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by lspears 6y ago
Does anyone have experience using blender for ML simulation data? How does it compare to Unity? I’m using Unity for generating synthetic images and RL learning.
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by lspears 6y ago
Dropping out of college was the hardest and best decision I ever made. It literally never came up that I didn’t have a degree and i started my career without debt. But have a plan and don’t drop out until you are making money from somethi
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by lspears 6y ago
I have used TripleByte as a candidate and company and it’s an awesome product. If we keep getting great hires, I could care less what you make public. Thanks for your hard work.
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by lspears 7y ago
I loved building my chess library and would encourage other developers to try it. It is large and complex enough to test your abilities. Building it in a idiomatic, testable, and performant way really encourages software engineering skill
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by lspears 7y ago
I am siding with Google on this one. Stadia is amazing. I play games with zero lag on both my TV and MBP when normally I would have to buy two copies. Reddit has been freaking out at every step to get more features for a platform they su
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by lspears 7y ago
Link to game? I'd like to watch that.
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by lspears 7y ago
Mentions Zeitgeber which I had to look up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeber
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by lspears 7y ago
Bravo
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by lspears 7y ago
Poker has the concept of positional advantage. Acting later is an advantage because you gain more information from your opponent. Although chess is a total information game and doesn't have this phenomenon, the player at turn can sti
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by lspears 7y ago
I did something similar, but with an end-to-end ML approach: https://towardsdatascience.com/transcribe-live-chess-with-ma...
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by lspears 7y ago
Plug: https://github.com/notnil/chess
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Transcribe Live Chess with Machine Learning(medium.com)
2 points by lspears 7y ago|0 comments
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by lspears 7y ago
Learned this in "The Hidden Life of Trees". Great book. https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Life-Trees-Communicate_Discove...
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by lspears 7y ago
If you haven't checked out the hardcore history podcasts I recommend doing so. The punic war episodes are particularly good.
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by lspears 8y ago
I think this analysis is incomplete. It's important to separate out longevity from cause of death. "The China Study"'s central premiss is that a vegan diet reduces the likelihood of dying of the "Western" dis
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by lspears 8y ago
Domains on the blockchain?
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Coursera vs. Udacity for Machine Learning(medium.com)
3 points by lspears 9y ago|0 comments
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by lspears 9y ago
Bubble?
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by lspears 9y ago
Just use Udacity or Coursera
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by lspears 9y ago
"Understand Go pointers in less than 800 words or your money back" There are multiple pictures each of which is worth 1000 words. Where is my money?
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by lspears 9y ago
https://www.locationsmart.com provides a service to locate devices at the cell tower level. You can use it to verify location updates from the device are in the ballpark of where they say they are. I haven't used it perso
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Building a self driving car in GTA5(pythonprogramming.net)
2 points by lspears 9y ago|0 comments
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by lspears 10y ago
"the experience is shockingly good for a device that costs less than a bar tab" Glad to see someone else lives it up at the bar
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by lspears 10y ago
Love this article. I went through a lot of these same steps when I was tinkering with my own chess bot. Bitboard representation with bitshifting operations can dramatically speed everything up (see here https://chessprogramming
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by lspears 10y ago
Agreed
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by lspears 10y ago
Spoiler alert!
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by lspears 10y ago
isn't
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by lspears 10y ago
Same
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Slack based chess client written in Go(github.com)
2 points by lspears 11y ago|0 comments
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by lspears 11y ago
A couple of these tools have sprung up: JSON: https://mholt.github.io/json-to-go/ CURL: https://mholt.github.io/curl-to-go/ SQL: https://github.com/knq/xo The JSON tool espec

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