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edran

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Head of ML @ Pacific Fusion. We are hiring! https://www.pacificfusion.com/careers

  Website: http://arbitrarygravitas.com
  Email:   (λy. [email protected]) nantas
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  Github:  github.com/edran
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Comment · 1 year ago
This is a great update! I hope the authors continue publishing new versions of their plots as the community builds up towards facility gain. It's hard to keep track of all the experiments going on around the world, and normalizing all the results into the same plot space (even wrt. just triple product / Lawson criteria) is actually tricky for various reasons and takes dedicated time.

Somewhat relevant, folks here might also be interested in a whitepaper we recently put up on arXiv that describes what we are doing at Pacific Fusion: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10680

Section 1 in particular gives some extra high-level context that might be useful to have while reading Sam and Scott's update, and the rest of the paper should also be a good introduction to the various subsystems that make up a high-yield fusion demonstration system (albeit focused on pulser-driven inertial fusion).

Comment · 1 year ago
Cool. To be totally honest, I'd feel a lot better if we could just extend robots.txt especially given that we finally have a standard for it with IETF RFC 9309: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9309

Also might be worth looking at llms.txt (https://github.com/AnswerDotAI/llms-txt), though it's aimed to be more of an agent-friendly sitemap.xml alternative.

Comment · 3 years ago
To me it seems fairly unethical for a [tech] company to raise prices without warning customers, especially given the large number of people impacted.

I wonder how the company will respond to the backlash.

Comment · 4 years ago
I imagine you must be talking primarily about single services, but the question is primarily focused on the sort of necessary infrastructure that is required to build some kind of intranet for developers.
Comment · 9 years ago
It's not a nightmare, it's a responsibility towards the people who use your product, and the society that allows you to gain wealth from such usage.

If you want to simplify the system, lobby for multiple nations to adopt a good standard, or move on.

Comment · 9 years ago
The micromanagement task in StarCraft Broodwar (with TorchCraft) that has been used by a few people already in the past year to do some RL research has been tackled basically only with #units > 1, because getting a balanced 1v1 is possible only with certain combination of units, and it's indeed pointless otherwise.

Kiting is maybe a notable exception, but it is also restricted to a relatively small group of unit matchups.

See for instance the following papers:

- https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02993

- https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.08887

- https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10069

- https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.08926

Full disclosure: I'm one of such researchers, and I have authored some of the papers on the topic.

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