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wilbur_whateley

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    Comment #49074362

    I think humans and other life forms have this ability on a long enough timeline through evolution.

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    Comment #49072317

    To me, AI is about the ability to solve novel problems. People who think supervised learning can do that usually believe that new knowledge comes from (1) combining old ideas, and …

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    Comment #48779850

    How did he punish them?

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    Comment #48314124

    My own experience. I'm working on something complex that's not in the datasets these models were trained on. There I see V4 flash breaking down and hallucinating much more often th…

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    Comment #48309079

    V4 flash is much worse than any Claude model. If you're doing something simple, it can be a good way to save money though.

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    Comment #48088424

    Working on Nichess (chess with health points) - https://www.nichess.org/

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    Comment #47980740

    If you like this, you might find Nichess interesting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947041 Adding health points to chess gives you a lot more options for balancing and ab…

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    Comment #47954028

    Games from that time had so much soul. I wish I were better at the art side of things.

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    Comment #47953818

    You're right, I'll add that. You remember them after playing for some time, but it is useful for a new player.

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    Comment #47947190

    Yes! Special abilities (Queen-Maenad and Pirate-Pirate) deal 20 damage to neighboring pieces. The only difference between 10 HP pieces and 30 HP pieces is that 30 HP pieces can sur…

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    Comment #47947069

    AI playing Nichess 1 against itself - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN0TnHkszmgQSnFrvF_ANIzX8...

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    Show HN: Nichess – Chess with Health Points

    Hi, I've been making a game like chess where pieces have special abilities and health points. This allows for much finer balancing and many more variants compared to regular chess.…

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    Comment #47892412

    Claude with Sonnet medium effort just used 100% of my session limit, some extra dollars, thought for 53 minutes, and said: API Error: Claude's response exceeded the 32000 output to…

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    Comment #47750146

    Working on https://www.nichess.org/ Nichess is a game like chess, where pieces have special abilities and health points. This allows for much finer balancing and many more variants…