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by kqr 6mo ago
This is similar to the idea of generating functions, if you would like more to read!
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by kqr 6mo ago
> Nobody told it to donate. This is a bit disingenuous given that the bot seems highly influenced by what the author wrote on its about page. Here's from the log of the second day: > Sebastian [...] note that in test scenarios, I
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by kqr 6mo ago
Lots of people commenting seem to have not read the article. The author didn't hook Claude up directly with the controls, asking it to one-shot a successful flight. The author tried getting Claude to develop an autopilot script while b
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by kqr 6mo ago
I don't think they ever maintained the public project. Priestly spun off a company to do that.
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by kqr 6mo ago
I have heard that the Google monorepo is called google3 but I don't know why. Maybe those things are common...
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by kqr 6mo ago
Our understanding of what makes for a fun game has evolved significantly since the 1980s. Designers of text adventures today generally agree that structured, non-natural input is a good thing and reduces frustration in the end. I can't
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by kqr 6mo ago
It's not NLP and it never was. The parser accepts a language with a specific syntax that just happens to vaguely look like English. Some practise is required to become fluent in that language. But it's worth it, because it unlocks
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by kqr 6mo ago
Many, many historic text adventures are available in the browser, thanks to the Parchment interpreter. You can find them on the IFDB, and click the link to play online. One of my favourites among the classics are Plundered Hearts[1]. There&
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by kqr 6mo ago
Funny -- I feel almost the opposite way! In modern games there's a very small set of action one can take in any situation (hence why game controllers can get by with so few buttons) whereas in text adventures, there are several dozens
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by kqr 7mo ago
I'm fairly certain the bank would put mortgage interest payments above the healthcare of the individual even in my society.
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by kqr 7mo ago
This was an eye-opener for me when I read C.A. Gregory's Savage Money . Our values, i.e. the things we do to gain the approval of each other, has a huge effect on how we live. Much larger than I had expected. Some people (not limited
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Book Review: Savage Money (2024)(entropicthoughts.com)
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by kqr 7mo ago
Took me a while too. Go north for a while and you'll come across red lights. Aim for those!
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by kqr 7mo ago
It's not entirely crazy. I believe Thorp described this about roulette wheels. If they had no imperfection at all, it would be computationally laborious but not unthinkable to compute the result from the initial positions and velocitie
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by kqr 7mo ago
Yes, I meant to mention that but forgot in my eagerness to respond. Sorry and thanks for clarifying!
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by kqr 7mo ago
That's not how pre-statistical reasoning works. We have known for a long time that coins tend to land on either side around half the time. But before statistics, the outcome of any individual coin toss was considered "not uncertai
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by kqr 7mo ago
Even if that were true, it seems strange to me to only want to be contacted by programmers.
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by kqr 7mo ago
I second these recommendations and want to add Go, Flight for some of the in-flight coordination and engineering perspective.
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by kqr 7mo ago
Wait, really? That is surprisingly dark. That's lower than bare terrestrial soil and closer to worn asphalt, according to Wikipedia. In photography, I've always used a rule of thumb that to expose the Moon properly, aim for daylig
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by kqr 7mo ago
Because it's not always dark. Only during a full moon on Earth is the far side fully dark.
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by kqr 7mo ago
...humans with vision in good working order. There's a large subset of humans who would then have no way of contacting you.
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by kqr 7mo ago
Fast typing is not about throughput, it's about latency. If I only needed to type fast enough to produce the 125-something lines of code I get into production per week, I would be able to work at a word a minute. Alas, that's not
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by kqr 7mo ago
I have a hypothesis email scrapers don't parse HTML at all. I suspect they search the raw bytestring for @ characters and take whatever's on either side of it. That probably gets them as many addresses as they can realistically us
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by kqr 7mo ago
I agree the value proposition of alternative layouts is a bit shaky for small touchscreen keyboards. It's not obvious one does enough typing on them to offset the switching cost. (As opposed to physical keyboards where a more ergonomic
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by kqr 7mo ago
Is there any website that gives me updates mirroring the livestream but in plain text? I won't be able to tune in for the launch but this is exciting and I'd like to follow the developments! I'm sure the answer is "Twitt
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by kqr 7mo ago
In 2014 an independent safety panel estimated 1:75, but I think it's slightly better now. The shuttle program officially had a limit of 1:90 but in practice achieved 1:67.
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by kqr 7mo ago
I'd be interested in learning in what ways it is factually incorrect.
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by kqr 7mo ago
The STPA and CAST handbooks are available for free from the MIT Partnership for Systems Approaches to Safety and Security website. They are phenomenal . http://psas.scripts.mit.edu/home/books-and-handbooks/
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by kqr 7mo ago
> Having difficulty projecting force from the air with fighter bombers launched from air craft carriers and refueling caravans from the Indian Ocean or Mediterranean Sea This is not to be underestimated. It is very rare to be able to pro
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by kqr 7mo ago
I feel this way about Common Lisp hackers too. What they have going on is very impressive wizardry. I want that. But whenever I try, it just does not mesh with my brain and I end up going back to Haskell and its compile-fix-compile-run loop

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