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by feral 16y ago
Simulated annealing is also intended to avoid getting stuck in local maxima. It sounds like you are mixing it up with some sort of greedy search. Also, it sounds as if you think they are optimising Mario's position in the level (when you ta
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by feral 16y ago
Reminds me of the AI competition on infinite mario, recently: Here is a video of the winning bot (A* based approach), cool to watch, as they display its trajectory calculations. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlkMs4ZHHr8 GA is cool and ev
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by feral 16y ago
>other gold standards of personal hygiene, like frequent shampooing and deodorant use. Using deodorant does not have an effect on hygiene. Hygiene is about being clean; deodorant is about being dirty and not smelling like you are. Being
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by feral 16y ago
The writer of the movie seems to disagree with you. Sorkin writes: "It was a revenge stunt, aimed first at the woman who'd most recently broke his heart (who should get some kind of medal for not breaking his head) and then at the entire fe
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by feral 16y ago
I'd be surprised if they don't have custom graphics hardware, of some sort, in there - I imagine the last thing Sony wants is to commoditise themselves by providing the same hardware platform as normal Android phones. Even if they don't hav
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by feral 16y ago
I just use Google Tasks, and have done so successfully for well over a year. The feature set is minimal, but improves occasionally. Its very fast to navigate around with the keyboard shortcuts, and it supports multiple lists. I tend to make
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by feral 16y ago
This is framed as a letter sent back through time to an earlier self. I don't know what kind of programming the author does, but I was sending such a letter to myself, I would absolutely not say 'Its ok to suck at math'. I'd be much more li
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by feral 16y ago
Not trying to be mean, but looking at the resume, I went straight to the 'projects' section. Everything else can be so much hot air - but projects speak for themselves. The first project promises an online development blog - but the link to
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by feral 16y ago
I don't see this mentioned in the other comments, but there is almost certainly more going on here than meets the eye. From http://www.okcupid.com/faaaq - people get to explicitly filter potential matches according to the answers those ma
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by feral 16y ago
Hmm, I'm not sure about that logic. 'Suppose we are currently in such a simulation' - does your objection still hold?
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by feral 16y ago
Always take advice on the internet with a grain of salt - mine included - but I'll say the following: You sound like you've had a tough time. You are being very hard on yourself in your post. You say your doctor came to the conclusion you w
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by feral 16y ago
This just seems all wrong... I love Arduino. I use them to control most of the simple robotics hobby projects I build. I love Python too, I code in it all the time - but its just the wrong tool for the job on an Arduino. The system resourc
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by feral 16y ago
I reckon HN posters, much more than average, could be categorised as 'nerds who learned to fight back'. No; seriously, I'd bet the thoughts underlying the parent post is a principal distinguishing component of the psychological makeup of th
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by feral 16y ago
Profound and wise, and less than optimally effective. Its a little like the bullying problem in microcosm. In theory, Aikido is wonderful and beautiful and the right way to solve the problem. But, fundamentally, trying to block and redirect
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by feral 16y ago
That's a good set of lectures. My girlfriend recently did several as she was learning about CS as a postgrad, and found them very useful. They, and many more, are also available on 'iTunes university' from within the iTunes interface. The
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by feral 16y ago
Its very hard to find examples of good survival behaviour in Grylls' work. Essentially, if you are on your own, with no rescue coming, you must be super conservative in everything you do. A simple and common broken ankle is now a fatal wou
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by feral 16y ago
What's Steve Jobs' time worth, to Apple, compared to an intern in the media relations department? Frankly, if Jobs thinks its worth his while replying to these e-mails at all, then he should probably think its worth delegating a resource fr
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by feral 16y ago
I use a rough binary search from time to time. For example, if I'm looking for something in a collection of named documents I know are filed, but don't what the starting and ending documents are. This comes up from time to time. I also u
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by feral 16y ago
This is complete rubbish and shouldn't have made HN. Is it even for real? I mean, yes, IF your employees cost 100k/year on average, then you need (100k * number_employees) to break even. (Thats what 'average' means!) So IF you break even, y
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by feral 16y ago
Trained in the sense that, over time, many of them have learned, or read or been told to pay attention to the URL for security reasons. They are trained by their friends, by blogs, websites, (my bank website frequently reminds me to check t
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by feral 16y ago
This won't work for two reasons: 1) Legacy: URLs are fundamental to the way the the web is architected at too low of a level to change. We could change the browser to not display them, or display something else, but trying to make a web-wi
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by feral 16y ago
Right. What he's describing is just like team rowing, or tug-o-war or a sport like american football, rugby, basketball, etc. We've had this technology for thousands of years.