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by chongli 1y ago
evaluate positions at low depth and high depth and select positions where the best move switches. Won’t that bias in favour of common sacrifices in the endgame? The issue with using depth is that humans don’t struggle with depth uniformly
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by chongli 1y ago
Doesn't your second paragraph run against the grain of your first? If streaming services like Netflix are harmful then we should avoid using them. Thus it should not be important for our freedom-preserving computers to be able to acces
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by chongli 1y ago
People want some external system to construct a social environment for them and often blame everything but themselves I think this dependence on external systems, on governments, is another symptom of the problem. When people belong to a
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by chongli 1y ago
The decline of community is a very big deal. I think a lot of it has to do with the way we build our living spaces. Modern North American cities are rife with car-centric suburbs, huge driveways, front doors set back a mile from the sidewal
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by chongli 1y ago
Success is not 100% in control of the developer. There are plenty of outside factors that influence a game’s ability to take off and gain a lot of attention. "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness
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by chongli 1y ago
They aren't. They're feedback. Analytics is demographic information used for marketing purposes.
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by chongli 1y ago
Keeping a count of how many views and comments a blog post gets is not analytics. Analytics is gathering deep data about the demographics of those numbers. It’s learning about the age, sex, race, income, country of origin, education, occupa
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by chongli 1y ago
Pretty much everyone on Hacker News is writing comments for one another without the benefit of analytics. We're having discussion about topics we care about without delving into each other's personal details. If you care about a t
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by chongli 1y ago
We need look no further than The Beatles, who famously and repeatedly tried to pivot their music away from what their fans wanted. In the process, they innovated popular music in a multitude of ways and spawned new genres in the process. If
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by chongli 1y ago
any blog author who is trying to increase their reach, like knowing what topics are of most interest to their audience, when to post for bets result, comparing different styles of post etc. Why would I want to read a blog like that? That&
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by chongli 1y ago
They were okay with it when Google was sending them traffic. Now they often don’t. They’ve broken the social contract of the web. So why should the sites whose work is being scraped be expected to continue upholding their end?
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by chongli 1y ago
It’s often the case that in order to fix an issue you need to refactor first.
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by chongli 1y ago
Are you talking about refactoring code you’re already familiar with? Or a completely unknown codebase that no one else at the company knows anything about and you’ve been tasked with fixing?
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by chongli 1y ago
Does anyone have a solution for full-text search of a folder of bookmarks? Specifically I want to search the sites themselves, not merely the text of the home pages (which is where the URLs point). The specific problem I’m trying to solve i
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by chongli 1y ago
I mostly bookmark sites, not pages, so this wouldn’t capture the information I want.
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by chongli 1y ago
What does the “illusion of consciousness” mean? Sounds like question-begging to me. The word illusion presupposes a conscious being to experience it. Machines do not experience illusions. They may have sensory errors that cause them to misb
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by chongli 1y ago
Wouldn't we expect the most truly mediocre movies to have the lowest variance in opinions?
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by chongli 1y ago
This is the conclusion of linguists. Linguists’ definition of language necessarily includes a productive grammar. It’s not enough to be capable of uttering from a long list of sounds or signs. To have language we must be able to regularly c
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by chongli 1y ago
Alec used modern equipment and high quality 6mm bar stock. It would’ve taken far longer to make 500 nails starting from a large bar of medieval pig iron and using only a traditional coal-fired forge with hammer and anvil.
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by chongli 1y ago
2. Highest resolution/bitrate/quality that was available at the time of the work's original release. Arguably higher. For example, fans of Star Wars have scanned the original 1977 theatrical release with very high quality f
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by chongli 1y ago
Right, but then we apply the phrase to itself and this is what we get!
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by chongli 1y ago
No, “the purpose of a system is what it does” implies that the original intent of the creators of a system was for it to become corrupted.
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by chongli 1y ago
The purpose of the system (the police in this casse) is what it does. Nope. That's an ideology, not a statement of fact. It completely negates the possibility that systems can become corrupted (or simply fail) and no longer work towa
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by chongli 1y ago
The path we’ve taken was definitely not inevitable, just like the path a ball takes down a long bumpy hill. Yet the broad strokes of where that ball ends up are reasonably foreseeable: at some local minimum but not necessarily a global mini
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by chongli 1y ago
All it says to me is that the modern world is far more complex than our simple biases (heuristics) can deal with.
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by chongli 1y ago
Let’s not get carried away with hubris. Nature wrote our genes. Nature made us the way we are. All this nonsense you see going on is ultimately a result of cognitive biased thinking, especially confirmation bias. The fact that we differ so
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by chongli 1y ago
That's still hubris on their part. They're assuming that an AGI workforce will come to work for their company and not replace them so they can take the credit. We could just as easily see a fully-automated startup (complete with A
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by chongli 1y ago
I don’t think it’s that simple. Productivity gains are rarely universal. Much of the past century’s worth of advancement into automation and computing technology has generated enormous productivity gains in manufacturing, communication, and
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by chongli 1y ago
The App Store is an ad platform [1]. App developers are bidding on those search keywords. [1] https://ads.apple.com/app-store/best-practices/keywords
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by chongli 1y ago
The question is not: "are you getting more computer for your money?" The question is: "are you getting (anywhere near) a linear scaling of computer for your money?" Because to me the answer to the second question is a re

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