benchaney

4 ms·

1.
by benchaney 2y ago
It's not the same rule set though. The rule set they evaluated the AI on isn't one of the ones that it supports. Edit: This is confusing for some people because there are essentially two rule sets with the same name, but Tromp-Tay
2.
by benchaney 2y ago
No, it isn't related to superko. It has to do with Katago misidentifying the status of groups that are wrapped around an opposing group. I assume the name cyclic has to do with the fact that the groups look like circles. There are imag
3.
by benchaney 2y ago
There are two strategies described in this paper. The cyclic adversary, and the pass adversary. You are correct that the pass adversary is super dumb. It is essentially exploiting a loophole in a version of the rules that Katago doesn'
4.
by benchaney 2y ago
> So instead of looking, like the author of these new options, for ways to make life for the bad guys harder we do nothing? Random brute force attempts against SSH are already a 100% solved problem, so doing nothing beyond maintaining th
5.
by benchaney 2y ago
This is essentially the Copenhagen interpretation of ethics. If you interact with a problem you become responsible for it. Improving someones situation is unethical while doing nothing isn't. This is because improving their situation m
6.
by benchaney 3y ago
Can you be more specific about what particular anthropomorphizing you object to? The only place the author uses the word want is in describing the wants of humans.
7.
by benchaney 3y ago
That’s not how these kinds of trials work. The 13% figure comes from comparing the control and intervention groups, which were observed over the same period of time. The change in baseline mortality over time of the entire population isn’t
8.
by benchaney 3y ago
As a result of how the doors were selected one of them is more likely to contain the prize. That is information.
9.
by benchaney 3y ago
When one door was opened it revealed information about the other two doors.
10.
by benchaney 3y ago
The best probability estimate you can make is constrained by the information you have available. The new person showing up has less information than the existing constant, so it makes sense that their best estimate would be less precise. Si
11.
by benchaney 3y ago
> I've been in countless meetings with countless executives where the Google Sheet is busted out featuring engineering cost and tool cost and where cost/benefit is aggressively decided. That is the problem though. It isn't
12.
by benchaney 3y ago
> If a "crappy" tool costs $10k/mo for the team and doesn't require much or any devops time to setup and maintain, it's likely cheaper than the $0/mo opensource but requires part or full time management opti
13.
by benchaney 3y ago
Well, interpreting the title in that way is incorrect, so it seems like GP kind of has a point then.
14.
by benchaney 3y ago
Of course they would. The coast guard saves thousands of people every year. Most of them aren't billionaires.
15.
by benchaney 4y ago
I wasn't talking about you when I was saying that some people are blaming depositors. Some other commenters are really angry at the VCs that participated in the run. Their anger is understandable, but misplaced in this case IMO. > W
16.
by benchaney 4y ago
SVB didn’t collapse because of the bank run. There was a bank run because they collapsed. It is true that the bank run may have accelerated the collapse slightly but they were in really bad shape before it started. A lot of people want to b
17.
by benchaney 4y ago
Something that I think is pretty important to keep in mind is that when handling a possible XY problem, the key is communication. It is good to ask clarifying questions and questions about context when answering a question. It is good to pr
18.
by benchaney 4y ago
Not in Tromp Taylor rules. Basically, this paper is cheesing a win with a loophole in a rule set that no one actually uses. Kind of a shame that it is getting so much attention despite the fact that the result is so heavily exaggerated, and
19.
by benchaney 4y ago
Everyone should pay for the resources they consume. Lower density requires massively more resources per person, so the people who want it should wind up paying more. Nobody is advocating forcing everyone to live in dense housing. Our curren
20.
by benchaney 4y ago
I had that on the lowest setting already, it doesn't make a difference. I suspect that iOS already thinks its playing music quite softly and therefore won't know to down correct.
21.
by benchaney 4y ago
This is iOS. I haven't been able to find the ability to lower the minimum volume, and based on posts in the support forums, this seems like a common complaint that has yet to be addressed by Apple. That said, if you happen to know some
22.
by benchaney 4y ago
Thanks for the recommendation! I'll definitely look into them.
23.
by benchaney 4y ago
I'm currently struggling to find usable bluetooth earbuds. One pair that I found comes flying out of my ears when I moved my head at all. Another is dangerously loud even on the lowest volume setting. The third came with a nonstandard
24.
by benchaney 4y ago
I don't think that's true. The default constructor for std::string creates an empty string. See: https://www.cplusplus.com/reference/string/string/string/ The semantics of c++ object initializa
25.
by benchaney 5y ago
I had heard that the concern was that there are services very early in boot that rely on /dev/urandom never blocking. I’m not sure how true that is, or why it is no longer a concern now.
26.
by benchaney 5y ago
This isn’t really true. git is relying on the second-preimage resistance of sha1 rather than the collision resistance. There are few attacks that theoretically are enabled by finding Sha collisions, by they aren’t really practical.
27.
by benchaney 5y ago
I think this is pretty misguided. If reliability is at all important, you need controls in place so that a single person making a single mistake won't cause an outage. Software engineers are human and humans make mistakes. That's
28.
by benchaney 5y ago
The issue is that there is no actual evidence that the data is being recorded improperly. Anyone can come up with a just so story to describe how the data could be corrupted, but writing such a blog post does not in fact put a burden on the
29.
by benchaney 5y ago
This article doesn’t identify any statistical problems. It just points out that it would be possible to get a misleading result if you handle your data incorrectly. It provides no actual evidence that such a mishandling is actually occurrin
30.
by benchaney 5y ago
That is backwards, because the second person has their own biases, so that person is going to give evidence that is biased against the original claim. The only way to get strong evidence on both sides of the argument is for both participant

More ›