dragon96

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by dragon96 4mo ago
Sending an AI response communicates more than just the response itself: 1. "I'm not entirely sure, but this is what it says to save you some time." 2. "You didn't ask the question precisely because you are not an SM
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by dragon96 6mo ago
If severity is a low cardinality enum, it still seems acceptable
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by dragon96 7mo ago
What does a Spiel game refer to? If you want the ultimate depth:ruleset ratio, come learn Go :) Every game is so different and exciting
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by dragon96 2y ago
One of the values of doing your own research is it forces you to speak the "language" of what you're trying to do. It's like the struggle that we've all had when learning our first programming language. If we weren&
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by dragon96 2y ago
Plus, in-game clocks didn't exist until Remastered came out
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by dragon96 2y ago
Inconvenient truths about the big bad wolf disaster of 2027
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by dragon96 2y ago
I keep comments committed in a separate branch. The lack of syncing doesn't bother me, because the purpose of taking notes always falls into one of these categories: 1. I read the code to get an idea of how something works. The code is
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by dragon96 2y ago
Next up: Numbers every math person should know
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by dragon96 2y ago
Genuine question: does anyone here actually want to query their database with natural language?
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by dragon96 2y ago
Someone made a puzzle about 404 pages once: https://2020.teammatehunt.com/puzzles/puzzle-not-found For those who aren't sure how to get started (ROT13): Svaq gur sbhe bu sbhe cntr svefg
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by dragon96 3y ago
> What’s deeply frustrating is that for more than a decade Sal Khan similarly said that the videos on his “Khan Academy” would revolutionize education, and they utterly failed to do so. How does one determine whether an edtech startup li
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by dragon96 3y ago
I recently heard someone say their favorite cure to writer's block is to read more and do research. I found something profound about that. Writing is hard when you don't have anything to write about, and maybe there's somethi
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by dragon96 3y ago
As a fellow overthinker who also struggles to articulate my goals, I find it easier to think about incremental improvements than overarching goals. For example, I want to become a better systems programmer, but I'm not really sure what
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by dragon96 3y ago
Not exactly "engineering", but I might add an adjacent category of puzzle games that hurt your brain: - Baba Is You - Stephen's Sausage Roll - Jelly no puzzle + Yugo puzzle (sequel) - Braid - Snakebird
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by dragon96 3y ago
> He refuses to engage earnestly with the “doomer” arguments. The same type of motivated reasoning could also be attributed to himself and Meta’s financial goals - it’s not a persuasive framing. Exactly my thoughts too. I don't agre
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by dragon96 3y ago
Though not quite as short, the Watson and Crick paper is another famously short paper: https://dosequis.colorado.edu/Courses/MethodsLogic/papers/Wa...
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by dragon96 4y ago
It could be obvious, but no need to be condescending about it. There are many statements that fit into the category of "obvious once stated, but not obvious if you didn't consider the distinction to begin with".
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by dragon96 4y ago
As another data point, I've taken about 1.5 months for Part 1 of the book, chipping away at it for 1-2 hours on weekday mornings.
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by dragon96 4y ago
I read the beginning sections of each chapter until I understand conceptually what the chapter implements by the end. (I needed more assistance for the initial chapters not knowing what the output of scanning or parsing would be, or where t
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by dragon96 4y ago
Regardless of which text you choose, I recommend writing proofs (full sentences and all) for the solutions that were harder to come by, or you feel difficulty expressing clearly. And if you can, get some feedback on the proofs. (Happy to ta
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by dragon96 4y ago
For anyone interested in a more technical summary of the some of the main ideas: Problem Statement The Erdos conjecture that all primitive sets S satisfy f(S) <= f(PRIMES), where f(S) = sum_{s} (1/(s log s)) and PRIMES is the se
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by dragon96 4y ago
Interesting, could you give some examples of concepts from relational algebra that have helped inform your understanding of schema design? Asking as a practioner interested in learning the conceptual underpinnings :)
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by dragon96 5y ago
For me, I think I could tell myself to be more productive for 1 week and succeed at it, but I'd feel a lot more stressed or cynical about work as a result. I feel I'ma lazy person because I know I'm not doing what I could wh
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by dragon96 5y ago
One piece of advice I hear a lot is "review your games", but how do you actually do that without a stronger player? I'd sometimes use an engine and it'll point out moves I hadn't considered before, but without under
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by dragon96 5y ago
There ought to be a rule that any "curated" list of N books should also include N books not to read in the same category
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by dragon96 5y ago
Interesting idea. I love the recognition of current hiring asymmetries. Some of the practices by companies simply shouldn't be tolerated, like the recruiter ghosting, opaqueness on salary ranges, exploding offers, misleading listings o
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by dragon96 5y ago
Can you share more about some of the technical problems Streamline works on?
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by dragon96 6y ago
The authors of Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning spun off a forum at climatechange.ai with tons of related resources
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by dragon96 6y ago
But if you give him a PET scan, he won't ask you for a CAT scan.
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by dragon96 6y ago
> My biggest complaint is that the jargon is just out of control. I don't see how this is true unless you are memorizing the wiki like a dictionary. I can only think of 9 words that I use commonly in games (sente, gote, seki, ko, at

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