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stargazing··on Starlink Aviation
I'm sorry - but the mental image of someone playing T-side on dust2 while on a plane and the sound "bomb has been planted" on max volume just echoes throughout the cabin is too hilarious!
stargazing··on Dota 2 with Large Scale Deep Reinforcement Learning [pdf]
As a long time player and fan of Dota 2, it's really exciting to see a company like OpenAI taking an interest in the game. I still remember when they showcased their AI for the first time by beating some of the best players in the world 1v1. It was an unreal feat at the time.
stargazing··on U.S. drone strike kills 30 pine nut farm workers in Afghanistan
Can someone explain to me how the US military is still unable to distinguish pine nut farmers from IS Jihadi terrorists? Where is all this advanced military tech I keep hearing the US military is developing that people are mistaking for aliens?
stargazing··on Two-thirds of American employees regret their college degrees
Important to note the phrasing of this. 58% of engineering grads and 65% of CS grads still said they regretted their degrees - which isn't far off the numbers of those in the humanities.
stargazing··on When Nobody Shows Up to My Conference Talk
This made me smile. What a wonderful story, thanks for sharing!
stargazing··on Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool
Aaaaaand: https://twitter.com/hackerfantastic/status/11030878690637045...