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by thom 3y ago
Just don’t. There’s no real use case where people need to perceive this graph. It’s embarrassing to see the dreadful redesign of the C2 wiki shown here - the original wiki, no less! - which basically made it unusable. Hypertext is one of th
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by thom 3y ago
All testing can ever do is increase your confidence that you’re delivering value and not destroying it. I think it’s easy to believe that if you’re just pure enough and follow some prescribed process or another then you’re doing a good job,
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by thom 3y ago
I searched the thread to make sure someone mentioned this because I found it very useful. It encourages you to ask customers about real experiences instead of opinions, and gives you ways to identify things they care enough about to invest
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by thom 3y ago
There's a whole book about doing this in databases, FWIW: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/joe-celkos-trees/978155...
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by thom 3y ago
Seems mostly nonsensical, not sure if that's a bug or some deeper point I'm missing.
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by thom 3y ago
On the off chance that you're into sports, my company StatsBomb have some free data for both soccer and American Football up on GitHub: https://github.com/statsbomb/open-data https://github.com/sta
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by thom 3y ago
I think GAMBAS is excellent, probably the friendliest environment I've found for teaching kids, certainly the closest the the feeling of something like QBasic or early Visual Basic. Decent language, good IDE with built in docs, creatin
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by thom 3y ago
Yeah, I’ve come round to this because the base case is a zero mana activated ability that you never stop activating. That ought to give you a loss on time the moment your opponent calls a judge and you refuse to stop. More complex loops whe
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by thom 3y ago
Don’t like that at all! I suppose some chess tournaments have “no draws before move X” but it’s a feeble rule that players easily overcome with repetitions etc. Forcing someone to take an action that they might deem worse for their chances
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by thom 3y ago
Is that true? If your opponent creates a loop but you have a spell that can end it, I don’t believe you’re compelled to cast it if you decide the draw is more favourable. Definitely don’t like that rule if it exists.
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by thom 3y ago
There’s never a time where players can’t interact - just passing priority or putting triggered abilities on the stack are actions. And each time this could happen the game checks state based actions to see if someone has won. That said, if
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by thom 3y ago
For what it’s worth, it’s currently vintage cube season on Magic Online and you can draft a deck with multiple infinite combos without much effort. Sadly you have to do all the clicking so you might run out of time. Paper magic is much kind
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by thom 3y ago
For our first child in 2011, we were struggling to agree on a name, so I created a baby names app that tried to learn the kinds of names you liked, based on sounds, meanings, origins etc. It was my first real attempt at any sort of machine
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by thom 3y ago
What's the horizon after which you reset the input instead of appending to it? Does that happen if the user lets the system finish speaking?
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by thom 3y ago
Yeah there was a big push towards this in the 90s, I seem to remember the Wing Commander games and Ultima Underworld trying it. It's a similar tragedy to voiceovers in games - RPGs had increasingly interesting dialogue systems, Wizardr
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by thom 3y ago
They’re certainly given immortality by cenobites, and they do end up serving them to some extent.
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by thom 3y ago
Yeah it’s very interesting meeting the youngest Elf. But what happened at the end is pretty clear, I thought, and the series is called the Second Apocalypse after all.
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by thom 3y ago
The first book is The Darkness That Comes Before, and it's the beginning of two trilogies (the second of which ends up with four books...) The first three books are as good as anything in the genre. They're quite dark, but have ve
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by thom 3y ago
Not what you're asking for, but an interesting angle is R Scott Bakker's Second Apocalypse books. He has a race called the Cûnuroi who are approximately Elves, and they accept immortality in a deal with a race of depraved starfari
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by thom 3y ago
I think well-named functions or transducers are possibly better in many cases. I agree that long, complex pipelines of transformations aren’t good to stare at though.
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by thom 3y ago
Yeah, it's often better to _extract_ abstractions rather than to try and predict them correctly on a blank screen.
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by thom 3y ago
I think Kate Gregory makes similar good points about the structure of C++ learning materials here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnWhqhNdYyk
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by thom 3y ago
Not just that, but the same model will code the app for you now as well. Phenomenal progress.
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by thom 3y ago
I'm reminded a bit of this XKCD comic: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1425:_Tasks My youngest son recently asked me to make a robot for him. Getting something up and running that connects to an AI
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by thom 3y ago
You can’t go home again.
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by thom 3y ago
Absolutely right. If you’re lucky, those are areas where you can capture the complexity in some sort of policy or calculator class and use property based testing to cover as much as possible - that’s a level of unit testing I’m definitely o
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by thom 3y ago
I've chucked a few times over the last few days about the Wikipedia definition of the technological singularity, which opens: "The technological singularity—or simply the singularity—is a hypothetical future point in time at which
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by thom 3y ago
You fly _towards_ that in the same way they do in the film (and away from it when you die), but it cuts to you in a trench so there's plausible deniability here.
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by thom 3y ago
https://x.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538
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by thom 3y ago
I agree that is the most pressing need, and the one Microsoft has already started producing like all the other big players. I’d be very surprised if this topic hasn’t come up in conversations with Altman either now or even before the curren

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