robrenaud

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by robrenaud 16y ago
Wow. That really hit the sweet spot on technical detail. It had enough so I feel like I really learned something, but not so much that I just drowned it in and ignored it.
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by robrenaud 16y ago
FWIW, the idea is obvious, and I actually made a journal post on okcupid about doing this on my own profile (uploading a bunch of pictures to hotornot.com, taking the highest rated couple to post onto okcupid) in January of 2008.
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by robrenaud 16y ago
I was talking about behavior of employers on the margin, not about increasing employment by an order of magnitude. Certainly I agree that my argument is limited by changes at scale and also only applies to individual companies within an ind
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by robrenaud 16y ago
If you can make your employees more productive, I would think you would want more of them, to capture more of the market. That is, if employee output increases, but the cost per employee are constant, you are better off hiring more employe
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by robrenaud 16y ago
Ah, but you see, there doesn't need to be bijection between his level and SAT problems. There only needs to be a function that when given an arbitrary SAT instance (your "boolean equation") and a blackbox way of solving his puzzle problems
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by robrenaud 16y ago
His game being NP-complete means that if you write a program that can efficiently solve every instance of puzzle that is provided by his game, you can efficiently solve NP-complete problems. It doesn't make sense to consider any particular
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by robrenaud 17y ago
I'd really love to see something that gives recommendations for bets in a local pool based on your region. Assume that geographically concentrated bettors will have similar biases because there is a strong preference of fans to bet for thei