rndmcnlly0

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by rndmcnlly0 14y ago
"insolation" (think of incoming solar radiation) is distinct from "insulation"
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by rndmcnlly0 14y ago
The basic trance problem: kick if i%4 == 0 clap if i%8 == 4 hat if i%8 in [0,2,6,7] bass always, according to some function of i
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A practical application of your well-practiced FizzBuzz skills(youtube.com)
2 points by rndmcnlly0 14y ago|1 comments
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by rndmcnlly0 15y ago
Given the effort the play a game and the inter-subject noise in a numerical judgement, I think a better use of Mechanical Turk would be to ask the player to do some blame assignment. That is, instead of rating a game as 4-stars, they could
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by rndmcnlly0 15y ago
Here's my restatement of the statistical approach (correct me if I'm wrong): Instead of proposing some metric for fun that is valid a-priori, we are going to look for the very grounded game-specific correlates of fun and optimize with respe
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by rndmcnlly0 15y ago
It's natural to question how someone can unproblematically pose a metric on the value of game rulesets (particularly without a generous helping of philosophy and psychology to back it up). However, pragmatically, it's not a silly thing to t
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by rndmcnlly0 15y ago
I'm in grad school for AI right now as a result of reading about Eurisko as a kid . Though I haven't followed up on the greater vision, my thesis proposal a few years ago pitched the project of building a Eurisko-style discovery system for
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by rndmcnlly0 15y ago
Before you jump to evolutionary algorithms, note "The Problem with Evolution" section in the OP. This was written by a guy who knows what he's doing with evolution, and it's interesting to see him turning to MCTS given his previous success
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by rndmcnlly0 15y ago
Oh, and here's a sudoku solver in 15 source lines with ASP: http://asparagus.cs.uni-potsdam.de/encoding/show/id/3540 Also, a sudoku puzzle generator directly incorporating the unique solution constraint: http://asparagus.cs.uni-potsdam.d
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by rndmcnlly0 15y ago
You might enjoy answer set programming (ASP). It's a different take on logic programming based on the idea of automatically transforming your problem into a SAT-like representation and then running fancy conflict-driven constraint learning
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A Map Generation Speedrun with Answer Set Programming(eis-blog.ucsc.edu)
4 points by rndmcnlly0 15y ago|0 comments
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by rndmcnlly0 16y ago
I had the core idea of this in 2006 (binary coded patterns of small magnets for position and orientation sensitivity), but... didn't follow up. Looks like they are doing some interesting stuff with it (and piling on the patents). The origin
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Programmable magnets(youtube.com)
3 points by rndmcnlly0 16y ago|2 comments
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by rndmcnlly0 16y ago
If so, then it's all the more true that now is the time to invest attention in learning how the internet works at all of its layers. When the time comes, you can be part of those who build the next internet-like thing with full knowledge of
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by rndmcnlly0 16y ago
(seconding your claim that this is an interesting new social dynamic) In the quasi-whimsical view of Anonymous as a legitimate internet-dwelling mentality, it's these definedly group actions act actually constitute the speech (a vector of c
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by rndmcnlly0 16y ago
On a meta-note: I deeply enjoy that linking to Wikipedia articles is part of HN culture. If that which is timely cannot be timeless, then it is of supreme importance that what is News to us, individually, consists of more than what is New a
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by rndmcnlly0 16y ago
Has anyone considered generalizing these to voxels -- adding details to minecraft style spaces?
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From Breakout to Space Invaders, All Over Again(eis-blog.ucsc.edu)
16 points by rndmcnlly0 16y ago|0 comments
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by rndmcnlly0 16y ago
"Deliberate practice" is, in fact, what Gladwell is saying the 10,000 hours should measure.
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by rndmcnlly0 16y ago
It's not that Prolog necessarily backtracks to find the final solution. It's the forward computation that actually builds the solution, backtracking only when one can't be found with assumptions made so far. Sloppy programming can lead to l
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by rndmcnlly0 16y ago
None of these reasons is a Technical Explanation.
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by rndmcnlly0 16y ago
Thanks for doing some extraction! Using your file I've been building up a solver for these questions in Prolog (using DCGs for parsing and simple predicates for the common sense facts and answer calculation). It's nowhere near "done", but i
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by rndmcnlly0 16y ago
Even if you don't find a way to use anything out of the functional-logical space, reading about languages like this can change the way you program when you are in a functional-only or logical-only language. Here's a little oversimplificatio
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by rndmcnlly0 16y ago
LBO = "leveraged buyout" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveraged_buyout
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by rndmcnlly0 16y ago
For reference, a 2000 Calorie per day diet translates to about 100 Watts.
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by rndmcnlly0 16y ago
Update: I gave them a high-level overview of the conceptual exploit and even sketched a high-level technical solution for the problem (one that I admitted probably only pushes the difficulty up a few more notches, expected with DRM). I gue
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by rndmcnlly0 16y ago
I hadn't considered the effect on my reputation at all. So, forward simulating (and embedding my sentiments as a measure of my ease of sleeping): Case {they implement it any nobody learns of the exploit}: I'm remembered as the one who stoo
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by rndmcnlly0 16y ago
Heh, nope. I thought asking for money would only complicate their adoption of my idea for cleaning up the DRM integration process. I'm just trying to save the world from some terrible software here, remember (and trying not to create a bigg
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by rndmcnlly0 16y ago
Nope, and it's not Amazon either.
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Ask HN: an ethical dilemma in recommending an Android DRM solution fix
12 points by rndmcnlly0 16y ago|14 comments

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