grumpopotamus

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by grumpopotamus 10y ago
Any hints on how to implement CFR-D on the GPU?
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by grumpopotamus 10y ago
According to Roger Shawyer, the inventor of the EmDrive, no physical laws are broken: >What I would say is that the idea that EmDrive violates the laws of conservation of momentum is itself nonsense. Of course it doesn’t. It wouldn’t wor
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by grumpopotamus 10y ago
How about unspecified order?
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by grumpopotamus 10y ago
> The Olympics are truly not about money for the athletes. And indeed, they cannot be. I really don't buy this argument. Why should anyone ever deserve less than his or her fair share? This might make sense if there really weren&#x2
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by grumpopotamus 10y ago
I disagree. The athletes are creating a substantial amount of the value of the Olympic Games and see almost none of it in return. Compare to some major professional sports where athletes receive 50% of revenue. Olympic athletes absolutely d
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by grumpopotamus 10y ago
The amateur restrictions in the Olympics have been mostly phased out. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_sports#Olympics : Olympic regulations regarding amateur status of athletes were eventually abandon
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by grumpopotamus 10y ago
I wouldn't bet my life on that. In fact, counterfeit drugs are estimated to kill hundreds of thousands of people a year, in many cases directly, not because they don't provide the necessary treatment. See http://www.cnn
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by grumpopotamus 11y ago
>To get over this hurdle, the developers’ core idea was for AlphaGo to play the policy network against itself, to get an estimate of how likely a given board position was to be a winning one. That probability of a win provided a rough va
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by grumpopotamus 11y ago
This is not the reason. Monte Carlo programs typically play bad-looking moves in way ahead / way behind situations. In these situations "bad" moves will sometimes not alter the win probability they measure, so they don't
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by grumpopotamus 11y ago
This actually came up in the commentary. Michael Redmond actually mentioned that some amateurs watch to see where their opponent is looking, but he called it merely a "trick", and he said it is not useful in professional play.