ragona

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by ragona 8y ago
I disagree. The part that everyone seems to forget about Starcraft is the micro; humans are imperfect at controlling their units, and even relatively decent players (say Diamond-ish) will sometimes lose to something like a worker rush.
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by ragona 8y ago
Most cheese in SC2 is a micro check; you're testing to see if you can control your units better than they control theirs, even if they might have an economic advantage. A worker rush isn't nearly as stupid as what you're desc
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by ragona 8y ago
The very fact that it's a bad plan means that it is surprising, which means that it is occasionally a good decision!
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by ragona 8y ago
I’ve gotten to a point where if we write a bash script for something I consider it somewhat of a failure. I want operational tooling to be easily maintainable by a large team of software engineers, and bash scripts just aren’t that. Service
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by ragona 8y ago
I wonder if some of it has to do with the fact that you can get Photoshop for $10/month, whereas 3D programs are still super expensive. I used Blender well over a decade ago because I couldn't afford Maya or Max. Given how cheap a
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by ragona 8y ago
> I'm thinking of writing a browser extension to add latency to some websites to make them less addictive. Woah, that might be really effective. I love the idea of finding ways to undo the powerful conversion and retention technique
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by ragona 8y ago
If I can briefly gush, I'm just a huge fan of spaCy. I spent a lot of time back in the day cobbling things together with NLTK, and my more recent projects with spaCy feel like cheating -- they come together so nicely. Thanks for buildi
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by ragona 8y ago
I'm not an NLP expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I've enjoyed playing with NLP tools for several years now. I think this is a really exciting time to be a user of NLP libraries, and I can't recommend tools like sp
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by ragona 8y ago
> there are two types of solutions you end up with: ones that can calculate the answer in a couple of milliseconds and the ones that would take years to finish This is of course a bit of an overstatement, but I generally agree that (depe