brianberns

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by brianberns 3mo ago
I had the same lack, so I walked myself through it from the very start: https://brianberns.github.io/01-SineWaves.html
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Show HN: Crushing Hearts with Deep CFR(brianberns.github.io)
1 points by brianberns 6mo ago|0 comments
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by brianberns 9mo ago
I read this with pleasure, right up until the bit about the ants. Then I saw the note from myself at the end, which I had totally forgot writing seven years ago. I probably first encountered the article via HN back then as well. Thanks for
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by brianberns 11mo ago
Thanks! I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who went down this rabbit hole. :) I considered parallelizing my solution as well, but the problem is that it only gives a linear speedup, while the problem space increases exponentiall
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Solving the NY Times "Pips" game with F#(github.com)
63 points by brianberns 11mo ago|15 comments
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by brianberns 1y ago
Particle Lenia is awesome. I did an online version that you can interact with here: https://brianberns.github.io/ParticleLenia/
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by brianberns 1y ago
I made a game out of creating proofs without words: https://brianberns.github.io/Tactix/
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by brianberns 1y ago
Yes, I use F# with TorchSharp to do machine learning. My most recent project is a Hearts AI that is quite good. Here are some links: * https://github.com/brianberns/Hearts * https://github.com/brianbern
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by brianberns 1y ago
These are indeed very similar. Thanks for the link! The math is a bit over my head, but this formulation seems more difficult than the one I'm familiar with. For example, x^2 is represented as 0::0::2 instead of 0::0::1 (because 2! = 2
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by brianberns 1y ago
This idea comes from a functional pearl called "Power Series, Power Serious" [0], which is well worth reading. I implemented the same thing myself in F#. [1] [0]: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&a
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by brianberns 2y ago
I translated this to F# for my own edification. It's more verbose, but perhaps easier to understand for non-Haskellers. https://github.com/brianberns/AnnotatedStack
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Show HN: Tactix: A Game of Tactics and Emojis(brianberns.github.io)
1 points by brianberns 2y ago|0 comments
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by brianberns 5y ago
FWIW, you might like this: https://github.com/brianberns/FYampaSynth
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by brianberns 5y ago
Did you read the linked paper? They consider this possibility and reject it.
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by brianberns 5y ago
Using media statements to sway public opinion is… a totally normal thing for organizations to do.
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by brianberns 5y ago
To me, F# is the pragmatic functional language with the most appeal, but being on .NET maybe it’s not even niche.
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by brianberns 5y ago
Unless I’m misunderstanding something, the company’s software is already open source ( https://github.com/replit ), so cloning it is perfectly reasonable. If there’s any dispute here, I think it would be over the copyright to
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by brianberns 5y ago
A big one I'd add: Ability to gather requirements from a non-technical user, product owner, or subject-matter expert.
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by brianberns 5y ago
18 out of 1000 = “teeming with scams”? It’s a real problem, but the headline is sensationalized.
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by brianberns 5y ago
Parsing his sentence for tiny nuances like that isn't very helpful IMHO, but I'll indulge you. His exact words are "these differences may explain". He doesn't say "these differences may PARTLY explain". If
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by brianberns 5y ago
That’s why I used the word “suggested”, which is exactly what he did, in a section prominently titled “Possible non-bias causes of the gender gap in tech”.
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by brianberns 5y ago
He suggested that biological differences between the sexes (rather than bias/discrimination) are the reason why women are underrepresented in the tech industry. It’s not hard to understand why many people find this offensive. Here’s th
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by brianberns 5y ago
It’s nothing like that. If you want a modern analogy, it’s like the moderators of a subreddit abandoning it, and the reddit admins deciding to keep it going anyway. It violates the expected wall between moderators and admins, but it’s hardl
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by brianberns 5y ago
Yes, I can see that it’s a technical violation of the policy. On the other hand, OP explicitly abandoned the channel and then cried “abuse” when the administrator stepped in to resuscitate it. And now this very tiny tempest in a teapot is a
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by brianberns 5y ago
I don’t know anything about IRC, but it seems more benign that that: the person who ran ##hntop abandoned it for another platform, so the guy who runs its sister channel, ##hnnew, recreated it, because they naturally go together. Calling th
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by brianberns 5y ago
Thank you. Twitter's user experience is the worst.
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by brianberns 5y ago
Does a tool that can do this exist? A “relinker”? It’s a neat idea, but one obvious downside is the potential need to relink many executables when a shared component changes.
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by brianberns 5y ago
He doesn't mention it, but this is basically what we today call "SKI" combinators: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKI_combinator_calculus * I is the identity function: Ix = x * K is the constant function:
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by brianberns 5y ago
Another minor beef: Rounded corners for an album cover image don't make sense, either historically or aesthetically. Just give us the full image please, Apple.
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by brianberns 5y ago
Null references: the billion dollar mistake.

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