tvorryn

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by tvorryn 14y ago
There is fairly strong evidence that NLP is not effective: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming#Sc...
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by tvorryn 14y ago
If not now, eventually they must be or must have been "doing startups" because all businesses begin as startups. It's in the name, a startup is a company that is just getting started. Some eventually grow up into the titans of industry that
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by tvorryn 14y ago
Team Fortress 2 and DOTA 2 are the ones I know of. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Fortress_2#Free-to-play http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dota_2#Free-to-play
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by tvorryn 14y ago
Most US authors pay only a few cents per delivery. [1] Books with lots of images can become expensive but it seems like the images are likely unnecessarily big for an ebook, and that is why his costs are so disproportionately large. 1 - ht
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Exec and Tail-call Optimization(jeapostrophe.github.com)
2 points by tvorryn 14y ago|0 comments
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by tvorryn 14y ago
If you want a semi-realistic startup reality tv show to watch right now, try TechStars on Bloomberg Tv: http://www.bloomberg.com/video/75400336/ or Start-Up Junkies: http://www.hulu.com/start-up-junkies
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by tvorryn 14y ago
That's my plan actually. It should be a lot easier to get going than C or an LLVM backend as others are suggesting.
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by tvorryn 14y ago
I think you mean contracts or defensive coding. If someone calls my code wrong they will have to think to test that particular case themselves, which is hard. Unless I've written contracts; then when it blows up they'll know what they did w
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by tvorryn 14y ago
Huh. You're right. That seems pretty recent, or I didn't notice the switch-over. Thank goodness.
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Developmentalism - A Dangerous and Deadly Failure You Probably Agree With(foreignpolicy.com)
3 points by tvorryn 15y ago|0 comments
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A Look at the AntiVax Movement and the Origin of Bad Ideas(skepticlawyer.com.au)
1 points by tvorryn 15y ago|0 comments
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by tvorryn 15y ago
I was a little disappointed that when he talked about Jekyll blogs, he didn't mention Octopress. The default theme looks pretty good, it has a decent set of plugins and the code display looks great. It was actually pretty easy to set up to
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2nd Place AI Challenge Bot Postmortem (Translated by Hand From Russian)(trevoroakes.com)
7 points by tvorryn 15y ago|0 comments
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by tvorryn 15y ago
Yeah. In this competition collaboration was discouraged. That does keep politics/alliance building skills out of the equation at the cost of worse overall final products.
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by tvorryn 15y ago
You didn't do too badly this time yourself. 11th place. Looking at what he did, do you see what you could do to improve your bot further?
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by tvorryn 15y ago
I actually used this idea from the forums and your post to get 683rd place even though I started on it with 36 hours to go before the deadline. http://aichallenge.org/profile.php?user=972 So thanks. How'd you do?
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by tvorryn 15y ago
Haha. It didn't say that before, because he hadn't officially won yet. It's actually been propagated from Tron: http://a1k0n.net/2010/03/04/google-ai-postmortem.html
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Winner of 2011 Google AI Challenge Describes Released Code(xathis.com)
190 points by tvorryn 15y ago|21 comments
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by tvorryn 15y ago
Overall Winner's Code and description of how it works: http://xathis.com/posts/ai-challenge-2011-ants.html
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by tvorryn 15y ago
27th place's code and description of how it works: http://forums.aichallenge.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=2169&... and profile: http://aichallenge.org/profile.php?user=3845
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by tvorryn 15y ago
16th place's description of how their code works: http://www.decompilinglife.com/ and profile: http://aichallenge.org/profile.php?user=4728
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by tvorryn 15y ago
11th place's code: https://github.com/a1k0n/ants/tree/master/bot and profile so you can watch how it works in action: http://aichallenge.org/profile.php?user=432
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by tvorryn 15y ago
Here are some histograms from before the finals of how different languages and countries did compared to each other: http://imgur.com/a/Li1b4
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The Fall 2011 Google AI Challenge (Ants) is over(aichallenge.org)
5 points by tvorryn 15y ago|5 comments
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by tvorryn 15y ago
http://foundation.zurb.com/
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All Programmers May Be Self Taught But The Best Are Also "Martial Artists"(lambdassociates.org)
25 points by tvorryn 15y ago|7 comments
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by tvorryn 15y ago
This essay seems quite relevant: http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/hackers.htm It compares self-taught and college taught programmers to street fighters and martial artists.
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by tvorryn 15y ago
I think you mean: ; println(myList) i.e. reorder those and add a semicolon or put it on the next line and I agree with pivo that "Jim" :: "Bob" :: Nil should be List("Jim", "Bob"). I'm not sure if these are the same as _Y_'s Fantom code, bu
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by tvorryn 15y ago
Cons is short for construct and comes from Lisp which has weird names for things; things like car and cdr. It means construct a new list. A cons A (or A :: B) means create a new list with A before B, where B can be a list item or a list its
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by tvorryn 15y ago
I spent quite a few hours a while ago trying to organize languages into different language groups in order to pick which languages to learn next. If you're interested in that see the blog post that came out of that: http://hacklash.postero

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