ironSkillet

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by ironSkillet 3y ago
Their status page is not very helpful because they just link to a tracker that is also returning a 503. Does anyone know what's going on under the hood?
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by ironSkillet 3y ago
For me, this is one of the core tests for true AI. Can a machine discover and communicate logical structures/relationships that humans have never seen before? That is when I will actually be scared.
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by ironSkillet 3y ago
Removing these proprietary parts can actually be a lot of work or potentially impossible without a major refractor, especially if they're foundational to gameplay, like a physics engine.
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by ironSkillet 3y ago
This would be a more productive comment if you could explain why you have this opinion.
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by ironSkillet 3y ago
Website is rendering without the content for me - anyone else?
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by ironSkillet 3y ago
My math PhD has helped me be a better programmer in several ways. The first is in terms of reasoning above the behavior of complex systems, which mathematical domains and programs are both instances of. Another is in terms of problem solvin
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by ironSkillet 3y ago
It definitely often feels like the value capitalism places on certain skillsets is out of sync with the true intrinsic societal value. It ultimately boils down to the law of supply and demand, a brutally unemotional, uncaring concept.
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by ironSkillet 3y ago
A tree is a subtype of graph. However, a DAG is not a tree if it has cycles once you forget direction, meaning paths can join up again after splitting. This distinction matters because when different paths "join up" again, there i
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by ironSkillet 3y ago
The guy might be smart and write popular textbooks, but he has not successfully managed real money over an extended period of time as far as I can tell. He "left" Guggenheim after his algos were basically found to be crossing trad
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by ironSkillet 3y ago
This blog is fascinating. Thanks for sharing.
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by ironSkillet 3y ago
I think what will happen is that there effectively be an arms race between the bot generation and detection sides. As anomalies are discovered in the distribution of content generated by bots vs humans, bots will update to remove the anomal
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by ironSkillet 3y ago
I dislike the proliferation of this word. "Safe" has started to mean "free from critical commentary" in a lot of contexts. It's hampering objective discourse all over the place.
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by ironSkillet 3y ago
...this...has to be a troll right? The guy helped bring space flight out of a stagnant era into commercial viability and put electric cars into the world's popular psyche.
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by ironSkillet 3y ago
I also counted 4 errors in the sentence, not 3. "no help" should be "any help". This might just be conventionally wrong, not technically wrong I suppose.
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by ironSkillet 3y ago
Thanks for wasting my time by avoiding any precision in your language lol.
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by ironSkillet 3y ago
If you aren't allowed to operate in a logical system with a concrete definition of "size", then you can't say things like "doesn't actually prove two infinite sets have different sizes". So the whole debat
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by ironSkillet 3y ago
> They aren’t actually different sizes, though. What's your precise definition of size that allows someone to actually make a rigorous argument comparing the size of any two sets?
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by ironSkillet 3y ago
Mathematicians consider two sets to be of the same size or more precisely "cardinality", if it is possible to construct a 1-1 map of elements from the first set to the second set. These maps can obviously be constructed for sets w
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by ironSkillet 4y ago
There are two primary types of corn: field corn and sweet corn. Only sweet corn can be eaten raw or lightly cooked, but field corn can be turned into edible products (e.g. cereal) with some standard processing.
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by ironSkillet 4y ago
If you take into account player behavior dynamics, then I think path to a state becomes more important. I.e. "what my opponent thinks I'm trying to do" becomes important information to keep track of. Maybe not the case with c
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by ironSkillet 4y ago
It's very possible China did this. They have every reason to throw wrenches in any US plan and weaken the resolve of the west to remain united.
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by ironSkillet 4y ago
The real numbers (everything on the number line, including things like 1, 0, 4/237, and pi) and the integers have no such correspondence. The reals are an "uncountable" infinity.
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by ironSkillet 4y ago
I used my blog to display a portfolio of projects I had worked on to prepare myself for leaving academia and go into industry. It paid off massively, as a random linkedin recruiter saw the flashy looking web viz I built (an utter pile of ga
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by ironSkillet 4y ago
And therefore we also fail as a society to effectively regulate various complex financial instruments before they actually cause an obvious problem. My point is not that we should or should not regulate AI. It's just that I believe the
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by ironSkillet 4y ago
The problem with measuring the "harm" of something like AI vs e.g. lead is that with lead there are direct first order chemical harmful effects that are indisputable. With AI, any harm will get expressed via complex social dynamic
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by ironSkillet 4y ago
I think you beautifully described the essence of problems in so many large bureaucracies. Well done.
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by ironSkillet 4y ago
The problem with any standardized test is that it can be gamed with enough practice/resources that poor people are way less likely to be able to access. So it's not a cure-all, there are tradeoffs.
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by ironSkillet 4y ago
I get your argument about Bay12 potentially making more money had they commercialized earlier, but I think the comparison with Minecraft isn't so clean. DF is orders of magnitude less approachable than Minecraft, so there is not even
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by ironSkillet 4y ago
I love seeing the inside of the game development cycle from a technical perspective, thanks for sharing.
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by ironSkillet 4y ago
Ah, I see what you mean - I was not thinking about the problem correctly.

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