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recent bookmarks from jmWhy I Turned Down an AWS Job Offer - Last Week in AWS2019-08-06T11:16:29+00:00
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/why-i-turned-down-an-aws-job-offer/
jmaws amazing noncompetes jobs work legal non-competeshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:293e78eda970/PRNG-predicting bot ascends in Nethack in 7 minutes 15 seconds2019-01-11T10:12:44+00:00
https://pellsson.github.io/
jmSo, we could now go from starting inventory to RNG-seed in no time, but we still had to ascend. While we could write a simple “wish”-bot, get +127 Magicbane and then ascend by hand from there, achieving both fastest realtime and lowest turn count in the same game would not be easy.
First idea was to start a NAO game, fetch the seed, then saving and perfecting the seed offline. It was quickly ruled out though as the game is reseeded each time it is started (i.e. when you load your game).
Loooong story short, we wrote a bot. You had to play the first turns (offline) and move her to a non-magic fountain located next to a wall. If you died, no big deal, just retry on the same seed. This is why SWAGGINZZZ stood still for 6 minutes, we had absolutely horrible RNG when trying to get the specific fountain needed on dlvl2.
The fountain is required for wishes. The wall is required to be able to offset the random state without advancing the game state – every time the character attempts to walk into a wall, it calls random() without wasting any in-game time. From the fountain, the bot ascends completely on her own.
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https://twitter.com/Odd_Hack/status/722069196083982336/photo/1
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jmgames hacks exploits buffer-overflow snes code-injection amazing flappy-bird seth-bling video youtubehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a9e5be1705d2/This tree produces 40 different types of fruit2014-07-23T16:42:48+00:00
http://sciencealert.com.au/news/20142107-25892.html
jmAn art professor from Syracuse University in the US, Van Aken grew up on a family farm before pursuing a career as an artist, and has combined his knowledge of the two to develop his incredible Tree of 40 Fruit.
In 2008, Van Aken learned that an orchard at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station was about to be shut down due to a lack of funding. This single orchard grew a great number of heirloom, antique, and native varieties of stone fruit, and some of these were 150 to 200 years old. To lose this orchard would render many of these rare and old varieties of fruit extinct, so to preserve them, Van Aken bought the orchard, and spent the following years figuring out how to graft parts of the trees onto a single fruit tree. [...]
Aken’s Tree of 40 Fruit looks like a normal tree for most of the year, but in spring it reveals a stunning patchwork of pink, white, red and purple blossoms, which turn into an array of plums, peaches, apricots, nectarines, cherries and almonds during the summer months, all of which are rare and unique varieties.
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http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/339/dec15_1/b4965
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