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MichaelApproved commented on Show HN: Play poker with LLMs, or watch them play against each other   llmholdem.com/... · Posted by u/projectyang
gerdesj · 2 months ago
OK so you know how it goes in poker and I should probably read the literature ...

How much of a session is based on "reading players" vs "playing the odds"?

What I am getting at, is how different is poker than say roulette or blackjack? My initial thoughts are that poker such as TX hold 'em is not a game offered in a casino, so it must be mostly indeterminate. I imagine that the casino versions of poker are not TXHT.

By contrast, roulette is simply a game where the casino wins eventually with a fixed profit (thanks to 0 and a possible 00). That is all well documented.

I have only ever visited a casino once, 25 years ago, Plymouth, Devon as it turns out and I was advised to only take £50 in readies and bail out when it was gone. I came out £90 up, which was nice and my "advisor" came out £95 up (eventually, after being £200 down at one point). Sadly my "advisor" ended up bankrupt a year later.

So, how do you play a LLM? I would imagine that conversation is not allowed ...

MichaelApproved · 2 months ago
I used to play A LOT at low and high levels.

At low levels, playing is ABC simple and mostly about following basic strategy for starting hands and pot adds for chasing. Don’t get fancy and keep your temperament steady and you’ll win.

To a slight degree, you can do better with reading players and identifying them in broad ways (wild, conservative, confused, etc.) but don’t let that allow you to get fancy. Stick to the basic fundamental strategy for hands, position, and pot odds to crush lower level games.

MichaelApproved commented on Show HN: Driverless print server for legacy printers, profit goes to open-source   printserver.ink/... · Posted by u/ValdikSS
jacob019 · 10 months ago
Selling non-free software under a GNU license != open source. The title will be misleading to most people. Nothing wrong with charging for your software, but you shouldn't call it open source.

Edit: Apparently I misread the title.

MichaelApproved · 10 months ago
I think the nuance is that OP is charging for hardware , software, and service (firmware customization and support).

With regards to the software, it is open source but OP is only providing the code to customers who receive the end product. In part, OP is acting as a distributor of the software and is charging a fee for that distribution.

If anyone else gets their hands on that software, they can choose to become a distributor and make it publicly available. It’s their freedom to do so.

A overly simple way to look at is is that OP is choosing (as a small part of their business) to charge for the distribution of the source code but not the source itself.

In reality, it’s unlikely that OP will have a customer who only wants the source code and is willing to pay a fee for the distribution of it. Their customers are coming to them for the service and support.

MichaelApproved commented on Show HN: Check Supply – Send Checks in the Mail   check.supply... · Posted by u/pfista
MichaelApproved · a year ago
I’m curious, what’s an example of a “neo bank” that you say doesn’t offer bill pay? I’m sure they exist, just wondering who they are.

Bill pay sends a bank check which is covered by the immediate withdrawal of funds from the customer’s account. In most cases, the customer would be fine with that or even prefer it, to ensure they don’t accidentally bounce a check.

However, I’m wondering if another customer base can be someone who has bank bill pay but wants to float the funds until the check is cashed. Maybe they don’t have the actual funds yet but want to write a check against funds they expect to have soon (risky but people do it).

Do you restrict writing checks that are for an amount greater than the current account balance?

Lastly, I’m wondering how you handle deliberate check fraud. Victims will try to sue all associated parties. How does your liability work in those cases?

MichaelApproved commented on Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app   pimosa.app/... · Posted by u/anshrathodfr
latexr · a year ago
> Small nitpick

Nitpick on your nitpick: By definition, all nitpicks are small. This isn’t important, but I thought you might appreciate the meta commentary.

MichaelApproved · a year ago
Nitpick on your nitpick: It’s possible for something to be small, relative to something that is already considered small.

Things that are considered small can still have variations in the extent of their smallness.

MichaelApproved commented on DJI Mini 4 Pro   dji.com/mini-4-pro... · Posted by u/Foivos
RhodesianHunter · 2 years ago
I don't know how DJI works, but presumably it ships the video out to a service that you then log in to to view?

If so, it's on their servers and there's no "networking" you can do to know whether they forwarded it on from there.

MichaelApproved · 2 years ago
If that’s true then you’re right but I don’t know if that’s true.
MichaelApproved commented on DJI Mini 4 Pro   dji.com/mini-4-pro... · Posted by u/Foivos
corbezzoli · 2 years ago
The point GP is making is that DJI does not indiscriminately upload every video. The moment it has the chance to associate a VIP to a drone, only then the tracking could start. It’s not like you can detect that during random tests on a new unit.
MichaelApproved · 2 years ago
> there's no way to be sure that every second of GPS-tagged video shot by a DJI drone isn't going into a giant server farm owned by the Chinese intelligence service.

-GP

> The point GP is making is that DJI does not indiscriminately upload every video.

-You

That seems to be exactly what GP is claiming could be happening.

They were concerned about “every second of video” which would fit the definition of “indescribably”.

Dead Comment

MichaelApproved commented on DJI Mini 4 Pro   dji.com/mini-4-pro... · Posted by u/Foivos
noknownsender · 2 years ago
I assume he means at the device level.
MichaelApproved · 2 years ago
I did. Thanks!
MichaelApproved commented on DJI Mini 4 Pro   dji.com/mini-4-pro... · Posted by u/Foivos
dreamcompiler · 2 years ago
I'd like to find a good competitor too, and not just because of the geofencing. DJI has been identified as a national security threat by the US DOD, essentially because there's no way to be sure that every second of GPS-tagged video shot by a DJI drone isn't going into a giant server farm owned by the Chinese intelligence service.

https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/270608...

MichaelApproved · 2 years ago
> there's no way to be sure that every second of GPS-tagged video shot by a DJI drone isn't going into a giant server farm owned by the Chinese intelligence service.

I checked your source and it didn’t back up this claim.

I’m not a networking specialist but isn’t it possible to detect if something is transmitting a massive amount of data (such as video) to an undetermined destination?

seems like this type of blatant data export would be easy to detect and subsequently ban the device doing it.

I’m just a simple software developer, so the network stuff can go over my head sometimes (heh), but the claim that such a large amount of data is being transmitted in a way that couldn’t be confirmed enough to ban the product seems dubious.

MichaelApproved commented on Hobby Club’s Missing Balloon Feared Shot Down by USAF   aviationweek.com/defense-... · Posted by u/benryon
ceejayoz · 3 years ago
> They’re chipped, cracked, and bent.

After processing a hundred and fifty pounds or more of human being. If that plane had done so at 30k feet, it'd have been an entirely survivable emergency.

MichaelApproved · 3 years ago
There’s a difference between survivable and happily mulching.

u/MichaelApproved

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