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Nobody forces you to use AI. It has become sort of junk food for the brain. Temptations and ads for it everywhere.
If you have performance based metrics about your AI usage then you are essentially being forced to use AI (or become unemployed) Plenty of people are experiencing this nowadays The idea that no one is being forced to use AI is nonsense
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Yes you are definitely onto something! Love to see more people talking about deterministic games. My game is strictly deterministic, so I get bot movement for free - but the player has agency so I need to capture their deviations That’s the tricky part! Right now I do capture input (actually just deviations) and can replay whole games, but I think I’m at the limits in terms of compression - talking bytes here not KB
How much did your clever approach save over a naive approach + file compression?
But of the “smart” approaches (pre compression):
- 5 move motif over 2 bytes - best
- 2 move motif - insanely small
- 2 move motif with non linear tick delta even better
- “naive” 1 byte cardinal directions (worst)
- less-naive - byte relative direction changes (middle of the pack)
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But post compression with brotli the naive approach was second best and the less-naive approach was first (2-10% better than naive), I was so bummed that the better ones didn’t compress as well (about 10% worse than second best on average)
I think one of the saddest thing is that the kind of person who would recognize, "we can solve this seemingly complicated problem by just applying this formula", would often have trouble even getting recognized in many corporate environments. I managed a guy like that. He was capable of very complex thinking, but he wasn't in love with complexity, he was in love with simplicity. His solutions tended to be of the form…
return 5 # because mathI think one of the saddest thing is that the kind of person who would recognize, "we can solve this seemingly complicated problem by just applying this formula", would often have trouble even getting recognized in many corporate environments. I managed a guy like that. He was capable of very complex thinking, but he wasn't in love with complexity, he was in love with simplicity. His solutions tended to be of the form…
I imagine this is where the reputation of a good manager comes in and the ability to say to their boss "hey, we should keep this guy... just trust me on this."
Project Euler is like this a lot -- it's presented as a coding challenge but half the problems can be optimized to return 5 # because math
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If his monetary value to the company was as said why would any other metric like complexity even remotely matter or need convincing assuming the main goal of the company was to make money. Money would matter even more than the interpersonal stuff in most cases but on top of it even the managers treasured him so there should've been even less of an issue of communicating value. Getting bored is totally understandable…
> even the managers treasured him so there should've been even less of an issue of communicating value. I’m not a fan of doing politicking, bjut after much courses on writing and communication, I strongly believe that such simple solutions could have been presented in a way to justify rewards. There are people that do nothing worthwhile and can find words to justify themselves. If someone brings value, you can find w…
I dont want to expend effort politiking. I dont want to expend effort blowing my own trumpet. The value of my work is self-evident, but requires an equally intelligent person to understand.
And most people do not understand, and thus, fail to recognize the value.
"Compute the first few terms and plug into OEIS" is very high on the reward:effort scale
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> even the managers treasured him so there should've been even less of an issue of communicating value. I’m not a fan of doing politicking, bjut after much courses on writing and communication, I strongly believe that such simple solutions could have been presented in a way to justify rewards. There are people that do nothing worthwhile and can find words to justify themselves. If someone brings value, you can find w…
This is what i hate about modern corporate culture (or human culture in general perhaps). I dont want to expend effort politiking. I dont want to expend effort blowing my own trumpet. The value of my work is self-evident, but requires an equally intelligent person to understand. And most people do not understand, and thus, fail to recognize the value.