This is clearly propaganda from someone trying to get promoted in front of me....
Readit Newssorenn111 commented on Toxic Productivity paperform.co/blog/toxic-p... · Posted by u/jackdelaney
I think the cultural stance in the U.S. that to progress in life/elevate oneself/stigma against forgoing college is also a large part of it.
I personally think that one policy that could have an outsized effect in solving this problem is establishing a max percentage of income that student loan repayment can be required to be for a maximum number of years (I'm pulling these numbers out of nowhere but just as an example) like 7.5% of gross income for 20 years. If the student hasn't repayed by that time using that percentage of income, the college is on the hook. Alternatively, a combination of the college and the lender (potentially switching away from government lenders).
The problem I'm hoping to solve is the insane growth rates of tuition for a wide variety of degrees that do not justify their cost. Young kids being told that college is the required pathway into a good life often are not given the commensurate instruction that the college degree should be useful in terms of earning more/securing a job. An instruction of "study whatever you find interesting!" sounds good but is IMO very poor advice. It should be modified "Study things you find interesting but remember that college is to build and refine your skills for your career after"
So can you on third day of methamphetamine fast, but I don't think I'd recommend it to anyone.
OP was making a comment about efficacy of water fasts; to compare water fasts to meth is pretty wild.
sorenn111 commented on Human-Free Construction (2018) forconstructionpros.com/p... · Posted by u/danny00
This reads a little like the early days of self driving car optimism or factory roboticizing. Everything looks so easy with an easy rollout, but enjoy the long tail. To me, car companies and Amazon have high incentive to use robotics and a really controlled environment and they still need a lot of humans. Those use cases will be more thoroughly solve (IMO) before any variable-environment use cases get fully automated. I'm not a pessimist and I really want a lot of automated stuff, but I don't think the tech is there yet.
This is true, although I would prefer to still test everyone for plausibly important things to feed data analysts who might eventually discover something useful.
I'd love for that to be true, but there's a good chance that in doing broad tests you are incurring costs (both to patient health and cost [whether paid by patient, gov, or insurance company]) without getting anything beyond noisy data without useful signal
Maybe you didn't venture out much, but you should realize that is _mostly_ exclusive to market street. One street of a thousand. Yes it occasionally happens elsewhere like any city, but Market and especially the tenderloin are infamous for the drug use and depravity.
Why people keep staying there instead of the hundreds of other and safer hotel locations? Maybe hotels need better regulated ratings to take into account the surrounding area.
Problem: most iconic and central street in SF has rampant problems.
Solution: go elsewhere and add regulations to hotel rating about the surrounding area??
I'm sorry, but that is one of the most defeatist options I've ever heard
sorenn111 commented on What made World of Warcraft's environments so compelling? erichgrunewald.com/posts/... · Posted by u/erwald
I wonder about World of Warcraft and can't help but think its success and place in our culture can't be replicated for a variety of reasons:
-It had a very popular RTS game series that built up the lore, graphical template of the world, and did a lot of world/character building.
-It released in 2004 which was at a time when the internet was becoming more and more accessible such that kids could reasonably get online. (All MMO's are related to internet access but I would argue that the rollout of the internet has no two time periods that were the same)
-It blended the right amount grind/accessibility being more accessible than competitors like everquest but more enthralling and entrapping that successors.
-The appetite for MMO's may never be the same: revenues for mobile games and their ilk with micrcotransactions vastly outweight the market for MMO's. With how gaming has changed, many customers may not give the time to an MMO the way they used to and companies may not see the point.
WoW was a truly unique game in its time IMO
sorenn111 commented on Gut molecule linked to decreased myelination in mouse brains the-scientist.com/news-op... · Posted by u/leephillips
IDK about this article. I was reliably informed earlier today by a front page article that was certain that a gut bacteria's most important job was to do nothing.
(I apologize for the sarcasm, I know this isn't reddit. This is one in a growing number of interesting results about molecules found/created in the gut by bacteria. a previous article today was an idle musing about bacteria in the microbiome having the key job of not being worse strains of bacteria [like c. diff] without much other role)
sorenn111 commented on DarkPattern.games: Find Healthy Mobile Games darkpattern.games... · Posted by u/homarp
Relevant plug for Lichess mobile app (I am not affiliated). It's a free chess app that allows for rated play against opponents. Tens of thousands of concurrent games. No ads or payments (I don't remember if I paid, but I would be happy to support). No bells, no whistles, just chess.
I have a pseudo addictive personality and mobile phone games P2W have gotten me to shell out more than I'd care to admit. I've stopped playing all such mobile games and my "nicotine gum" game was getting back to my roots (elementary school chess team): mobile chess from Lichess.
sorenn111 commented on Reimagining Chess with AlphaZero cacm.acm.org/magazines/20... · Posted by u/joak
Is anyone interested in doing this kind of analysis for games that are in development?
I am a SWE with 16 years of experience at Google with lots of practical/applied ML. I am about to be funemployed, and I'd love to incorporate an AI player/analysis into the playtest feedback loop of a board/card game in development.
I've won the Race for the Galaxy tournament 4 times in 7 attempts at the World Boardgaming Championship (average size of field around 80?) and placed in the Dominion tournament a few times. I created rftgstats and councilroom.com (Dominion), which did analysis/modelling on game logs, but didn't have AI players.
Start-up/Consulting idea: use ML/RL strategies and tools and help gaming companies improve their AI. In a variety of games, the AI should be a big component of gameplay (all single player games) and ends up being such a liability. I can imagine the litany of issues that prevent this, but I wonder if a company could accumulate some general templates/models/toolkits that could help AI improve for a variety of gaming companies. Most AI in games are more like Stockfish than AlphaZero and the cost to train these models for each of these games is probably prohibitively high. However, I imagine a variety of gaming companies that provide a 1st person game would not mind outsourcing their NPC AI and perhaps a company could find some synergy across games such that the marginal cost of going from game to game could be decreased.
An example game that fits your board game template more or less are turn based games like Civilization. I love Civ games but the AI stupidity is the weakest part of the game. I know RTS games like starcraft are super hard (probably why Deepmind chose to do it) but perhaps turn based games or games with a slower pace and limited action space are doable for a consulting company.
Idk, food for thought, but if you make a billion dollar company I'm saving this post for my records :P