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Yes, it sounds like someone is being paid as a "micro-manager" to check whether others are working. It is very dismissive towards the other employees, and it is very troubling to pay someone at a management level to do such work. Someone whose job only consists in checking over the shoulders of the people doing the actual work should be paid less, not more, than them.

Regarding your second point, there is this talk by Petri Purho (Noita) about making a bland game feel fun to the user:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy0aCDmgnxg

As for your first point, I would suggest aspiring devs to try to prepare themselves to take part in "game jams". The constraints (including a time constraint) help focus on important parts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_jam

The way I understand the appeal is that there is a notion of (virtual) authenticity. It is like paying for the signature. Imagine you own a copy of a painting by Van Gogh, or a painting which cannot be authenticated, then it is suddenly worth a lot less than a painting with a certificate that it is an authentic one and another certificate that you obtained it through legal means.

This confirms my impression: the conversation does not have to go sideways about advertisements. It is kind of a deflecting trick to provide customer support instead of cancelling the subscription. Once you step in their trap, then it is slightly more cumbersome to go through the cancellation process.

I guess people try to be polite and come up with a reason for cancelling their subscription, and this reason could be solved by customer support. It is not being polite to try to please Tony from customer support, he is just doing his job and does not care about polite reasons for cancelling, his job is that you do not cancel. It is important to know what you *really* want before contacting them (or any other company), in case they use this kind of trick to confuse you.

I will tell you about my scam anecdote. I had been receiving an email once every few months for several years about the possibility to create an account on the website of my electricity provider. All of these emails were suspicious because of the very diverse and weird emails used by the sender, usually a slightly different one for each email. After a few years, I thought that these might be legit and clicked on the link provided in the email. I did not put in any personal information, and did not end up creating an account on their website. The week after, I received phone-text messages about some debt payment for electricity bills. I even received phone calls about it. Unless it is a coincidence, the people on the other side of this well-elaborate scam had to know my email and my phone number, and started the phone scam after they noticed I fell through the email scam. They tried to get me to pay their fake debt, which had always the same ID number, but a different amount of money to pay each time (sometimes lower than before). And they did not know my name: I know this for a fact thanks to the brief amount of time I spent on the phone with one of them. They thought I was someone else. They kept spamming my phone with text messages and phone calls around 8 a.m. or noon, once or twice per week. After ~9 months of them being blocked by me (I could only block the phone calls, the text message still went through, because they went through some kind of public advertising proxy with 5-6 digits), they completely stopped.

So yeah, rule number 1 of email protection should be: do not tell the scammer/spammer that you actually use this email address. In case of a doubt, click the "spam" button, block the address, but do not click "unsubscribe." Only click "unsubscribe" if you trust the sender, because once you have done it, your email address is suddenly worth a lot more, especially to bad actors.

> “Life is too short to be around negative people,” she said. “I need people around me who care about me and are appreciative, and see the world as a glass half full, not half empty.”

That is the key part to me, and it is good to be reminded about it once in a while.

That is also the reason why social media can be great or downright awful: you get to meet new people *really fast*, and might end up wasting a lot of time surrounded by negative people before you notice the trap.

I see your point when it comes to paper publication in general, but I feel that your post is very unwarranted with respect to the original post: DeepMind has recruited top-quality theoretical researchers from public institutions, it is not just experimental work which your average Joe could do with a few guesses. These researchers published a lot of theoretical papers before they were recruited, and they still publish a lot of them now that they are working at DeepMind, but they have more computational hardware to apply their ideas.

Here is just one uncurated example of a publication: - https://deepmind.com/research/publications/Taylor-Expansion-... - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.06259.pdf

Yes, Steam has grown a lot. Last I checked, there were ~50k apps.

Edit: 50,630 apps according to https://www.gamedatacrunch.com/

As I focused on vertical banners, the list was smaller (~30k apps). This is equivalent to the *lite* version of Unsplash's dataset.

Which would require an easy access to all of the videos, which only Googe/Youtube itself has.

Many nice things could be done, but the platform (or the data owner) has all the power in its hands.

Yes, I know. :D Your previous project with Unsplash made me try a similar approach [1] for banners of video games on Steam.

[1] https://github.com/woctezuma/steam-image-search

For info, the same tool works well with 2 million images found in the Unsplash dataset [1]. Features only have to be computed once for the dataset, and only the feature vector for the user query has to be computed on the fly. Then matching features can be done in a manner that scales well.

So, the present tool does not scale because the videos are part of the user query, but a company with an easy access to the videos and the computational power to pre-encode the frames as features could create a search engine based on CLIP.

