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It’s gotta be a joke. I hope.
I took the lambdas in the username to mean theyre a functional programming fan, pretty sure they're joking.
it could also just be a fan of half life and they actually don’t know any better
possibly also just greek I guess
Alex McNeilly is about as Greek as it gets
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It is the joke.
Nah, it's just a theory.
A GAME THEORY.
I was actually kinda disappointed when I found out that Game Theory had nothing to do with games, and was actually just math. 😩
I remember when reddit used to be a site where the top comment was always something interesting and insightful and sometimes even given by an expert.
But then it all became shitposts and jokes at the top level.
Then I came to Lemmy and found what felt a lot like old reddit, the top comment being something decent and thought provoking.
Took less than 6 months to just turn into reddit. Thanks for contributing to the enshittification of another site with your inaccurate but funny top comment. And now my inbox will be flooded with people who tell me not to take things too seriously and that it isn't that big a deal.
I guarantee you within a year and a half lemmy will be worse than reddit.
And people like you will be the ones who helped make it that way.
I remember the vitriol of old reddit. I believe you are contributing to that more than helping.
Reddit was never pure in terms of discussion or kindness; I think you've got some heavily tinted rose glasses on. But reddit succeeded and brought you the deep, insightful discussion you crave because the enthusiasts were there. And enthusiasts are human, they are not all heartless cogs there to infodump and complain. The most knowledgeable, well-read, and well-spoken people I know are also ones to crack jokes and make their passions accessible and interesting.
If you want healthy discussion, I strongly believe you should allow at least a bit of levity and let people speak a little more freely. Chastising people for not being insightful enough will turn away plenty of the people you want to keep.
Let neckbeards and normies mingle. It's okay to have fun.
Also worth mentioning: this is Microblog Memes. It's in the name.
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I love when trolls like you are super obvious. Makes the decision to block you so much easier. Buh bye now.
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Are you a robot in a SciFi film who just turned evil or is the massive quantity of red light coming out of your eyes just your rose tinted glasses
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Enshittification is specifically a platform getting worse because it needs to shift resources to its advertisers or itself. If you think this is happening on Lemmy, I would you curious how, otherwise please do not contribute to diluting the term and making it into a synonym of "thing getting worse"
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I'm indifferent to the content, but I fucking hate that they took the name Game Theory. I can't talk about this genuinely fascinating topic just about anywhere without kids screaming about the channel.
Game theory is a better name for the YouTube channel than the academic field.
No? It's a field of math, which are typically called theories, that studies games.
It doesn't study games, it studies competitive systems. Mathematicians chose to call competitive systems games and that was a mistake.
It studies cooperative systems too. The most specific term that covers everything in it really is Game.
And what's a concise word to describe a system in which participants make decisions within some ruleset where the interaction between each participant's decisions and the ruleset leads to determining whether each participant wins or loses?
for the longest time, i did know that game theory did not have anything to do with "games" and that it is somehow connected to the prisoners dilemma, but the concept as such wasn't very clear to me. If you are like my former me, take 30 minutes out of your day and visit https://ncase.me/trust/ to learn and play around with game theory; it's a great webpage and it's pretty good fun all around.
We have game theory as an a elective at my uni, the amount of people who signed up for game theory instead of game design is staggering
Those people would benefit from game theory then. Game theory is all about using the information available to make the best possible choice.
Why would I play game theory when I can play actual games?? It’s like reading about sex positions when your horny naked fwb is right next to you, I tells ya!
Some people definitely need to read more fucktheory.
If you want to learn about games you want combinatorial game theory. Traditional game theory isn't completely divorced from real games either, but comes up more often in economics.
I took Game Theory and the professor's first name was Patrick. Some ID for something related to the course (that he chose himself) was "patmath".
It's been a thing for a century, YouTubers didn't invent words.
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That's what I hoped, but none of the commentors seemed to be in on it.
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Game theory final exam:
Full Marks (100%):
You will receive full marks if you answer all questions correctly and at least 70% of the class chooses the "Full Marks" strategy.
If you answer all questions correctly but fewer than 70% of the class chooses the "Full Marks" strategy, your grade will be 90%
Half Marks (50%):
You will receive half marks if you answer all questions correctly but at least 30% of the class chooses the "Half Marks" strategy.
If you choose this strategy and the class distribution aligns as specified, your grade will be 50% irrespective of the correctness of your answers.
Fail (0%) with Incentive:
You will receive a failing grade if you choose the "Fail" strategy or if your answers are incorrect and less than 30% of the class chooses the "Fail" strategy.
If you choose the "Fail" strategy and at least 30% of the class also chooses the "Fail" strategy, you will receive a special incentive: Automatic 'A' grade in the next course module, regardless of your performance in this exam.
Additionally, if more than 70% of the class chooses "Fail" or "Half Marks" strategies combined, everyone will fail regardless of individual choices.
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The game theory course at my university was called "Poker 101"
It is now an umbrella term for the science of rational decision making in humans, animals, and computers.
Sounds too academic for me
when you drive past the university entrance's brand new million dollar fountain to get to the shit-tier computers in the cramped as fuck computer lab, then you start wondering if it was always like this
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