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Re:Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture by layer8 on Monday February 10, 2025 @04:22PM (#43005318)
It’s important to think outside the box, and that’s easier when you’re not aware of the box, but we also stand on the shoulders of giants, and are doomed to repeat history if we don’t learn from it. As usual, things aren’t clear-cut.
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Re:Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture by selimthegrim on Monday February 10, 2025 @07:00PM (#43006959)
Have the herd of wildbeest been hunting for room to stow their carry-on luggage?
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Re:Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture by Nevermark on Monday February 10, 2025 @08:21PM (#43007787)
Nothing is more depressing than hunting for a parking spot, down a long one-way strip of parked cars, right behind another car hunting for a parking spot.
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Re:Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture by itwasntexample on Monday February 10, 2025 @08:54PM (#43008077)
Plus, their choice of bringing up Balatro wasn't correct either. The developer DID play other deck builders, just not that many. Particularly, they played Slay the Spire which is the genre's most influential "Giant" and the entire reason for the game's progression structure (Small fights leading to a known big fight with particular anti-strategy gimmicks).
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Re:Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture by zimpenfish on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @04:12AM (#43010628)
> Particularly, they played Slay the Spire

[0] links to an interview where the developer says they didn't play Slay The Spire ("the truth is that I hadn't played that game or seen footage of it when I designed Balatro")

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43009738

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Re:Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture by GuB-42 on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @01:33PM (#43016398)
> It’s important to think outside the box, and that’s easier when you’re not aware of the box

I don't think so. If you are not aware of the box, there is a much greater chance for you to be well within the box and not realizing it. By that, I mean that either you rediscovered something, or you are wrong in the same way as many others before you. By chance, you may find something new and unexpected, but that's more of an exception than the rule.

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