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by tansey 16y ago
The article says: "When breakthrough thinking is needed, a fun, collaborative and supportive environment will generally yield better/faster results than the pressure of sticks and carrots. This is especially important in the early days of
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by tansey 16y ago
If they are, I wouldn't want to be the Friday janitorial crew...
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by tansey 16y ago
You are indeed misunderstanding. A game tree search is not defined by the available options for the very next move. It's about the total possible paths to the end. In this case, poker is a much larger tree. Read the intro section of Darse's
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by tansey 16y ago
I had no idea Zappos was so big (1800 employees, over $1.5B in revenue), but with a founder like that, I can see why. He clearly cares a lot about his employees and his company's vision. What an enthralling story too! Easily the best articl
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by tansey 16y ago
Right, that would be what I meant by the poker-specific extensions. Most chess algorithms use minimax to search the game tree. The UoA team has extended the basic minimax algorithm to other variants like miximax which can handle partial inf
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by tansey 16y ago
Sure, the number of possible moves is huge in both games. However, it's more about the number of relevant moves at a given game state. Alpha-beta algorithms for chess can do a much more thorough search than their poker-specific extensions a
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by tansey 16y ago
Size and complexity of the search space (i.e., the game tree). The tree is several orders of magnitude larger for poker than for chess. I've spent a non-trivial percentage of my life both playing and researching AI for poker. See http://p
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by tansey 16y ago
Yeah, a better Soros analogy would be that he's good at speculation. He's not running off to build websites or start car companies.
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by tansey 16y ago
I agree that the paper makes some naive assumptions. However, you seem to be equating poker to chess, which is a common but erroneous analogy. Poker is a MUCH tougher game (dozens of orders of magnitude, depending on the variant) than chess
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by tansey 16y ago
How do articles like this get upvoted so quickly on a site that is supposed to be filled with critical thinkers? There are very serious implications to making something a right. Making food a right in the US would be a disaster.
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by tansey 16y ago
He was wearing a hoodie on a stage with dozens of extremely bright lights precises directed at him while being asked questions that he was very nervous about having to answer. What is the scandal? I wish I could downvote this story. His ans
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by tansey 16y ago
Interesting that he mentions the period where the short story reigned before TV broke through. Seems very similar to the internet, where video has again broken through.
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by tansey 16y ago
Pothon (poe-thon) sounds better to me.
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by tansey 16y ago
This is a very interesting phenomenon. I think one application of it may be in no-limit poker. You have two categories of hands: rags and monsters. If you just wait for monsters and don't play rags, you won't likely get paid off against str
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by tansey 16y ago
Out of curiosity, why? To me, there is a difference between theoretical significance and practical significance. A 90% likelihood that the second version is actually better than the first version is enough for me to switch. What is the down
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by tansey 16y ago
Risk management is not the same as "limiting risk at all cost." The former will balance the reward potentials with the risk of investment; the latter will turn down anything that's not a lock.
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by tansey 16y ago
I use http://www.hackurls.com
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by tansey 16y ago
Fair enough, I believe it was only a rumored $2BN offer from Yahoo.
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by tansey 16y ago
The same argument exists for just about every fiscal requirement the government imposes on us, that doesn't mean it's not necessary. People on HN are not normals. If the USA was filled with nothing but hackers, we probably would do just fin
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by tansey 16y ago
Facebook was monetizing just fine. They had simple ads that were generating millions in revenue and profit. The problem is that they are trying to hyper-monetize. Zuckerberg turned down a $2BN offer from Yahoo, so clearly he believed he cou
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by tansey 16y ago
Why don't people patent their Twitter apps then? It may take three years before you get it approved, but once it's in you can sue Twitter into oblivion for stealing your idea, right?
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by tansey 16y ago
And he would have just told those potential buyers that he is tired of running his company and desperately wants to get rid of it, thus giving them lots of leverage in negotiations.
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by tansey 16y ago
How many jobs actually exist for more than 100 years? Also, just like we've seen in the last 200 years, people's education requirements would continue to grow. If you live to 1000, maybe the first 50 years of your life are spent as a studen
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by tansey 16y ago
Think about how much more efficient and productive an economy could be if the oldest members didn't have to retire due to old age? More poignant to the current recession-- imagine how much better things would be now if people who lived thro
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by tansey 16y ago
The reason for sticking around after mating is to protect your children. In this sense, there is definitely an evolutionary pressure to live longer. The longer an organism takes to mature, the more advanced it can become. Consequently, the
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by tansey 16y ago
I see Diaspora kind of like a third-party candidate in an election (in the US). They won't win, but it's not really about that. It's about forcing the big guys to take a better stance on their one important issue.
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by tansey 16y ago
Coming from the hedge fund world, $8.25M seems so small. It's amazing how much it can fund. What are the requirements for becoming part of the next YC round? Do you have to know someone already involved with YC? Does YC only accept investor
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by tansey 16y ago
If companies are acting in their own interest, then there's no reason for them to do this unless it's a law. I believe there is legislation being drafted regarding how people's information can be handled on social networks. How would it hel
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by tansey 16y ago
1. Archive.org -- kind of kills the whole "delete my past" idea. 2. Even if it were possible, what about personal responsibility? Why is it a good thing that your past can simply be erased? If you're running for office and it turns out that
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by tansey 16y ago
Seems to me like he was hedging. Does he really feel a difference between 2.5B and 13B?

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