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by schwurb 8y ago
Great insight! To add to this: To counteract, one needs to implement some kind of synchronization device, which has bring plenty of other problems. It would be exiting if nature would choose a more snychronized approach if it had the choice
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by schwurb 8y ago
> If you struggle to prep food for cooking, you're going to be slower and probably less effective than the master chef who doesn't even have to think about how to dice. This analogy is not good in that prepping is a major part
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by schwurb 8y ago
> I believe the Kay-official answer to the question "what is Kay oop?" is "you just don't get it." Which for me has always raised a flag. There are at least two problems at work here: 1. The words that Alan Key i
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by schwurb 8y ago
> Making calls and sometimes they get picked up and sometimes not?!? I like that paranoia is the default. Once you get used to it, easy stuff remains easy and hard stuff becomes less scary. > But in-process? If I call a function on an
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by schwurb 8y ago
ADD person here: I feel that this is true for me aswell when I am in the rare state of being able to focus. When I am understimulated, listening to music seems to increase my focus (and otherwise I will move or sing silently to create that
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by schwurb 8y ago
You have to keep in mind that this was written by multiple authors 2000 years ago in a different culture using different ways of putting things. It is also a good exercise to entertain a mental position that is not yours; read a hindu verse
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by schwurb 8y ago
I read that AlphaStar might be able to play this strategy because it is really confident in its defense skills. For humans, that might be taking a risk that is too big. That said, I want to try it out anyway :) Edit: I recall that Rottie or
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by schwurb 8y ago
I honestly do not think meta or strategy will be interesting in SC2. (Obviously as a player it will, but from an AI standpoint not). AlphaGo already showed us that it can handle strategy well; A good AI in SC2 will simply scout the minimaly
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by schwurb 8y ago
My take: Fear and stress are useful in some circumstances, but should not be increased in others. Populations that are not afraid of death could then be healthier, since they focus their struggles on the current pressing issues instead of w
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by schwurb 8y ago
Thank you for passing on the knowledge - I hope you are well off now!
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by schwurb 8y ago
I envy those. I pity not having done my undergrad in maths! I have to say tho that we the examples learned in math department category theory are often not that important or interesting to programmers, and the same is true for the abstracti
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by schwurb 8y ago
> I'm curious to know not only how it benefits an understanding of software development, programming languages and functional programming It did and does that too (not much, since I am still a learner): It helps me to write APIs tha
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by schwurb 8y ago
> The reason anyone buys from a startup is desperation. That startup needs to be offering something that cannot be obtained from an existing, stable market player. Thank you! That is one more encouragement to get my prototype started and
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by schwurb 8y ago
I once used two weeks of vacation to learn category theory - that was a really fun and rich time. It really relaxed me, but it also brought me more knowledge than one year of shallowly engaging with the topic.
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by schwurb 8y ago
I do only partially qualify since I only lost-and-regained my passion for (software) problem solving after an early burnout, not because of an expansion of perspective. What fuels my passion: I try to stick to languages and concepts that ar
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by schwurb 8y ago
> except slightly modified to use ranges because the naïve method of taking derivatives isn't great when you have to take 2^(2^16) of them when your alphabet is UTF-16 characters. The paper we read described how instead of deriving