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Chess.com ran all games and matchmaking on a single server machine till recently(support.chess.com)
2 points by ummonk 2y ago|0 comments
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by ummonk 2y ago
What kind of "bigger labs" have attempted it and how much was their training budget? It's rather surprising to me that neural nets that can learn to win at Go or Chess can't learn to solve these sorts of tasks. Intuitive
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The Unusual Espionage Act Case Against a Drone Photographer(wired.com)
4 points by ummonk 2y ago|0 comments
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by ummonk 2y ago
The optimizations he was talking about were things like writing in assembly or hand-unrolling loops. It was assumed that you’ve already picked an performant algorithm / architecture and are writing in a performant low level language li
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by ummonk 2y ago
I’ve never seen anyone believe the straw man that the author seems to think people believe. People are rightly concerned about their data being trained on for the very real concerns which the author later acknowledges are legitimate risks.
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by ummonk 2y ago
The “image to 3d” examples seem to do well if the source image is an oblique view but not if it’s a direct straight-on front view.
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by ummonk 2y ago
The Guptas built plenty of Hindu temples. You should stop reading weird neo-Buddhist pop history.
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by ummonk 2y ago
Because North Indians drop the trailing schwa (including in parts of compound woods). Annoyingly enough, a lot of them will insist you’re pronouncing it “wrong” if you don’t drop the schwa in your own pronunciation.
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by ummonk 2y ago
It makes a pretty big difference whether you have to send the secret down the wire to prove you possess it (e.g. a JWT, unlike say a private key).
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by ummonk 2y ago
Just another example of Zawinski's law, no?
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by ummonk 2y ago
From what I've heard it's actually faster to create a 256 byte lookup table than to use popcnt.
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by ummonk 2y ago
I agree with your general point. However, we don't have particularly high mobile data usage. Countries with subscribers that use mobile to the exclusion of broadband (e.g. India) have higher mobile data usage per subscriber.
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by ummonk 2y ago
No it shouldn’t. Move history has to be encoded so draw by threefold / fivefold repetition and fifty moves / seventy five moves can be claimed / detected.
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by ummonk 2y ago
Bandwidth doesn't vary much with speed (since people tend to maintain the same 2 second gap from the car in front of them), except at low speeds where the nonzero size of each car becomes significant.
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by ummonk 2y ago
Wait so all this lets them pave a 100 meters a week (assemble bridge on one weekend, pave on Monday, then disassemble the bridge the next weekend after the asphalt has dried)? That seems horribly slow and expensive.
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by ummonk 2y ago
It’s not AM causing interference in EVs. It’s EVs causing interference in their AM radios.
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by ummonk 2y ago
Where are they claiming AP math by 5th grade? I seem them saying algebra by 5th grade, which is a far cry from, say, AP Precalculus let alone AP Calculus AB or AP Statistics.
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by ummonk 2y ago
Why can’t you just flag the comments you don’t like instead of suppressing a relevant story?
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by ummonk 2y ago
Having known a McKinsey consultant in the past, my general heuristic is that everything negative reported in the media about it is completely true, along with a heap of insider trading and conflict of interest that doesn’t get reported in t
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by ummonk 2y ago
Have there been any controlled studies on whether the use of fresnel lenses on books / screens to move the focal distance to infinity helps reduce / prevent myopia?
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by ummonk 2y ago
How does this not have any discussion? Banning noncompetes was one of the biggest drivers of innovation in California that allowed Silicon Valley to outperform other tech hubs.
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by ummonk 3y ago
The amount of toiling they could do without dying was calorically limited. Having lethargy induced by a shortage of food doesn’t necessarily mean a preferable lifestyle.
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by ummonk 3y ago
And it simply doesn’t have to be this way. The top tournaments could just use a prior qualification tournament with an open Swiss. Then invite the top finishers from the open Swiss to participate in the round robin. Can reserve an invitatio
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by ummonk 3y ago
The article is misleading regarding the history of chess. Magnus excepted, most top players did adopt a more cold and calculating material-focused chess style that mimicked Deep Blue and subsequent chess computers. It was only with the succ
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by ummonk 3y ago
That must have driven you crazy. The loop bit makes it so counterintuitive since interference from the pallet was actually helpful.
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by ummonk 3y ago
I feel like this story started off seeming way more mysterious than it actually was because it took so long to get to mentioning the crucial bit (the long distance WiFi bridge).
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by ummonk 3y ago
We found the flag that toggled tail production, but the tail production code is no longer in the codebase so turning on the flag again wouldn't do anything anymore.
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'We are essentially in a new Gilded Age'(fortune.com)
24 points by ummonk 3y ago|10 comments
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by ummonk 3y ago
> For the security of our customers from the publicity we were expecting from the announcement, we've decided to leave out the technical details of the breach in the blog post. This doesn't exactly inspire confidence that your
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by ummonk 3y ago
Indian numbers seem almost as messy as Roman numerals though. Verbally, the system seems to go thousand -> lakh -> crore -> thousand crore -> lakh crore, but then stop there, rarely extending to crore crore or inducting any fart

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