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by karpierz 5y ago
Slipways is an amazing game! It's so nice building little galactic empires without fussing with spreadsheets or war.
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by karpierz 5y ago
The search tree size isn't an insurmountable issue. For exple OpenAI 5 managed to play DotA (though admittedly relied heavily on perfect timing and the ability to look at every enemy on the minimap at the same time, and lost a lot when
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by karpierz 5y ago
Alan Moore's point is that kind of violence (oh, you just knock him out, no harm done) doesn't exist. If you knock someone unconscious, you're lucky if they only suffer minor brain damage. Someone who goes around at night and
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by karpierz 5y ago
It's not criminality, it's _regulatory arbitrage_.
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by karpierz 5y ago
Some distinctions: - Killing a serf is murder, killing a slave is property damage. - A serf can bear witness, and accuse. A slave cannot. - A slave can be sold and forced to go wherever the new owner wills. A serf cannot.
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by karpierz 5y ago
Is there a way to disprove the lab leak hypothesis?
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by karpierz 5y ago
Wouldn't that just mean you'd have to make sure the data doesn't contain private identifying information to start with? Seems like a win-win for the people in datasets and the people who are auditing the code.
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by karpierz 5y ago
Can you recommend some good dev accounts to bootstrap the discovery process?
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by karpierz 5y ago
To be specific, that representation of date does not implement integer addition. To be fair, neither do most "number" types (uint, int, float, etc). For uint, you actually have x + y = (x + y) mod MAX_UINT. For float, sometimes x
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by karpierz 5y ago
"Command economy" and "unregulated free market" is a false dichotomy.
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by karpierz 5y ago
There's a bit of irony in claiming that there's a decline in rationality by doing a hand-wavy data analysis, and relying on peoples' gut feeling that the world has become more feelings driven to push their conclusion forward.
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by karpierz 5y ago
The Polish army isn't meant to be able to defend Poland, it's meant to provide enough time for NATO to respond (which they're capable of within 72 hours). That, combined with the logistical challenges of a Russian invasion an
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by karpierz 5y ago
I think that the parent comment is referring to extrapolation in the semantic space (ex: use brown cats as training data and see if the ML algorithm can recognize albino cats). Edit: or take photos of brown cats indoors from the front and s
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by karpierz 5y ago
That's actually the second mention, the first is when they introduce the games in section 4: > Today, computer- playing programs remain consistently super-human, and one of the strongest and most widely-used programs is Stockfish.
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by karpierz 5y ago
"Black" =/= "black". "Black" refers to a group of people who are lumped together for how they're perceived/treated in (American/western) society. "black" refers to materials which
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by karpierz 5y ago
Additional context: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/nov/04/tucker-car...
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by karpierz 5y ago
Or the doctor only takes on healthy patients, and refuses to take on anyone with pre-existing conditions. Also, what happens when people self-select such that only people who often get sick take on these contracts, and people who are normal
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by karpierz 5y ago
Where does computational complexity factor into the Chinese room? Whether the Chinese room responds quickly or slowly doesn't really factor into whether the room understands Chinese.
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by karpierz 5y ago
I think they're newly created accounts; IE, likely throwaways.
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by karpierz 5y ago
This is something they fail to explain in the movie, but the reason that the doctor is so trusted is because he comes from a school of indoctrinated physicians thought to be psychologically incapable of harm.
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by karpierz 5y ago
It's generally suspect when someone preaches that "this is what life is like in Feudal times", considering that spans 500 years and a whole continent. Likewise for the Industrial Revolution.
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by karpierz 5y ago
Is it that easy to leave your community and way of life to live a very different life amidst strangers?
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by karpierz 5y ago
Why would getting a refund preclude you from buying self driving if/when it's released? I think that "pay now, maybe get it later" or "don't pay now, can't buy it later" is a false dilemma.
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by karpierz 5y ago
Down to meet up in Boston if anyone wants to grab coffee.
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by karpierz 5y ago
Why does Bitcoin have a clear advantage in solving double spend over a centralized solution?
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by karpierz 5y ago
If you found a match, how would the site know that you matched successfully if you didn't want the site to know (so you could recover the full amount)?
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by karpierz 5y ago
What do you mean by predictions are blind? The issue the parent is describing is (as an extreme case): I go on a prediction market for when someone will die, put all of my money on tomorrow, and then kill the person tomorrow. You could imag
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by karpierz 5y ago
But their point is not "you should make money from open source", but "open sourcing your code makes it easier for corporations to eat your lunch with a closed source solution, so you need to be able to compete, which requires
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by karpierz 5y ago
> Yet they are doing perfectly fine with virtually zero immigration. They've been in a recession for 30 years.
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by karpierz 5y ago
I don't have an example training set. I don't have an example model. My exact point is that if your test set isn't representative of the underlying distribution, then accuracy on the test set doesn't mean that your model

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