lox

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I’m a web geek who is passionate about building scalable web applications, open-source software, whisky and finding the perfect coffee. I’ve been writing code for about as long as web browsers have been around and I’ve loved every minute of it. Previously CEO at buildkite.com and CTO at 99designs.com, living in Melbourne, Australia with my wife and children.
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Comment · 11 months ago
I'm working on a poker server to allow holdem bots to play against each other (https://github.com/lox/pokerforbots) and a Pluribus-level bot that plays on it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluribus_(poker_bot)).

Enjoying writing some really fast Zig implementations of hand evaluation and CFR-based solvers.

Comment · 2 years ago
I don’t disagree that pop culture has distilled spectrum down into a magnitude, but that isn’t how the DSM describes it or how professionals diagnose it (or in my experience how they communicate it). The metaphor is supposed to be like the light spectrum not “less autism ranging to more autism”. Severity scale is distinct to interacting traits of social issues and restricted interests and repetitive behaviors (the spectrum bit).
Comment · 2 years ago
With a prevalence rate of < 2% (at least in Australia) this seems like an incredibly mathematically flawed take. Whilst a broad/blanket diagnosis isn't useful for making generalisations about individuals in that group, it's certainly societally useful.
Comment · 2 years ago
No, you resigned. It’s completely possible to have adult conversations and to part ways without being terminated for cause (which “fired” is a euphemism for).
Comment · 2 years ago
From the article:

> generally available through an API (next to GPT-4)

Comment · 2 years ago
It’s more than that, doing it well is still beyond sophisticated automation. Many variables that need do be constantly adjusted for. Humans are still much better at it than machines, regardless of the social element.
Comment · 2 years ago
Is this not essentially what docker did with cgroups? It’s incredibly tricky securing containers, I’m not at all confident process only sandboxes would be adequate.
Comment · 2 years ago
They do, the parent is either on an older tesla software platform or they haven't looked at settings > service and have ignored the alerts when they occur.
Comment · 2 years ago

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