duhprey

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by duhprey 8mo ago
So insightful! This idea that some people just like the puzzles and some people like the control struck me. I get why Factorio is addictive but I can't really stand to play it much. I'd rather be refactoring something useful. And
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by duhprey 13y ago
It's funny, I read all through that with my rose tinted glasses thinking they'd created a local IMAP server on the phone, which would have been clever (and, I think, doable)... in fact I was running this perception until "Ou
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by duhprey 15y ago
Great perspective. There are some celebrities who seem to live and die by the hype associated with those sorts of stories. And there are other celebrities who have a distinguished body of work and only incidentally appear in those rags.
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by duhprey 15y ago
If anyone here remembers the game Netstorm, we're doing a remake of it here, http://risingstormhq.com . It's not entirely opensource at the moment (and built on unity), but I'm the only coder and I'm releasing components (especially gener
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by duhprey 16y ago
The evidence is this: Words can alter perception. This is the purpose of rhetoric. For condescension to be successful the speaker must appear above his subject. Someone insecure assumes he's the worst or near the worst. By using condes
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by duhprey 16y ago
It would be funny to ask someone who was affecting that something like "Then what have you accomplished?" See I could picture Linus being completely oblivious to celebrity, there's a seriously big deal that he came up with while he was bus
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by duhprey 16y ago
But that's after the point at which anything can be done educationally. My point wasn't helpful and friendly, illiterate people aren't any less helpful or friendly than literates.
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by duhprey 16y ago
Makes sense. Albuquerque's west side is full of a bunch of whiney Luke types "I wish we were cool like the main city" :)
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by duhprey 16y ago
I might go up to 100,000,000 families and ask them to pay one penny so that 100 waiters can clearly explain what's on the menu...
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by duhprey 16y ago
Here's a very tiny "company" anecdote. I'm volunteering on a remake of an old game for fun. So far I've been the only programmer. I've had conversations with two other programmers who considered joining, and the conversations went simila
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by duhprey 16y ago
It's too bad because it could take one more step and do something slightly cooler. I just do counting in MapReduce, but it was to use Expectation-Maximization on mixtures of Gaussians to cluster a data set of 16 million documents. Although
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by duhprey 16y ago
Also, at the very least going rate ($.10/12) his website is worth $146. That's more valuation than most startups (i.e., the countless failures) :)
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by duhprey 16y ago
Respectfully (very respectfully, because your book still haunts my shelf like a specter of how little I understood what was happening to my brain when I took Quantum Computation...) I disagree. At least in part. The ideas you point out are
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Ask HN: Please critique my fb game
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by duhprey 16y ago
There's always been something wrong, and I couldn't quite put my finger on it, with the idea of getting a degree solely in "business"... I think I get it now. Reminds me of a shirt I saw somewhere from a cartoon I've never seen: "What's thi
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by duhprey 17y ago
I'm not sure I'll have the time to do this, but I've had some good results running Latent Semantic Analysis and Latent Dirichlet Allocation on a similar problem. In my case, I have data from people playing a negotiation game and having a c
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by duhprey 17y ago
For some reason I want to read heavily between the lines of the wikipedia summary, and I find it incredibly sad. I mean in the first place my knee jerk reaction is to equivocate "I'm still good enough, even if I didn't solve diffeq problem
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by duhprey 17y ago
After the game jam (An event where everyone tries make a game in one weekend, hence the correlation to topic) wrap up, one of the guys there said something very interesting: they thought it was such a good idea to pound on a concept for the
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by duhprey 17y ago
The fact that developers are not the target audience is, I think, a problem. It means that apps will be created that developers think people would want to buy, NOT apps that developers would want to use. I must use a different machine to b
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by duhprey 17y ago
You should have kept reading. It was a fairly nicely written satire of the "he" referred to in your quote. On a broader point, although it is efficient to quickly dismiss the ludicrous, it's unwise to universally ignore every such instance
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by duhprey 17y ago
I don't think it's that stills are "further" as much as that the error doesn't accumulate.
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by duhprey 17y ago
For me the first step in figuring out a solution is to clearly understand the problem. It always seems like the solution is far easier than that first part. Well... then there's implementation :)
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by duhprey 17y ago
Actually the time traveling robot's mission was to come back as a young man, known as Arnold Murray. with whom Turing would become infatuated. The purpose of this mission was an evolution of the continued misunderstanding of the philosophi
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by duhprey 18y ago
If there were someone else, it sure sounds like he would be happy to have sloughed off the work. It doesn't sound glamourous. It sounds like it sucks. So everyone else would rather work on something they think is cool, and Linus is stuck