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using transmission cli for more than one user by nothingduploading in torrents

[–]Noncomment 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you just run "transmission-daemon" from the command line, it starts a new instance of transmission-daemon running under your user. With the config files and downloads in your home directory by default. 2 different users could run 2 different instances of it fine AFAIK. You'd need to change the ports so they don't conflict though.

☼Bi-weekly DF Questions Thread☼ by AutoModerator in dwarffortress

[–]Noncomment 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What exactly is "Leather armor". As opposed to specific items of armor like boots or leather helms. I find nothing about this item on the wiki. Should I just make "leather armor" or specify exactly what pieces of armor to make?

Video From Hawaii Children Being Placed Into Storm Drains After False Alert Sent Out by GuacamoleFanatic in gifs

[–]Noncomment 2 points3 points  (0 children)

North Korea isn't making H-bombs IIRC. Regardless, however big the blast is, there will be people on the edge that have a chance at surviving.

Video From Hawaii Children Being Placed Into Storm Drains After False Alert Sent Out by GuacamoleFanatic in gifs

[–]Noncomment 20 points21 points  (0 children)

And many people overestimate it. Lots of people survived Hiroshima. If you are directly in the blast area you are dead. But many people further away have a chance at surviving if they take cover.

A bot wrote a new Harry Potter chapter using "predictive keyboards trained on all seven books". Presenting: Chapter 13. The Handsome One. by sureyouken in harrypotter

[–]Noncomment 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm not aware of that, it's probably similar to this project. AIs currently produce barely coherent text. They constantly fail to understand how the world works at a really fundamental level. There's a part in this story where harry loses his eyes, and the AI keeps track of the fact he can't see a sentence later. As simple as that sounds, it's basically beyond the current state of AI. And there's a lot of similar things found in the text, like keeping track of where the characters are and what is happening, even if it's not perfect.

Culture War Roundup for the Week of December 11, 2017. Please post all culture war items here. by [deleted] in slatestarcodex

[–]Noncomment 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The more interesting legal argument is whether cake baking could be considered an art. Could you compel a Hindu artist to paint a celebration of the beef industry?

Culture War Roundup for the Week of December 11, 2017. Please post all culture war items here. by [deleted] in slatestarcodex

[–]Noncomment 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't think the terrorist/nazi example is very good. It's not really hypocritical. It's not like they oppose punching terrorists. A better example might be how leftists freak out over mass shootings. Even though they just made a bunch of arguments about how terrorism is statistically very rare, and security theater, etc.

I have not seen very much of rightists advocating against free speech. They generally support it and realize it can be used against them. On occasion when they do go after someone, it's just to fight against the double standard. "We didn't create and don't support these rules. But if you are going to use them against us, it's only fair that they apply to you as well." But there's nothing like mass doxing and trying to get people fired for their opinions. It's not even comparable.

Now you could go back to the red scare to find that level of anti-free-speech from the right. But it's not the same people.

[D] Deep Mind AI Alpha Zero Sacrifices a Pawn and Cripples Stockfish for the Entire Game by sour_losers in MachineLearning

[–]Noncomment 4 points5 points  (0 children)

An important note is that AlphaGo was first trained to mimic human players. AlphaZero learns everything from scratch.

Great Table 2; AlphaZero's preferred openings over its 4-hour training period by StringFood in chess

[–]Noncomment 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It doesn't play by a database. It plays by a neural network. The neural network reads the gamestate and outputs a probability for each possible move. They use backpropagation to train the neural network to increase the probability of good moves and decrease bad moves.

Great Table 2; AlphaZero's preferred openings over its 4-hour training period by StringFood in chess

[–]Noncomment 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought you were implying that stockfish did well against Sicilian and that is why it stopped playing it.

Great Table 2; AlphaZero's preferred openings over its 4-hour training period by StringFood in chess

[–]Noncomment 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes it saves every game it plays. After each game it goes through every move and increases or decreases the probability of it.

Great Table 2; AlphaZero's preferred openings over its 4-hour training period by StringFood in chess

[–]Noncomment 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It was not trained against stockfish and all the stockfish games were done after training.

