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by govg 6y ago
Wouldn't a fairer comparison be at a higher resolution? At this resolution it's probably not the GPU that is a bottleneck for a system with a 2080Ti in it.
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by govg 6y ago
That's really not the argument though is it? Saying "so what if someone are left out of X, Y is a comparable alternative" doesn't change the fact that X is being shut out. If you remove these "objective" measur
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by govg 6y ago
Isn't housing in the major EU cities (London / Paris / Berlin ) all very expensive and comparable to SF / NY in terms of multiples of average programmer salary? The healthcare is definitely a big advantage though.
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by govg 6y ago
There are tons of research projects that do exactly what you're talking about, initializing an agent with zero knowledge in an environment which just provide rules of discovery and reward. The agent then takes actions in that space and
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by govg 6y ago
Not exactly retract, but he did write[1] about how he felt his initial statement was not completely fair, and at the end concludes with saying that it's hard to come up with a definition of art that would exclude video games but includ
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by govg 6y ago
No, that's not what they meant. What they mean roughly is that if you were a college student who were interested in signing up for classes in psych, you probably already have some interest in it (and related things), and that interest
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by govg 6y ago
Might be too much to ask - but is it possible to add current status ( public / private / acquired / defunct ), funding source ( prominent VCs that picked them up ) or valuation ( highest / seed / other rounds )
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by govg 6y ago
Both latency and bandwidth affect gaming. Latency is important to ensure that there isn't too much lag between you moving a controller stick and your character moving, and not as important for slower games which can handle this well. B
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by govg 6y ago
The company you're thinking of was ATI Radeon
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by govg 6y ago
Aren't Threadrippers the HEDT offerings from AMD?
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by govg 6y ago
I'm not sure what "corporate research labs of old" did differently from what Google Research, Microsoft Research, or FAIR do. They are all significant investments in personnel and equipment by these firms, and produce fundame
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by govg 6y ago
What an ill informed comment - Google, Microsoft, Facebook are among the largest producers of original research in CS, especially for machine learning these days. You can look at any major conference in the last few years, and it will not b
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by govg 6y ago
....what they're saying is that there's no feasible way of getting an exact count for unemployment and you have to use some extrapolation.
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by govg 6y ago
This is laughably false. Different PE firms (and funds within them) have different strategies, some firms may indeed by the aggressive kind that you specify, but a lot of them also help the firms growth by providing capital and management g
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by govg 6y ago
The adult filter probably works like a DNS bkackhole and simply bans those websites from getting resolved.
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by govg 6y ago
There are like a couple of hundred cases of Polio every year in the world and for all practical purposes Small pox is extinct.
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by govg 6y ago
This is a pretty common opinion here on HN, and colleges regularly get criticized for being nothing but a brand name.
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by govg 6y ago
In theory, with accurate passing / historical data you could build out strategies that could translate to the real world from this setting. Football has two parts to it, one being the strategy aspect of moving the ball and beating the
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by govg 6y ago
Unless I am misunderstanding your tactic, this is almost exactly how Pep's City plays. They frequently rely on a pacy winger beating the defender out wide and cutting the ball into a forward who has beaten the defenders in the center.
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by govg 6y ago
I think one difference between American Football and Football is that American football tends to have specialized events happening. You have field goals, you have turnovers, you have punts, and so on. Each of them require specialized instru
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by govg 6y ago
True, what needs to be emphasized is that the visible spectrum lies above bluetooth / 5G and whatever when it comes to energy, whereas x-rays and the like lie above the visible spectrum itself.
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by govg 6y ago
That experience was almost exclusively only one state - Kerala, and they have also handled this one in the best manner compared to the other states in the country.
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by govg 6y ago
There are multiple ways to do this analysis, and not all of them come from evaluating them as investments. Stocks represent an ownership stake in the firm, and you can use any method you want to give a number to what the firm's "v
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by govg 6y ago
CMU is arguably top tier only for CS (where it is basically the top college tied with 3 others), the ivies generally are highly ranked in sciences and liberal arts, and also in other areas. The industry knows what's the best for subjec
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by govg 6y ago
https://setwithfriends.com This is an implementation I have played with a bit, works well too!
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by govg 6y ago
I can't speak for China, but in India there has not been a historically large amount of attention paid to writing textbooks in mathematics and physics. During high school, the students who seek challenging problems often fall back to R
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by govg 6y ago
The International Physics Olympiad and the IITJEE have a high correlation in terms of material required as well as people who do well, it is probably the Olympiad with the highest correlation between Olympiad performance and performance in
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by govg 6y ago
India (and a few other places) face this issue to a larger extent, I feel. When the judgement of your education comes via one single competitive exam, you tend to maximize that reward. In the Indian education system (and to similar extent a
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by govg 6y ago
It's a hard comparison since Harvard and the IITs have different admission processes. Admissions to the IITs happen via a single exam, which is held at the end of 12 years of school education and is conducted over a few hours consistin
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by govg 7y ago
Ah, that makes a lot of sense. I'd never considered that!

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