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patrickfreed | 6 years ago | on: No limit: AI poker bot is first to beat professionals at multiplayer game

Your personal belief is likely correct. Balancing a donking range is incredibly difficult for humans and doing so perfectly likely yields only a very small EV bonus over just always checking. For humans it makes a whole lot of sense to reduce the branching in a case like that whereas for computers it doesn't really matter.

Another good example is varying continuation betting sizes. A true GTO strategy would mix in a number of different sizings (and I'm sure the bots adapted to do this), but you only sacrifice a very tiny amount of EV by basically betting the same size every time. Doing the latter limits humans risk for making errors which is far more valuable than squeezing out .05bb/100 more by varying the sizes.

patrickfreed | 8 years ago | on: MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO

it is exactly what you'd do in the event of an IPO. I just don't understand how investing tons of money in human capital could be considered a "cash out" as the person I was replying to put it. If anything, it's the opposite.

patrickfreed | 8 years ago | on: MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO

>their market just isnt big enough

the database market is one of the biggest software markets out there, if not the biggest.

>their losing a lot of steam as of late

at least according ot google trends, mongodb is more popular than ever.

>last effort cash out sort of deal to me

they're hiring like crazy and looking to grow a ton in the next year, so I don't think that's the case.

patrickfreed | 8 years ago | on: Antisocial Coding: My Year at GitHub

well that's really shitty.

I read about the first 50 replies or so and found myself agreeing with the 'meh' user, but after reading that blog post, it seems aredridel was on to something...

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