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by hacker_9 9y ago
But.. all these things do work in the real world. Keeping refactorings to a separate commit is important as when you break something, you can just roll it back. Countless times I've seen new people come in and try refactoring things
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by hacker_9 9y ago
It was odd as it played moves not normally seen at specific points in the game. The strategies ended up being unique, and thus recognizable.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
No if you watch the Go matches, AlphaGo did a lot of things that the professional commentator found odd, but they ended up working out. I expect if you saw similar odd tactics in the future you could guess you were playing an AI.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
I think we can do this just fine by ourselves actually. Everything neural nets has produced so far is distinctively non human. From the generated images and speech to how they play Go oddly or navigate a 3d world poorly.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
I find debugging + error messages to be the worst part of Clojure. In CIDER I have to mark my functions as debuggable before I can step into them - this is an odd requirement and a PITA when the functions are spread out through the codebase
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by hacker_9 9y ago
The problem is JS is built from the ground up to be mutable. For example one big difference in Clojure is that all mutation is done through the Atom, which is transactional, making it threadsafe. I wasn't being pedantic saying JS is co
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by hacker_9 9y ago
True Javascript has maps, and you could use immutable.js for your structures. It also has functional capabilities too thesedays. But the difficult part of language design is actually making all these pieces work together fluidly. This is wh
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by hacker_9 9y ago
For online multiplayer I like playing mindless games like Halo or DOOM4. For single player... I struggle to think of the last good campaign I played, probably Hitman Absolution because it felt like a movie whilst also having entertaining ga
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Mainly from people who just want the language to fail for some reason.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
I used to think this, until I used Clojure. I'm surprised you used it professionally and have that mindset, I write far less code in Clojure and get far more done. The productivity gains are amazing, especially when I can just upload n
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by hacker_9 9y ago
For the record, I've been a C# developer for 12 years. A Clojure dev for about ~6 months. Also, productivity is not subjective.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Thinking of Clojure as a subset of JS is a new one. It's more accurate to say JS is a badly implemented Lisp! These are the main reasons Clojure works so well: 1. It is a Lisp: The only type is the 'list', and in Clojure you
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Just going to point out here that you are conflating Javascript problems with dynamic language problems. Try Clojure, a well designed dynamic language, and you'll find you are a lot more productive with it than any statically typed lan
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Coming from C#, Clojure was definitely a shock to the system. I originally chose the language for a side project because I wanted to learn something fully functional. It definitely took me a while to get running with the language, and there
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by hacker_9 9y ago
I was impressed when this happened last year. Funny how all the AI fear mongering was the same back then. But a year later the result is just driving a car poorly around a GTA map. Oh and AlphaGo still winning Go matches. Scary indeed.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Yeah I feel like the OP missed the last 10 years or something, unreadable minified code is everywhere.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Pretty interesting. I suppose the point here though is that the machine learned the movement through general observation, opposed to someone writing in a very specific complex algorithm by hand.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Agreed. Most media outlets often embed tweets in their news stories. Live news feeds + tweets just go hand in hand. Not to mention the POTUS constantly making the news via twitter.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
I always wondered how someone could use text-to-speech effectively, especially with a programming language full of symbols with long names such as 'semi-colon', 'underscore', 'left parenthesis' etc. The answer
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Seriously.. how many leaks have there been in the past week?? I'm losing track.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
But the pound is still stronger than the dollar, brexit hasn't changed that. Americans get paid more sure, but the cost of living is ridiculously higher, and you also have to basically take out another mortgage to afford your health se
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Do you have any links documenting resource limits in Clojure macros?
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Imagine the power of your whole programming language available to you at compile time. That is a Lisp macro. It gives you the ability to write simple and elegant code, which can then be compiled down into the unreadable nasty code after, wh
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Have you seen the economic state of some of the countries currently in the EU? The UK props the EU up in a big way, we are a massive contributor to it (hence why the EU is currently getting so defensive about us leaving). Also trade deals
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Admittedly I was unsure about Brexit to begin with, but ever since we said we are going to leave, the EU has been up in arms telling us we will be punished, and we have to pay €100 billion to even be allowed. Despite us being in the top 3 b
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by hacker_9 9y ago
It does, because it means once the conservatives agree on something they have more sway to vote it in. And at this point in time I am tired of listening to Westminster fighting with itself, and making us as a whole look like a joke to the r
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by hacker_9 9y ago
Yep standard practice thesedays. Got a controversial bill? 'Leak' it and see what the reaction is. Get a bad reaction? "I've never even heard of that bill!.."
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by hacker_9 9y ago
It's not scary, just look at the opposition. Corbyn is making up numbers to try and get a win with his completely false 'take from the rich, give to the poor' strategy, and then there's the Lib Dems who had their shot at
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by hacker_9 9y ago
The thing is we have a bigger problem: Brexit. Despite the fatigue of it, we now need strong leadership to exit the EU. If the vote is split, that'll weaken our country in a much more substantial way than any internet monitoring.
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by hacker_9 9y ago
You want the short term solution? Go out binge drinking on Saturday, suffer through Sunday, and then go back to work Monday thankful that you have a way to fix your bank balance.

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