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by mindgam3 8y ago
Agreed. Poker is another interesting case of "partial information" game. There is some discussion of this in the links below. I suspect that AlphaZero could make a decent poker player with a non-trivial amount of tweaking. 1. htt
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by mindgam3 8y ago
100% agree. I am terrible at mental arithmetic, but I am exceedingly good at performing symbolic operations playing bullet chess. It's primarily a visual or geometric calculation, not purely abstract like math. I think most people don&
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by mindgam3 8y ago
"Similarly with chess - eventually we have good mnemonics for what make good plays, and can play blitz reasonably well." "let's be real - a lot of human symbolic reasoning actually happens outside of the brain" I wa
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Two active shooter drills on an Air Force base and a real injured jogger = chaos(cnn.com)
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Update: a second response from FB https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/12/facebooks-messaging-par... It has screenshots of the messaging functionality but no clarification on how permissions were granted for thi
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by mindgam3 8y ago
“if you formulate a [very specific type of problem involving perfect information games] in the right way”
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I wonder how these results compare to Estimating Value of Fentanyl, Norco, and Oxy by Paying Users to Stop Using Them.
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Wouldn't that be a "general purpose game-playing intelligence system" at best? (without mentioning that it only applies to certain types of perfect-information games) Maybe it's just me, but "general purpose artific
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Demis Hassabis (true) statements here would be much more credible if DeepMind wasn't currently making a mint by promoting AlphaZero to the masses as a "general purpose artificial intelligence system". Don't believe me? C
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Yep, that’s pretty much how I remember it. Giving FB the benefit of the doubt, I suppose it’s possible that there could have been an additional permissions dialog that popped up whenever messaging integration happened. But I’m usually prett
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by mindgam3 8y ago
“Did partners get access to messages? Yes. But people had to explicitly sign in to Facebook first to use a partner’s messaging feature. Take Spotify for example. After signing in to your Facebook account in Spotify’s desktop app, you could
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Previous discussion of NYT article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18712382
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Previous discussion of the source NYT article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18712382
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by mindgam3 8y ago
“Among the revelations was that Facebook obtained data from multiple partners for a controversial friend-suggestion tool called “People You May Know.” The feature, introduced in 2008, continues even though some Facebook users have objected
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by mindgam3 8y ago
No worries. HN is a tough crowd and sincerity or sarcasm can be hard to interpret over text. I have seen people using /s to reduce confusion here and I try to follow that convention when I can’t resist revealing my jaded and cynical si
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by mindgam3 8y ago
I believe you are misinterpreting my point as discussed in another previous reply. To be clear, I am not calling “gotcha” on Walt Mossberg, I am supporting his statement.
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Apologies if it was unclear. My intent in posting his message was to summarize the article and because I personally found it concise and inspiring. I do not think it is unreasonable at all for him to have posted it there. In fact I think it
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by mindgam3 8y ago
“I am doing this — after being on Facebook for nearly 12 years — because my own values and the policies and actions of Facebook have diverged to the point where I’m no longer comfortable here,” he wrote on Facebook.
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Posting the reference to this for those who may have missed it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18699166
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by mindgam3 8y ago
A few years ago, while doing a bit of a family history research project (Knuth was my father's PhD advisor at Stanford), I stumbled across a rather awesome t-shirt design. May I humbly submit "Knuth is my homeboy" as my entry
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by mindgam3 8y ago
It’s not just valid theoretically. There is a cognitive bias on HN in certain hot button topics including psychiatry, addiction, and Facebook. Dissenting opinions there run the risk of getting you trolled and flagged under dubious pretenses
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Fascinating. First thing that comes to mind is Family Systems theory of psychology. The idea is the family unit itself is treated as an entity that is sick, rather than any single “identified patient.” I like it because it provides a useful
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How Ted Lieu Became Google’s Accidental Champion(theatlantic.com)
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I think healthy, fair competition is not antisocial or dysfunctional at all. Where it gets dysfunctional is people doing all the lying cheating and backstabbing to get the prize. But this is inevitable when you have people of different leve
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by mindgam3 8y ago
I see what you’re getting at, but you are conflating some genuinely pro-social behaviors (loyalty and looking out for friends) with others which are more like human social defaults (preferring people like yourself). Also, if loyalty and eth
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Replace “no office politics” with “functional office politics”, the answer is yes. The problem isn’t politics itself. It’s dysfunction, aka “dark patterns” aka antisocial behavior. The other problem is headlines like this one which, as othe
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by mindgam3 8y ago
This is the best ducking thread on the internet today. Well done all.
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"there’s a trained black box evaluator that selects candidate moves, which you then select from via chess theory" You're missing my point. There is no "trained black box evaluator." There is indeed a trained evaluat
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by mindgam3 8y ago
"how do you explain how you have an original idea, or learn something you previously had no conceptualisation of" This is like "where does your chess intuition come from" - and what I'm trying to express is that my
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Interesting, I'm not aware of this but conclusively shown, but please provide a link to back that up as I'm certainly curious. That said, if you do centaur blitz or bullet chess using over the board pieces, not computer move input

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