Please tell me you placed this image so that it’s the next one up when they swipe.

The game trying to force that plot twist felt very jarring and pulled me out of the immersion right from the start. My guy, you have no idea how long you’ve been in there. Why are you asking around for a child?

They do not have sales data, so they use two different proxies: number of reviews, and number of active players.

I don’t see mention of how they get the number of active players. I’m assuming it’s through stats in Steam or something similar. If that’s the case, then their assumption of this number being biased towards being larger than the true number would be wrong. If you choose to both pirate and buy the game, chances are good that you’ll be playing the pirated version, and therefore would not get counted towards active players.

Loot box and that gambling business aside, wouldn’t the FOMO argument also apply to the video game itself? If everyone around you is playing this game, you’ll be pressured into purchasing it yourself as well.

You don’t pay people because it’s the only motivator. You pay people because you need money to survive in this world. If we don’t, then the only people who can afford to spend time making mods are those who are already have their basic needs taken care of through other means.

I would like to see a world where anyone with the passion for modding can make mods.

Based on what I hear from my colleagues’ experiences, most of them still want to continue doing research, but there aren’t enough research jobs and funding available for all of them.

I can’t tell if you’re trying to say Alpine skiing is scary or that you’re into all the stuff people consider to be extreme sports.

https://mander.xyz/post/19090429

Like this

If you’re blending it up into a powder anyway, wouldn’t it make more sense to add the paprika at the end? Does adding it before baking actually make a difference?

Volume is only useful for things that are non-compressible (i.e. fluid). What if you’re measuring flour? Usually, the measurements are given for sifted flour, but that’s not something you would know unless you’re experienced in the kitchen. And even if you do sift your flour, there’s still going to be a lot of variation depending on how much things get compressed again as you’re scooping it out.

Ask yourself why you’re donating in the first place. Is it so that good journalism can continue to exist regardless of who gets to see it? Is it to give everyone access to good journalism regardless of their ability to pay? Is it so that the journalists can continue producing content for you to consume yourself? Maybe it’s something else?

If the company is no longer providing what you expect from them, then that’s a good reason to stop donating.

We’re assuming that you’re talking to someone who’s willing to have a discussion in good faith.

You’d first need to know why that isn’t a sufficiently solid answer. Are they looking for a perfect solution? Because I’m pretty sure there isn’t one. What we want is an improvement over the status quo, and sometimes an overall improvement necessitates a worse experience in certain areas.

Until chop off their legs. Then BMI spikes again.

Count yourself lucky. My front burner has become a secondary backburner and I’ve moved on to using a portable cooktop.

It’s unfortunate that these days, many who have this freedom are trying to deprive others of it.

We’ve been doing this in RL research with Minecraft as well (see MineDojo). An excerpt from the GitHub page:

MineDojo […] provides open access to an internet-scale knowledge base of 730K YouTube videos, 7K Wiki pages, 340K Reddit posts.

Again, no one has run into legal issues with this yet either, but this also isn’t as ubiquitous compared to Atari, nor has it been around for as long.

Did you mean to respond to a different comment? I have no idea what happened in the VP debate.

The very first response I gave said you just have to reframe state.

And I said “am augmented state space would make it Markovian”. Is that not what you meant by reframing the state? If not, then apologies for the misunderstanding. I do my best, but I understand that falls short sometimes.

Reinforcement learning research has been using Atari games as standard benchmarks for over a decade now and no one has faced legal issues yet.

I’m not familiar with the term “beam” in the context of LLMs, so that’s not factored into my argument in any way. LLMs generate text based on the history of tokens generated thus far, not just the last token. That is by definition non-Markovian. You can argue that an augmented state space would make it Markovian, but you can say that about any stochastic process. Once you start doing that, both become mathematically equivalent. Thinking about this a bit more, I don’t think it really makes sense to talk about a process being Markovian or not without a wider context, so I’ll let this one go.

nitpick that makes communication worse

How many readers do you think know what “Markov” means? How many would know what “stochastic” or “random” means? I’m willing to bet that the former is a strict subset of the latter.