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by backpropaganda 8y ago
Expert systems were not just hot air or marketing hype. Usefulness of a subset of new AI technology is irrelevant. A winter or contraction is caused by expectations not being met, and it seems, at least to me, that investors/funders ha
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
My point is that the two problems are quite distinct. This is not a small change to how the problem is being solved, but a complete change of the problem itself. Further the change significantly limits the feasibility of the solution, which
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
It also assumes access to the simulator, which is an even more problematic assumption. That's like saying you're doing image classification but assuming access to the 3D model which generated the image.
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
A subreddit with a similar idea: https://www.reddit.com/r/steelmanning/ Note that it is different from /r/CMV. Unlike CMV, Steelmanning wants to bring out the best form of either sides of an argument. Th
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
I wish they could have cited the paper though, for credit assignment, and for those who want to learn more.
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
DQN is solving a model-free RL problem. This method is not. You're not allowed to reset states in model-free RL. If you have access to the model/simulator which allows you to reset, you might as well use a model-based method like
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
"soft skills are dead" is not expressed that way. It's expressed as "the cofounders should be tech", and other such advice which emphasizes the technical capabilities of the cofounders and early hires, and to not tr
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
Yeah, he might be overestimating 2.5k mmr players, and there's also something to be said about the consistency by which the bot last hits. A human player would have a high variance of last-hit performance, while the bot will probably g
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
I see. Thanks! So it manages to win lanes without even creep blocking? That's quite good. Any chance you could share the last hits @ 10 mins for the games it has played (for both bots and humans)? I think that's a crucial number t
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
> Dota is far too complex for random search Why? We know that random search is smart enough to find a solution if given arbitrarily large computation. So, that random search is not smart enough for Dota with the computational budget you
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
But that doesn't seem like something that should be standardized anyway. There is no one way to do web UI, and the current popular paradigm (DOM/CSS) isn't particularly good either. Going to a lower-level gives more control t
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
Not only are they ranged, but this lineup is very snowball-oriented, i.e. the optimal play style with this kind of lineup is to gain a small advantage in the early game and then keep pushing towers together aggressively. The middle-to-late
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
That's not rigorously supported. It's just an anecdote they mention off-hand. The final version of the bot does use the creep block reward.
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
> There's no real way to "patch" this. Just disable custom DNS. Only allow a few whitelisted DNS that 99.9% of people are going to use anyway.
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
annddddd.... patched. Seriously, though, it's gonna be very easy for Nintendo to patch this particular DNS out. While running a browser doesn't really hurt their bottomline, a browser is typically the weakest link in any console a
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
Would it though? I'm guessing something like the OpenGL spec would be standardized across browsers, and `<div style='background:red'/>` would be replaced by `glClear(1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0)`.
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
What do you mean? We do already have space quanta: Planck Length.
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No. That "time quanta" represents the smallest value Δ such that it doesn't make sense to take about events which happened between t and t+Δ. Δ may not be a constant though like Planck's constant.
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
Sexism and institutionalized sexism obviously exist. However, it's not very clear from the article whether the alleged discrimination was due to sexism or just experience-ism. If the BDFL of a project is replaced by a newer leader, peo
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
Well, HN seems to agree with him. The downvotes are votes of agreement.
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
I'm singularly glad someone did this research. Anecdata: Mindfullness never worked for me, and I suspect even harmed me some. I noticed that I became more nihilist and depressed when I used to meditate. Meditation basically made me sta
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
Yeah, I think you are misunderstanding something here. Yes, there is a non-zero chance that spare bits will be identical. But that's only relevant, if you have a bug in your code wherein you are trying to use a destroyed handle. If you
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
Discord communities are the new IRC, MSN, AOL, whatever. Find a few discord servers of your interest, and you might find a bit of that old magic again.
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It's only a security vulnerability if there is a bug already present in the code. This mechanism is not introducing the vulnerability. In fact, it's helping find out the bug during development. At release runtime, the spare bits s
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
We sort of do for arxiv: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/
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PDFs are hard to read on phone. The abstract page is better if you just want to read abstract. Some PDFs can also contain large images, which is again bad for mobile if you only really wanted to read abstract.
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
> how to improve it Give up on type inference, or at least type inference across modules and classes.
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Just announce you would be taking a break in 2-3 weeks. Not only does this give them notice to be better prepared for your absence, this also helps mental issues (personal anecdote), since you can now feel relieved that very soon you'd
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by backpropaganda 8y ago
This is a part of CBT and loving kindness meditation. Laurie Santos has done research on this topic which is worth checking out.
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You pretty much always need at least 2 GPUs, one to keep running jobs for 30 minutes or so and debugging, and the other for longer jobs. It also takes a lot of patience to only make ONE change at a time. Often, changes you make which feel i

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