In Switzerland (we already have 4 local languages) it is very common for people not to speak the local language. I have seen people leaving in Geneva for more than 20 years and still not speaking french. The swiss government is even translating the laws in English for foreigners.
After loosing on the Go territory seams like fb is trying to challenge Alphabet on StarCraft. DeepMind already declared they will go for StartCraft as a next challenge does it mean that they accept the challenge? I'm actually happy to see what could be the result! The only weak point for the StarCraft community is that it would be on SC1 and not SC2.
SC1 is not a weak point, it's generally considered to be better balanced, and is the "gold standard" for RTS's. SC1 also has far more training dataset than SC2.
Yep! But as someone that built something on top of the BW API, I'd wager anyone going after SC1 AI to probably write their own thing. It's still an amazing API for general heuristics and modeling, but there's a few issues with it that stand in the way of making it a scaleable foundation.
Actually SC1 is the defacto choice when talking about StarCraft esports and the best choice since the best SC players have been honing their skills on SC1 for a long time (see South Korea SC1 esports scene).
There are actual professional players still active for SC2 though. I don't think you can make that claim for SC1 because even though the competitive scene has been growing again nobody is getting a paycheck for playing competitive games.
Are you referring to the just completed Afreeca Starleague with $21k prize pool? Only the top two got more than a typical month's paycheck (winner did get over $10k) and it lasted a couple of months. There also haven't been any other events even close to that size this year for BW. Pro players don't typically live off tournament winnings.
That's the one! The winner pulled in $13,500 USD. I must have misinterpreted "paycheck" in your comment "nobody is getting a paycheck for playing competitive games."
[edit] Ah, $21k, not $31k. Thanks.
[edit] And yes, it was recently completed and isn't actually ongoing. Not sure what I was smoking when I made so many false statements.
Yeah you could've well meant the VANT event, I forgot about Afreeca just announcing another large one. Who knows, with how things are going we might see professional play again in Brood War and of course some of the current players were at the top when it existed.
While there are currently no professional players, as amateurs, the top guys definitely earn more than what you would get as a professional SC2 player. In July 2016, the 10th highest earned $7,699.18 USD, the highest $36,811.18 USD. And those numbers don't include ad revenue, tournament winnings or sponsorship deals.
Earning through streaming can be detrimental to the level of play though. At least one of those top10 doesn't even bother playing competitive matches and I'm pretty sure he's not the only one that's not really a competitor even if he's making a living as an entertainer playing Starcraft.
Insurances are probably going to go up if you want to drive your own car. It is probably going to be unaffordable for almost everyone to own a car because of this!
It's a sign that you're over-due for switching to Mercurial or Git for your version control.
Subversion is the equivalent of using paper tape to store your source code. It's centralized, bloody slow, and missing a number of features taken for granted in a system like Git.
If there was a number of interesting numbers, that number should include itself in the count, since we clearly have some interest in this topic. So if the number of interesting numbers is 0, then zero is an interesting number hence the number of interesting numbers is at least 1.
Alternately: if there are no interesting numbers, that fact is itself interesting. But that fact can be encoded as a number (see Gödel), and the number must be interesting if the fact is interesting. Thus there is at least one interesting number.
The fact being interesting doesn't mean its encoding is interesting. I might find a movie interesting but looking at the raw bytes of the MP4 file much less so ;)
Surely there are only 95 repeated pairs of three digits between 100100 and 194194? And another 95 symmetric numbers. With a leading zero you have 195 each way.
I have tried many times but, every time I had to go back to OSX for some reason. I am a big FreeBSD fan and for me OSX with the port system was the way to go. Now Apple is more and more getting in the way but FreeBSD not really running on Apple hardware.
On the Linux (I tried Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora/Gentoo) point of view you can't really find a distro that is working well enough and have a similar port system.
