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by splonk 5mo ago
It's interesting that the page actually uses minimax to determine black's play. I kind of assumed it would be a simple lookup table given the small state space of the game. I suppose it makes it easier to add more variants.
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by splonk 7mo ago
Maybe 20 years ago a build system at Google was called "grunt". For some reason I came across a CL description that said something like "make the build 10% funnier." It made the build script output an additional "z
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by splonk 7mo ago
I am exactly the type of nerd that is super excited about this kind of engineering, to the point where I visited a couple years ago and rode a boat on the wheel when I happened to be in Scotland. I mentioned having gone to a local in Edinb
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by splonk 9mo ago
I was part of the team that built exactly this. It launched in 2010. Some Googlers of that era are probably still annoyed at all the internal advertising we did to get people to seed the data. This is one of the launch announcements: ht
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by splonk 11mo ago
It's a fairly meaningless stat without knowing the number of the players at the table. At a quick glance he seems to be playing 6-max, but sometimes 3-handed. In any case 40% is within the reasonable range for 6-max.
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by splonk 1y ago
Not on a feathered shuttlecock, the feathers overlap in a pattern. Curious if it works with a plastic one.
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by splonk 2y ago
Looks it tries to identify Apple devices and goes to Pixel for everything else. const platform = navigator.platform || ''; const userAgent = navigator.userAgent || ''; const isAppleD
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by splonk 2y ago
You can sign up as an affiliate with both Booking and Expedia to get API access to their data. It's meant for people who are going to run their own hotel booking sites with Booking/Expedia content, so it's not quite as trivi
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by splonk 2y ago
It is very common to test stolen cards at gas stations (relatively anonymous and available, and easy to just drive away if the card fails). If that car wash was attached to a gas station, fraud detection algorithms have a tendency for fals
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by splonk 2y ago
There's also a bot you can play against: https://human-ai-interaction.github.io/cuttle-bot/ (Supposedly linked from that site somewhere, but I got it from the reddit thread linked elsewhere here.)
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by splonk 2y ago
The casino has no problem just telling you, "you're too good for us". Depending on the situation and the mood of everyone involved, you may be told you're welcome to play other games, or you might just get trespassed. N
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by splonk 2y ago
Here's the press release from Eurojust: https://www.eurojust.europa.eu/news/crackdown-illegal-stream... The claim of 250M/month or 3B/year in revenues seems staggeringly high, and doesn't seem to ma
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by splonk 2y ago
Card counters (and advantage players in general) are much less likely to tip well compared to the average gambler. The sort of people who think they're making money on a game also tend to recognize that tips cut into profits.
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by splonk 2y ago
The author is u/restricteddata on Reddit. This appears to be the thread that inspired this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/nuclearweapons/comments/1f85zpi/mk4...
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by splonk 2y ago
It seems the search would be useful for Europeans who manage to gather airline points, but that would be much less common in Europe than in the US, due to the lack of credit card awards programs.
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by splonk 2y ago
I had similar issues with SFO-LHR on August 14th, and the issue (probably) was that the result had mixed cabins (business SFO-LAX, economy LAX-LHR), and the airline site (Qantas) didn't obviously display the same result. Probably it w
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by splonk 2y ago
If I see a thread with too many comments from high volume posters, I assume it's low signal. Most of them are very good at commenting in a style that is convincing sounding and popular here, but when they stray into topics that I know
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by splonk 2y ago
For people who like this kind of thing, I recommend the Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb. There are a lot of objects from, well, broken relationships, and often some highly personal letters accompanying them. I didn't really ex
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by splonk 3y ago
It's helpful to look at past history to get some idea of your chances of arriving on time - for example, here's the eastbound California Zephyr's times in Denver for the past month. It's a nice way to travel but it&#x27
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by splonk 3y ago
I concur with this. I've spoken with friends at Reddit who tell me that overall post volume is basically back up to normal, but my participation was mostly in smaller subs. Some of them got killed for lack of moderators, some are bas
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by splonk 3y ago
I also appreciate how some of the examples randomly put the bad examples at the end instead of the beginning. I'm not going to say people with glass houses shouldn't throw stones, but maybe you should walk outside first.
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by splonk 3y ago
IMO too slow/fast doesn't matter a ton unless it's extreme (e.g. some steep ramps become impossible with weak flippers). Tilt to the left/right is a much bigger issue, especially if it starts making some standard ball r
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by splonk 3y ago
I would echo the sibling comment about wizard mode - it's difficult enough on modern machines that you'll most likely take a long time to get there. If trying to "beat the game" motivates you, I think you'll get va
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by splonk 3y ago
The Pinball Hall of Fame is notable for having a working Pinball Circus[1], of which there were only 2 ever built. I try to give it a play every time I'm in town. It's also got quite a few other rare games that are very difficul
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by splonk 3y ago
Quite a few people have tried. Generally the reviews are terrible. The barrel aging process is more complicated than most people think. Lost Spirits (now in Vegas, formerly in LA, Salinas, and Barcelona before that) makes some pretty dri
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by splonk 3y ago
Not to detract from the general point that most alcohol tasting medals are just marketing and not particularly scientific, but this article is kind of misleading. In a lot of alcohol tasting competitions (including Gilbert & Gaillard),
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by splonk 3y ago
Buffalo Trace has an Experimental Collection where they try to isolate one variable in the aging process (temp, wood, mash bill, rickhouse location, etc.). It's interesting if you can get access to a flight of them, but they're pr
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by splonk 3y ago
Airline employees routinely turn people away at the departure airport due to visa/passport paperwork not being in order. Timatic is the usual system that most airlines subscribe to for this kind of thing. Airlines are highly incented
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by splonk 3y ago
I really enjoy the joke names. Portsmouth, NH has a Sylvester/Tweety Bird approach: ITAWT, ITAWA, PUDYE, TTATT, followed by IDEED for the missed approach. https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/community/threads/uniq
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by splonk 3y ago
I wouldn't call it daily from my observations, but it's common enough in the Mission that it's not a surprise (I'm probably within a mile of the garages that Cruise and Waymo use).

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