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by kris-s 5y ago
What did you have in mind?
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by kris-s 5y ago
> and allow genetic algorithms to evolve their own inputs and reward functions on their own I've been playing with genetic algorithms for years now as a hobby and this type approach was a dead end for me, the GA entities would just
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by kris-s 5y ago
I wonder if Laplace’s demon knows about Maxwell’s.
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by kris-s 6y ago
When I learned about the cardinal language folks a few years ago I thought it was so cool that I’ve tried to always keep in mind which way is north ever since. Whenever I learn enough of a new language to speak sentences I feel as though th
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by kris-s 6y ago
Data for past completion rates is available. I wonder how that affects puzzle difficulty tuning. https://adventofcode.com/2019/stats
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by kris-s 6y ago
I love small and medium sized games. I'm nearly done working on one now actually (although I can't release it at the moment). If anyone is looking for games like this here are a few single player games I'd recommend: Monumen
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by kris-s 6y ago
What is FHS?
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by kris-s 6y ago
Sounds like you are in dire need of a break!
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by kris-s 6y ago
My biggest gripe with Rust is that is doesn't spark joy. I intellectually agree with a lot of its goals but every time I write some Rust I just find it dreary. Maybe it's the ugly syntax, maybe it's the "code feel"
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by kris-s 6y ago
Between languages like Go, Rust, Swift, and others I feel pretty optimistic about these new players (and I very much prefer more language diversity). No surprise to see generics being so strongly pined for again. Very curious about how Go g
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RNG Day(rngday.com)
1 points by kris-s 7y ago|0 comments
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by kris-s 7y ago
Looks really cool!
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by kris-s 7y ago
Are there commercially successful roguelikes that use ascii art only? Dwarf Fortress is the only one I know of and it's getting an official makeover for the Steam release.
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by kris-s 7y ago
> At one point, after getting a promotion and a raise, I computed the ratio of the amount of money my changes made the company vs. my raise and found that my raise was 0.03% of the money that I made the company, only counting easily quan
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by kris-s 7y ago
PICO-8 might be a fun starting point. https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
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by kris-s 7y ago
The linked issue is tagged "NeedsFix".
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by kris-s 7y ago
Great writeup, I believe there is a open issue from Rob Pike 2013 this would fall under: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/6853
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by kris-s 7y ago
What is described in the article doesn't fit the definition of panic. I'm torn because maybe I wouldn't have read the article without the needless anthropomorphization. Plants are awesome and interesting to me because they&#x
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by kris-s 7y ago
Snake oil wisdom.
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by kris-s 7y ago
Yes, I'd put a wager that Go will have a long lifespan. I think there will eventually be a few copycat Go-style languages with some bits and bobs from other languages (immutability, exceptions, etc) but the bones will be the same.
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by kris-s 7y ago
Developer convenience. If the language gives you an out to manage it yourself for performance: that's cool too. I agree with the claim in the essay that there will always be a need for full throttle performance, which rules out a GC or
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by kris-s 7y ago
I think with the slowing progress of single threaded performance modern languages require three essential features if they want to be "main branches" of the language evolutionary tree. 1. easy parallelism 2. easy networking 3. man
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by kris-s 7y ago
Great writeup, I'm very curious about the performance between the compilers.
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by kris-s 7y ago
That's how it works, next year it's February 28th.
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by kris-s 7y ago
I think it's a tricky thing to define "appropriateness" in this context. A sufficiently complete random generator could return a new universe. Which is to say, ya gotta draw the line somewhere.
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International RNG Day(rngday.com)
4 points by kris-s 7y ago|4 comments
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by kris-s 7y ago
I was inspired to try baking from The Great British Baking Show and was really surprised to find how difficult it was to find lard for my pastry dough. Bring it back!
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by kris-s 8y ago
Light Table has a new maintainer, so Miracle Max might yet be able to help. http://lighttable.com/2019/03/31/New-year-old-plans/
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by kris-s 8y ago
> I do blame the youngster's generation. When you're young the older generations complain about you. When you're old you complain about the younger. https://mentalfloss.com/article/52209/15-histor
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by kris-s 8y ago
I think part of the issue with RSS is the real pain of dealing with XML. I'm mildly cheering for something like https://jsonfeed.org - which would be a big step towards making a decentralized system more of a reality.

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