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They talked about this twice, the exact text of both follows

> We didn't program it to understand the rules of Dota, we just let it play lifetimes of 1v1 against itself and coach it on what we thought was good or bad.

> We've coached it to learn just from playing against itself. We didn't hard code in any strategy. We didn't have it learn from human experts. Just from the very beginning it just playing against a copy of itself. It starts from complete randomness and then it makes very small improvements and eventually reaches the pro level. [... goes on to talk about how it's first "improvement" was to just never leave the base because it kept dying]

I think you're reading too much into the word coached. Particularly the second quote implies that it wasn't supervised at all.

My personal explanation for "Fake razes" is that it isn't a fake out to the bot, it's a technique to lower the casting time to zone out the opponent/hit faster if the opponent chooses to dives. Seems like a pretty easy trick to learn.

Creep blocking is just learning "positioning myself here (in front of the creeps) tends to improve my chances of winning", where "here" isn't far from where it would be positioning itself without creep blocking. It's a minor adjustment to the behavior with a substantial effect on the game outcome, of course it learned it.
I like it. I'm in the process of putting together a marketing strategy for my SaaS product (https://usebx.com) right now, and this gives me some really good ideas to pick and choose from. Thank you :)
Hi Tom,

Thanks for sharing your experience. Are there any books which you would recommend? I have my e-mail on my profile, if you find time, I would be really interested in any books/techniques which helped you.

Thanks!
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Possibly wrong measure, and not the whole story in any case.

The implicitly suggested volume measure might not be the wrong measure either since fertility depends on quite a few variables, several we don't even know about.

These unknowns are actually a bit concerning on their own since fertility has been falling rapidly, at least in most of the western hemisphere, and the cause is unknown.
Much of cutting edge physics doesn't have practical applications either, whether it's dark matter and string theory, early universe cosmology or astrophysics. =)
Apple gives users APIs at the level they think users should be operating, not system internals.

Are we seriously having this discussion, HN? Did people just wake up today to what their reality has been for years? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilcRS5eUpwk
>No, the predominant view is that there is no evidence that women are genetically predisposed to be worse at programming (on average) than men.

That might or might not be so -- they might even be better than men.

But note that programming is not just the act of programming. When we talk about "programming jobs" we also talk about specific management structures, deadlines, pressure, long hours, etc. which women might not care about, while men, idiotic as they are, might find "cool" or "macho". After all, men are the idiots that companies lure with free sodas and fussball tables -- I don't think many women would fall for that kind of crap.
I don't think so... "functionalclam.com" both begins with "functio" and ends with "onalclam.com"
The same goes for the opposite notion.
Making an elaborate plan triggers unconscious support from people who rely on Occam’s Razor to evaluate whether something is likely or not.
The absence of mitochondrial DNA mutations known to be associated with disease does not mean it's not a mitochondrial disease (in the sense that mitochondria are abnormal in some way and relevant to the disease).

Simply put, it's not a genetic mitochondrial disease.

There is a fair amount of evidence that mitochondrial function is abnormal in CFS.

See for example this study http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/08/24/1607571113.long
Most certainly legal. If certain investors don't like it, they can try to change it or maybe sue the company over the decision, but there's nothing about a "non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual" license that has questionable legality.
Unfortunately there's no science validating any treatment for this disease. This is what it means when they say there is no treatment or no cure. So in other words... there is no "empirically supported therapy" that can cure the condition.

The only option for treatment is to attempt treatments not yet validated by science. Whether it's by a quack doctor or a degreed doctor doesn't matter at this point.
'oscillation' isn't the word I'd use, but I assume the parent is referring to dollar cost averaging: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Dollar_cost_averaging
I got a stern warning ("Please comment civilly") from a Hacker News moderator for writing "You are funny." and you are calling me sociopathic.

I like this place. And you aren't funny.
Not all aspects might be important enough to have somebody consider it such a career. And most important might be just 1-2 aspects that men happen to care about more (or vise versa, but we don't see that).
You clearly have no idea how hiring works at major tech companies like Google.

1: Even if there are a 1000 positions, and only 1000 candidates, if they are underqualified, they do not get hired. Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc, try to have an objective bar, not one relative to the available candidates.

2: Nobody is pressuring for a 50/50 workforce. It's an ideal, and a reasonable-sounding long term goal, but even the most aggressive pro-diversity initiatives do not set a target of 50/50 ratio. In fact, in most cases HIRE targets aren't set at all. The targets are set for opportunities - ie number of diversity candidates evaluated or interviewed. The hiring process remains pure.

