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It's generally tied to the intrinsic and extrinsic rewards. Most super popular games these days have a short skill ceiling and an accessible skill floor; encouraging getting good isn't a major focus of design.

If all there is to do is to get achievements and better loot, then players will tire and leave.

If there's community, ways to express identity, and so forth, then players will keep each other engaged.

Fortnite doubles down on the latter by having an in-game store with time-windowed products and other mechanics that heavily leverage FOMO and social anxiety.
I'm inclined to agree that drones at Heathrow will be a misstep that could backfire for XR. It's an outsize disruption with possibility of outsize jail sentences when they always claimed they were focusing on the capital where the government and decision makers are. Heathrow seems a bit of a stretch. City airport perhaps. To me it's a confusing choice.

The government's net zero strategy is little more than not disputing the Select Committee on Climate Change's report. As the committee themselves note there now needs to be actual policy. From an administration that has been hugely counterproductive to adoption of greener energy.

Edit: I suspect Boris forgot about his pledge the morning after he uttered it. :)
They are wrong in _that one example_. For most other day to day scenarios, Newton's laws are plenty accurate.

I disagree with the poster about that saying. I think it's a fantastic saying.
And giraffes have anal sex more than regular sex. I only read the internet for the articles but it sounds convincing.
You’re so smart! Such a fast reader!
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> What prevents one importing each CSV in a postgres db as tables, creating indexes and then start running queries?

There are many reasons:

* Experience/knowledge. Many labs don't have anyone experienced with databases.

* Security. Without proper dev ops a local DB is often out of the question. And when dealing with PII genetic data, [cloud] security can be a major concern.

* Funding. Machines cost money. AWS RDS instance cost money. Maintaining them costs money. Dev ops costs money. etc.

* Often times the queries being done are simple. For example, you may have a giant CSV with cross-ethnic trait data, but only need samples of African decent with a beta value > 0.1. Sure, you could spin up a database, load the entire thing into a table (O(N) + disk space + time), then index it (now it's O(2N) + more disk space + more time), and then finally run your query. Or you can just O(N) run over the CSV once and output the results with no extra disk space or "wasted" (perception of the researcher) time.

Finally, don't fool yourself about the capabilities of researchers. Many are code-savvy, but lack experience. Writing a SQL query is easy. Loading multiple TB of data into a relational database, indexed properly, and done in a manner that won't take days of time is a level higher.
A family member is deaf and does exactly the same thing. He never learned to read aloud so never got into the habit. He reads ridiculously fast.
aha, yes i suppose, learning human fallacies, that would be quite confusing when it's perceiving something quite different to us, it would probably take more effort to learn compared to just manipulating the input image.
Interesting description of “relativistic” effects in the GPS system. http://www.tuks.nl/pdf/Reference_Material/Ronald_Hatch/Hatch....
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No, I’m saying it’s the same type of illusion. Small areas of color blend together and look like a single color to our eyes. (CMYK printing of course works on the same principle)
It’s a very good intro to economics. However, I generally recommend instead reading the work that it’s based on: That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen by Frédéric Bastiat. [1]

Bastiat’s work is timeless, whereas Hazlitt’s, written to be consciously modern at the time, is showing it’s age.

[1] http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html
When people fill up their phone, they look at apps, sort by size, and bigger is more likely to get removed.

For users who haven't enabled automatic updates, they're going to delay updates more often for bigger apps too.

There may be runtime impacts too, but that's outside my area of knowledge. I would guess there are better things to look at to improve responsiveness of an app than simply executable size, but it probably doesn't hurt.
> Somehow out of the blue, Fortnite became huge

That “somehow” is pretty obvious: they had already built all the assets for a great multiplayer FPS-esque, and already had a whole marketing department spun up to get people to play it. Once they decided to pivot to Battle Royale as a game mechanic, they spent a month on rewriting game logic, and then had a nearly-finished AAA Battle Royale game on their hands with a staff ready to sell it, with more polish than existing entries in the genre and no other studios close to catching up to chase the fad in time.

Business take-away: if you build for a well-established, very competitive market, and then—near the finish line—pivot into a new and (as yet) less-competitive market where you can still reuse everything you built, the extra polish you had to put into your product to get it to stand out in the heavily-competitive field, will make you stand head-and-shoulders above everyone else in the less-competitive field.

