kirkules

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by kirkules 8y ago
Why isn't anyone but Donald Trump the President of the United States?
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by kirkules 8y ago
Can you imagine if your browser or some add-on decided you could auto-fill info. on a form like that, and inappropriately checked the box or filled the radio button or whatever?
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by kirkules 8y ago
I'd rather say "current", because to me "contemporary" is something like a transitive adjective. Things really should be contemporary with (or contemporaries of ) something else.
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by kirkules 8y ago
Why doesn't human speed/physical strength lose out in physical sport controlled by AI as well? Isn't the analog of letting an AI take actions in SC2 as fast as it can make decisions just letting an AI control some robotic bod
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by kirkules 8y ago
On the contrary, claiming that using words like "diversity" or "inclusiveness" is tantamount to "meaning to do 'you' harm" is itself harmful.
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by kirkules 8y ago
Yeah, I originally thought this link was going to be about BS people say when they think they're talking about AI.
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by kirkules 8y ago
If you don't have an unsynchronized RNG, then any unsynchronized content can't use an RNG, and unsynchronized content is important for improving a game's experience by using local resources for things that don't really n
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by kirkules 8y ago
No.
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by kirkules 8y ago
I was actually somehow more interested when I had read "most irrelevant" instead of "most irreverent"
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by kirkules 8y ago
Would this be resolved for you if there were an option (hotkey or mouseover, like checking order of actions in a turn) that dimmed all other things and highlighted either 1) all enemy planned actions, 2) all environmental modifications like
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by kirkules 8y ago
I think the intent was to ask how much people would pay for access to Google searches, assuming they have other search options that they wouldn't have to pay for. Not to ask how much would Google have to pay them to stick with Google.
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by kirkules 8y ago
I think science journalism is what was meant. Obviously scientists communicate the results of the science they do, but there's a very big difference between a scientist failing to communicate well and a non-scientist failing to underst
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by kirkules 9y ago
What's the intended purpose of this article? Why was it written? It's always frustrating to read pieces about mathematicians written by people whose attitude is "[I have no chance of ever grasping what ultimately makes this a
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by kirkules 9y ago
This is nonsense. You have to know how to open a company, to have an idea for what it will do, have some way of building your product initially, etc. This knowledge (or the time to find it out on one's own) is itself a resource. Being
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by kirkules 9y ago
What kind of records will you keep that will be open to the public, or for academic study? I can imagine some data that would be useful to increase our understanding of how effective your approach is would also be related to the privacy of
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by kirkules 9y ago
Sure sounds nice to have a perfect long term memory and have no need to use a quality source to refresh on any topic you ever once actually understood.
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by kirkules 9y ago
The internet did not exist in its present form, extent of influence, flexibility, etc., without this being an issue for any length of time. Don't lie to yourself.
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by kirkules 9y ago
S/he wasn't proposing a protocol, but describing a naturally occurring one.
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by kirkules 9y ago
That doesn't mean physical pain is necessarily among the feelings felt.
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by kirkules 9y ago
Premature abstraction is pure mathematics
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by kirkules 9y ago
Are you sure the meaning of "guess" in each quote is the same as in the other? I'm not convinced that Dijkstra's comment, in context, contradicts Feynman's.
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by kirkules 9y ago
Btw, the university pages you mention are still extremely common, at least in mathematics-related fields
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by kirkules 9y ago
In 1985 it's pseudocode.
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by kirkules 9y ago
This region is 30% covered vs. there is a 30% chance this region is (read: fully) covered.
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by kirkules 9y ago
I was able to actually read the article because of this. Thanks.
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by kirkules 9y ago
Rather, a large number of laypeople seem to have this more spiritualistic view, and it is fairly obvious how they will interpret this kind of language.
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by kirkules 9y ago
*Monad?
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by kirkules 9y ago
This really just highlights to me that what it means for a game to "end up working" or for a game to be satisfying can be as subjective as what it means for it to be designed "correctly". It's also interesting to me
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by kirkules 9y ago
Hating precision with no information about where it came from is a bit disturbing to me
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by kirkules 10y ago
Why is this supposed to be a way to deflect criticism? Is popular consumption of assertions that are unverified, or difficult for a reader to verify, a good thing?

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