reasoning? Do we also extrapolate similarly for other things? We went to the Moon in 1960s. Was Mars a month, or a year, or a decade away? Then we sent robots to Mars. Did we yet send any
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
This is incorrect. They shared neural net activations which is explicit communication.
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
No. Look at what's happening at a meta level and nonlinear effects. Yes, the social good projects will have some small positive effect in the world, but they also end up buying a lot of positive PR for Google, thus allowing them to c
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
This example didn't even come to my mind when writing the above comment. I think even run-of-the-mill applications of AI and ML such as feed "personalization" in Youtube, Twitter, and Facebook are pretty evil. They're cl
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
I hate the term "AI for social good", because it reminds me that the default use of AI today is actually far from being a social good. I wish "AI for social good" was not a thing, and default use cases of AI was for good
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
All the research in fairness, privacy, and other related topics at academic conferences is irrelevant if the industry continues to recklessly deploy unethical machine learning in production. In fact, it can be argued that industry funds suc
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
Very cool. Nice trick you guys did there with the lighter colored block, and the red enemy not being able to follow across the boundary. A lot of game developers I respect and whose games I've enjoyed started programming at a young age
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An Apology for Roger Ebert [video](youtube.com)
1 points by backpropaganda 8y ago|0 comments
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
For this particular business. I don't think he's representative. Using tools like Unity makes it much easier to deploy on Mac and Linux.
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
I really wish there was a platform to find top experts and ask them questions. Surprisingly enough, Twitch is one such channel. Jonathan Blow streams there some times, and I've asked him a lot of questions to which he gives detailed re
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
The main bottleneck to learning new skills is access to good feedback from experts or coaches, not time.
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
Note that isn't tabula rasa generation. All these faces are generated from reference images. See this timestamped video for example: https://youtu.be/kSLJriaOumA?t=80 . Current deep generative tech requires a carefully
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
The tagline is meant to emphasize that even good people are divided by politics, and the book is meant to target people who didn't find that obvious.
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
The difference between epistemic and aleatory uncertainty is not well understood even in the machine learning world. Most applications of machine learning to domains where uncertainty needs to be quantified use aleatory uncertainty, when ep
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
Your intuition is strongly assuming transitivity: "A beats B handily and B beats C handily, therefore this is clear evidence that A beats C handily". I already gave an example where this is not true, and I don't know why you&
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
Because Zero was not trained on human games and Master was? Do we have any model which was trained only from self-play that can beat humans? I don't think so.
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
Thanks a lot for the links. They look quite interesting. It does seem that Deepmind is aware of this, and are working on evaluating this. Transitivity might be true within AlphaGo versions, but that doesn't give me any confidence tha
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
I think you're wrong. The version that defeated Ke Jie and 60 masters online was AlphaGo Master, which afaik did train on human games.
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
We do know that AlphaZero's chess playing style is different. AlphaZero doesn't care as much about material, while Stockfish and humans (presumably learning from Stockfish) do. This is because Stockfish uses a material heuristic
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
Comparing AlphaZero to AlphaGo Lee seems problematic. I don't think transitivity holds in this case, i.e. AlphaZero can beat AlphaGo Lee almost surely, and AlphaGo Lee can beat Lee Sedol almost surely, but it could be possible that Alp
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
How are you judging success here? The paper has no experiments at all, not even toy.
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
Awesome! It seems such thin and/or light fonts are okay to read on retina displays (which is where I assume they were tested) but not on other displays. I happened to be reading on a non-retina display.
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
+1. The code is easy to read, but the main text is hurting my eyes.
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
Autoencoders lead to other ideas. Understanding AEs and VAEs help you understand GANs, CycleGAN, PixelCNN, Pix2pix, and so on. AEs teach that you can do other things with neural networks, apart from supervised learning. VAEs teach that neur
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
At a competent level? None exist. Being better than random doesn't count as competency. As others have said in this thread, it wouldn't even pass as median performance. > is only helping to advance the state of reinforcement le
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
That's a great example. It would be great if you could write a blog post on OpenAI Five. There's a LOT of misinformation on this and could use a treatment like this: https://www.alexirpan.com/2018/02/14&#

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