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I wrote a rules engine in rust along with a reinforcement learning with MCTS based system to play decks against each other. It can handle aggro decks well enough but complex combo …

Does this mean Mamdani can build a datacenter in the middle of central park if he wanted to?

If the scales are only checked after the heat death of the universe, does it even matter? If the market can’t actually detect crooks and charlatans until long after they have stole…

Torment Nexus springs to mind

Next you’ll be telling us the shocking news that one of the parties used EMAIL!

A representative of the corporation, while taking over the store, expressly states that the corporation is taking over the consignment agreement, on camera and with several witness…

They can seize assets that belong to the entity. They can’t seize assets that belong to other people just because it happens to be on their premises, in the same way that they can’…

Notably, his essay “no silver bullet” states that there has never been a new technology or way of thinking or working that has led to a 10X increase in the speed of software develo…

Or skip the half measures and go straight for the dioxygen diflouride. https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...

>Well met, fellow Uplinker!! I'm pretty sure this person worked at Playtronics.

I think your post may have more acronyms than any other post I have ever read on hn. Do you have a guide to which specific things you are talking about with each acronym? Deep Lear…

Why 20 years? Just because we know, post hoc, the usa outperformed other places in the last 20 years, in no way means the next 20 years will be the same. If you want a different po…

I just don’t believe that this can run inference on a 120 billion parameter model at actually useful speeds. Obviously any Turing machine can run any size of model, so the “120B” c…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_Anyone_Builds_It,_Everyone_...

That depends on how many lanes there are and if there is a median.

In terms of profit given to its creators, “money” has to be number one.

Personal hot take: China is forbidding its companies from buying Nvidia chips and instead wants to have its industries use China-made chips. I think a big part of the reason for th…

The issue is the X is still a small SUV. We have one and ended up buying a Rivian as well because it has a lot more useful space than the X.

We have a model X and model S. I still like them but for our latest car we bought a Rivian SUV instead. The interior is just laid out better and there is a lot more space despite b…

>Would you go to prison for possessing a single joint back then? Yes, Harvard Professor Timothy Leary was sentenced to 30 years in prison (!) for having a single partially-smoked j…

homicide is not a "petty crime" or a "code violation" - that should be all the data you need.

>but they have never been free. Different kinds of freedom. In London you can legally jaywalk naked while drinking a beer in front of a cop and know that even if you really pissed …

No one I pay attention to posts on twitter any more.

If congress doesn't allocate the money, they won't be paid, even if they have a contract that says they will. Imagine Trump decided to offer a worker a trillion dollars. He writes …