Yeah it took me a second to understand how the game worked in learning mode.
By "whole cluster" I mean when there is more than 1 line completed with the same piece. For example if you have 2 lines that meet at a corner, placing the corner piece triggers a flip for both / all lines that meet in that corner. I found myself surprised by that the first time it happened.
There's an assured win combo in this game, at least against the Hard AI. The combo is as follows:
Take the top left corner. It takes the center. Take the bottom left corner. It flips it's center piece every time. Take either right corner. It takes the remaining corner. Take the center right. Flip one of your left corner pieces to form a diagonal ghost line
If the AI doesn't take the center and waste its flip, then it can definitely be countered.
As for feedback, I'd say i had a few moments where i was confused as to why a whole cluster of pieces flipped to ghosts. Honestly if that was described in a tutorial better it'd probably be a non-issue.
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One of the biggest things that attacts me to a particular product (besides a lot of the good answers here already) is if it's open source and self hostable or not. Maybe not a marketing strategy per-se but it's something for marketers to be loud about.
More, and more companies are open sourcing their core product, and those are usually the ones I'll recommend my employer use.
Besides that having a nice UI that's easy to use and prominently displayed in the marketing material, or available via a demo goes a long way, too.
I'd love to know a little bit more about how you do that. I'd typically feel wrong asking a candidate to show code they've written at a previous employer.
Do you just ask them to walk you through the architecture by memory? If so what how do you come up with questions about their choices without the specificities of the actual way they wrote their code?
This feels more or less in line with what my team has found, we gave everyone a copilot seat in our Github org, and anecdotally speaking it feels like we've seen roughly a 5-10% increase in productivity. This is of course self reported and not measured against any metrics. Assuming we're right about that, its an easy sell when we account for what our internal hourly rate is.
we also found the same as the OP, It's good for simple problems or boilerplate, not great for more complex problems.
I've really fallen for Obsidian myself. I became somewhat of an evangelist for it in my office. Much like the author i tend to use it as a "backstage for my life". In the interest of sharing my system with my colleagues i even turned my work vault into a template of sorts [^1].
Though that's also the most interesting part about Obsidian. What works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another. When i presented my template to my colleagues i definitely got some comments like: "oh man, my brain doesn't work that way" or "this feels overly complex". It's interesting how a simple markdown editor has become this analogue for some of our brains.
As a fellow Montreal-er I agree with you in principle. Our city is beautifully diverse, and it's decently lively. Many of my peers agree that living in Toronto is infeasible, economically, and culturally. That said, I've found that living in Montreal is far from ideal.
A big issue is that Montreal's salaries are, as other commenter have said, upwards of 30% lower here. With rising rent and real estate costs, people are living outside their means. More than that, though, companies outside of Montreal are loathe to hire Montrealers remotely as well. It's not just because of the decline of remote friendly workplaces, but also the language laws in Quebec. Any legal department worth their weight will look at Quebec's requirements for companies to serve Quebec employees in French, and promptly conclude hiring there isn't worth it.
It really seems like no matter where you end up in Canada the cards are stacked against you. Vancouver is just as expensive as Toronto, and Montreal has all the aforementioned issues. At this point I'm considering running off to Europe, but I know that has its own host of issues as well. I might just be falling victim to analysis paralysis, but I definitely feel stuck.
As the kind of person that loves running a home lab this really appeals to me. That said, there's a take away here that's easy to miss, imho, and that's that the pricing for a piece of software needs to make sense.
The real issue with SaaS is the blanket "$5/user/month" pricing scheme, if you ask me. If using your service means each call is some heavy GPU computation, fine, charge me that cost + profit margin / markup, ie: usage based billing.
If a consumer device can handily do all the processing for your software though, yeah just sell a perpetual licence of some kind, and charge for new major versions.
Research like this does make me wonder about what percentage of anti skilled finfluencers are actually the malicious case rather than misguided. That is to say, the case where they peddle some position they know will do poorly and secure a short / contrary position themselves. That way they are effectively doubling how they can monetize their audience, once as ad-revenue, and a second by profiting from audience losses. It's probably impossible to control for something like that, but it's interesting to think about.
The especially confusing bit here is that the DIY version costs considerably less than the fully assembled one. That extra step to disassemble the laptop obviously costs money, so do they just factor that into the cost somehow?
This makes me wonder how much of this is because research typically happens in an academic setting versus this just being the nature of research.
I wonder if researches from private companies feel the same woes. If so, its probably just the nature of, like others have mentioned, a deliverable / outcome based jobs. I'd imagine (and hope), that at the very least they're paid better and have more resources available to them.
Reading this makes me think of
that one experiment[0] where rats were put in a "park" with regular and drug laced water. In the absence of enriching activities the rats would opt for drug use to stay entertained. Of course, I'm sure there are plenty of issues with that study that would invalidate it, but I think the lesson still stands, school has become an environment where you're judged on every facet of you existence. Your grades, your clothes, and physical appearance, your social acumen. All this leaves very little space for enrichment via learning and experimentation. Not to mention shrinking budgets and overloading for teachers, making it nearly impossible to be passionate and engaging. It makes me wonder what it would take to get alternative schools in place that take students into the real world, regularly, and have them learn through applying principles from the classroom, or if that would even be effective.
By "whole cluster" I mean when there is more than 1 line completed with the same piece. For example if you have 2 lines that meet at a corner, placing the corner piece triggers a flip for both / all lines that meet in that corner. I found myself surprised by that the first time it happened.