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patrickfreedon After 48 years, Democrats endorse nuclear energy in platform

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patrickfreedon Street View of 1940s New York

It's incredible--even some of the finer details like advertisements painted on the sides of buildings seem to be unchanged.

For example, the two bottom banners can still be clearly read on this warehouse between 44rd and 45th on 11th ave: https://i.imgur.com/EXJUMrL.png

patrickfreedon No limit: AI poker bot is first to beat professionals at multiplayer game

Your personal belief is likely correct. Balancing a donking range is incredibly difficult for humans and doing so perfectly likely yields only a very small EV bonus over just always checking. For humans it makes a whole lot of sense to reduce the branching in a case like that whereas for computers it doesn't really matter.

Another good example is varying continuation betting sizes. A true GTO strategy would mix in a number of different sizings (and I'm sure the bots adapted to do this), but you only sacrifice a very tiny amount of EV by basically betting the same size every time. Doing the latter limits humans risk for making errors which is far more valuable than squeezing out .05bb/100 more by varying the sizes.

patrickfreedon Google Maps: Bird Mode

and when they first introduced it, I think they called it "bird's eye" view.

patrickfreedon Show HN: Analysis of 2018 Hacker News “Who Is Hiring” Job Posts

>SF is center of the tech world. Next biggest is not even half of its size.

The article lists SF as having 2922 jobs and New York 1746 jobs

patrickfreedon MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO

it is exactly what you'd do in the event of an IPO. I just don't understand how investing tons of money in human capital could be considered a "cash out" as the person I was replying to put it. If anything, it's the opposite.

patrickfreedon MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO

>their market just isnt big enough

the database market is one of the biggest software markets out there, if not the biggest.

>their losing a lot of steam as of late

at least according ot google trends, mongodb is more popular than ever.

>last effort cash out sort of deal to me

they're hiring like crazy and looking to grow a ton in the next year, so I don't think that's the case.

patrickfreedon Antisocial Coding: My Year at GitHub

well that's really shitty.

I read about the first 50 replies or so and found myself agreeing with the 'meh' user, but after reading that blog post, it seems aredridel was on to something...