noxvilleza

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by noxvilleza 4y ago
Oh dear. I did a brief search for 'adage on benchmarking' and only saw Rugg/Feldman benchmarks.
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by noxvilleza 4y ago
Is there an existing named adage for something like "if one creates a benchmark in order to rank general performance of some products, some of those products will ultimately sacrifice general performance in order to optimize for that b
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by noxvilleza 4y ago
Obviously the status quo within the UK has changed a lot since the 2014 Scottish independence vote - the key aspect being Brexit. This change was sort of crucial to many of the key talking points in the vote: EU CAP subsidies for farmers, s
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by noxvilleza 4y ago
At first I thought you might've slightly leaked your phone number here, but there's surprisingly many 10 digit prime numbers with a triple-7 in the middle (and obviously that inner 777 can't be next to a 7 else you'd cal
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by noxvilleza 4y ago
Unsure if it was added after your comment, but there is a brief comment on parquet (in that it's binary - so it can be annoying to view/edit).
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by noxvilleza 4y ago
There's also some subconscious effect - you rarely remember when queues are fair to you, but you always remember when you get 'queue-screwed'.
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by noxvilleza 5y ago
I basically never see Plex adverts (and I only use local streaming really). Where do you normally see them?
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by noxvilleza 5y ago
Even the worst starting word is guaranteed <= 1 average guess more than the optimal strategy though!
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by noxvilleza 5y ago
I thought that included the cost of the ~20 second broadcast cost, but now thinking about it that seems really low.
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by noxvilleza 5y ago
One of the scary things (for me) when it comes to home automation and DIY smart home tech is that there's so many options that I feel totally overwhelmed. For the last few months I've wanted to do a small setup with sensors around
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by noxvilleza 5y ago
> That's the AVERAGE win rate. I thought that they were suggesting it's ~ the average winrate given optimal play.
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by noxvilleza 5y ago
One of the best ways of knowing is by analyzing a large number of bets made punters from multiple sports books - it's easier to spot irregular betting patterns in this regard.
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by noxvilleza 5y ago
The maximum win rates part is normally clear by the game (for example, for Roulette or Blackjack you can see odds) or otherwise regulated by local/government laws (e.g. for games of pure chance like slot machines). > and otherwise f
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by noxvilleza 5y ago
Ah, wasn't even aware of a fork (but makes sense!).
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by noxvilleza 5y ago
What about Clementine [ https://www.clementine-player.org/ ]? I used to love Amarok, so been using Clementine on Linux for the last few months.
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by noxvilleza 5y ago
Narrowing the search space greedily doesn't solve the problem optimally, because the size of the search space is just a heuristic. Some search spaces of size X might be more difficult to reduce further than another search space of size
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by noxvilleza 5y ago
Adversarial strategies are another type of problem entirely (as in, if you're playing Word Mastermind). Wordle is a 1-player game, so I find hgibbs's comment totally reasonable. I would think that 'optimal' is more accur
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by noxvilleza 5y ago
That's what I was clarifying with 'Yes, it's in the list of guessable words - however it's not a valid answer word'. They have two lists of words: one is a list of possible answers, and another is a list of extra (v
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by noxvilleza 5y ago
Yes, it's in the list of guessable words - however it's not a valid answer word. You need to use the WORDLE word list in order to evaluate how good or bad your initial guess is, using another word list will provide distorted resul
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by noxvilleza 5y ago
> You are trying to use the word that once you get the match result back, it discards the most number of words. This isn't strictly true either. Two N-sized subsets of words from a common initial set might have completely different
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by noxvilleza 5y ago
I did some analysis on this last week [ https://noxville.medium.com/raising-the-wordle-first-guess-b... ], ROATE left the lowest average valid answers (60.424) but 195 in the worst case. RAISE was the second best average (61.
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by noxvilleza 5y ago
Yeah I found out about the solution via that exact part of the docs, I'm just saying it seemed like a bug when I first came across it - and some users might not realize the default behaviour (for example, if you're importing a la
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by noxvilleza 5y ago
Love beets, used it now for a few years with foobar2000/cmus as my media player. A few tasks I've found somewhat irky (most recently handling the Blue / Green / Red / White / Teal / Black albums by Wheezer
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by noxvilleza 5y ago
When I left high school I loved maths and stats, so I started a degree in Actuarial Science. Was totally bored by it by the end of first year - could not be motivated at all by it. There was no semblance of problem solving, it was primari
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by noxvilleza 5y ago
I wonder, now that there's a metric for what are the most "normal" credit structures, what the most abnormal structures are. Also interested why they went with Trueskill over Glicko 2, since it's just 1v1 'encounter
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by noxvilleza 5y ago
Agree with all your first paragraph points. Although he's only an IM, I really like Eric Rosen - he's a pretty reasonable personality and is able to crack jokes and keep the conversation moving nicely. Unfortunately he was part of
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by noxvilleza 5y ago
It's just "Elo", not "ELO" - it's not an acronym, but rather named after the guy who created it. Dropping Elo after winning an event isn't really that 'wonky' - it's just a Bayesian update f
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by noxvilleza 5y ago
Yeah same with me in university. They eventually started rate-limiting each SSH connection to ~50kB/sec, so I ran a bunch of separate SSH connections, made them as upstreams on a tinyproxy - and then used proxychains to force apps to u
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by noxvilleza 5y ago
In foobar2000 it's kinda easy, Preferences -> Playback -> DSP Manager -> Downmix channels to mono [+]. (picture: https://i.imgur.com/FDhxh3j.png )
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by noxvilleza 5y ago
The way in which I think about it is that "learning" (in humans) often occurs is in the form of heuristics - certain rules or shortcuts which are not guaranteed to be optimal, but do a good job at simplifying (the search-state of)

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