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901.
by bluecalm 5y ago
The journalist who contacted me told me he did so because the software keeps coming up when he talked to pro players. While it's certainly not one to advance the science the most (talk to Noam Brown if you want that), not the fastest (
902.
by bluecalm 5y ago
It's not about multiple equilibria but about (often unintended) collusion. Examples of that affecting poker games are very well known. One frequently occurring example was discussed in online community 15-20 years ago (BTN raises in a
903.
by bluecalm 5y ago
It doesn't even matter if you can calculate multiplayer equilibrium. It's not the solution the same way it is in heads-up. You can still lose if you employ the equilibrium in multiplayer unlike in HU.
904.
by bluecalm 5y ago
Yeah but that only works in the very simplified model. In the real game you pretty much always choose bluffing hands based on card removal (the ones that makes your opponent holding a calling hand less likely).
905.
by bluecalm 5y ago
It's a paper so it will take me a while to go through but that sounds more or less right from your description. The history tree notation and the whole information sets nonsense just make things very confusing to read and think about.
906.
by bluecalm 5y ago
I was always interested in math and encountered game theory concepts early in life. It's a perfect mix of being not a very good programmer, not a top math mind, not an exceptional poker player but still being all those things at the ri
907.
by bluecalm 5y ago
I think poker in general is slowly dwindling but somehow the solver in fact got more popular over the years. I think the pandemics helped us a bit and maybe general switch to nie analytical play. To be honest I don't understand it very
908.
by bluecalm 5y ago
The solver was purely based on our (mine and my partner's) ideas. We tried reading some papers to find ideas to improve our solver but we had found that they are not very helpful - written in opaque language, using wrong tree represent
909.
by bluecalm 5y ago
Adding multiple betsizes was one of the first features we added in 2015 - so not very recent, no. The one true correct bet size is a seducing idea but that just doesn't exist for most situations. You can try finding the best one with t
910.
by bluecalm 5y ago
The plans are to start turning it into real company which hopefully means easier to use software, more learning material and better communication. Till now it was mostly two guys working from home and overwhelmed by it all.
911.
by bluecalm 5y ago
It just sounded like a good description. We never got any funding and started the business as a side project so no need for big words :)
912.
by bluecalm 5y ago
I am the solver programmer mentioned in the article. I think it came out pretty decently. Maybe not all the details are right (I was late answering fact checking email) but I think it's a decent read and the author has done a good job!
913.
by bluecalm 5y ago
It only 420k because they pay themselves minimum salaries. The founder/lead dev is easily worth mid 6 figures on the market and yet his salary is not even 60k EUR. It's a great project, great quality and run at a low cost but it&#
914.
by bluecalm 5y ago
Well, it's always the potential father that gets the news not one of the parents. Maybe it's not ideal to tell them once the child is born but it's still better than not telling them at all.
915.
by bluecalm 5y ago
Technologies being subject you the same rules. The reason I can buy drugs, play online poker, request a ransom or just send money to an unknown at the other end of the world with crypto but can't with a bank transfer isn't technic
916.
by bluecalm 5y ago
You don't need a specific ban. Just even the playing field for traditional finance. Either make cryptocurrencies follow normal banking/financial laws or make laws for traditional finance more liberal. Cryptocurrencies and especial
917.
by bluecalm 5y ago
It's not exactly a cure anyone can opt for though unless you're advicing joining a revolution when going through mental problems.
918.
by bluecalm 5y ago
Normally in tech we try to make things more efficient, not inefficient by design. And then there is the whole distributed Ponzi thing and going around financial regulations thing that enables endless crime. It's a really shitty technol
919.
by bluecalm 5y ago
At 10c/kWh which is cheaper than anywhere in US it's the cost of 13.4B USD. Miners get the electricity cheaper than that but still, that's a crazy amount.
920.
by bluecalm 5y ago
I guess gas is green if it comes from Putin. I mean those retiring German officials need some new jobs in gas trading companies. Meanwhile we still have a huge "green diesel" problem with Germans dumping their polluting, smelly, c
921.
by bluecalm 5y ago
Don't forget successful more then two decades long effort to torpedo the pipeline from Norway to Poland while forcing through Nordstream that goes around. The EU have a consistent policy of leaving Putin an option to put pressure or ju
922.
by bluecalm 5y ago
"Just use rsync" have the same problem as "don't use Discord". The alternatives are way less convenient, not as polished, not as pleasant. Thankfully there is nothing convenient, polished or pleasant about using cry
923.
by bluecalm 5y ago
Not a fan of those. The questions are imprecise. What does "is it better?" even mean? Better for me? Better for ethical reasons? Better for the society? How about the torment question? If I torment someone that I think deserves it
924.
by bluecalm 5y ago
I remember when it started appearing and the narrative was "it's just a fringe, no one sane thinks like that" but apparently suddenly it's accepted argument in the court of law. I mean, this is Idiocracy materializing. Y
925.
by bluecalm 5y ago
Yup, misunderstanding of basic math strikes again. I thought it's a joke when I first seen an argument like "X race does worse at Y therefore Y is racist". Then I thought it's some kind of running joke. Then I've no
926.
by bluecalm 5y ago
I am sorry but I am yet to meet a Republican/right wing person who thinks it's ok to beat and sexually abuse children. My main gripe with pro-lifers as with others moral warriors so to speak is authoritarianism. I don't want
927.
by bluecalm 5y ago
The way I think about it is that you are applying mechanism that evolved and is useful for small close groups of people (morality) to the whole world (or a country). Think about it this way: you have two countries at two ends of the world.
928.
by bluecalm 5y ago
The right wing view on it is not illogical or inconsistent. It just comes from different values. They believe that you can kill someone if they deserve it by breaking the rules in significant enough way. They also believe children are innoc
929.
by bluecalm 5y ago
It's natural stocks go up if no one has to sell (because credit is cheap) and economic opportunities are limited. My read on the situation is that stocks were criminally undervalued for decades and just recently started reaching sane v
930.
by bluecalm 5y ago
Kasparov, to surprise of no one, comes up with a self-serving metric. If anything it should be opposite. If you're so far ahead it usually means your opposition is quite weak. Being at the top for 10 years today is way more difficult t

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