cobaltblue

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by cobaltblue 11y ago
This is not quite correct either. 1p is of course generally much stronger than an arbitrary amateur dan (even some (many? most?) 9d amateurs) and you can advance up the pro ranks quickly by winning certain games, but you can see the histogr
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
Very nice. How come you guys didn't enter the UEC Cup? (Edit: rereading this it kind of sounds snarky, not meant that way. Really impressive if you can kick CrazyStone's teeth in...)
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
Oh man overblown article. Fan Hui is 2p, so very skilled, but the ranking system goes up to 9p. To give a sense of how large a gap that is, there is and has only ever been one Westerner to achieve that rank, Michael Redmond. The article sta
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
The only one who knows if the input is needed anymore is the caller, not all callers will agree, so it's bad form to let the called function decide automatically unless it's very clearly marked as a mutating, list-destroying funct
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
Besides, all the ARIA stuff isn't free. It only benefits screen readers and bots that aren't Google's. The rejection from lack of accessibility is as strange as rejection from lack of functionality in IE 8 or less (which has
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
There already are tax and welfare benefits to having children, and indeed it does incentivize having them when you really can't afford them. It doesn't seem sustainable long term, but we'll see. I don't think it's a
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
What is this total inequality you talk about? It seems like you're picking the inequality of 0 and infinity. But we live in a finite world, this total inequality is impossible. Furthermore, whether we introduce an infinite inequality o
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
The entire thrust of our medical regulatory system, from the Flexner Report to today, is the belief that it's better for 1000 patients to die of neglect, than 1 from quackery. Until this irrational fear of quack medicine is cured, the
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
They'll probably succeed for the most part, too. Who's going to spend their time playing cat and mouse when they can just unsubscribe and torrent? If you're not seeding, you're breaking the same law of unlicensed access
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
I remember looking at Beeminder, probably around the time that article was written unless you promoted/were promoted on LW before then. How much would you say you've improved the service since then? It definitely looks better than
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
If you include thinking about work, then even work-from-home people could reach the 50+ figure relatively easily since you include weekends and trying to get to sleep. But then you might easily get into low numbers of hours per week, 15-30,
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
Non-judgmental fair third-party oversight who has free action only reversible by themselves over your environment.
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
Whence the high performance claim? I tried finding some benchmarks, and apparently they used to be on the home page since this was on HN about a year ago, but I didn't find any recent ones. It would be nice to see it compared to, say,
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
Looking at your portfolio -- are you applying for video game jobs or generic Big Co software engineer? Or pretty much anywhere you can find / that reaches out to you? Try for something outside of your experience, or even something you
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
Unfortunately he picked the wrong unjust laws to break, the wrong targets to go after. The problem with being a true believer... http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2013/01/noam-ch...
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
I still sympathize with a subset of the ICs, those that must see so many problems (maybe even futilely trying to fix them) but being crippled from doing much by internal dynamics. I wish them the courage to pack up and leave for someplace b
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
It's more like x86 beat everything, which is also saying that externally CISC/RISC didn't matter so much. I like the section on RISC here: http://danluu.com/butler-lampson-1999/ Specifically part of the
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
I wanted to recommend Nim elsewhere in the thread, too. For a lot of serious game devs, a language with a forced GC is often a no-go, for good reasons or bad, so that immediately eliminates a lot of potential candidates to replace C or C++.
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
Odd to see it not mentioned as another benefit, but by targeting C instead of say direct assembly you benefit from the decades of optimization research that has gone into modern C compilers.
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
Can you name three? In any case, a good economist typically just says what the state of the world is or will be given x, y, z, not what should be. I can think of one economist (Robin Hanson) who doesn't say "we should reduce finan
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
I was thinking of Musk too. A person with $1bn in the bank is very rich. So is a person with $200m in the bank. But the first person still has a lot more freedom of action. When you rob people of their freedom of action, you get bad economi
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
We could, maybe, for various degrees of help and with various dangers depending on how much help (look up Oracle AI), and I would easily wager using relevant tools (not just "AI tech") would make the positive outcome more likely t
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_about_the_RMS_Ti... You give a director a big budget from their past successes, not necessarily because the underlying thing is somehow easier or harder to make money off of
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
> thanks to the democratization of resources like powerful hardware (Em mine.) I have a problem, my rig's not very powerful. Where can I vote to get a better rig? Or does my rig do the voting weighted by its power? ( http:/&#
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
You may find the pattern of complaints repeated decade after decade, but as the other commenter mentioned that is just as easily explained if it is in fact getting worse and worse. If you believe that, and believe that pretty much everythin
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
My parenthetical is important. The "it doesn't [want to]" is precisely why many ideas won't work, because many adversaries within the species (the rest of us) will work against anyone trying, and getting enough people wi
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
I think a shorter tl;dr is simply that the ways a human-level or beyond AI can be programmed incorrectly (it eventually kills us all or worse), even trying our best to do it right, outnumber the ways it can be programmed correctly. If you d
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
You should still accept and then offload your decisions onto someone else you think is responsible enough.
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
Adding to this, imagine you were part of an ancient alien species checking in on earth every so often. Around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth was formed. 500 million years later, the first self-replicators appeared. Another half billion years
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by cobaltblue 11y ago
You're right. One's sanity being in question requires many more qualifications.

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