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by firebones 9y ago
It's hard making this point if you don't have access to capital, but if the talent is comparable, doesn't this represent an opportunity to go after an idea with above-average talent through simply paying globally-optimal mark
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A lot of the graphs in the paper seem to level out as they hit the level of the opponent. It makes me wonder to what extent AlphaGo Zero is merely optimizing to beat flaws in existing opponents' current implementations (even if "e
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by firebones 9y ago
You refer to "Exponential Growth Cascade Failure" games. Is there a TVTropes for board game mechanics?
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by firebones 9y ago
I wonder if there's an interesting dynamic there in a board game, where if the pace of complexity is high enough, being out of the game could become a tactical advantage. Maybe that cant work without omniscient or perfect information f
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by firebones 9y ago
Good point, I guess, although I was responding to the parent's post that cited meatworld-based regulations as a compensatory excuse for the need for frequent recharging. Sure, many electric and autonomous vehicle problems go away if we
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by firebones 9y ago
The regulatory info only gives information on the way things should be with regard to how truckers and the interstate highway system works, but I would suggest that before you invest on this hypothesis, talk to some truckers earning $0.50
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by firebones 9y ago
My world was opened up when in my college Computer Architecture class I learned the relationship between microcode and an instruction set. It gave me confidence. The final in that class had a question on it where I had to apply the general
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by firebones 9y ago
Let's start a band...that title could describe a new musical genre, one with the hip lyrics set to the flagellar beat.
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by firebones 9y ago
I wish regulators could be perfect, and if they were, we'd reduce harm a lot. But since we know they're not, we can, as participants in society, be as Caesar's wife--above suspicion--and avoid these situations entirely. A lot
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by firebones 9y ago
While it is factually true that it would be illegal for Purdue to promote off-label, they also need to be held accountable for playing fast and loose with the research studies (even altering the definitions used in the trials) in order to b
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by firebones 9y ago
There is at least one more name that could fit that description, depending on the breadth of your definition of creator. Regardless, oblique references serve the purpose of allowing victims to triangulate over space and time and connect wit
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by firebones 9y ago
How many wikipedia articles have you read on your smartphone vs. ones you've read on your laptop/desktop? "In your pocket" represents a world of difference.
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The Security of Classic Game Consoles (Strange Loop 2017) [video](youtube.com)
3 points by firebones 9y ago|0 comments
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by firebones 9y ago
What was it that TaskRabbit had that Zaarly didn't? It seems like a pretty obvious gap for Zaarly to fill to get lined up as bait now that they know that there's a market for acquisition. Did Zaarly focus too much on the ServiceMa
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by firebones 9y ago
Not 100% sure that I understand your point about silver. Is it that you believe it has retained its buying power? (Setting aside that the silver in a pre-1964 quarter could only buy about 36 ounces of milk in 1970 given the $1.15/gal r
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by firebones 9y ago
You make great points. All sports are likely at their peak for performance at the highest levels. The difference may be one of whether you prefer "peak specialization" (football, baseball), or "peak dynamic creativity" (
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by firebones 9y ago
There's also suspicion, if I recall correctly, that the routine repetitions of linemen taking knocks to the head in practice does more long term damage than what we see on game day. This may be more pronounced in high schools and to a
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by firebones 9y ago
May be too late in this thread for a response, but does the completion of the 1.20 release free up some time for the "State of Rust 2017" survey results blog post before the 1.21 release? I know there was a huge response, and you
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by firebones 9y ago
Are there any stats yet on improvements in memory safety within Firefox attributable to Rust. In theory, it could be as much as 50% fewer based on the original premise of Rust removing whole classes of programmer errors, but are there stats
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by firebones 9y ago
Advertisers should have a centralized reporting service that pays bounties for submitting violators. Is fraud worth enough to support a whitehat community exposing the ad equivalent of "vulnerabilities?"
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by firebones 9y ago
Core War, only for adtech. Let the games begin.
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by firebones 9y ago
Did anyone do "intuition"?
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by firebones 9y ago
ITT: people who don't live in areas that routinely get hail and periodic roof replacements.
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by firebones 9y ago
From Twitter: Chris Moore‏ @ctmoore91 Aug 10 More Quick math on $SNAP marketing numbers: - $3.60 per existing user - $89 per acquired user to make revenue of $1.05 per user in... 3 months
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by firebones 9y ago
Suspected victim is a Wired freelancer.
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Biggest Amateur-Built Sub Sinks--Owner Suspected of Murder(arstechnica.com)
3 points by firebones 9y ago|1 comments
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by firebones 9y ago
Well, to be honest, both spies in Spy vs Spy were equally nefarious, taking turns in their ups and downs, but deploying identical methods. I always thought it referred more to movie Westerns, where blackhats were consistently the villains,
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by firebones 9y ago
I teach the Boston "Big Dig" as it ties the Lindy Effect to schedule estimation. Fred Brooks was knocking on the door of this with the Mythical Man Month: adding developers to a late project only makes it later. But Lindy Effect w
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by firebones 9y ago
Weilbull distribution [1]. Why we used to run our mail-order PCs non-stop for a week to burn them in. If there were faulty components, we wanted them to fail under the 30-day return policy. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by firebones 9y ago
I teach this as part of an internal developer class; one important thing to note is that it applies to certain classes of non-perishable items. Not the books themselves, but the ideas the books contain. We talk about how things like the pre

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