Source: Work for major top-10 tech company and do a ton of hiring, and diversity training.
Let me sum up the good and the bad:

The good:

* You were guaranteed a job (it was actually compulsory to have a job)
* There were no beggars on the streets and people felt safe about their basic needs
* All education, starting from kindergarten up to academic was completely free
* All healthcare was completely free

The bad and the ugly:

* The choice of products to buy was very limited
* You weren't able to freely express any negative feelings about the system (in some extremely serious case you could even be killed for that, although it was relatively rare)
* You couldn't travel and work where you wanted.

Trying to explain the difference in sexual satisfaction between East and West Germany based on social security seems tempting, but it's would be hard to prove (if the study was conducted well). I guess we'll never know for sure.
I've no doubt if amazon could just sell the raw file they would. It's rights holders who demand DRM and if amazon refuses itunes or someone else will happily step in and provide it.
I wonder how much this has to do with the code, and coder, churns in the Linux ecosystem.

Seems to me that there is a new weekend plumbing project popping up and being replaced almost monthly, if not even more often.

And it if gets an toehold in the ecosystem, the initial developer will quickly move on as he runs out of features to graft on and thus lose interest.

Then whoever takes over invariably decides the codebase in shit, and start over from scratch. And the cycle repeats.
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You mean, something like App::RecordStream?
Exactly. Some of the points just seem ridiculous and make me wonder what this person expected to get out of the book. For example:

> Halliday’s character combines the worst traits of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Kim Dotcom.

Do you think its purpose is to inspire you to be a better person? Since when are fiction books self help books? Since when are perfect characters the most interesting ones?
> I'll precommit to being very impressed if a bot can achieve >5k MMR in solo ranked or if a bot-controlled team wins a tier 6 (or higher) battle cup.

Me too but it will never happen. Granted I haven't played DOTA but I've played many other competitive mulitplayer games and they all require one thing which bots currently lack: Communication. A bot playing the entire 5 man team though, that's a different story!
A lot of these just seem like you aren't familiar with the Finder, did you check the menus, preferences, or do a web search for Finder tips?

- No folder tree you are correct. I don't miss it personally. Gotta just deal with this one I think.

- What way specifically does the search not work for you? It's incredibly powerful and you can search by file name, content, file type, creation date, etc.

- It should save the window size you last set it as on a per folder basis when you open a new window from a location. Don't really have any troubles with how it works personally.

- Finder has tabs. Command+T

- Not 100% clear on the problem exactly. If you're going into the wrong folder you don't just have to select a folder by the first character, just keep typing and it will jump to the matching folder name in a list.

- File -> Make Alias

- This one is a bit unclear too. Use spring loaded folders, or a new tab in the location you want to drop to or add the folder to the sidebar that you want to drop files to. Cut and Paste with same named files is a lot better than it used to be and basically works fine now, IMO.

- View -> Show Preview

- Indeed it is designed to keep people away from the system files. 95% of people shouldn't be in there. And of the remaining 1% most of them shouldn't either even if they think otherwise. :P

If you actually need to muck in the system files you can toggle their display in the Finder via a terminal command.

- Command + Up Arrow to go up a directory

- You can open a directory in the terminal easily in a number of ways, including dragging and dropping the folder into the terminal window or icon, using the services menu, etc.

- I don't really find drag and drop copying to be slow in general, are you on a spinning HDD? Anyway with High Sierra the new APFS will make copying files instantaneous.

- There are various services you can use or you can create your own automator services, folder actions etc. to do a multitude of things.

- Finder is decently clutter free IMO, AND it can do a lot of sophisticated things as well.
I don't know because I don't speak German, and beyond that all I've got are a couple interviews with folks wishing for a return to the security of the good 'ol days, a trope in Russia now. The study cited is from 1990, and I don't think it's a big surprise that all kinds of dissatisfaction accompanied those chaotic times.

What I'm saying though is that the article is not written for somebody who cares to confirm the thesis, which is pretty over-the-top, making for bad journalism, ergo parent's "parody of itself" assertion. So I would say that yes, based on the insubstantial (though entertaining) contents alone, the article comes to an improper conclusion.
I have a hard time believing that people actually cared about that whale. It seems more likely to me that it's an excuse for lonely people to band together against a common enemy, which gives a sense of community. This has more explanatory power than taking the environmentalists at their word: If it was about animals being intelligent and murder being immoral, people wouldn't wish the kid dead because the loss from that would surely be >= the loss from the whale.

It could also be trolls pretending to be environmentalists, though that would be very easy to confirm or deny by looking at a few profiles in more detail.

It seems counterintuitive that the most environmentally conscious way to live might be to stack everyone in extraordinarily dense cities, and leave the rest as wilderness or farmland. Does this Paul Watson guy consider it immoral to live outside of a modern transportation/supply network?