[1] https://github.com/haltakov/natural-language-image-search

This only works if someone who follows this <username> has already signed up to the service.

> made it a webpage, and called it a service.

That is added value for many people.

Some people will google the answer to their question, land on this webpage, read the transcript for this one video that caught their interest in the first place, and be done with their task.

Just to be clear, electroshock therapy is still a thing.

I was about to comment with a similar anecdote. Situations will be different depending on the psychiatric facilities, but there are some, usually the most expensive ones (and being expensive is not at all an indicator of being a good one), in which some physicians have no issue keeping people in there as long as there is money to be drained from the family. Worse, the psychiatric state of the patient has not necessarily improved during that costly stay.

For 5.50€/month, it is an extremely cheap way to get to play games with all graphical settings at max with 1080p resolution at 60 fps.

However, this price won't last, it is written on the web page that one day, there will be an increase for everybody.

Sorry, but I don't see the link between the quote and your sentence.

From the README on Github:

> Note also, the models are also stronger than the rating they are trained on since they make the average move of a player at that rating.

Reference: https://github.com/CSSLab/maia-chess

I think it was a joke about zero Kelvin.

I know you are being ironic, but I wish more people would try to "sell their free content". This blog post would help them do so: https://ternaus.blog/tutorial/2020/08/28/Trained-model-what-...

You are right, but off-topic in this specific context. Indeed, it was neither retaliation, nor exclusion. She offered her employer a "clean" opportunity to let her go, and they accepted it.

It will be difficult for her lawyers to prove that she was let go as a retaliation, which it is not. The only thing which is apparent is that her employer did not value her work as much as she thought, so that her demands and her threat to resign (and the tarnishment of the Google brand because of the Twitter threads which she would write about it) would actually turn into a "clean" opportunity to let her go.

That is what happens when you are supposed to negotiate, and go the confrontational way. You have to estimate your leverage accurately before the full-blown war, otherwise it is a blitzkrieg.

My guess would be that they took the issue as a personal offence, and they believe that someone higher in the power structure has some personal beef against them as a person, rather than against parts of their work. They want to confront that person.

I don't understand what the strength of being misunderstood is.

I think the chess puzzles are what could shine in this book:

http://www.chessproblems.org/ (it is the Chess Quizzer from the OP)

I have tried a few, and I enjoy the explanation of the solutions in plain English. Short and clear.

Based on the doc:

> Websites listed here are downloaded and analyzed with Phantomas. The total weight is counted and then the size of actual content is measured and shown as a ratio.

> For example: If a website has a total weight of 100kb and 60kb are the documents structure, text, images, videos and so on, then the content ratio is 60%. The rest are extras like CSS, JavaScript and so on. It is hard to say what a good ratio is but my gut feeling is that everything above 20% is pretty good already.

It is a French magazine about video-games with a satirical tone. It is called "Canard PC", which is a play on a well-known toilet brand ("Canard WC"). It brings interesting takes to video-game coverage, and it makes me laugh.

There is one free article per week. This is the current one and it is very typical: https://www.canardpc.com/413/jouer-among-us-comme-un-enquete...

This is the one which will be free 11 hours from now: https://www.canardpc.com/413/xbox-ps5-choix-de-la-nouvelle-g...

Try replacing "christian" in your statement with "jew" or "muslism", and read it out loud.

Being "anti-christian" is an issue, because it is always an issue when a society is against a group of people.

One has the right to make fun and criticize religions, but not a large group of people, especially solely based on their traits, be it religion/faith, sexuality, etc.

> I still feel that neural networks and genetic algorithms are far underused methods of solving problems. (Especially the latter, which don’t require training.)

Funny how he is more ambitious about genetic algorithms.

Automation did not make all of humanity transition. Manual labour is still used nowadays, even for works which could be automated in some way.

Actually, there is a larger and larger gap between educated people with office jobs who earn a good salary to do "stuff that hadn't been worried about before"... and the rest of the barely educated people who barely earn anything and get to do all the manual work (taking care of the children, cleaning homes, offices, cooking food, delivering food, harvesting delicate fruit, etc.). The gap is bigger and bigger, despite or thanks to the progress of humanity.

In a world where less of the manual people are asked to do manual work for some reason, these uneducated people won't transition to other jobs. Best case scenario is they get a minimal universal income to stay calm at home and generate clicks on social media to feed AI some new data. Worst case scenario is they will want to work, and be angry at society for making them feel useless.

> I struggled finding the publish button. As it was under the Share text.

Ditto, except that I have yet to find this button.

Edit: Oh, you have to hover over the "Share" text! I would not have found it without your comment.