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RugnirViking
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About RugnirViking
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Comment #49226137
I studied my masters in Denmark 5 years ago, before AI. This was absolutely the case - first oral exams in my batchelors many of my fellow students were incredibly nervous. By the …
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Comment #49216721
> the models will find every possible algorithmic/design improvement it's so hard to square such totalizing statements with my day to day experience with fable and sol, (every poss…
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Comment #49216699
fable or sol w/ very high both planning and execution, yeah. I feel the "push back" part is a big part of my job now (on every step, planning, execution, and review) yeah, but that…
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Comment #49215578
Do you have issues with performance at the moment? Right now I tend to find that it produces absolutely terrible design patterns and especially performance. I mean maybe I don't kn…
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Comment #49197225
isn't this clearly a misunderstanding between you and hypothetical AI art approver? They're talking about the result , one must think. The idea that people who could not have appro…
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Comment #49197052
if your sole goal in life is the relentless pursuit of as much cash as you can possibly grab a hold of on your short time on this planet, then you are right. If you have a soul and…
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Comment #49196944
> That means we will able to assume that nearly all the remaining conjectures are either true or undecidable I mean, we could. But it doesn't really make sense to think that AIs ar…
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Comment #49194879
"there's currently no mechanism for producing an orthogonal directional change in the path" idk the harnesses adding in "but wait -- " or some variation every few lines in the thin…
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Comment #49194714
https://www.retroreversing.com/playstation-2-development-har...
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Comment #49194366
there are a bunch of ways to look at this (dynamite as a specific kind of explosive, dynamite as a stand in for explosives in general, dynamite in the context of what else we would…
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Comment #49176113
> pretty consistently improved I can accept the premise that condiitions have improved, but not that it was consistent. It seems to me that it was anything but; more like extremely…
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Comment #49167404
> distinction between natural systems and simply dominating them with technology No? There's a rhetorical distinction, there isn't a physical distinction. It's like holistic medici…
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Comment #49156628
They're a trading firm that hires really clever people to use math to trade. Their strategies are, presumably, very complicated and ever changing, and secrecy about them is the poi…
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Comment #49156615
this - most of the internal software at my job that's actually important is very dense, with keyboard navigation and shortcuts. The ones that somebody makes to sell themselves to u…
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Comment #49155700
> I still don't know how or why to take proper notes I find that there is some element of ritual to "proper" notes. Its personal, and everyone differs. Any given system may sound l…
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Comment #49154687
from his dev blog: "All map math happens in a single fixed ... plane... The intended effect was a classic Sim City view of the city. "
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Comment #49154657
interesting with the alcatraz island - I notice its invented some houses, and turned a cruise ship into a rock. I appreciate the difficulty and getting a lora to understand it - de…
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Comment #49154241
the post I was replying to boiled down people's decisions as "What is the risk of getting caught and is it worth risking?" I was linking it to mention that many (most?) people's me…
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Comment #49154206
I agree. When I say I learned "the lesson", there are two possible takeaways a person can take. If you want to win, it really helps to play the game to win (i.e. use these strategi…
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Comment #49149728
I considered writing some more about this but couldn't quite put it into words. Its amazing from my own position as someone deep in technology and the like that there are people so…
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Comment #49149665
> most people I'm aware that social trust in some places is lower than others (and that im lucky enough to live in a place with high social trust), but I really don't think this is…
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Comment #49149586
I learned this lesson as a child, entering a painting competition handily to someone whose work was (in my opinion) not very good, but they had a much nicer camera, lighting, and a…
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Comment #49149563
Theres a strange element of shamelessness to it, though I also think theres (sometimes) another of adoption/novelty. To you or I, steeped in the internet and hacker news culture, i…
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Comment #49149508
extremely noticeably so, too. A shame that the judges arent equipped to notice this sort of thing: the winning entry is pretty clearly the sort of result you get with a first naive…
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Comment #49149094
> I just don't have an intuition for why that is different from what it does for non-"spatial" things A big reason people separate this out is because it was only a short time ago …