I wonder if the EPA lets you raise endangered species to be sold for food or parts, if on average more are created than killed. Imagine being able to eat a panda at a restaurant, but you see a bunch of "protect the wildlife" stickers everywhere, and you tell yourself you're doing your part by eating there.
Are you actually sending that amount around?
The root epidemics is of people only focusing on themselves.

Do voluntary jobs with sick and old people. Replacing your problems with other people's problems makes you think better.
>and like it or not that's the way JS is headed.

Well, like it or not, recursion did not make it to ES6/ES7.
Perfect!! Thanks, I will check it out.
> There is a saying in French which says that half of the treatment to get better is to recognize/admit you're sick

I believe this comes from the 12 step program of the Alcohol Anonymous (religious sect).

1. We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - that our lives had become unmanageable.
> The employees are usually the vulnerability

which makes it especially strange for the CEO to call it a "bug bounty". I'm not quite sure how a bug in humans can be resolved by a contract IT firm.
But you can't submit exercises.

https://learner.coursera.help/hc/en-us/articles/209818613-En...

When you audit a course:

- You'll be able to see most of the course materials for free, but you won't be able to submit certain assignments or get grades for your work.

- You won't be able to submit assignments for feedback or a grade.

- You won't get a Course Certificate.
That's not pragmatic, that's just... wrong, on so many levels. Either 1) shame them, 2) move to OSS, or 3) suffer, but please don't donate your precious time to solve the problems of a rich company who doesn't care about its users. Doing so would only diminish the effect of first option (shaming) and is just not fair to anyone.

Or, write a complete reference book and sell it for profit.
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This is nothing like the sharpshooter fallacy. The analysis determined the average performance of the analysts with >100 stocks rated and 10 analysts out of 16 did better than the rest.
You mean (US) M3 equals (US) wealth? Why? Can you back that claim with statistics?
Tesla started out by converting an existing lead acid electric car to lithium ion. It's smart to try to understand and optimize the already existing thing before you redesign it from scratch.
It's actually not a forum, but a way for members to connect over email. More networking.
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I appreciate the attempt; but I feel like "boys don't cry enough" (sorry, I know this is oversimplified) is the wrong place to look. The reason why I think this is the case, is that loneliness has been increasing while it has become more socially acceptable for boys and men to be open about their emotions. I have never, in my life as a boy and (hopefully) now a man, been told unironically that boys and men shouldn't cry, or that I in particular shouldn't cry. I don't think it would have any effect on my behaviour.

From my perspective it really must be something else.

Anecdotally I am a very lonely person right now. For the last six months or so, I could be described as about a 32 on the UCLA scale. I am nonetheless a very emotionally open person. I address emotional problems honestly, it just seems that I can not address loneliness the same way.

I think the activity that is required to build deep friendships, is to attempt to build many shallow ones, and see who sticks around. That has had the most success for me. I think the final bit of motivation for this is the research on health outcomes (though, granted, it could be a bit biased since unhealthy people are also more likely to be lonely).

Also regarding “But to paraphrase University of Missouri researchers Barbara Bank and Suzanne Hansford, men have power, but are not well.”; I don't know what on earth they are talking about. What power do men have? Surely some men are powerful, and there are more powerful men than powerful women, but men as a whole are not powerful in any way I could recognize (in NA).

Regarding “A man should never reveal worries to others.”, I think this is more a statement of strategic fact than an opinion. Nobody cares about men, especially not other men; so unless you have good reason to believe you will be helped rather than exploited, showing vulnerability to others is strategically suicidal.

As for the “no homo” stuff, it is essential. If you can't tell whether somebody is trying to befriend you or seduce you , you can not be at ease; you can't tell if you're just being a good friend, or leading them on. This connects directly with the later mention of "A lot of men don’t cultivate emotional intimacy when they are not in partnership with a significant other.". When you are in a relationship, making friends becomes more straightforward, since more variables are known to both parties.

Maybe I should go get coffee with Steven, we share a city after all.
Aand again, why would exchanges care? Unless they never cash out their fees to fiat (which I'm sure all do at least to some extent), they've got theirs.
Where in your schedule does answering this thread fit in?
Not sure why NIVIDIA should even invest any time in XWayland. It is just a stepping stone towards Wayland, and the retirement of X11
It worries me that I'll paint myself into a corner with Agile one day. Plus, the design documentation gets pulverized into lots of tiny user stories, so it's hard to get new people on board.
> Mobility and a willingness to learn new skills seems to prevail. It's what other generations have done, millions of immigrants (my parents included).

Yeah, but after all the moves I've done in the last 10 years, I'm starting to realize that the cost of moving isn't just the cost of a U-haul truck. The cognitive load of finding new grocery stores, new dentists, new mechanics, a new social scene, a new favorite restaurant, navigating a new city, working with new utility companies...