(I’m trying to think of other good examples of this effect in the business domain but coming up short. Anyone?)
You're making the same mistake but now it's less obvious because the change of scale. When you compare floating point numbers, simple == is not usually what you want; you need to compare them with a tolerance. Choosing the tolerance can be difficult, but in general when working with small numbers you need a small value and with large numbers you need a large value. This dataset involves datapoint(s) at 1e20; at that magnitude, whatever you're measuring, the error in your measurements is going to be way more than 1, so a choice of tolerance ≤ 1 is a mistake.
The smaller the image, the more effective that illusion. Looking at it on my 20+" screen at almost fullscreen I can look at individual alls and clearly see the as "brown." But with a smaller image, even looking directly at the ball, I'm seeing more of the color of the bar than the color of the bar. This makes me wonder if there's a physical aspect to the way this illusion works, maybe something to do with structure of the eye?
This is probably a small factor -- a much larger factor is just that gamers get bored easily and want to play newer games, even the skilled ones.

Most games will put players of similar skill level against each other, so the fact that there's a cohort of players who are much stronger than you can be totally invisible to your experience of the game as a weaker player, even when that delta is getting larger over time. Whatever skill level you happen to be at, there's probably someone else there too.
Or until they convince someone to acquire them or convince the public markets to give them money and remain unprofitable.
Only someone without basic physics literacy would jump from the fact that "planets revolve around the center of mass of the solar system" to the clickbait conclusion "earth does not orbit around the sun". They missed that approximation is a prerequisite for a scientifically meaningful representation of the real world.
Snopes and Mythbusters showed how you can actually make entertainment out of "This thing we thought might be true, actually isn't true / doesn't work at all".

As for the fairness issue, my first thought is to have it moderated by scientists but from different fields. It's like we do in other areas, like law. You need an expert on the general process, but if they have any personal connection to the topic at hand, they must recuse themselves.

In a sense, it's just a specific type of scientific journal, right? An online journal of only null results.
I'm going to bet on technical debt and raw lack of experience rather than "refusal."
There's a playground/sandbox mode.

You can also do it in the normal BR mode. It takes a few minutes until the circle starts shrinking and it shrinks in multiple phases, so you have 5-10min (more if you're lucky) to just mess around before it gets too small.
It seems grass is always greener on the other side. I'm from Eastern Europe and work remotely for a Western European company which is very beneficial from the financial point of view. Schengen Agreement makes it also very convenient to travel around and stay in different countries from time to time.

I do, however, always feel like the actual place to be for tech experts is USA. The European market seems too fragmented and too conservative. The VC money just doesn't seem to be there and most tech companies never grow that big as on the other side of the pond. I would love to spend some time in US, be it in SV, NYC or some other tech hub, but I don't really want to go through all the immigration hassle if I can pick any of the EU countries and just move there whenever I wish...
Cliffy B was the lead designer for Gears of War. A big moneymaker for Epic and one of the most unique shooters to date. When I think of Epic I think of Gears, then Unreal Engine.
The point of this illusion is that it goes against what we expect for colour discrimiation. We would expect the balls where the red bars going over the top to look less red not more red.
I think the point was that n-body systems with n>2 are chaotic, such that very small differences in starting position lead to massive differences as time unfolds.

Wouldn't this make it very difficult to do the highly precise detective work needed to find alleged former solar system bodies? Or are simulations accurate enough these days?
Why did PUBG drop the ball? Do they regret that decision?
Because listing something as Amazon's Choice that isn't actually an estimate of what is best for the customer violates a large swathe of Amazon's leadership principles
On mobile this is a perfect illusion, unless you physicslly hide all but one ball.
I've heard a myth that engineers tend to have an experience of getting a shock in their younger age.

I don't know whether children who get a shock go for engineering career, OR children who has curiosity on engineering has high probability of getting a shock because they usually play with power socket.
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>It’s reasonable to charge fat people more.

It's only reasonable insofar as you view insurance as a profit-maker and deprive it of its social function of financial relief.
I've never tried this -- how would I do this using ETrade or similar?
It seems you can't yet.
Epic was also the creator of Gears of War - a game I thought was just going to be a tech demo for Unreal Engine 3 and turned out to be a masterpiece.

Related (to both Fortnite and Gears of War): some words from Rod Fergusson https://www.polygon.com/2019/6/14/18679549/fortnite-save-the...
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> With the creation tools they have, it'd be interesting to see what would happen if players could make their own maps that where shareable so others could visit.

