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by ja3k 4y ago
Oh sorry, I did forget two important caveats: the king moves normally and you can only move normally onto the back rank.
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by ja3k 4y ago
I played a lot of chess and a bit of poker as a kid and got a lot more out of the chess. Maybe I just didn't put enough into the poker but I think I sort of never really got what was going on with ranges and frequencies and sort of jus
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by ja3k 4y ago
Reminds me of a chess mod a friend taught me: acid chess. Pieces capture like normal but move however you want. So on your turn you can pick up any one of your pieces and put it on any empty square. Or make a normal capture. It turns out to
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TwitterRCs and Vim SSO: visions of impossible futures(ja3k.com)
1 points by ja3k 4y ago|0 comments
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by ja3k 4y ago
Yeah, I guess it is sort of a personal ad to put all those account links in the middle of my post. I meant it as an illustration of how fractured our online identities are. Also as a joke about how noisy the internet is: Almost every websit
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by ja3k 4y ago
The first idea I had with this post was definitely: it would be funny to make an over the top long identity archipelago with unrelated identities. So I guess you're sort of right.
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by ja3k 4y ago
You're right. It is four only vaguely related topics that don't come together into a real thesis besides 'online identity feels a little noisy and precarious'. The fact that I couldn't come up with a better title th
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Online Identity(ja3k.com)
30 points by ja3k 4y ago|58 comments
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by ja3k 4y ago
I'm as surprised as you: https://ja3k.com/blog/surp.html
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by ja3k 5y ago
I believe this explains a modern proliferation of paperwork. Computers made it more efficient to administer and complete but because of Jevon's Paradox we spend more time on it instead of less.
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by ja3k 5y ago
Thanks! Yeah it was fun to do. Once I had the idea I felt compelled to implement it. It is a little wasteful to fork the whole repo to make a comment. But it seems unavoidable with this design.
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by ja3k 5y ago
I posted it to /r/github and someone let me know such a thing already exists: https://utteranc.es/ A little cleaner than what I've done here.
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Comment via GitHub Pull Request(ja3k.com)
21 points by ja3k 5y ago|11 comments
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by ja3k 5y ago
Not even loss aversion replicates well.
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by ja3k 5y ago
Location: Columbus, OH Remote: preferred Willing to relocate: yes, but only to Seattle and in the medium term (1-2 years from now) Technologies: python, JavaScript, tensorflow, PostgreSQL, Git, aws, angular Résumé/CV: upon request Emai
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by ja3k 5y ago
Wow this is exactly the strategy I've played. I take it to the extreme and put literally all my soldiers on one territory. The ideal situation is when an opponent ends their turn in a weak spot (likely if everyone is trying to secure t
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by ja3k 6y ago
I had a similar experience on Predictit which I wrote about here: https://ja3k.com/blog/predictit It's still very strange to me that the prices were so irrational.
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by ja3k 6y ago
>Social cooling refers to the idea that if “you feel you are being watched, you change your behavior.” And the massive amounts of data being collected, especially online, is exxagerating this effect. This is a strange perspective to me.
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by ja3k 6y ago
For people who already use anki there's a pretty nice chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/anki-quick-adder/g...
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by ja3k 6y ago
This is a reason things will get slightly out of line but not to this degree. You can (and I did) buy all the NOs in the Predictit electoral college market and get a guaranteed immediate return. If you can buy n NOs for less than (n-1-0.1)
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by ja3k 6y ago
I often feel like writing comments is pointless and contributes to the sea of noise below top level posts, which I none the less often feel compelled to read. But what is a comment box but not an invitation to perform a free form exercise?
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by ja3k 6y ago
You don't have to wonder. In their paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165 they state it has 0.7% accuracy on zero shot 5 digit addition problems and 9.3% accuracy on few shot 5 digit addition problems.
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by ja3k 6y ago
I'm also against schools reopening in the fall (though I haven't done much research and don't hold this opinion strongly). But it seems like holding people back semesters eventually adds up to something that's as bad as
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by ja3k 6y ago
Beautifully, iterating any continuous function will yield a fixed point of the function if it converges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_iteration
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by ja3k 6y ago
It's fair to claim Rowling's opinions are bad and it's also fair to say she was dumb to express them. But it seems like a non sequitur to point those things out when someone produces her as an example of someone being attacke
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by ja3k 7y ago
I wonder if selecting your population via people who respond to a Facebook ad about studying quitting social media introduces any bias. (I can't see the article so I don't know what their ad actually was) I worry that the correct
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by ja3k 7y ago
You can make sense of a percentage of natural numbers with the concept of natural density: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_density The natural density of a set is the limit as N goes to infinity of the proportion
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by ja3k 7y ago
The article acknowledges that the study does not show causation and it seems a little strange to think a causal arrow in this direction is more plausible than the other direction. It seems like people who do better at thinking and memory ta