jonbarker

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by jonbarker 10y ago
Managing energy instead of time produces huge gains when done right.
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by jonbarker 10y ago
I really like the analogy but Smaugs' gold might track inflation if lucky whereas cash carries inflation risk. A nice problem to have in the realm of "first world problems" for sure but still a problem. Also, if the compani
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by jonbarker 10y ago
These companies are not banks so I am not sure why we are talking about cash on deposit. Cash that exists on a corporate balance sheet for a non bank company really only exists to reduce risk of default on obligations or prepare for a cash
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by jonbarker 10y ago
I've been following Buffett since the 1990s and his reputation for shunning tech seems to be based on his wise choice not to play in tech in the late 1990s. This seems to be based on relatively simple valuation techniques as well as a
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by jonbarker 10y ago
So when do we get to see the alphago code?
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by jonbarker 10y ago
The Hedonic Treadmill may be a phenomenon but it can be rendered irrelevant to your decision making process with a couple simple guiding principles which many people actually do in practice (some don't but it is an overgeneralization t
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by jonbarker 11y ago
Would be interested to see a rematch between Lee and AlphaGo. The analogy between tricking image recognition with specific artifacts and finding weak points or flaws in other AI applications in the article is great; given enough games I&#x
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by jonbarker 11y ago
Roombas could learn easily if they just asked you how good of a job they did every time.
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by jonbarker 11y ago
Down for me as well.
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by jonbarker 11y ago
The 12k bots on pandanet are good for learning how to make large groups live against a relatively good opponent, large group deaths are usually the most damaging thing to a beginner's results.
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by jonbarker 11y ago
What are some cost effective options for rapid prototyping (preferably mostly doing it myself in a shop type environment) in the bay area?
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by jonbarker 11y ago
To be fair AlphaGo never decided Go was a fun and worthy challenge; Lee Sedol, however, did.
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by jonbarker 11y ago
This is by design and admitted by the developers - in fact it plans only for what it judges optimal opponent moves. A modification to the game may be to keep on reserve a set of options for nonoptimal opponent play although in actual pract
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by jonbarker 11y ago
Would it not be beneficial to the deepmind team to open at least the non-distributed version to the public to allow for training on more players? I was surprised to learn that the training set was strong amateur internet play, why not trai
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by jonbarker 11y ago
AlphaGo's weakness was stated in the press conference inadvertently: it considers only the opponent moves in the future which it deems to be the most profitable for the opponent. This leaves it with glaring blind spots when it has not
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by jonbarker 11y ago
Not interested in supporting Go? Would be great timing with the AlphaGo tournament!
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by jonbarker 11y ago
AI enthusiast and amateur player here: Michael Redmond made a great point yesterday, if the algorithm is only interested in maximizing probability of win and ignoring margin of victory, shouldn't there be some override for weak moves p
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by jonbarker 11y ago
Glad I was able to get to meet Marvin back in 2014. On cognitive neuroscience he was pessimistic, he likened it to telling a chemist to try and discern what a computer was doing by looking at the machine without the monitor. Really enjoye
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by jonbarker 11y ago
Korea is a great place; your complaints are valid. What I learned from living there is that there can be unexpected benefits to repeated rehearsal (also sometimes referred to as "rote memorization") which I find to be undervalued
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by jonbarker 11y ago
All of the candidates who've written books should have their content spliced and categorized for simulated debates.
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by jonbarker 11y ago
For app launching on mac I recommend Keyboard Maestro, I use it at work a lot. Over time you can customize it for her and string events together with audio cues.
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by jonbarker 12y ago
How is this different from a convertible bond?
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by jonbarker 12y ago
Couldn't the power supply be induction?
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by jonbarker 12y ago
I like Nate Silver's take on disasters. Model it like Earthquakes and anything else bad that happens on a log scale. Then make a plan for every possible contingency. Although it is already an outbreak there is still a range of possi
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by jonbarker 12y ago
Where I work, at a mobile ad network, they put everyone on call on a rotating basis even if they are not devops or server engineers. We use Pager Duty and it works well. Since there is always a primary and secondary on call person, and th
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by jonbarker 12y ago
Chartboost: abstracting monetization for game developers is a great idea. Chartboost improves player experience while creating a pre-built network for great games to plug into. The network rewards good ad placement by measuring performanc
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Parallel Programming from lock free to wait free(newsoffice.mit.edu)
2 points by jonbarker 13y ago|0 comments
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by jonbarker 13y ago
true random based on atmospheric noise: random.org