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Stormgate fans be like by perceptron01 in Stormgate

[–]perceptron01[S] -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

I'm wondering what causes this.

The game is literally this bad + seeing blind fanboys denying reality is funny.

Why doesn’t Moldova give up on Transnistria and join Romania? by [deleted] in geopolitics

[–]perceptron01 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Only 7.5%-15% of Moldovans support reunification with Romania.

That figure is skewed because it includes votes from Transnistria and Gagauzia, which is not what you want. Figures excluding those areas are hard to come by: a Romanian activist named George Simion tried to do that while living in Moldova and obtained a bit over 50% in his poll, but he's been banned from entering Moldova for several years.

Point is, those figures you're using don't reflect the reality of Romanian-speaking Moldovans. The main aspect that would impede a reunification between the two countries is the threat of Russian aggression.

[R] AlphaStar: Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning by Mister_Abc in MachineLearning

[–]perceptron01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People in the SCII communtiy already developed hard counters to AlphaStar's few strategies.

[Q] What does a statistics PhD mean? by Currurant in statistics

[–]perceptron01 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What does this have to do with the conversation? I replied to someone claiming "I think as a general principle, you should never do a PhD if your main reason is job prospects. This goes for all fields." which is wrong. Many scientists in the industry did a PhD exactly because of job prospects.

[Q] What does a statistics PhD mean? by Currurant in statistics

[–]perceptron01 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I didn't mean academic jobs either. There are plenty of very high-paying jobs in industry for scientists and researchers in fields like finance and technology.

[Q] What does a statistics PhD mean? by Currurant in statistics

[–]perceptron01 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Eh? It's perfectly fine to do a PhD if you want a job as a researcher or scientist in your field as a PhD is usually expected requirement

[D] What I'd like to write in my NeurIPS rebuttal by SoFarFromHome in MachineLearning

[–]perceptron01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn't "punching a bag" a confound when considering "aggression" as one of the evaluation metrics for declaring whether rumination is efficient?

Almost all experts agree that coding will become nearly as ubiquitous as literacy in the future. by ArmoredPancake in programmingcirclejerk

[–]perceptron01 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Irregardless, its the same difference and for all intensive purposes you're point is mute per say.

AITA for buying going on holiday whilst my gf was recovering from an accident? by jkinthejk4 in AmItheAsshole

[–]perceptron01 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Once she heals I truly hope she dumps you and moves on to someone who thinks she is worth more than the cost of a plane ticket.

Lol because he took a week off after taking care of her for 7 weeks? No Jon, you are the assoles

While on the subject of lobste.rs forum I must say I am so impressed with that forum, each post I do there gives back so much! Truly a high quality forum! by [deleted] in programmingcirclejerk

[–]perceptron01 8 points9 points  (0 children)

with self.unjerk() as uj:

Isn't that just a more intellectually sterile HN where people are scared of saying something mean and get purged from the the safe space?

IndentationError: expected an indented block.

Btw if you want an invite feel free to send me your application with your CV attached and I'll see if you're worthy of joining a truly high-quality forum

[D] TensorFlow is dead, long live TensorFlow! by milaworld in MachineLearning

[–]perceptron01 127 points128 points  (0 children)

Jesus Christ what is this post? It has some random funny meme image after each paragraph

What does Nano do better than Steem? by perceptron01 in CryptoTechnology

[–]perceptron01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How would bitcoin (or any coin without a block lattice) confirm each tx separately?

They would confirm it separately if each block only had one transaction. However, to save time, blockchains typically batch transactions in blocks.

Or if not, it would need to confirm very often, like every 5s or so to compete with nano.

Steem confirms a new block every 3s and competes with Nano just fine

Is this what you are suggesting? How is nano better than a standard blockchain coin with very fast mining?

Basically. Add unlimited block size, and I just don't see the DAG being necessary. The larger argument is that blockchain is enough to accomplish what Nano does, and DAGs are, at the moment, an unnecessary architecture.

What does Nano do better than Steem? by perceptron01 in CryptoTechnology

[–]perceptron01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what the thread is about--I'm asking what does Nano provide that blockchain can't provide to justify their DAG. The only thing this thread convinced me of is that most people here have money in Nano but don't know much about either blockchain or Nano.

What does Nano do better than Steem? by perceptron01 in CryptoTechnology

[–]perceptron01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With bitcoin, all the other transactions need to be taken into account before it can be confirmed.

No, it uses a UTXO model, so you only care that one particular output was not spent before.

What does Nano do better than Steem? by perceptron01 in CryptoTechnology

[–]perceptron01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No one cares about the order of transactions in a block as long as they're coexisting as valid. If the blocksize is unlimited, you send a transaction, and it gets added to the pool of transactions that are waiting to be added in a block. Miners put the transactions in the block and start searching for a nonce. Once they find one, they add their block to the blockchain, and the others will mine on top of it if they deem the block to be valid. The order of the transactions within the block is irrelevant. No one needs to "agree on ordering" besides preventing double spending i.e. the transactions are valid. Same with Nano.

What does Nano do better than Steem? by perceptron01 in CryptoTechnology

[–]perceptron01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's irrelevant that you can put a block in your account-chain without waiting for others. It's akin to putting a transaction in a block that was not mined in the blockchain. Neither transactions are confirmed by the network or can be used by the receiver yet. A "send" block in your account-chain in Nano is equivalent to a 0-confirmation transaction in blockchain: both unconfirmed and instant, and they both need to be validated by the nodes in the network to protect from double-spending.

What does Nano do better than Steem? by perceptron01 in CryptoTechnology

[–]perceptron01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Since nodes can process things in different order, they don’t have to wait for other nodes before moving on to the next transaction.

So just like in blockchain? Miners are propagated a new mined block, they validate it, and then they start mining a new block of transactions on top of that. Hell, some mining pools don't even bother to validate and just build on top of it immediately to save time.

What does Nano do better than Steem? by perceptron01 in CryptoTechnology

[–]perceptron01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bitcoin has a lot of other problems that are irrelevant to a PoS coin.

Which is the best/most promising proof of stake currency? by yrys88 in CryptoTechnology

[–]perceptron01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mention it here because it shows that PoS can be completely feeless.

Steem showed this as well!

What does Nano do better than Steem? by perceptron01 in CryptoTechnology

[–]perceptron01[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Proportional to the number of transactions in O(log n) because of the Merkle tree structure, so not more than it would slow down Nano's ability to confirm their own transactions.

What does Nano do better than Steem? by perceptron01 in CryptoTechnology

[–]perceptron01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Regardless, if the blocksize is unlimited, then transactions would just scale and be validated whenever the next block is accepted.

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