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rgoldste

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    Comment #47477869

    Reminds me of an encounter on BoardGameArena where the top ranked 7 Wonders Duel player complained there was a randomization bug (the Great Library never offered the science progre…

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    Comment #37013119

    This is a plausible hypothesis. I’m curious whether OpenAI has considered this already and examined it I feel like an average senior eng could eval this in under two focused days, …

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    Comment #37013007

    This is technically correct (the article notes this). Milk of all kinds comes from all cows. Some fraction of chocolate milk comes from brown cows.

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    Comment #37009313

    Don’t feel like you need to understand 100%. You can always give yourself an hour to read a paper and gloss over some notation. If you read 5 papers over the course of a month, you…

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    Comment #36818968

    The truth is between these two. You can use a model’s output to train another model, but it has drawbacks, including model collapse.

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    Comment #35855310

    It’s serious and actually tries to fix the company.

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    Comment #21803178

    Very cool. Thanks for the details. Final question - how many rounds in a game?

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    Comment #21799311

    Very cool. Some questions - How many games (?) in a row did you win and how much money was this? How many episodes did you appear on? How does this compare to other top players? Th…

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    Comment #21188921

    Thanks for the response.

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    Comment #21188594

    Curious, not trying to be a jerk. For something like ordering pizza (or even plane tickets), how much worse is calling to make the order as opposed to ordering online?

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    Comment #21134162

    I didn’t quit fb but I unsubscribed from pretty much everybody. I think I’ve posted once in the last 6 years, though occasionally I come up tagged in friends’ pics. I think I’m bet…

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    Comment #21035669

    Yes. Here’s a paper that dives into some of these points and a few others. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2955455

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    Comment #20980207

    For the uninformed - myself included - Who is this guy? Is or was he ever affiliated with AWS?

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    Comment #20961986

    Not disputing, but could you please provide a link or two that argues they are profitable in existing markets? I’ve only looked at their S-1, and there wasn’t hard information (e.g…

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    Comment #20923925

    I catch your drift, but this isn’t technically true. A company with negative discounted cash flows might have a positive expected value because it can undertake a risky project tha…

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    Comment #20337075

    To anyone who finds these models interesting and wants to learn a lot more - I’d highly recommend Mor Harchol-Balter’s textbook: https://www.amazon.com/Performance-Modeling-Design-…

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    Comment #20258725

    Potentially relevant article (soft-paywall) https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/tech...

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    Comment #20192178

    To anyone who finds these models interesting and wants to learn a lot more - I’d highly recommend Mor Harchol-Balter’s textbook: https://www.amazon.com/Performance-Modeling-Design-…