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Re:Brood War Bench on Saturday September 19, 2026 @07:01PM (#49770841)
It plays from a special API. Some things that are impossible with normal UI are possible with API, like selecting a unit under other units. Invisible units are also reported via the API.
Re:PaLM 2 Technical Report [pdf] on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @11:33PM (#35897032)
I don't see which model generated each request, where exactly do you see this?
Re:I played chess against ChatGPT-4 and lost on Sunday March 19, 2023 @02:45AM (#35216643)
So yesterday we had a post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35200267) that you need a special "play as a grandmaster" prompt to reduce the number of illegal moves for GPT3.5, and that "GPT4 sucks" at chess completely compared to GPT3.5.

Now we have this post that GPT4 plays good and doesn't make illegal moves at all. What changed? What was the prompt? Is it just random noise?

What's controversial about Sim City?
Thanks, but on the first glance this doesn't seem to be about bottom-up approach of synthesizing a cell from amino-acids, but about modifying existing cells.
What exactly are you referring to on that page?

Ask HN: Why there are no large scale programs to synthesize a cell?

Synthesizing a cell/protocell from amino-acids would be one of the greatest scientific achievements. Yet it seems that there are no large programs (comparable to Human Genome Project, for example) to actually achieve this. Wikipedia article on Abiogenesis lists only several smaller experiments. Why is that? Is it considered not feasible with the current state of science and technology?

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Technically it's not ToS to GPU, it's a license to the software: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/geforce-license/ So using a completely open source or third party driver and no CUDA is fine.
The customer use license specifically talks about datacenters, not "cloud": "The SOFTWARE is not licensed for datacenter deployment, except that blockchain processing in a datacenter is permitted" https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/geforce-license/
Re:Competitive Programming with AlphaCode on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @07:26PM (#30186538)
There were numerous issues. First one (somewhat mitigated lately) was extremely large number of actions per minute and (most importantly) extremely fast reaction speed.

Another big issue is that the bot communicated with the game via a custom API, not a via images and clicks. Details of this API are unknown - like how invisible units were handled, but it was much higher level than a human would have (pixels).

If you look at the games, the bot wasn't clever (which was a hope), just fast and precise. And some people far from the top were able to beat it convincingly.

And now the project is gone, even before people had a chance to really play against the bot and find more weaknesses.

Re:I Spent Hundreds of Hours Working in VR on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @03:42AM (#29991286)
I bought Oculus Quest 2 about a month ago. The games I play the most probably wouldn't be even possible (or at least fun) without VR - Pistol Whip (you need to evade slow-moving bullets) and Thrill of the Fight (boxing simulator). It's more of a fitness device for me now.
Re:Solving Advent of Code Puzzles with GitHub Copilot: Day 1 on Thursday December 02, 2021 @04:31AM (#29414163)
Does Copilot use other files open in the editor? Are they becoming a part of the prompt?
Re:Solving Advent of Code Puzzles with GitHub Copilot: Day 1 on Thursday December 02, 2021 @02:18AM (#29413423)
The exact answers to leetcode questions are probably included many times in the Copilot dataset, in many programming languages. Fresh Advent of code problems are much more interesting.
Re:Solving Advent of Code Puzzles with GitHub Copilot: Day 1 on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @11:40PM (#29412635)
That's already mentioned in the blog post: the author first wrote a solution in a normal way, and only then decided to try copilot.
Re:Solving Advent of Code Puzzles with GitHub Copilot: Day 1 on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @11:25PM (#29412557)
I think you need to actually get the new data from Github and finetune the model. Maybe it's done very frequently, but unlikely.
Re:Solving Advent of Code Puzzles with GitHub Copilot: Day 1 on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @11:02PM (#29412438)
I would think the today's code is not a part of the Copilot yet...
Re:The Inherent Limitations of GPT-3 on Monday November 29, 2021 @09:09PM (#29387977)
Do you know how previously unseen numbers in the prompt are encoded, probably the same way? Then GPT3 can not do any math at all, unless the specific numbers were seen before?
Re:Elizabeth Ann, the First Cloned Black-Footed Ferret on Saturday February 20, 2021 @02:30PM (#26207040)
From the article: "ViaGen created embryos and implanted them into a domestic ferret surrogate".

I wonder how the "created embryos" step can be done?

Re: I Built My Own Shitty Static Site Generator on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:57AM (#25251333)
But with self-hosted Wordpress, especially with large number of plugins, you will have to constantly update your Wordpress installation or get hacked and spammed, no?
Re:Robinhood Accounts Looted, No Customer Support on Friday October 09, 2020 @04:53PM (#24734322)
Schwab's 2FA is app or hardware token-based. https://www.schwab.com/help/two-factor-authentication
Re:Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use? on Friday October 02, 2020 @03:25AM (#24659955)
I use Akregator (part of KDE) for many years.
Picat was born out for BProlog, and it used to be like a pre-processor for BProlog, but I don't think this is true anymore.
Loops, optional destructive assignment, tabling (although some Prolog implementations also have tabling), better constraint programming support than many Prolog implementations.

With version 3.0 Picat is also mostly backward-compatible with Prolog.

Re:Disposable Mask Under the Microscope on Monday September 07, 2020 @04:06PM (#24402313)
On the first photo, the whole horizontal field of view is about 6mm. On the second - about 3mm.

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