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lonelappde··on Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes
This called transfer learning and is an active area of research. It doesn't work nearly as well as it "should" if "AI" was really Artificial "Human Intelligence".
lonelappde··on Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes
Something being glossed over is the difference between being able to play the game and being able to implement the game.

Also, Nvidia's thing doesn't do the fruits and possibly not even eating ghosts or points and probably not the ghost algos.

lonelappde··on Windows package manager does not permit opting out of telemetry
Then don't join a beta test of softwaree as part of a collaboration with a 3rd party business?

"Personal computer" means one person per computer, vs a mainframe. It's not a privacy statement.

lonelappde··on Windows package manager does not permit opting out of telemetry
This is an impossible problem. If they underdeclare, they invite a lawsuit. If they overdeclare, they get accused of malfeasance they aren't even doing.

If they open the whole business to transparency, they become victims of commerical espionage and expose their users' data to invasion.

lonelappde··on Windows package manager does not permit opting out of telemetry
Symbols matter. When someone tells you they don't respect your privacy, it's appropriate to believe them.

The bathroom comment is off topic flamebait.

lonelappde··on X
"simply byte comparison" is not a term associated with Unicode. Unicode is usually in strings, and reverse engineering a string is -- very hard, and surprisingly I haven't found a paper proving whether it is NP complete.
lonelappde··on How Nextdoor courts police and public officials
It's a sign of the times that this article doesn't mention any FBI corruption investigation, which is is clearly necessary here.
lonelappde··on U.S. Birthrates Fall to Record Low
On a global level, a wealthy person delaying or not having kids is an altruistic gift, avoiding pollution.

On a family level, not having kids (ever) is both selfish (if you neither pay back your parents for their effort not pay it forward it to kids of your own) and also vandalism to your parents: genetic heritage.

lonelappde··on The Miracle Sudoku [video]
Alternatively, count up by 4 left to right (aka your -1 every two squares), and count up by 3 top to bottom within a box.
lonelappde··on Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal
Why would Joe want to be a famous podscaster forever? Maybe he's heading into podcast retirement.
lonelappde··on Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal
Is Spotify a monopoly?
lonelappde··on Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal
Spotify gave Joe money for services.
lonelappde··on Hardware Isn't Generally Copyrightable (2012)
What would emulation by copying? The abstract logic? Emulators aren't hardware copies.
lonelappde··on Hardware Isn't Generally Copyrightable (2012)
Lloyd's of London is a marketplace, not an underwriter.

https://www.lloyds.com/about-lloyds

lonelappde··on Show HN: Planning poker online – estimate tasks without influencing others
That's a people problem not a poker problem.
lonelappde··on Old bills in Yemen are worth 10% more than new ones
The country had a civil war and the money printing system was split into two. The two enemies don't trust each other's fiat money.
lonelappde··on Termux and Android 10
Why does Google owe you this? Write any OS you want. You can use a open source base.

That Pentium will cost more in electricity than just buying a new cheap phone.

lonelappde··on Termux and Android 10
It's also important to protect non Grandma from malware.

Rugged Individualists can run TempleOS

lonelappde··on Termux and Android 10
"power user" == someone who uses power tools like Tim the Tool Man Taylor
lonelappde··on Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube
And the support page is locked, so Google is also censoring people from trying to understand the rules they are expected to follow.
lonelappde··on Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
Saying that delivery can work for most food in most places just because dirt cheap pizza and super dense NYC can do it, strikes me quite naive.
lonelappde··on Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
Some people can make a profit playing at casinos (more so in the past than now).

Does that make casinos dumb? No, just imperfect.

lonelappde··on Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
How can you call McDonald's predatory pricing? They have been cheap and profitable for decades.

At best you could try to argue that they make their money fleecing dumb "business owners" who pay for franchises.

lonelappde··on Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
> texted the owner about being miffed they hadn’t told me they were on DoorDash.

Why would someone do this?

lonelappde··on MMU gang wars: the TLB drive-by shootdown
The title is absolutely obnoxious.
lonelappde··on Students think the College Board is running a Reddit sting
Using a Pearson-controlled compu-text is a very simple sign that the professor or administration (whoever has decision making power) is terrible and not worth attending.
lonelappde··on Students think the College Board is running a Reddit sting
Those kids could retake normal proctored tests November, assuming the world stops burning and CB seta up testing.
lonelappde··on Students think the College Board is running a Reddit sting
Recruit proctors from big companies.
lonelappde··on Space Plane: Mysterious US military aircraft launches
BBC doesn't put bylines on articles that are merely reporting general information cobbled together from press releases and public activity.

https://www.bbc.com/news/help-41670342

That does leave a hole when articles include opinion content mixed in with general facts.

lonelappde··on US Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs
How did NYS figure out "Romania" (even if wrongly) and communicate that to your friend?

That's a bizarre capability for a system that is as incompetent as has been seen.

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