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by kqr 1y ago
> It’s not in the 20k unless your population is extremely high Common misconception. Population size has almost nothing to do with the necessary sample size. (It does enter into the finite population correction factor, but that's on
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by kqr 1y ago
There's also a more conservative rule similar to the CLT that works off of the definition of variance, and thus rests on no assumptions other than the existence of variance. Chebyshev's inequality tells us that the probability tha
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by kqr 1y ago
Small world. This has to be the channel of the Brian Moriarty, right?
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by kqr 1y ago
Some details of the side notes in particular are given here: https://entropicthoughts.com/sidenotes-footnotes-inlinenotes
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by kqr 1y ago
Ah, I see what you mean. Yeah, there was too much output from too many models at once (combined with not enough spare time) to really perform useful qualitative analysis on all the models' performance.
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by kqr 1y ago
That's the step at which I gave up, anyway.
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by kqr 1y ago
I think I see what you mean and with these clarifications we are in agreement. There is a lot of modern works of interactive fiction that goes way beyond what the old text adventures did, and work even when judged as art or literature. I ju
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by kqr 1y ago
They seem to be going for a much simpler route of just giving the LLM a full transcript of the game with its own reasoning interspersed. I didn't have much luck with that, and I'm worried it might not be effective once we're
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by kqr 1y ago
The previous article (linked in this one) gives an idea of that.
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by kqr 1y ago
This is correct, and was the reason I made sure to always append "Chat" to the end of "GPT-5". I should perhaps have been more clear about this. The reason I settled for the lesser router is I don't have access to t
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by kqr 1y ago
Thank you for making it. The imagery of it is striking and comes back to me every now and then. I cannot unhear "a high wall is not high to be measured in units of length, but of angle" -- beautifully put. The idea was that it&#x2
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by kqr 1y ago
I disagree. Lockout, Dreamhold, Lost Pig, and So Far are new games but in the old style. Plundered Hearts is literally one of the old games (though ahead of its time). I'll grant you that 9:05 and For a Change are somewhat more modern:
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by kqr 1y ago
This was nice! I tried with my five year old using nuts and bolts as chips. They got it right away and we quickly upgraded to two cards. The three year old also wanted to join but they had no idea what they were doing. (Cargo culting the mo
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by kqr 1y ago
> with equivalent or lower alcoholism or alcohol dependency disorders Something something about correlation and causation. I will weigh studies that try to eliminate confounders above population data rife with them.
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by kqr 1y ago
K&R uses longer lines: https://entropicthoughts.com/technical-writing-learning-from... I wonder if technical density affects optimal line length.
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by kqr 1y ago
Right, and this leads to greater consumption in life. This has been studied. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03064...
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by kqr 1y ago
Poker has much, much higher variance than dice though (or weighted coins, which is what you're actually modeling). It takes hundreds of thousands of hands to establish a statistically significant win rate. At a common online pace of 1.
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by kqr 1y ago
...and unlike in poker, the 1600 Elo players will beat the real beginners in every game. That's what I mean.
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by kqr 1y ago
Skilled players read their oppononts' hands (i.e. the cards they're holding), not the opponents themselves.
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by kqr 1y ago
Only in the sense that poker is more about anything than Monopoly is!
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by kqr 1y ago
More exciting in my mind than the equivalence between tail recursion and while loops is the equivalence between left folds and for loops. A for loop in its most general shape is something like <whatever state the application is in
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by kqr 1y ago
As someone else pointed out, bluffing is not lying. Bluffing is about applying some randomness to your betting patterns to force your opponents into overbetting slightly on average. Lying would be trying to introduce a negative correlation
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by kqr 1y ago
Correct, and a bluff is not intended to last forever. Bluffing is revealed eventually, because you can only have a pair of aces so often, statistically speaking. At that point, the table awareness of the bluff is still profitable because it
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by kqr 1y ago
Surely the variance of amateur chess is far lower than that of poker.
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by kqr 1y ago
Add to the list that for most of the game, you're not actually playing! Even in more action packed variants like Omaha you spend a lot of time folded watching the others at the table play. (Although that does also have some of the enjo
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by kqr 1y ago
I'd assume regular poker rules: The pot is split.
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by kqr 1y ago
I think Aaron Reed's 50 Years of Text Adventures is an even better intro. Starts earlier, ends later, covers each era in greater depth, and comes in a more manageable format: tables, transcripts, and quality prose rather than cut tra
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by kqr 1y ago
Exit REPL with :q, run CHECK.
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by kqr 1y ago
Took me a while to realise it is based on Scheme and not the Lisps I have used in the past. Did not occur to me to try ~define~ to setq variables! Also this appears to be more of a set of logic puzzles, right? Going off of the flavour of th
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by kqr 1y ago
Suggestions for first commands: >I You are carrying nothing. >X ME As good-looking as ever. >X DOOR The door to the north is ancient, stained, knotted wood. It looks terribly out of place here. In fact, it is out of place here. The

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