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The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game

A philosophy of games to help us win back control over …

Northernlion Is Helping Fund And Publish A Video Game [Update]

Last year, Ryan “Northernlion” Letourneau helped Demon Bluff blow up. Now he's making sure it crosses the finish line

Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete

$\textit{Magic: The Gathering}$ is a popular and famously complicated trading card game about magical combat. In this paper we show that optimal play in real-world $\textit{Magic}$ is at least as...

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You know the TV gameshow Play Your Cards Right? Contestants are shown a sequence – in two rows – of giant playing cards presented face-down. The host turns over the first card. The cont…

Kenney Solitaire

A smooth & free solitaire experience ♠️

Precautionary borrowing and the credit card debt puzzle

Contributor Poker and Zig's AI Ban

You should always change door when playing Monty Hall

Statmeet Cards — Doing is the antidote to doom.

Statmeet Cards is a coordination platform for teams building the world we want to live in — horizontal, decentralized, and designed to scale from your group chat to the whole internet.

Faulty reward functions in the wild

Reinforcement learning algorithms can break in surprising, counterintuitive ways. In this post we’ll explore one failure mode, which is where you misspecify your reward function.

3 tactics for leading a team through uncertainty

Lessons learned leading a team through a bumpy acquisition.

thundersnap 0.01: an undo button for everything

Happy July 4th! For those of us around the world contemplating independence, it's a good day to think about how we came to rely on expensiv...

When Motivation is against Debtors' Best Interest: The Illusion of Goal Progress in Credit Card Debt Repayment

The authors explore the illusion of goal progress by consumers who own multiple credit cards and pay off their debt balances to facilitate the achievement of their subgoal rather than the superordinate goal of being debt-free. The first experiment shows that debtors use their savings toward the credit card debt they can pay off entirely or substantially, even if it is associated with the smallest balance and the lowest annual percentage rate rather than toward the debt with the highest annual percentage rate. The second experiment reveals that when the income available to pay down the debt is in the form of effortless money (i.e., windfall or reward money) as opposed to hard-earned savings, the tendency to allocate money toward the smallest credit card debt is exacerbated. However, people tend to pay their debt more rationally when the number of debt accounts increases. Finally, the third experiment shows that credit card debt repayment decisions depend on the nature of the debt (hedonic vs. utilitarian) and the timing of consumption benefits (past vs. future). The article concludes with a discussion of managerial and public policy implications.

100 Jumps

Hold to charge, release to jump. Land on 100 platforms to win — but one miss and it's over. How many attempts will it take you?