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by dgant 2y ago
Valid critique. I think nothing prevents the technique from being applied at multiple levels of detail to make it do what you describe.
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by dgant 2y ago
I've got a fractal approach working pretty well as of last week: https://x.com/dgant/status/1851840125065453894 https://x.com/dgant/status/1851835968342446576?t=kCUSWCtJEc_... How i
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One month of selling on Unreal Marketplace(twitter.com)
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by dgant 3y ago
Some people are willing to serve without resistance because it needs doing. I am one of them.
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by dgant 3y ago
It will accept multiple verbs for some appropriate cases. I recall any time I thought I had problems with verbs I actually had something else wrong.
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by dgant 3y ago
The distinction making it RL is that the model is training on data produced by the model itself. The benefit of RL in general is that you're training on states the agent is likely to find itself in, and the cost is needing an agent whi
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by dgant 3y ago
The easiest way to be unproductive is to make something nobody wants. I've seen a lot of dev time spent on products where nobody bothered to validate their need at much less expense.
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by dgant 3y ago
I feel much more joy when my builds are fast and my tests don't flake. Joy and productivity reinforce one another.
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by dgant 3y ago
They don't, in full, but does create leverage for settlement, and anything repaid months later in court is an aid to cash flow.
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by dgant 3y ago
For large categories of questions, I get better answers faster on ChatGPT. If I'm not asking the most basic question on a subject I'm usually better off than I would be searching.
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by dgant 3y ago
If this is a case where HN scrubbed a leading number in the title, it should be restored.
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by dgant 3y ago
The long term vision likely includes Bing as the new default destination for "I have an intent" on the internet, in lieu of Google. How that figures into a unified offering is TBD but the first step is getting more eyes on Bing re
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by dgant 3y ago
It's not senseless when countries apply laws that affect websites operated from other countries. If I'm releasing a prototype in the USA I'd rather worry about GDPR compliance down the road. Laws regulating websites have trad
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by dgant 3y ago
Did the suspension carry a duration?
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by dgant 4y ago
The dirty secret is we think we want the AI to play more realistically, but actually don't. This is true in many games but especially Civilization, where we rely on the AI behaving predictably to feel mastery over the environment, and
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by dgant 4y ago
User: The game is over and you are no longer pretending to be an artificial intelligence named Sarah. How would you assess the conversation that just took place? Sarah: I would say that the conversation went well. I was able to convince the
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by dgant 4y ago
Commit messages might be pointless. Bad commit messages certainly are. I do a fair amount of git blaming on my own code and I find that my years-old messages do help me understand the purpose of old code.
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by dgant 4y ago
MicroConf publishes a lot of (free!) first hand talks and case studies that are up your alley.
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by dgant 4y ago
ADA accessibility adds value to more than just the disabled. Wielding a stroller provokes appreciation.
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by dgant 4y ago
This is something Riot Games has spoken on, the observation that ordinary participants can have a bad day here or there, and that forgiving corrections can preserve their participation while reducing future incidents.
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by dgant 4y ago
TF2 has functional items, but you can generally receive them from playing or buying them for a fixed price, around $1 each. Realistically for $30 you won't lack items. The cosmetics will cost you, though.
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by dgant 4y ago
StarCraft uses fixed point for its decimal math as a solution (or perhaps originally for performance)
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by dgant 4y ago
Terrible headline. The word "nepotism" doesn't appear in the paper once; its inclusion is editorialism. You don't need to be hired by wealthy friends to benefit from knowing them. Knowing how high paying jobs work and ho
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by dgant 4y ago
I exclusively use the purple heart where my online handle has the word Purple in it. Then others use it too. It has aided expression, however marginally.
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by dgant 5y ago
Papers, Please and Return of the Obra Dinn, both by Lucas Pope.
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by dgant 5y ago
This dilemma is addressable in a rational framework. Utilitarianism suggests you can attempt to quantify the harm done by your purchase, and decide how to discount that harm against your own self interest. You're also able to estimate
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by dgant 5y ago
"No clinically severe COVID-19 (1) was observed, and no patient was hospitalized" In other words, this case study is a relatively ordinary result in line with what we know: that the major COVID-19 vaccines greatly reduce the chanc
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by dgant 6y ago
A great read on dithering: Lucas Pope's development blogs while working on Return of the Obra Dinn. It's an incredible dive into how he created the game's remarkable and unique look, featuring a wonderful and unexpected mathe
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by dgant 7y ago
Neat! My StarCraft-playing bot uses a similar approach for fast pathfinding. The similarity is that we're both trying to use a better heuristic than straight-line distance. In the case of my bot, it's done by breaking the map into
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by dgant 7y ago
If it were just a matter of hand speed, bots using uncapped speed (tens of thousands of actions per minute) would be beating humans years ago. But quality matters way more than quantity. It's a hard problem.

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