docmarionum1
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Comment · 5 years ago
Taking Ethereum as an example, if I exclude the known institutional addresses (taken from etherscan's tags), the results change very little. The top 1% has about 92.5% of the ETH. Obviously many of the untagged ones could also be institutions, so in that respect, yes, it's "useless" because we can't know exactly who controls every address.
Comment · 11 years ago
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!
Comment · 13 years ago
I just happened to start my own gag @reply bot last night, https://twitter.com/AssHobby, and quickly hit this same problem. I tried to get clarification on what I was doing that was different than a bot like StealthMountain but of course just got a canned response that answered nothing. It really can't be anything other than followers count or special exemptions. Maybe drastically reducing the frequency such as sublimino is doing would help keep it off their radar. But a definitive answer would be nice.
Comment · 14 years ago
Open-sourcing the code would only be the first step. To make the experiments truly reproducible, you also need to know the hardware and software configurations used to run it. Different package versions could lead to different results. And, for instance, if you're running your code on one of those old Pentium chips with an error in the FPU, that needs to be know.
I'm currently working on a platform for scientific programming. One of the ultimate goals is to include a provenance system which will be able to tell you everything about what generated the final results, including that of input data if it was derived on the system. That way you might be able to have a complete history of where a particular result comes from.
Comment · 14 years ago
I agree, you definitely want to keep some sort of free tier. There are a lot of apps out there that claim to do this, or something similar. After trying a bunch of them I found one or two that I liked, but for the most part they weren't very good. I would not have wanted to pay to find that out.
I think you wouldn't want to offer less that one full alphabet, so people can get a good idea of what it will be like to learn using your app. If it's just a few characters that they can practice with, then they won't spend enough time with your app to make them feel like they should purchase it over trying another one out.
Comment · 15 years ago
Very misleading indeed.
But, honestly, I think his shift to smaller games/teams could be for the best. It's hard to guess how much influence he had anymore when "producing" titles. But working on small games might allow his creativity to flourish like it did when he first started.
Shout out to the Advent of Computing podcast (https://adventofcomputing.com/) for finally getting me to read Bush's classic essay. As I read it, I was struck by the parallels in AI today.