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Comment · 9 years ago
I think what they're describing isn't related to video games. It's just that using your brain a certain way makes it better at that type of task. The idea that playing Mario 64 improves the spatial reasoning isn't surprising because most levels are large and open and require spatial reasoning whereas first person shooters often featured tight, indoor corridors where the player cannot observe landmarks easily from different locations and must therefore hardcore directions into their memory.
Comment · 9 years ago
"One freaking hundred years, or something, after women started voting. What happened in that time? Women were blind to say the least?"

Are you suggesting the fact that women did not speak up before indicates that there is nothing worth speaking up about now?

Comment · 9 years ago
This article seems to ignore the added revenue from a driver having a car and driving people around for Uber. The better metric is probably the average profitability of a driver with a leased vehicle.
Comment · 9 years ago
What's the process like to get a game on the platform? Are there any requirements for exclusivity? Any expected monthly revenues for a reasonably popular game? This sounds like a good idea and I'm looking to publish a title at some point within a year.
Comment · 9 years ago
ARMs is solid. First time I have preferred motion controls over traditional inputs (for entertainment, not efficacy).
Comment · 9 years ago
What's the safety like relative to other options in that price range for a place like India?
Comment · 9 years ago
Meat eaters will eat fake meat if economics incentive them too. You don't need to completely switch over to impact the world. Growing meat is a substantial waste of energy and nutrients. Unless you think we will never struggle to produce enough food, it's hard to reconcile how you can think we won't run into issues with meat.
Comment · 9 years ago
Probably just you. This product is indeed capable of changing the world for the better if scaled up. "Saving it" is hyperbole. But it's not about making a nice meal for vegetarians, it's about sustainable meat consumption for a growing population.
Comment · 9 years ago
Feedback is a hard problem but this sounds fluffy and unhelpful. Are there any tools out there that have effectively been implemented in a large organization to facilitate feedback?
Comment · 9 years ago
This seems to describe a group which bought ad space. That's not google's doing.
Comment · 9 years ago
Glossing through save the cat- it doesn't seem like a restrictive guide, but rather a set of reasonable narrative components, like stating the theme and having a narrative catalyst. Frankly this seems fine, if not beneficial. I would be more concerned about the formulas that drive your average Michael Bay quality film or second-by-second construction of trailers.
Comment · 9 years ago
"Addiction is a hideous condition, but it’s rare."

Is this a true statement for harder drugs?

Comment · 9 years ago
Is Naive Bayes really ever the most practical choice? Yes it is a simple, fast algorithm, but it's usually a non trivial step below other simple models in my experience and doesn't seem to show any major advantages. The results shown here seem good but bag of words models usually do better than you might think on supervised NLP. So what's the motivation?
Comment · 9 years ago
As in they aren't randomly generated? Or any placement of mountains creates an impassable pass?
Comment · 9 years ago
Yeah AoM was the best. I was introduced to programming in their editor. Made it into a short turn based rpg.

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