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by sgillen 8y ago
I read through the economist, but only once a week.
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by sgillen 8y ago
Personally, my guess is that we will find that life is actually pretty common, but that civilization like we have is very rare. I mean life on earth has been going for what? 4 billion years? and yet only in the last 10,000 or so did civiliz
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by sgillen 8y ago
Yes an actual good AI in Civ would vastly improve that game for me.
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by sgillen 8y ago
Definitely a part of it, I’m an emacs user but I’ve been on enough machines that only have vi(m) and that I just need to make a quick edit on that I’ve had to learn the basics of vi anyway.
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by sgillen 8y ago
Probably not the majority but yes quite a few developers out there that are “vim users”. I had one friend who would rave about vim and then I learned he didn’t know how to copy paste...
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by sgillen 8y ago
Can’t be too surprised, audio just doesn’t feel like a very good interface for browsing even a few different items for quality and price. Especially considering that just about everyone who has an Alexa also has a phone or computer that off
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by sgillen 8y ago
yes I see what you are saying with the chess example, but I think in this case adding the visual layer actually adds interesting problems related to what openAI is trying to do. See my reply to lawrenceyan above.
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by sgillen 8y ago
I think it just comes down to the fact that discrete action spaces are easier to work with for most RL frameworks (not sure what exactly open AI is using here though).
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by sgillen 8y ago
>> Image processing and robotics controls are largely solved Image processing and robotic control are very far from being solved problems. I guess you are saying that in the case of alpha go it would not be a super difficult step to h
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by sgillen 8y ago
Yes but the comment you're replying to is saying that it would be interesting to only rely on information from visual input on the screen, rather than on getting (for example) the absolute XY position of every player as a direct inpu
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Why does Windows not recognize my device when I use a different USB port?(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
2 points by sgillen 8y ago|0 comments
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Using software to model the spread of wildfire(economist.com)
1 points by sgillen 8y ago|0 comments
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by sgillen 8y ago
Very cool, could be useful for programming interviews, especially for data science and similar positions where interactive plotting might be important.
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by sgillen 8y ago
Not sure where your 12 hour figure came from. I found this though: > Colaboratory is intended for interactive use. Long-running background computations, particularly on GPUs, may be stopped.
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by sgillen 8y ago
I think it’s possible the removing stuff is a function of constrained resources, Mozilla might just not have time to stay competitive with chrome/safari etc and maintain all these features at the same time.
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by sgillen 8y ago
Thought it was very interesting that python was considered an embedded language for this list. Has anyone here actually used python in an embdedded environment before?
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IEEE top programming languages (2018)(spectrum.ieee.org)
4 points by sgillen 8y ago|1 comments
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by sgillen 8y ago
For sure, although as a counterpoint I’ve also seen programmers do the reverse. Spending a lot of effort building bad abstractions to completely minimize code reuse/size, when really we would have been better off with slightly longer c
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by sgillen 8y ago
> There is something unique about software that exacerbates these problems. Unlike every other technology, software doesn’t wear out. The traditional cycle of replacement and renewal is halted; there is no evolution. I do understand what
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by sgillen 8y ago
yeah, I think a big reason why they needed to do randomization in the first place is because of inaccuracies in the simulation compared to the real world. And the extra randomization required almost two orders of magnitude more training tim
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by sgillen 8y ago
Sure but we want to find exploits in the physical universe not in the approximation that we call a physics engine.
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by sgillen 8y ago
They already have a good estimate of the finger tip pose from the angular measurements of all the internal degrees of freedom (presumably from angular encoders?). And I'm not sure any IMU small enough to fit into the fingertip will be
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by sgillen 8y ago
Well if you look at the plot in the "Learning progress" section, you'll see that they did require almost two orders of magnitude more training time due to the randomizations they were adding to the simulation. Without these t
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by sgillen 8y ago
It's a really cool phenomena, it also means we have to make our simulations better. These sorts of RL algorithms are so good at finding "exploits" in the physics engine they are in that help them "cheat" sometimes,
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by sgillen 8y ago
My guess is that they are still a useful platform to tear new radars against.
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by sgillen 8y ago
Very cool, it’s too bad we can’t see anything inside the event horizon yet (and possibly can’t ever). That’s where the really interesting stuff might happen. We know either our current understanding of GR or our current understanding of QM
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by sgillen 8y ago
Divinity original Sin 2: Ok it’s a video game but if you guys like table top games it is based off it it. It is based off tabletop games and it definitely shows It’s great to play with friends but you can also play solo if that’s more your
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by sgillen 8y ago
That honestly seems like a pretty good use case for global variables in a single entry point program.
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by sgillen 8y ago
I keep a journal emacs org mode, it’s mostly a daily TODO list and a place to take notes on what I read that day. But I will sometimes reflect at the end of the day or week and put my thoughts in there as well.
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by sgillen 8y ago
It’s subjective for sure, I think OP is asking “python developers, in your professional opinion what are the highest quality open source python repos”.

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