sydriax

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   by sydriax 1y ago

   Ben here -- you may be amused to know that Alan Sokal was my dad's freshman roommate in undergrad!
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   We bought the whole GPU, so we're damn well going to use the whole GPU(hazyresearch.stanford.edu)

   504 points by sydriax 1y ago|110 comments
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   by sydriax 9y ago

   Yeah, I agree that Robocode is very different from Halite. There are some competitions that are somewhat similar. - Visually, generals.io is pretty similar to Halite-I, but in actuality ends up being a pretty different game. - Halite-I is
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   by sydriax 9y ago

   From the 2016 competition, there was at least one Two Sigma hire directly resulting from Halite and several more that were probably resulted indirectly. Regarding your point about the last survivor winning, that's partially true, but p
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   by sydriax 9y ago

   Ben Spector here; both Michael and I are planning to attend college, but we'll see in ~five years! :)