“Over time, it became a master at [Diplomacy ], reportedly achieving ‘more than
double the average score’ of human players and ranking in the top
10 percent of people who played more than one game.”
(Andy Baio
adds
“building extremely persuasive AI s that are more effective
negotiators than humans, what could go wrong”.)
posted 12/3/2022 8:00pm ∞
“There are some who take organic chemistry to get into a Ph.D. program or
prepare for a career in chemistry, but they’re relatively rare. Most of the
students are pre-med, and for a lot of them, organic chemistry is a
dream-shattering experience.”
It seems to me like the professor at the center of this story was done a grave
disservice by NYU , set up to fail
(though surely not intentionally on anybody’s part) and then abandoned.
posted 10/26/2022 8:00pm ∞
“[W]hile the rest of the world’s smart phone adoption began with the iPhone,
Japan was years ahead — but alone. The result was that Japan’s smart phone
culture evolved separately from the rest of the world. There was less emphasis
on large pictures and text was more acceptable since it had been the norm since
the early days.”
posted 12/2/2022 8:00pm ∞
“Today’s America has seen decades of the intentional conservative-led starving
and squeezing of public education … and also the devastation of newspapers,
journalism, and a vast misinformation campaign. All this adds up to preventing
many who are educable from becoming educated. Thomas Paine, and those I’m using
him to represent, would recognize this as a sabotage of their system.”
posted 11/20/2022 8:00pm ∞
“As you become familiar with common LEGO parts, you should
try sorting them into categories based on their type. A good place to start
would be to separate ‘Bricks’, ‘Plates’, and ‘Other’ LEGO
parts into three different containers.”
Tom Alphin ,
The LEGO Storage Guide
(Brick Architect September 3, 2020 ,
via Rob Ketcherside )
posted 11/8/2022 8:00pm ∞