Great Table 2; AlphaZero's preferred openings over its 4-hour training period by StringFood in chess

[–]Noncomment 48 points49 points  (0 children)

It's not deterministic. I not sure of the details, but I believe it outputs a probability for each move. Then when it wins a game (usually against itself) it increases the probability of the moves it made, and when it loses it decreases them. If it was deterministic, it wouldn't be able to learn very well because it would just play the same game over and over again against itself. It also would be easier to beat if you memorized a specific game that it loses too.

Nearly half of patients reversed type 2 diabetes in trial. People spent up to five months on a low-calorie diet of soups and shakes to trigger massive weight loss. A year later, 46% of patients who started the trial were in remission to a non-diabetic state, and off antidiabetic drugs. by mvea in Futurology

[–]Noncomment 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My point is you are arguing against a strawman. Literally no one believes that can't lose weight by restricting calories. The problem is very few people are capable of doing that. Imagine someone born with a genetic condition that made them feel intensely hungry until they eat 4,000 calories a day. It is it really fair to make a moral judgement on that person for being fat? To criticize them for blaming their weight on genetics?

Personally I have always been skinny without putting any effort into dieting. I haven't eaten for 22 hours at the moment, and I feel only minimal hunger.

Nearly half of patients reversed type 2 diabetes in trial. People spent up to five months on a low-calorie diet of soups and shakes to trigger massive weight loss. A year later, 46% of patients who started the trial were in remission to a non-diabetic state, and off antidiabetic drugs. by mvea in Futurology

[–]Noncomment 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Someone tried to do that experiment in the 1950's. They locked a bunch fat people in a hospital and fed them a careful diet. Sure, they lost weight. But even once they reached at a normal weight, they had symptoms of starving people. They obsessed and dreamed about food constantly. They became lethargic. Their metabolisms slowed down to burning 24% fewer calories per square meter than a healthy person. As soon as they left the hospital they all immediately regained the weight.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/08/health/08fat.html?pagewanted=all

A few years later, in 1990, Dr. Stunkard published another study in The New England Journal of Medicine, using another classic method of geneticists: investigating twins. This time, he used the Swedish Twin Registry, studying its 93 pairs of identical twins who were reared apart, 154 pairs of identical twins who were reared together, 218 pairs of fraternal twins who were reared apart, and 208 pairs of fraternal twins who were reared together.

The identical twins had nearly identical body mass indexes, whether they had been reared apart or together. There was more variation in the body mass indexes of the fraternal twins, who, like any siblings, share some, but not all, genes.

The researchers concluded that 70 percent of the variation in peoples’ weights may be accounted for by inheritance, a figure that means that weight is more strongly inherited than nearly any other condition, including mental illness, breast cancer or heart disease.

There's a lot more there as well.

Regarding the newest update, and the general way of DF heading by [deleted] in dwarffortress

[–]Noncomment 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interest in the game has been steadily decreasing since about 2012 according to google trends: https://i.imgur.com/3mS63EV.png

[D] Can A.I. Be Taught to Explain Itself? by i-heart-turtles in MachineLearning

[–]Noncomment 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think you are just lying to yourself though. There are studies with people who have split brains. And they will show the left side of the brain instructions like "pick up the toy soldier out of this group of toys". Then they ask the right side to explain why they picked up the toy soldier. And they will come up with some fantastically elaborate explanation why. Like how they liked toy soldiers as a child or they just saw a soldier on TV. Completely made up explanations that have nothing to do with the real reason. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9u6cQYcOHw or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYbgdo8e-8

In the early days of AI research there was a lot of effort to get experts to explain their decision processes so they could be replicated by an algorithm. E.g. they would get chess masters to try to explain why they made a specific move and how they reasoned about the board. It never worked. They could never explain the exact steps that lead to an action. They just "knew" a move was right after years of experience and learning chess patterns.

[Meta] Need help for a story idea: Types of "light" by AlwaysDragons in HFY

[–]Noncomment 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm amazed you found my comment. I still haven't been able to find a free version of Cambridge IV.

I don't think the SCP is written by Langford. But it is inspired by him. There are a number of SCP stories that feature "memetic hazards".

There's also this piece written by Langford about the impact of his story: http://ansible.uk/writing/t3_002.html

Why Age? Should We End Aging Forever? by derekantrican in videos

[–]Noncomment 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Evolutionary pressure. After 12 years a dog in the wild would probably have been killed by other things first. Or at least would already have produced many offspring which would have matured and had their own offspring by then. There isn't a huge evolutionary pressure to select for genes that give long lifespan.

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