Forgettable fodder, as so many of these recent allegedly groundbreaking talks are. I don't know if it's my increased exposure to them or something else.
// personal opinion: I think machine learning as it currently stands is widely overhyped
How is this the top comment?
> I am starting to notice a pattern in these papers - Writing hyper-specific tokenizers for the target problem.
This is merely expressing what they consider as part of a game state, which is entirely needed for what they set out to do.
> I argue this is just ordinary programming
"Ordinary programming" (what does that mean?) for such a task implies extraordinary chess intuition, capable of conjuring rules and heuristics for the task of comparing two game states and saying which one is "better" (what does better mean?).
> How would this model perform if we made a small change to the rules of chess and continued using the same tokenizer?
If by "small change" you are implying i.e. removing the ability to castle, then sure, the tokenizer would need to be rewritten. At the same time, the entire training dataset would need to be changed, such that the games are valid under your new ruleset. How is this controversial or unexpected?
It feels like you are expecting that state of the art technology allows us to input an arbitrary ruleset and the mighty computer immediately plays an arbitrary game optimally. Unfortunately, this is not the case, but that does not take anything away from this paper.
I wanted to label this as a “nothingburger”, but all the pieces of advice are either tautologies, vague general dating tips (i.e. "make sure the vibes are not off"), or straight up untrue: "They want to work on this part-time", "They want to quit their job but haven't set a date to do it", "They're going to quit their job but only after the YC interview". The latter are all very context dependent and are impossible to label as a "red flag" without further information. Possibly SEO bait?
> don't see it as any less dignified than any other work
You do not, and that is your moral judgement. Rationalizing earning money by any means necessary is a very slippery slope, and the discussion is much more nuanced than popular media would lead you to believe.
tried it quickly on a personal machine running windows; all attempts at submitting `BUY`s for popular tickers (regardless of price, tax, quantity, ticker, date) seem to result in an unknown error. Notably, I tried having the account match the ticker's currency, but that does not fix it.
I think it's objective truth to note that "Bitcoiners" are predominantly comprised of:
a) people conducting illegal affairs (don't read this as "illegal" in the sense of jaywalking)
b) technically illiterate people, down on their luck and hoping to get rich quickly
With those in mind, I would argue that "Bitcoiners" are instead drawn from the left side of most distributions.