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by rdw 3mo ago
I spoke with an Anthropic employee, and came to understand that their definition of safety is more like "making AI be a tool that humans can use without hurting themselves or others more than they can already do". It's liter
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by rdw 5mo ago
Once you write enough code, you'll realize you need synchronization primitives for async code as well. In pretty much the same cases as threaded code. You can't always choose to write straight code. What you're trying to do
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by rdw 1y ago
In the area I live, houses are often built one complete room at a time, over many years. They start out as a single-room shack, then the owner builds extensions as they have children or money. Often, they build a porch, and then decades l
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by rdw 1y ago
"We should do something to preserve leading-edge chip manufacturing in the US. This is Something, therefore we should do it."
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by rdw 1y ago
The bitter lesson is becoming misunderstood as the world moves on. Unstated yet core to it is that AI researchers were historically attempting to build an understanding of human intelligence. They intended to, piece-by-piece, assemble a h
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by rdw 1y ago
Thanks, Max! I've personally never been able to wrap my head around BSP; I appreciate your diagrams explaining everything, and I am optimistic about the new engine. It's crazy how much faster it can be; really drives home how mu
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by rdw 3y ago
Article is from 2021, but the game launched today.
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Classic card game Dominion is getting a scary good new AI (2021)(polygon.com)
5 points by rdw 3y ago|4 comments
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by rdw 3y ago
It's a very risky industry. It's quite likely to sink a ton of money into a game and earn very little back, basically wasting everything. Game series that consistently make revenue are even rarer so they're extremely coddle
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Tech Breakdown: Collision Sliding(blog.littlepolygon.com)
1 points by rdw 4y ago|0 comments
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by rdw 4y ago
It's a lot like the VR hype cycle of the past 5 years. Maybe there will be more of an actual change from the AI stuff, though.
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by rdw 4y ago
I used to believe this and then I got into the area. It depends on the area of course but it turns out that the cost of the house is quite significant. House construction costs are $200-500 per square foot, putting even a medium-sized hou
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by rdw 4y ago
It has more to do with how game engines are built, making embeddability be the most important criteria. Most game engines are written as a large chunk of C++ code that runs each frame's timing, and the big subsystems like physics, part
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by rdw 4y ago
You're right, and it's got more layers than that. C# does have value types, which are not boxed, and using them judiciously can avoid garbage. However, they are a more recent addition to the language (which started as a lame Jav
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by rdw 4y ago
I had one, and I wrote a lot of code on it. There was pretty much nothing else on the market that could do web browsing in that portable of a form factor, and at that price point. Steve was somewhat right to worry about them -- in an al
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by rdw 4y ago
Yes, I've heard this said many times about sales people. If they're not visibly wasting money, people are reluctant to hire them because they either aren't good (and thus have no money to waste), or won't be hungry (bec
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by rdw 4y ago
It's fun to be back in the age where every few years you want to upgrade your computer because the new ones are so much faster, not because the old one is worn out. 20% faster isn't enough to make me regret my M1 purchase, but aft
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by rdw 4y ago
The practice of using political party affiliation as a criteria at all for drawing district borders inevitably leads to gerrymandering. This part of the article does seem apparent, which is why the solution, to _not_ do that, seems mysteri
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by rdw 4y ago
This is written in such a way that it seems like it makes sense, but it ultimately takes its conclusion as an axiom and is thus essentially meaningless. Gerrymandering is to draw districts according to political party affiliations. So of c
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by rdw 4y ago
Can someone explain to me how any schools are in danger of going out of business? Their expenses aren't going up, they're not paying professors more, they're not leveraging themselves into debt. What are the huge cost incre
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by rdw 4y ago
> Code that runs slow over pathological input is nowhere near as dangerous as code that goes into an infinite loop over pathological input. In my experience, these are not actually that different. Even in straightforward web development
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by rdw 4y ago
Presumably related to this: https://www.roryctait.com/post/why-did-shaq-just-add-eth-to-...
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by rdw 4y ago
Oooh, I have one. It is really amazing, in that there's really a usable display in a package the size of one's finger. I've struggled to use it for anything practical, though, because of small issues with the mounting. It i
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by rdw 4y ago
Don't give up on the industry. I believe that HP is actually seeding the idea that no printer is better, because I've heard several people resignedly tell me that they're getting an HP because "they're terrible, bu
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by rdw 5y ago
Google spends most of their time blocking ads. "Spam" is ads.
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by rdw 5y ago
Alphabet isn't quite the same thing, though. They kept the Google name around, and created Alphabet as a kind of holding company. This way they retained the value of their brand while also getting to have a kooky company with a fun n
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by rdw 5y ago
> Incidentally I didn't really win much I've heard it said that the casinos encourage bad card counters, because someone who has a "system" that doesn't really work for them is going to lose even _more_ money pla
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by rdw 5y ago
It's still true that UDP is necessary for realtime communication. I recently worked on an MMO project in which a sub-team attempted to use TCP as the main layer, but ran into huge issues, all of which were cured by switching to UDP.
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by rdw 5y ago
It was basically "throwaway code" which was written in a hurry for a prototype that was not expected to have a long life. This kind of parsing was (is?) very common in the video game industry, and quite easy to author in C++, so
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by rdw 5y ago
Minor correction: it's actually nearly a 2% chance of dying (1.7%), after Delta became the dominant variant. Folks never really upgraded their talking points but subjectively 2% feels _much_ higher than 1%.

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