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by waprin 2y ago
Looks cool I’ll keep an eye on it.
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by waprin 2y ago
Yes indeed glad you noticed! Been too addicted to that godforsaken game at points so figured borrow some of its qualities for my studying apps...in general I'm interested in gamification + studying.
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by waprin 2y ago
What's true is that equilibrium strategies typically converge to solutions where the better makes the caller indifferent between calling and folding. In the toy example I've given where the betters range is so strong, the caller s
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by waprin 2y ago
> What's interesting about this is the minimum defense frequency is based on what the strongest hands you can possibly have in that situation are and the opponents possible hands do not even factor into it. This is actually not qui
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by waprin 2y ago
Within solvers, you can do something called "node locking", which means you "lock" a tree in the game node to play a fixed strategy. You would typically lock it to play as you suspect your opponent plays. This lets the s
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by waprin 2y ago
I'm working on a project aiming to help pro (or serious amateur) poker players learn game theory, mostly via flashcards with spaced-repetition. https://www.livepokertheory.com I do personally dislike that GTO became the nom
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by waprin 2y ago
The technique of journaling as you work is sometimes called “interstitial journaling” and I became a big fan of it as a way to help focus as well as keeping track of what I was working on. I made a tool to associate those notes with a color
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by waprin 2y ago
People underestimate how much cultural baggage influences things. I'll give a very simple example. I did a few SWE interviews in 2020, and several companies did the initial screen over the phone, and the on-site over Zoom. In both case
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by waprin 2y ago
What’s ironic is that Michael Seibel has discussed many times on the YC podcast that you should avoid building whatever’s hot for VCs because their attention tends to change every year but you’ll be stuck building for a decade. 2020 was rem
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Show HN: Learn Game Theory Optimal Poker with Spaced Repetition Flashcards(livepokertheory.com)
2 points by waprin 2y ago|0 comments
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by waprin 2y ago
So it's funny because I _set out_ to build productivity software for lots of people, I just completely failed at that goal, probably in part because I did build what I wanted, which is not what the mass market wants. Plus, design is ha
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by waprin 2y ago
That’s a fair perspective but consider that spaced-repetition can be an “MVP” of the broader concept of adaptive / personalized learning. You track some state about your knowledge of the world, in this case your performance on a flash
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by waprin 2y ago
Ironic you post this because I just rediscovered a 20yo blog post that I remembered reading, re-read it again and found it very motivating and inspiring and submitted it.
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80% of New Employees Fail Within the First 5 Years (2005)(stevepavlina.com)
3 points by waprin 2y ago|3 comments
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by waprin 3y ago
I completely agree with the sentiment, and as someone who’s mostly focused on a startup for pro poker players to study game theory more effectively ( https://www.livepokertheory.com ) , I find countless parallels between poker and
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Show HN: Learn Game Theory Optimal Poker Preflop with Spaced-Repetition(livepokertheory.com)
10 points by waprin 3y ago|1 comments
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by waprin 3y ago
There’s not much else to say other than you’re wrong. People tried their best before solvers, then solvers came along and people who didn’t keep up with them lost to people who did. I think it’s possible for people to win without studying t
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by waprin 3y ago
The more skill you have the higher your win rate. It’s true that playing against bad players will increase your win rate but it’s also true that if you study and improve you will also improve your win rate. It’s not true that there’s no poi
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by waprin 3y ago
The problem with this advice is that solvers are one of the best ways to understand how to "exploit the shit out of your opponents". Piosolver has several features that lets you emulate how your opponent plays, such as "node
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by waprin 3y ago
Game selection is the most important way to make money in poker, but the stronger a player you are, the more games you can select from. Isaac Haxton is a top pro player who only plays only tournaments that cost $10k+ to buyin to, and recent
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by waprin 3y ago
I'm currently full-time on a project dedicated to helping people understand how to apply solver strategy to win at live games. I generally avoid the term GTO in favor of "theory-based" since GTO usually refers to equilibrium
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by waprin 3y ago
I have a similar blog / newsletter on trying to bootstrap a software business called “Road to 10k MRR” : writing.billprin.com I’m definitely a huge fan of mtlynch and was very inspired by his transparency especially around year 2 when
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by waprin 3y ago
My biggest piece of advice is work backwards from where you plan to share it. If you want people to care about what you make, it needs to be built for a certain type of person, and you need a way to reach that type of person. Ideally you ca
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by waprin 3y ago
Your account is from 2021 so spare me the lecture on the rules of Hacker News. If you don’t want me to assume you have poor reading comprehension skills, don’t leave comments indicating that.
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by waprin 3y ago
Yes I understand basic math but I would implore you to improve your reading comprehension as I used the word “probably “ (which 65% qualified as) and emphasized we can’t eliminate luck but can influence it.
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by waprin 3y ago
It’s good to be aware of survivor bias but the discussion around it has been overdone and leads to pointless defeatism. The airplane example is the canonical example but also ironic because it’s an example where there was a ton to learn fro
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by waprin 3y ago
Not really, it's akin to saying Youtube Shorts will help Youtube beat TikTok, as both Youtube Shorts and Substack Notes are the short-form version of their product.
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by waprin 3y ago
I think if we were to see an X killer I’d much sooner predict Substack does it. I was sleeping on Substack a bit but it has many of the positive qualities of Twitter with many of the downsides removed: * Notes are a short form platform but
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by waprin 3y ago
“When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.” ― Pablo Picasso
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by waprin 3y ago
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

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