This already exists, called creative mode. My son and his friends play this all the time - they even planned a sleepover party for 10 kids around it.
They got it to the market quickly and made a couple of billion. While we can hindsight now about some very poor choices they made -- choices that opened them up to rampant cheating with little ability to block it -- they made bank and have already had a success curve that has gone far longer than most games do, regardless of how perfectly they were executed.
Are there any browser extensions that stick actual third-party human-determined best-choice labels on things in the Amazon store? Maybe one for Wirecutter recommendations, or Consumer Reports? Maybe a meta extension that aggregates all those recs where you can turn the rec-sources you like on and off in the extension?)

(It’d be nice if Amazon themselves gave you the ability to subscribe to a given reviewer-user’s opinions and have them show up as labels on your search results—but new features like this popping up on the Amazon store seem pretty unlikely, somehow. Has the Amazon store stagnated?)
It's the endgame content. Once you've gotten as good as you can get, it gets boring. In shooters, once you've memorized the levels and have a best gun and best loadout, the game becomes routine. Go to this corner, throw a grenade, come out shooting, duck back, hide in this bush. After time, everyone starts using the same tactics and it stops being fun. For other games like MMOs (WoW, GW2, etc), once you've beaten the main content of the game there may not be anything left to do. Just more of the same, or competitive PvP play that has the same problem as the shooters I was talking about.

Once you've seen everything the game has to offer, it starts getting boring quickly. Like watching the same movie over and over. Some you can watch over and over because they're that good, some you watch once or twice and you're done.

Now to your question of it being too hard to beat good players in an older game, that does have an effect. You might find it difficult to get into Counter Strike or Team Fortress 2 these days because the people still playing are really, really good. They've been playing the same game for a decade.
The EU reduced their emissions by close to 30% in 30 years. These actions were obviously sufficient. Problem is that only the EU (what what are now the EU members) took the effort. The EU should be praised as an example and instead we have a bunch of environmentalist extremists shutting down airports here with drones.
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Could the gorillas be the poachers? The story seems consistent with the gorrilas warning the tracker by grunt to stay put, then dismantle their nearby traps to protect the humans. This is also consistent with the fact that the tracker hadn't noticed the second trap. I don't really believe my suggestion though, but the coincidence probability does seem rather low for 2 such trap-dismantling events during a single encounter between tracker and gorillas. If they spontaneously dismantled strictly for themselves, I'd expect the traps to already be dismantled, if the gorillas preferred the traps dismantled. Perhaps human poachers set the traps, and the gorillas for some reason benefit or are entertained by the trapped animmals?

>On Tuesday tracker John Ndayambaje spotted a trap very close to the Kuryama gorilla clan. He moved in to deactivate the snare, but a silverback named Vubu grunted, cautioning Ndayambaje to stay away, Vecellio said.

>Suddenly two juveniles—Rwema, a male; and Dukore, a female; both about four years old—ran toward the trap.

>As Ndayambaje and a few tourists watched, Rwema jumped on the bent tree branch and broke it, while Dukore freed the noose.

>The pair then spied another snare nearby—one the tracker himself had missed—and raced for it. Joined by a third gorilla, a teenager named Tetero, Rwema and Dukore destroyed that trap as well.
This right here. It's easy to talk about optimizing gut bacteria when people aren't dying in the streets of cholera. Not saying we haven't swung too far in the other direction, but we've solved some very big problems with water treatment and hand washing.
It's probably more related to the geekier and/or generally more technically productive people that peopled the internet in the pre-smartphone age. It used to be that you had to learn and practice and exercise skills to become proficient to use the internet, now its basically as mindless as television for [probably] most people.
That's not so clear. The LCD subpixels and CMYK dots may well be below the optical/retina resolution of the eye, in which case it's not really an illusion at all as it's already in the signal data the brain receives. This is quite likely so, because you cannot see those dots individually even with concentration. The same likely goes for squinting your eyes as they become optically unfocused.

In contrast, here the issue is undoubtedly in how the brain interprets the signal data, i.e., an illusion.
Yeah, based on a very informal survey I’ve seen on some reading-related subreddits, the biggest difference between fast and slow readers was whether they subvocalized or not.

I fall in the “not” category (the average-sized book is a 3-4 hour length for me), but I will occasionally intentionally subvocalize, just to slow myself down a bit.
Think of it like this: if the planet were inside the sun, at the very center, that's where the barycenter would be. If the planet were then to move steadily away from the center of the sun, the barycenter would also move steadily (though more slowly) away from that point. As that planet steadily moves away from the sun, there is no point at which the barycenter will stop and start moving back toward the sun.
A true difference in knowing how to use the tool. Obviously, the creators of the engine are going to put out a more optimized game than pretty much anyone else using it.
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The recent thread titled "The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)" is also relevant:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20167686
You're right that a nearer small body pulls the large body with a greater force, but after one full orbit the large body has been pulled rightward just as much as it has been pulled leftward. The missing piece is: for how long is the force exerted before the situation repeats?

