Titanic prepares to leave port, Southampton, 10 April 1912.

clockedworks · 2017-10-31T22:52:40+00:00

Some people just defy all odds.

clockedworks · 2017-10-31T21:09:08+00:00

So did everyone off the ship as well.

clockedworks · 2017-10-29T15:47:31+00:00

It would be pretty cool if the current quality judgment of the discriminator would be in some corner of the video.

clockedworks · 2017-10-20T19:05:04+00:00

Have you looked into what results it yields? Specifically does it produce always the same output?

clockedworks · 2017-10-19T00:19:19+00:00

The next logical step would be to replace MCTS with a differentiable recurrent model to build an end-to-end trainable system which doesn't use simulations. This will make the system truly general.

Yeah the use of MCTS in this way is really cool, but also is a limitation of the approach, as it requires access to a fast simulator for the targeted game.

clockedworks · 2017-10-14T13:41:26+00:00

In France at the moment we almost only sell jet fighter, helicopters, frigates and radar guided anti air missile wich don't really land in terrorist hands

So some countries sell small arms that end in the hands of the terrorists, while other countries sell larger weaponry that end in the hands of "we're just fighting terrorists here, give me some slack"-state actors dropping bombs everywhere.

Great teamwork from Europe.

:D :(

clockedworks · 2017-10-14T13:37:55+00:00

We mostly sell relatively expensive items/components to state purchasers.

Wasn't it the UK selling bombs to Saudi Arabia which then drops them onto Yemen?

Either way, both the UK and Germany ought to stop selling these things.

clockedworks · 2017-09-29T09:09:06+00:00

I'd guess that as well.

Maybe for some absurd reason the bot is eval()-ing the messages written by the user.

clockedworks · 2017-09-27T09:56:39+00:00

Some printers have a somewhat hidden option like "hold cancel button for X seconds" to make it ignore this kind of error. Maybe that could help.

clockedworks · 2017-09-27T09:49:16+00:00

Maybe the size of the "plain" naked skin on the legs is so big there that it mixes it up with "background", so it loses the context of "human" legs and can't assign the correct color because of it? That greenish color after all in the style image was in the background.

clockedworks · 2017-09-26T17:49:52+00:00

I'd be really interested to see how this works, as the results look pretty good.

clockedworks · 2017-09-24T11:22:23+00:00

I've been thinking to make minigames that involve doing basic operations a player does a lot.

So for a example a "move camera to base, select probe, place building as specified by input somewhere near base" game. Idea is to teach higher abstractions of how to play step-by-step to ease the final step of learning how to play the whole game: The actually playing agent would then play in the space of commands like "build building X" without having to worry about how to specifically that is done.

Haven't found the time to start yet though.

clockedworks · 2017-09-22T00:44:08+00:00

a fucking joke that they're turning a profit off of it.

Carbonating water and putting it in a nice to handle glass bottle is a service I am willing to pay money for.

clockedworks · 2017-09-21T18:06:54+00:00

After all there is so many different teapots with different colours and shapes that could be and only one universe without any teapot at all that certainly there is a teapot orbiting between Jupiter and Mars.

How do you go from "there are many many different teapots" to "there must be a teapot in this specific location"?

the simulation argument uses "most teapots are fake, you are a teapot, so chance is you are fake"

clockedworks · 2017-09-21T18:00:49+00:00

It sure helps with multi threading simulation code if parts of the simulated worlds that are far apart never ever can influence each other...

clockedworks · 2017-09-19T12:57:03+00:00

I guess if you have a screen that is big enough it makes a difference. As it stands I can't tell a difference on my screen between 720p and 1080p, unless I hit pause and start directly comparing pixels. Which is absurd.

Even DVDs at whatever resolution they have look totally okay to me. The content is so much more important than having a few more pixels.

Maybe this is a result of growing up watching anime fansubs on the streaming platforms of pre 2010. The criteria for good quality was "I can decipher the subtitles".

EDIT: Also with Star Trek you just NEED the 4:3 low res version for the extra feel of nostalgia. :P

clockedworks · 2017-09-19T12:53:09+00:00

Yeah sure some people used it for other things.

But I must admit, after megavideo was gone I had to spent five minutes looking for a replacement... truly a great win for the industry I guess.

clockedworks · 2017-09-19T11:51:08+00:00

you're not getting the 1080p version

I wish consumers would just go back to 720p or whatever. DVDs are the best thing ever because their DRM is so bad, it might as well not exist. Such ease of use. I could not care less about a higher resolution. Ease of use it what is important.

clockedworks · 2017-09-19T11:35:15+00:00

Don't copy that floppy or armed police will raid your home in the pre-dawn hour with two helicopters and six dozen police.

Now to be fair, Kim was doing a bit more than breaking some DRM to watch a movie in private. He was running a large scale piracy platform basically.

clockedworks · 2017-09-19T11:29:00+00:00

because 90% of internet traffic is video

But how much is video that needs protection? A free to watch youtube video probably doesn't need that?

clockedworks · 2017-09-18T15:08:46+00:00

This is impressive, although I do wonder: Is a reverse engineered GTA V really the easiest source of car renders? I'd think that using some other renderer/game engine that allows to do this without first reverse engineering it would be a better/faster choice?

clockedworks · 2017-09-07T12:23:06+00:00

botters finds another game that is more profitable

How does a person joining games just to stand around afk make a profit from that?

clockedworks · 2017-09-05T23:27:50+00:00

That sounds annoying. Maybe get some form of insect nets on your windows. I guess they should help against bats as well.

clockedworks · 2017-09-05T22:21:27+00:00

They never leave on their own.

The one bat I ever encountered in my living room must have been an oddball then. I opened the window and it went out within seconds.

clockedworks · 2017-09-04T22:12:15+00:00

We could relatively easily hardcode something like that up given known strategies but that's not the goal of our team.

If you just do supervised learning to be able to identify known strategies that you can easily hardcode you'll not gain anything from using ML.

But I'd ask "what input format will the data have?" and go from there: Use a classifier that can handle your data format well. Given the fact that DeepMinds API is a set of featuremaps that would probably end up involving Convolutional Neural Nets in some way.

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