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by thmt 3y ago
Nit: KataGo does train on handicap games up to 5 handicap stones. In the KataGo write-up "Accelerating Self-Play Learning in Go" from 2020, Appendix D says that KataGo trains on handicap games with up to 3 handicap stones. Looking
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by thmt 4y ago
For those who don't see the cryptocurrency question, it's section "Digital Assets": "At any time during 2022, did you: (a) receive (as a reward, award, or payment for property or services); or (b) sell, exchange, gi
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NYT reporters had a top-down directive that tech coverage should be critical(twitter.com)
156 points by thmt 4y ago|151 comments
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by thmt 4y ago
From former journalist Matt Yglesias on Twitter: a few years ago the New York Times made a weird editorial decision with its tech coverage. Instead of covering the industry with a business press lens or a consumer lens they started coverin
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by thmt 5y ago
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by thmt 6y ago
Alistarh et al. ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.3200 ) show that assuming we have a kinder, non-malicious scheduler, the situation looks even better: lock-free (some process can make progress) algorithms have a stronger pro
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by thmt 6y ago
If you get surrounded by four people, a textbox appears saying that you can press <space> to teleport out. A larger group of people could form a ring to entrap people, but that's harder to coordinate.