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by splonk 9y ago
This does actually happen, possibly for several other reasons. Bought ratings often come accompanied by other ratings, whether bought or not, just to attempt to cloak the bot. This even happens in systems where there aren't any count
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by splonk 9y ago
There's a fair amount of research on this, although I don't have a link to any public results offhand. But I have sat in on several UX experience sessions with users being interviewed about their motivations for rating, and &quot
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by splonk 9y ago
Note that the Booking.com reviews are also less obviously spammable than TripAdvisor, since you have to actually have to make a booking to review a hotel. TA reviews in general have a lot of sampling bias involved from solicited reviews (o
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by splonk 9y ago
They're the biggest OTA in the UK, probably a little bit above Expedia, and with a wider gap between the top 2 and Agoda and LateRooms. They're also the biggest OTA in Europe at large. Priceline (really, Booking.com) is much big
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by splonk 9y ago
For those who want to read more about CFR, I'd start with some of Michael Johanson's papers. I think his thesis was specifically on CFR and poker, but a reasonable amount of searching on the UAlberta site will probably find you t
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by splonk 9y ago
There was a previous thread with a couple of their employees responding to comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14588456
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by splonk 9y ago
I don't believe you could buy gold directly from Blizzard at the time.
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by splonk 9y ago
Around 10 years ago before the rise of bitcoin, WoW gold was the de facto illicit currency of the internet, since there was a reasonably robust market for it. Things like batches of stolen credit cards would routinely be bought and sold in
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by splonk 9y ago
Wikivoyage is the usual resource for this. Note that much of wikivoyage is targeted towards the backpacker world and is somewhat spammy so I wouldn't necessarily use it for hotel/restaurant recommendations, but it tends to be pre
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by splonk 9y ago
On the topic of price transparency, can you discuss the breakdown of the pricing between different airports? I've traveled enough that I'm not particularly interested in anything besides expedited immigration, and I can totally a
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by splonk 9y ago
Suggestion: have the autocomplete on that page default to exact match for the IATA code first. I tried entering SIN and had to scroll through a bunch of other airports first.
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by splonk 9y ago
That's not their claim. Their claim is that they would have lost $30k/year after the last year of known minimum wage increases, which is $15/hr in 2018. (Prop J also requires further annual increases indexed to inflation af
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by splonk 9y ago
In a similar vein, there used to be a Clockmaker's Museum in Guildhall in London. I believe it's been moved to the Science Museum now. I had a similar experience as parent - didn't think I cared about clocks that much, but
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by splonk 10y ago
Worse treatment doesn't really mean much unless the hotel is close to 100% capacity. I may have phrased that part badly - what I meant is that 3rd party customers are lower priority than 1st party, so if it comes down to a question of
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by splonk 10y ago
One thing not mentioned yet is that "resort fees" are basically just a way to avoid paying commission to the aggregators. The combination of the ~20% commission and the most favored nation status that aggregators require from hot
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by splonk 10y ago
It's actually pretty common if you cast this as an abuse detection tool, which it sounds like this may have started out as. Think of it like shadowbanning - when you catch someone, your measures are more effective if the person doesn&
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by splonk 10y ago
> Allison notes that those operatives try to keep their winnings on each machine to less than $1,000, to avoid arousing suspicion. This is likely to be because they're trying to avoid the automatic W-2G that's generated for slo
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by splonk 10y ago
It's a significantly harder game. Computing a Nash equilibrium in a 2-player game is relatively straightforward in technique (albeit very computationally expensive in the case of poker). There's several factors that make even 3-
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by splonk 10y ago
Galfond thinks otherwise. From the article: “Your favorite poker player almost surely wouldn't agree to play any of these guys for high stakes, and would lose a lot of money if they did,” Galfond added. “Each of the four would beat me
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by splonk 10y ago
Without having looked into the details of this particular bot, they're almost always trained against themselves. It would be very surprising to me if they bootstrapped with any hands from live players.
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by splonk 10y ago
As another former pro and high stakes player, I agree, and I don't think anyone thinks it's particularly close. I'd even go so far as to say that the skill it takes to be a long term winning player at cash games is higher th
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by splonk 10y ago
Nobody who's been paying attention in the poker community would be shocked by this. HULHE has already been a AI win for a few years. HUNLHE is basically just a matter of time. Nash equilibrium strategies specifically do work better a
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by splonk 10y ago
It's not a few tiers down in skill, it's a few tiers down in fame. Each of the four players named is likely a favorite over Ivey in this format. Being a specialist counts for a lot here.
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by splonk 10y ago
I can corroborate some of the high level factoids in this. I work for a company with a large set of hotel sentiment data that should be a superset of the data in the linked post. It's probably around 35M reviews over several major si
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by splonk 10y ago
Not online AFAIK, but "Taste What You're Missing" by Barb Stuckey is a pretty readable book. It's more about how the tasting works on the human side than the actual cooking part, but it goes into some detail about how d
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by splonk 10y ago
You are correct about the trading part. http://www.businessinsider.com/pokmon-go-will-get-pokmon-tra...
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by splonk 10y ago
Pretty good recommendations. I'd add that if the Chen/Ankenmann book is too abstract, then possibly the Intelligent Poker Poker by Phil Newall is a better choice - it's kind of the more applied game theory book. MoP is an e
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by splonk 10y ago
For many people who do this, money is not the end goal. It's just a way of keeping score. There's another subset of people who do this who simply enjoy playing games (and poking holes in them). There's not much money in, e.
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by splonk 10y ago
Things like the board being a 5-flush and not realizing that it's a push (or pushing instead of winning because they don't realize that they have a card in hand that plays), or the board being two pair that counterfeits your pair
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by splonk 10y ago
I can expand a bit on how advantage play can work for the hold'em games against the house. I'm sure Grosjean and other professionals at this sort of thing have more sophisticated tactics. Fun fact - last I looked maybe 6-7 years

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