tjah1087

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by tjah1087 1y ago
I have a colleague in a big tech firm whose email address is derived from his initials, resulting in the glorious: "svp@<company>.com" Needless to say, he sometimes gets emails he shouldn't.
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by tjah1087 2y ago
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” ―
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by tjah1087 3y ago
SIMA author here - SIMA is betting on simulations and games. We use real-world open-ended language, but games/sim obviously have simplified physics/graphics. In terms of alternative strategies, Google DeepMind also has an amazing
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by tjah1087 6y ago
I think they are trying to imply that refueling a starship in orbit is worth it, whatever the cost - it gives a capability we didn't have before.
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by tjah1087 6y ago
Yes, this. Even looking like half a sphere is enough, as the system attempts to detect partially occluded balls too.
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by tjah1087 6y ago
A few reasons why this outsourcing is more extensive than you might think: Latency: (cheap labour is usually far away from the match). This makes teleoperation harder. Bandwidth (TV ops run from a van in a car park - so getting a reliable v
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by tjah1087 6y ago
They did this for Goal Line Technology (put a chip in the ball). A few companies actually managed to get a production process that put a chip in the ball without affecting flight characteristics (there are a lot of regulations around this),
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by tjah1087 6y ago
This is a surprisingly easy mistake to make. Background: I was one of the original engineers on the Goal Line Technology system now used by the vast majority of professional leagues. Heads are surprisingly ball shaped from a a lot of camera
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by tjah1087 6y ago
Any game built around word play or humour. E.g. "I'm sorry I haven't a Clue"[1] or something like Cards Against Humanity. Though I imagine someone is trying to apply GPT-3 to these sorts of games already. Beyond that, an