jim-greer

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by jim-greer 9y ago
So an Echo is as dangerous as an iPad. Sure, but enough with the FUD.
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by jim-greer 9y ago
The fact that there are a lot of things coming out doesn't necessarily mean it's a witch hunt. Are you thinking of any accusations in particular?
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by jim-greer 9y ago
As far as I can tell that’s dangerous misinformation.
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The European Commission, For One, Welcomes Our New Robot Overlords(cyberlaw.stanford.edu)
1 points by jim-greer 9y ago|0 comments
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by jim-greer 9y ago
> Not looking good for Waymo... The trade secret claims are still looking pretty good for Waymo.
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by jim-greer 9y ago
This is a great piece. I'll quibble with this bit though: > ...toxicity festers in open source because it’s all too common for forks to ground their motivation in emnity towards other projects. This is wishful thinking, for the most
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by jim-greer 9y ago
I agree with you on this. We need dense cities that don't depend on cars. I will say that self-driving cars help a bit in getting people to bike, though. The biggest barrier to biking in San Francisco is people's fear of getting k
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Making Google the Censor(nytimes.com)
2 points by jim-greer 9y ago|0 comments
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Homicides and Poverty Are Inversely Correlated(copinthehood.com)
1 points by jim-greer 10y ago|0 comments
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by jim-greer 10y ago
Why does it matter if games are free software? I don't see why they should free as in beer - developers need to get paid. As for being open source, it depends on why you think that’s important. To me, the goals of open source are: - Ma
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by jim-greer 10y ago
The variance is manageable if you play enough hands. This is one reason why a lot of pros prefer to play online - by playing many tables at once, you get more hands in and can better overcome the variance. As for tournaments, the variance i
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by jim-greer 10y ago
If each player follows your strategy, 40-60% of hands are won by nobody. Playing 10% of your hands is very tight if you're up against other good players. At a loose table it might be very profitable though, especially if the other play
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by jim-greer 10y ago
There's so much variance in the game that it would be hard to know how good the AI really is. If they're doing 120K hands heads-up, they'd need to play far more in a full table. Getting that many pros to play that many hands
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by jim-greer 10y ago
You don't? UPS can't stop its drivers from making mistakes. Uber can absolutely fix known issues in its vehicles. If you have more control, you have more liability. Edit: Uber probably has product liability. Which is very differen
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by jim-greer 10y ago
I'm not advocating a new law, and neither is the article. I just want Uber to take these cars off the road until they've fixed known safety issues.
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by jim-greer 10y ago
The advantage of merging first is that you'd only side-swipe a cyclist. What's the downside?
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by jim-greer 10y ago
Having dedicated turn lanes isn't realistic in San Francisco. Most streets are too narrow.
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by jim-greer 10y ago
I disagree, and I think a jury would as well. Drivers have personal liability. Self-driving cars have corporate liability. I'd expect a big judgment if someone is killed because of a known issue.
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Facebook can’t judge what is true. But what if we all did?(medium.com)
2 points by jim-greer 10y ago|0 comments
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by jim-greer 10y ago
It's interesting to think about what the limits of an AI that doesn't have a full human experience are. I think you're probably right that machine vision will be competitive with human vision. It's already much better in
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by jim-greer 10y ago
> "It’s gone too far,” says one venture capitalist... This investor is probably making more than the vast majority of the people building technology. It's not clear to me why society benefits from that. High salaries encourage
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by jim-greer 10y ago
There are some other things you can't do from the browser in addition to sockets. Full screen, camera, and microphone. But most games don't use that stuff.
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by jim-greer 10y ago
That's true. Would be nice if Adobe at least threw some resources at it though. It's a huge undertaking. There are just a ton of library calls to support. Here's the list of AS3.0 classes: http://help.adobe.com&#x2
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by jim-greer 10y ago
I really wish Adobe would write a Flash runtime in WebAssembly. There are tens of thousands of great Flash games that are unplayable in modern browsers... Sure, you could rewrite them in js, but no one is going to.
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by jim-greer 10y ago
It is rumored not to work well at Valve either. Once you get past Dunbar's number, subgroups form. It's better to make them explicit. Otherwise you tend to get cliques, which are probably worse than hierarchy: http://ww
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by jim-greer 10y ago
Actually that was the original goal of Google Video, which never got much traction and was discontinued eventually. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Videos
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by jim-greer 10y ago
Can you recommend courses/books/etc that take that approach?
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by jim-greer 10y ago
Depending on the business needs, returning outliers can be useful even if there are a bunch of false positives. I'm not a machine learning guy, but when I was at Kongregate, we had a problem with credit card fraud on our virtual goods
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by jim-greer 10y ago
Games simulate the world, more or less. The world has mutable state.
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by jim-greer 10y ago
I imagine if you find a good bug and aren't on their list, you could bring in someone who is to help out...

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