It's really a lot. It's more than I realized the first time I changed cities at age 17. That time, I thought I was depressed. Actually, it just took me a couple of years to achieve the stability that I had when I lived with my parents. I couldn't take on more cognitive load until I dealt with the basics, so stuff like relationships, socializing, and advancing my career all went really slowly at first. The second time I moved cities I also moved countries. I'm older now and much better mentally equipped to handle these problems, but I also notice it a lot more than I used to. Moving is _hard_. I don't expect to have a healthy social network for at least another year. My relationship seems to be standing up to the pressure, but trust me, there has been pressure.

The effort was worth it, but the cost is very real. If I could have avoided paying it, I would have.
The article provides no evidence about why English, specifically, is great for puns.

>> . It has a large vocabulary and a rich stock of homophones from which puns can be made

Ok. What about the other 6000 languages? Do they have more/less homophones. French sure has a ton of them.

>> It is constantly evolving, with new words being invented and old ones given fresh meanings

Yes, like any other language.

>> And it is mostly uninflected, allowing for verbs and nouns to switch places

Good. But other languages, like German, can keep the suspense until the end of the sentence (where the verb is located), ending the sentence in an unexpected twist. So is this a distinct advantage? Is it so unique?

>> it has no gendered nouns

You would think languages with lots of declinations allow for smart puns too, right?

It seems it has been written by an English speaker with little knowledge of any other language.
For us this is the product owner. They are the ones that do the user studies to backup feature requests with data. It's important to test assumptions about what users want.

This way we don't end up building stuff because someone random thought they wanted it.
Seriously - I prefer text-based config via CLI
Grooooaaaaaaannnnn. The amount of developer hours that go into micromanaging user stories and story points is infuriating
It's an over-the-top title to be sure, but the article itself is, I think, a pretty interesting survey of some facts I did not know about women's rights in Warsaw Pact countries, written by a scholar who studies the history of the region.

As a result, while I get the criticism, I think it's a bit unfair. But at this point it's a matter of opinion and taste rather than fact.

But hey, at least we had a conversation, so thank you for that!
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"But, rather than take a stand against the apotheosis of self-satisfied male nerdism, the mainstream media made itself complicit in an atrocity."

For how I have read it, the book starts with a guy that find in `self-satisfying male nerdism` his only way out of a depressed hopeless world and and up opening up, growing and making real friends over the digital world (while saving it).

Also since when nerdism is bad and why would the media not accomplice in `the atrocity`?

Regarding the quotes problem you talk about, `that's 70s show` and `Stranger Things` aren't staged in a distant future and their own zeitgeist is important to understand some things and to stage the show, but in `ready player one` the character is a `millennial from the future` that has to solve puzzles and riddles related to a far away in time culture (tbh good luck asking today to kids what `war games`, a nerd movie that came out 34 years ago, was.) and while recalling those movies (in a few lines) and having a thought process revolving around them (sure just to pull memories from his brain) he puts himself in hallyday's shoes as if it was an async tutorial setup by hallyday, a path towards world salvation that goes through the revival of a culture 'lost in time'.

The world doesn't spin around specific games and movies the author likes, I think the book delivers a simple story (classic hero journey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey#Campbell.27s_...) with an interesting catch of being revolved around a specific time, culture and media.

"It simply constructs a world around the reader, where his comfort zone, his passively acquired knowledge of retro video games and Star Wars, is enough to effortlessly make him a Great Man of History."

that is exactly what it takes to make someone `a great man of history` on the internet.

I didn't like the trailer, but i think the book is a nice and very easy to read.

ps i don't play videogames.
I'm confused as to why that plan would be considered elaborate. Haphazard and panicked seems to describe it better. Which fits Occam's razor just fine.

What is likely, given what's known at this point? I don't see some more likely scenario. Her body wasn't on the submarine, and the eyewitness account of the sinking supports the idea of a deliberate scuttle. The police say it looks deliberate as well.
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That's good to hear.

There's probably a huge disconnect between what an AI engineer entails with a certain word and what the layman then comprehends. At the same time, I think we (nadota) probably latched onto certain words and downplayed the ones that would make it more impressive to us. Just a result of itching for information without there being much out there.

Really cool work, really glad you're doing it in dota, and eagerly awaiting your blog post.
The bot did not have their creep blocks hard coded. In the event the player purposefully messed up his block to see if the bot would respond and it did
It's just linker magic and tagging sections on everything.

They had the same features up until at least Xbox 360; they're just called 'overlays' on non execute from ROM systems. It doesn't really take an esoteric compiler or environment.
Just parsing here: the walking doesn't affect you, but it is a symptom of some other "slumping over" tendency which you abhor, and which furthermore has other, more severe, effects on your lived experience?