kamkha
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Comment · 4 years ago
I get your frustration here, but keep in mind: your use of that word is not harming Stripe any more than alternatives you could use, but it does harm an unrelated and oppressed group.
Comment · 4 years ago
It's not at all material to the point you're making, but to nitpick: Hans's first move was actually 1. d4 and thus the Wikipedia article you should be linking to is that of the Indian Defence [0], not Alekhine's Defence!
Comment · 4 years ago
In their example, you're not giving S as an input to K — instead, you're using K to write another program P which iterates over all possible strings and returns the first whose complexity is some value ("2 million" in their example).
That program P will certainly be longer than K (as it contains K), but not much longer — it's adding to K only the instructions needed to iterate over strings and define the threshold complexity ("2 million"). P will then produce that "2 million"-complexity output, but it didn't need any input and thus the complexity of its output is truly just the length of P (which is smaller than "2 million"). It eventually stumbles upon S by going through all possible strings, and didn't need S to be provided.
The main idea of the proof is very similar to the interesting-number paradox [0] or the Berry paradox [1].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox
Comment · 7 years ago
Yes; further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solving_chess
Comment · 7 years ago
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Comment · 7 years ago
Their free tier has a 100GB/month bandwidth cap — surely the most trafficked websites in the world would very quickly hit that limit, no?
Your point stands nonetheless — they could certainly be losing money on certain large users of their free tier. Serving relatively static content has gotten extremely cheap across the board, though, and like the parent said, they might be benefiting from the pricing by more indirect means.
Comment · 7 years ago
They're streaming a single live game right now! They explained that the research build of the game being used doesn't have an "observer" mode so it's not quite suitable for streaming live games — and, in fact, the games that they were showing were played over a month ago. (The current live game is being shown from the human player's point of view, and as such is a bit… dizzying.)
Comment · 8 years ago
Close! You swapped an operation there: it'd be (2^8 button possibilities) ^ (5 minutes * 60 FPS), or about 10^43348.
A bit of a bigger space to search ;)
Comment · 9 years ago
Its GVWR is 5 ton.
Comment · 9 years ago
Check out this chess programming wiki article [1] for a (still fairly hand-wavy) rationale for similar piece values, and the Wikipedia article on chess piece relative values [2] for a more in-depth look at various weightings. Some modern approaches use analysis of a huge corpus of master games to come up with piece values, but many of the systems are based on intuition and empirical evidence.
[1] https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Simplified+evaluatio... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_piece_relative_value
Comment · 10 years ago
Unfortunately, that's a bit of a false etymology! According to humorism, black bile [1] comes from the gallbladder, not the spleen. The spleen was supposed to produce yellow bile, an excess of which was thought to cause aggression and anger.
[1] Black bile is actually the source of the term "melancholy" — from the Greek melankholia, from melan- ("black") and kholē ("bile")!
Comment · 10 years ago
Comma's main advantage over Tesla's Autopilot was, as I understand it, the use of cameras to collect video data. Hotz presented that as the advantage at TechCrunch Disrupt, at least, saying that he could beat Tesla's Autopilot because he had full video data from a small smartphone app that he had test users running as they drove while Tesla's vehicles had no video input.
I wonder if his choice to cancel Comma is related to Tesla's recent announcement that all new Tesla vehicles would ship with a full video camera outfit.
Comment · 10 years ago
MobX is written in TypeScript: https://github.com/mobxjs/mobx
Comment · 10 years ago
There is no viewfinder. It is mirrorless.