Interesting story. Given this is a tech forum, this page has a link to hiker's scanned notebook with the code in it, just in case anyone else is curious.
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Slightly tangential question, but on reading the article I was surprised that it mentioned multiple anonymous submissions, given that this was a workshop at one of the most prestigious ML conferences. Any particular reason for this that you can think of?
Thanks for the magic of internet some amazing person has done the numbers on this: https://buydemocracy.wordpress.com/2015/12/18/yoda-speak-ori...
TLDR; Empire: 22% Yoda Speak. Jedi: 33% Yoda Speak. Phantom Menace: 74% Yoda Speak. He seems to have become very much a caricature of himself during his pop culture hiatus between the movies.
Many thanks for posting this and giving me a name for this phenomenon :).
Name Manager though... Would be really nice if they could come up with some idioms for writing these functions in a multi-line format, with indentation, and give a slightly nicer editor. I realize that might be a bit tricky without changing the language syntax, but after the 2nd nested if-statement I find that I really struggle to follow someone's single-line Excel logic...
Umm, among the other issues with your post, Yann LeCunn last tweeted 12 hours ago...
https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1334409408537825282
("she turned me into a Newt!")
(caveating that I realize the concept of caring about ablest language is relatively new for most people, and that this type of language is deeply ingrained in our cultural subconscious, but it still doesn't cost much to try to avoid it where we can...)
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I was today years old... :|
As discussed elsewhere in this thread, at night bars are often the only comfortable place open. Meanwhile hotel rooms can get depressing and, for people who drink, having a drink alongside a book can be incredibly relaxing. I also think we underestimate the value for introverted people of being out in a public setting, even in an asocial way.
Good on this group for using a bit of social engineering to help push this idea - wishing them all of the success in the world!
At this kind of scale + uptime requirement, you'd want to do a migration like this gradually - hydrating the new system with data and keeping it up-to-date with changes for a period of weeks/months while doing testing + validation (and ideally also doing a gradual cutover, although that might not be realistic given banking infrastructure/application design).
Probably the relevant approaches to look into after reviewing basic backup/restore are things like log-shipping or change-data-capture, although choosing the right approach would be highly dependent on the underlying technology, architecture, and requirements...
I'm sure that the AlphaStar effort absolutely dwarfed everything that came before in terms of investment (as I'm sure AlphaGo did for Go as well) but based on my reading I'd also bet that Starcraft has likely seen the most continued AI research effort of any imperfect information, real-time game over the last decade - I think that's also part of what made it appealing for DeepMind over Dota 2 or any of the other options in this class of game.
[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.02682.pdf [2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.09467.pdf [3] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.12266.pdf [4] https://liquipedia.net/starcraft/SSCAIT
I'm a gold league SC2 player, so maybe in the 30th-50th percentile. Three years ago, when DeepMind started this project (and after nearly two decades of research into SC/SC2) I could probably have beaten the best non-cheating AI. Now, after 3 years, this AI is playing at a Grandmaster level, under at least a reasonable approach to fairness. By comparison, according to the AlphaGo paper [1] the best Go AIs prior to AlphaGo were playing at a 6 Dan level, which looks to be somewhere in the 90-98th percentile [2].
The speed at which AlphaStar overtook previous AIs seems to me to be nearly unprecedented in AI research. This is like if the world's best chess AI had gone from losing high school tournaments to being competitive with Kasparov in less than 3 years. Valid criticisms aside, this feels like an incredible achievement.
[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature16961.pdf [2] https://senseis.xmp.net/?KGSRankHistogram
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Great example here: https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/330519-team-servic...
It looks like you did something that users didn't actually ask for in 2017, closed this, and then have been ignoring 1.5 years worth of comments being told what users actually want. From our end it's simple - the embedded burndown chart on the scrum board should be able to show story points, not just hours (like with any other scrum board tool). I shudder to think how many engineering hours went into solving the wrong thing here...