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Comment #14969888
I think what they're describing isn't related to video games. It's just that using your brain a certain way makes it better at that type of task. The idea that playing Mario 64 imp…
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Comment #14968045
"One freaking hundred years, or something, after women started voting. What happened in that time? Women were blind to say the least?" Are you suggesting the fact that women did no…
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Comment #14967782
This article seems to ignore the added revenue from a driver having a car and driving people around for Uber. The better metric is probably the average profitability of a driver wi…
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Comment #14949874
What's the process like to get a game on the platform? Are there any requirements for exclusivity? Any expected monthly revenues for a reasonably popular game? This sounds like a g…
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Comment #14948891
ARMs is solid. First time I have preferred motion controls over traditional inputs (for entertainment, not efficacy).
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Comment #14925737
What's the safety like relative to other options in that price range for a place like India?
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Comment #14921236
Meat eaters will eat fake meat if economics incentive them too. You don't need to completely switch over to impact the world. Growing meat is a substantial waste of energy and nutr…
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Comment #14909864
Probably just you. This product is indeed capable of changing the world for the better if scaled up. "Saving it" is hyperbole. But it's not about making a nice meal for vegetarians…
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Comment #14905733
Feedback is a hard problem but this sounds fluffy and unhelpful. Are there any tools out there that have effectively been implemented in a large organization to facilitate feedback…
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Comment #14905652
This seems to describe a group which bought ad space. That's not google's doing.
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Comment #14887031
Glossing through save the cat- it doesn't seem like a restrictive guide, but rather a set of reasonable narrative components, like stating the theme and having a narrative catalyst…
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Comment #14883961
"Addiction is a hideous condition, but it’s rare." Is this a true statement for harder drugs?
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Comment #14878453
Is Naive Bayes really ever the most practical choice? Yes it is a simple, fast algorithm, but it's usually a non trivial step below other simple models in my experience and doesn't…
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Comment #14873801
As in they aren't randomly generated? Or any placement of mountains creates an impassable pass?
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Comment #14871561
Yeah AoM was the best. I was introduced to programming in their editor. Made it into a short turn based rpg.
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Comment #14849019
I recall reading the plan was to make electric sleds for cars (vaguely akin to car wash tracks) rather than hyper loops.
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Comment #14837986
Perceiving other people's preferences as killing the fun kills the fun.
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Comment #14821461
I can't tell if this suggesting he uses models that were made to predict algae growth or if he is using algae/bio/genetic inspired optimization algorithms. But either way he is cer…
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Comment #14784206
Glove is great. Simpler and faster with a very small trade off for quality. Word2vec has an advantage in that you can produce document vectors with only a small change in the netwo…
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Comment #14783619
About to join their analytics team soon. Their technical capability is high and growing. Their involvement with "AI" is not that huge, but they'll have one of the best outlooks of …