ShardPhoenix

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by ShardPhoenix 2y ago
I liked PG's essays better when they were more concretely rooted in the details of his work his work at his startup and at YC. This one feels like a sort of non-specific variant of Bulverism - diagnose a bunch of people without present
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by ShardPhoenix 4y ago
Based on the chat transcript Demz seems like either another bot or someone who just doesn't give a shit. Can't be bothered helping someone? Just spam the "I'm sorry you're frustrated" macro then cut them off. E
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by ShardPhoenix 5y ago
When Git was taking over from SVN, the main benefit I remember reading about was the much faster/lighter-weight branching. IIRC in SVN making a branch makes a complete copy of all the files. Since then it's benefited from being th
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by ShardPhoenix 7y ago
>When I described this to Amy, she responded with a magnificent rant that was something like “this is a romanticized utopian ideal about a thing that was inhabited by socially inhibited, white male nerds who consider themselves too smar
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by ShardPhoenix 8y ago
OpenAI claims that their work on Dota2 has carried over to work on a robot hand: https://blog.openai.com/learning-dexterity/ (Which isn't quite practical yet but might be in the mid-term future).
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by ShardPhoenix 8y ago
The first four words of the linked Gwern article are "Joel Spolsky in 2002". In fact he gives him credit 3 times!
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Now for a subjective diatribe about Docker's poor use of analogies(qntm.org)
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by ShardPhoenix 8y ago
Note: this applies to new updates to Java 8, as a result of the upcoming Java 11 taking over as the LTS version. Oracle is not charging for Java in general. As a result the headline and article come across as a bit FUDdy to me.
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by ShardPhoenix 8y ago
"Good actors" isn't some term of high praise, it just means those who aren't "bad actors" (who do harmful things).
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by ShardPhoenix 8y ago
Such large swings in basic things like "Mandarin" make me doubt the quality of the data.
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by ShardPhoenix 8y ago
An AI doesn't need to be upset at humans (or even have emotions as we know them) to be dangerous - it just needs to be powerful and to not care about us as much as we care about ourselves. Humans weren't angry at Dodos.
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by ShardPhoenix 9y ago
>The part I don't understand yet is who is the dumb money buying shares in these hollowed-out debt-laden husks from the private capital vultures? It almost always ends up badly. Is this based on reliable statistics or on highly visi
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by ShardPhoenix 9y ago
Thanks to the very lucid explanations, I feel like this gave me a better understanding of why computers might be implemented in a certain way (eg why certain gates or instructions might be used - obviously a physical computer will have diff
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by ShardPhoenix 9y ago
>You also would probably mention that the code would be less likely to be buggy and crash due to the null safety principle. Not really. Although it makes it easier to deal with null values, Kotlin is no miracle cure. A null value comes f
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by ShardPhoenix 9y ago
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=slack,discord So far of course Slack is still much more popular among business users, but I've anecdotally noticed a big surge in Discord usage among consumers (on Reddit
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by ShardPhoenix 9y ago
>In one short story he proposes a kind of reverse CYOA book: A book with many beginnings but only one ending. Some games work like this (eg Dragon Age: Origins). It's not as mysterious as it sounds.
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by ShardPhoenix 9y ago
You get your name and address checked off when you vote, if you don't get checked off you get fined (~$100). However I've heard of people sometimes not voting without getting fined, not sure why.
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by ShardPhoenix 9y ago
Voting is mandatory in Australia and our political system doesn't seem particularly better (or worse) then the UK.
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by ShardPhoenix 10y ago
I don't find this very surprising - I've seen a similar level of framework heterogeneity even at much smaller companies.
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by ShardPhoenix 10y ago
>Is the problem that there are lots of mediocre artists but not many who can actually execute projects? I think part of it is that standards keep increasing. Compare this demon concept art from Warcraft 2 (1995): http://vignet
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by ShardPhoenix 10y ago
The meeting seemed a little content-free, I wonder if there was some other discussion happening off-camera? Like, "I'll fund the movie version" or something. Or maybe Gates is really just like "Hey I liked your book, let
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by ShardPhoenix 10y ago
>The decisions they make during the gameplay get translated into decisions about non-trivial aspects of scientific work. (This is the hard part). It's a nice dream but I suspect figuring out the mapping from game to scientific probl
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by ShardPhoenix 10y ago
After spending two minutes clicking around my free account, I couldn't see either how I'd upgrade to a paid account or why I'd want to. Seems like an important usability issue.
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by ShardPhoenix 11y ago
It sounds like he has no idea about the machine learning basis of Alpha Go (and therefore presumably any future Starcraft AI) and thinks all this complex decision making has to be programmed in by hand (which would indeed be nigh-impossible
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by ShardPhoenix 11y ago
"The decision not to sell the Alibaba stake, which was reported on Tuesday, was driven by “the market’s perception of tax risk” associated with the Alibaba plan" It's unfortunate that the tax code is so complex that ambiguous
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by ShardPhoenix 11y ago
I don't use Facebook much but it's the way many of my friends handle invites to events, so I need access to it for that at least.
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by ShardPhoenix 11y ago
> /r/anime is infuriatingly stupid, /r/awwnime is much more tolerable. Well that's not too surprising when the latter has almost no comments. You could try r/trueanime - it's smaller and smarter, though
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by ShardPhoenix 11y ago
>One of the unique requirements is that we must use accredited software. This means that we can’t just pull in third-party JAR files at will, but we can use anything already contained within the JDK. This policy seems dubious to me. It f
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by ShardPhoenix 11y ago
Geostationary satellites orbit much further away (~35,786 km) from Earth than non-stationary satellites (~2000 km).
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by ShardPhoenix 11y ago
That forum must be really heavily moderated/censored. Based on eg the Battle.net forums I'd have expected to see much angrier posts.

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