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Cake day: June 4th, 2023

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  • What you want is a distribution-aware contextual binary search. With whatever information you have (appearance, personality, vocabulary, etc), you can come up with a probability distribution in the space of possible ages and start your guess with the value at the 50th percentile. Then depending on whether the true age is higher or lower, your next guess will be either the 25th or 75th percentile. Rinse and repeat.

    In reality, the way most people intuitively do agree guessing is already an approximation of this procedure.




  • And seriously, if the friction is the only thing that make you enjoy sex, and not with whom you have sex with, you seriously should reconsider your relationship.

    Why would you choose to do anything for fun that isn’t mutually enjoyable? You can enjoy both your partner’s company and also the activity you do together at the same time. It’s not one or the other. Don’t like condomed sex? Then don’t do it. There’s more to a romantic relationship than sex.










  • The main difficulty is in how many hyperparameters are involved in training an RL agent, high sensitivity of RL algorithms to those hyperparameters, and not having a good understanding of how to select them based on the properties of your task. This problem is exacerbated by the high sample complexity of RL. If something doesn’t work out, you don’t know if it’s because you chose the wrong set of hyperparameters or if you just haven’t trained for long enough.

    I don’t know much about game design, but I do know that it’s a much more mature field than RL, so surely they have better tools than guessing and praying.