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Comment · 9 months ago

But isn't this inefficient since the agent has to "bootstrap" its knowledge of the new language every time it's context window is reset?

Comment · 1 year ago

The number of people at that compensation level is very very small, and they will probably go for a O1 type visa instead of a H1B.

Comment · 1 year ago

Yes, but you will get an error since string and templates are different types and have different interfaces.

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Comment · 3 years ago

Great resource! Thanks for bringing it up.

Comment · 4 years ago

For some of the card games I am familiar with (Netrunner, MTG) there are resources online (wikis, dbs, deck builders) that have all the graphic assets. Alternatively, you can scan or photograph each card in your deck, but that may be time consuming.

As for software, there are engines out there that do content-based image retrieval (CBIR) out of the box [1]. It should be possible to build something quickly in OpenCV. You may be able to get away using simple image template matching by putting a few constraints on how the camera sees each card. Something more robust can be also be build using image descriptors and approximate nearest neighbors, as in [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CBIR_engines

[2] https://blog.francium.tech/feature-detection-and-matching-wi...

Comment · 4 years ago

I think it is very doable for card games with thousands of different cards like MTG. I remember there was an old school SIFT/SURF image retrieval system that was able to deal with tens of thousands of album covers super fast. That was more than 10 years ago IIRC.

Comment · 4 years ago

Another option is an image recognition system trained on already existing cards. No need for special ink or qr code, just a camera as the reader.

Comment · 5 years ago

The walk really slowly. The can "run", but only for a very limited amount of time before their servos overheat and the dog has to take a nap.

Comment · 5 years ago

Here are the arguments that the WHO used in 2015 to change the practices for naming new infectious diseases:

https://www.who.int/news/item/08-05-2015-who-issues-best-pra...

Comment · 6 years ago

This is a nice thread on the subject: https://twitter.com/nataliexdean/status/1310613702476017666?...

Comment · 6 years ago

Nassim Taleb wrote a whole book (Skin in the Game) under a similar premise: “Never trust anyone who doesn’t have skin in the game. Without it, fools and crooks will benefit, and their mistakes will never come back to haunt them.”

Comment · 6 years ago

I find https://adguard.com/ very handy for those cases.

Comment · 6 years ago

One thousand in a million is the same as one in a thousand.

Comment · 6 years ago

I agree completely. It is very easy to dismiss the problem if you are young and you only look at your individual risk. But if you look at society as a whole, the problem is significantly more complicated.