A distant small body exerts a smaller force for a longer time, and a nearby one exerts a greater force for a shorter time.

It comes down to how much time and how much force. The law of graviton plus Kepler's third law plus some algebra ought to show that you get a larger circle with a weaker force over a longer time (not an obvious result).
PubG was not particularly popular with women. Fortnite is. The success of any social network lives or dies on that one item.
>I believe this illusion is exploiting a quirk of human sensory vision so any machine learning will not be affected.

That's the point my dude.

Humans see an optical illusion, robots do not. Meaning ML algos that care about seeing things as humans do have a conundrum.
They make the same moves as flying.
> As the saying goes: all models are wrong; some are useful.

It's important to also recognize that everything we believe about the world except raw sensory perception is a model and, ipso facto, wrong, though perhaps useful.
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Perhaps different people experience this image differently. For me, viewing the image on an iPhone, with no squinting at all, the balls look strikingly red, green and blue. It's only after zooming in on the image, that I convinced myself that the balls were brown with colored bars over them. As others have suggested, perhaps a small image size is what makes this illusion work.
Even /pol/ isn't /pol/. It's a fascinating place in that you can have an openly Neo-Nazi thread right next to the Pro-Zion thread, right next to the Christian thread, followed by the Islam thread. The Yang Gang thread is right next to the MAGA thread which is right next to the Bernies Bros thread.

As much as it is a terrible place, it is also probably the most diverse place in the internet and I sometimes wonder if by exposing each other to diametrically opposed ideas, they temper each other out. I really hope some sort of researcher is archiving it for posterity because I don't think there has ever been an experiment like it.
> "everything gravitates around everything else"

for thing in solar_system:
thing.gravitate_around(everything_else.center_of_mass)
I read words aloud in my head. However, I remember reading words as fast as possible almost like an auctioneer when we would break up into reading groups in elementary school. My classmates thought it was hilarious but when the teacher came by, she would tell me not to read so fast.

So I switched the extra processing power to making context-appropriate inflections, dramatizations, and intonations instead of the monotone my classmates were doing, which the teachers seemed to tolerate.
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I can't get myself to use ZFS on Linux with the licensing uncertainty. Anyone using it in production has got lawyers looking into this?
Sure there’s Google or Facebook residency, etc but they are specifically looking for artists that are using technology in their art or at least aren't questioning the companies / private interests that are funding them. There’s so many artists that don’t use computers to make their work. I mean a program that supports all artists. I also don’t think government programs like the WPA were a waste.

I'd agree that UBI and healthcare could be one part of this. It's incredible that these aren't a given at this point.

I guess I just feel like Drip and Patreon are creating a commodity where there shouldn't be one. Funding an artist only when they have an audience that has the means to pay them monthly is a sure way of making some bad art.
Is this categorization (subvocalizers vs others) backed up by research?

Can on learn not to subvocalize?
Name of company? Can you write a blog about this or elaborate more? I am curious about how you usually get into this industry.
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I often hear people boasting about their "speed reading" skills and then I ask them what sort of books they read, turns out speed reading and having "good retention rate" is easy if you're reading crap. I could also speed read Clive Cussler, Stephen King, and JK Rowling.

I love Philosophy and classic literature and I've yet to meet anyone that's managed to speed read Proust's "In Search of Lost Time", and then tell give me a detailed description of the plot, themes, artistic merit, and so on. Similarly with books like Ulysses. There's no possible way to speed read that book because it's so rich with allusions, references to religion, art, mythology, and philosophy. If you tried to "speed read" it, you would be missing half the point of reading it in the first place.

Reading great books isn't about numbers, you don't get rewarded for how many classics you read in a year. Reading great books is about slowly absorbing all the riches inside, something that just cannot happen if you're rushing. I've read The Brothers Karamazov and The Magic Mountain 4 or 5 times and each time I learn something new and gain a deeper understanding of psychology and life. I find it more rewarding to read and re-read the classics slowly, writing notes, using a critical guide (or book of companion essays), than smashing through as many crappy novels or modern popular non-fiction books (The Power of Now of any of Malcom Gladwells books are typical fodder for todays readers).
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