SpaceManNabs

I started playing at WCIII TFT too. it is personal for me too. so many good memories.

i did play some brood war after i played tft with some of my tft clan mates and i didn't really like it. i think i prefer micro over macro, at least at the time. whenever i play dota 2 nowadays, i am much more macro oriented but that might be because i got much better than 18 years ago lol.

i also kinda really emotionally, outside of gameplay, like wciii because of the dota connection if it wasn't obvious. seeing the OpenAi bots compete against pros live was such a surprise. I lost it at that TI.

wciii enabled this by being so open. the world editor was incredible. and the game allowed so much functionality cause it allowed integration with ghost++. the community was really in it. wcreplays was a wonderful website where the community was constantly sharing replays, and I loved to watch random FFAs and people doing their own casts. One of my coworkers at my first internship ever actually did his own casting as a hobby.

i just love the game. not just because it was fun, but also because it was such a huge part of my technical/creative life when i was a kid and it still kinda is through dota. i once did a blog post in 2017 showing a light demo of generating item builds with LSTMs, and dota plus the following year added it as a feature. in my mind i hope they saw my blog post, and it inspired them. at the time, it was such a huge validation that i had good ideas for game development, and it made me feel pretty proud that I could contribute something to the game like so many others did.

lol i kinda ranted but man yeah I love that game.

> IceFrog choose Valve instead of them

Icefrog went to blizzard first if i remember correctly. Blizzard kinda told him to make a restricted game, maybe within the sc2 engine, almost for free. Valve saw the value and invested more.

I consider WCIII TFT the apex but that is because i really like the hero mechanic and it spawned so many amazing custom games, including the moba genre. I know AoS was first but dota really made it.

> If something seems off, I can just regenerate and hope the next version is better. But that’s not the same as actually checking. It feels like a slot machine—pull the lever again, see if you get a better result—substitutes for the slower, harder work of understanding whether the output is correct.

What a great point. In some work loops I feel like I get addicted to seeing what pops in the next generation.

One of the things i Learned from moderating internet usage is not fall prey to recommendation systems. As in, when I am on the web, I only consume what I explicitly looked for, and not what the algorithm thinks i should consume next.

sites like reddit and HN make this tricky.

I am laughing really hard. That first sentence of "Final Thoughts" is amazing.

the inconsistent capitalization, the odd punctuation, and the grammar mistakes. Love it.

I want this article to stay on the front page because it is hilarious.

not autocorrect since i was on my laptop. I am just stupid and sloppy.

> No, the compiler may assume that the behavior of standard library functions is standards-conformant.

Why?

What happens if it isn't?

> Gabe called them out on it back with Windows 8

Context?

There are certain answers to the above question

1. Lie groups describe local symmetries. Nothing about the global system

2. From a SR point of view, energy in one reference frame does not have to match energy in another reference frame. Just that in each of those reference frames, the energy is conserved.

3. The conservation/constraint in GR is not energy but the divergence of the stress-energy tensor. The "lost" energy of the photo goes into other elements of the tensor.

4. You can get some global conservations when space time exhibits global symmetries. This doesn't apply to an expanding universe. This does apply to non rotating, non charged black holes. Local symmetries still hold.

It is surprising that you can derive conversation laws entirely from the symmetry of lie groups, and that every conservation law can be tied to a symmetry.

I am a bit confused. Based on the earlier paragraphs, it hinted that the solution would be related to the frequency of the job, not necessarily its load (since other games do not have this issue), but then the fix was not changing the frequency but the load of the job.

What am I missing?

Kinda shocked at how much editing they had to do.

You'd think AI would make it easier to splice together individual clips, but I haven't find a tool that does that well yet. Opus seems tailored for doing fine tuning on long form content like podcasts.

"Critique of pure reason" by kant sounds a lot like this.

Chris Olah is the goat.

I reached out to him myself years ago and was surprised at getting a response.

And the response was incredibly generous. I probably wouldn't have had the confidence to do my switch if it wasn't for Olah.

And as I got further into this path, I learned that Olah had done the same for some of my mentors and colleagues.

Every time Olah speaks, I listen.

I refuse to admit that ffmpeg is bad design until I see a better one. so if you have a better one I am all ears because it would surely be very illuminating.

wow claude gave them both pretty scathing descriptions and you didn't even provide much context lol.

maybe claude is funny.

It would be awesome if this blog post was made by an OpenAI [investor / stakeholder / whatever that non profit has] in order to drive up engagement for defending or hyping up OpenAI's efforts.

Epic ragebait dude.

Gary Marcus talks about AI in a dogmatic way.

Sutton... the patron saint of scaling...

Listen to people for the their ideas, not their label.

Regardless, Marcus is a bit late to comment on the bitter lesson. That is so 6 months ago lol

You make some good points based on your deeper read. I am a bit saddened that the rest of the comment section (the top 6 comments as of right now) devolved into "look at how silly psychology is with all its p-hacking"

That might be true, but this article's comment section isn't a good place for it because it doesn't seem like the article is entirely fair. I would not call it dishonest, but there is a lack of certainty and finality in being able to conclude that these papers have been successfully proven to not be replicable.

One thing that confuses me is that some of these papers were successfully replicated, so juxtaposing them to the ones that have not been replicated at all given the title of the page feels a bit off. Not sure if fair.

The ego depletion effect seems intuitively surprising to me. Science is often unintuitive. I do know that it is easier to make forward-thinking decisions when I am not tired so I dont know.

you can hoard anything, including knowledge.

so the malware launches AI tools that have wider access than the app is loaded in?

I did not know AI tools could access sensitive directories.

Or is it that AI brute forces access to directories that the malware already had access to but the developer of the malware was not aware of?

Does the inventory.txt get uploaded? There seems to be an outbound connection but I did not see verification that it is the inventory.txt.

sometimes these bots just go awry. i wish you could checkpoint spots in a conversation so you could replay from a that point, maybe with a push in the latent space or a new seed.

I think the issue with the math is that it doesn't read well.

For example, the paragraphs around the paragraph with "compute the exact Poisson tail (or use a Chernoff bound)" and that paragraph itself could be better illustrated with lines of math instead of mostly language.

I think you do need some math if you want to approach this probabilistically, but I agree that might not be the most accessible approach, and a hard threshold calculation is more accessible and maybe just as good.

Never knew people viewed notion and obsidian in the same space.

i usually compare obsidian to joplin... seems like i should be looking more at obsidian because i was considering starting a new wiki in notion.

I have tried to digest why this is done. It is not because they believe they are 10x faster.

It is because they think it will 10x their chances of getting a really good engineer for 1/10th as cheap.

At least that is my theory. maybe i am wrong. i try to be charitable.

If i am calling support, it is probably because I already scoured the resources.

Over the past 3 years of calling support any service or infrastructure (bank, health insurance, doctor, wtv), over like 90% of my requests were things only solvable via customer support or escalation.

I only keep track because I document when I didn't need support into a list of "phone hacks" (like press this sequence of buttons when calling this provider).

Most recently, I went to an urgent care facility a few weekends ago, and they keep submitting claims to the arm, of my insurance, that is officed in a different state instead of my proper state.

Britain too

anti free speech stuff like this is why i only bring burner phones into europe.

Cause they all read gwern and all eugenics leads into cults because conspiracy adjacent garbo always does.