Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (March 11, 2024)
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<h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
<p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for March 11, 2024 :</p>
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Monte-Carlo graph search from first principles
Summary: Monte-Carlo Graph Search (MCGS) is considered tricky to implement due to its historical development as an extension of multi-armed-bandit-based methods to trees. The standard MCTS formulation doesn't work well for generalizing to graphs. Czech, Korus, and Kersting have developed a sound algorithm for MCGS, but an alternative approach based on online policy learning can be more intuitive and reveal additional implementation choices. This document presents the cleaner formulation and derives the algorithm from basic principles.
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The Best Essay
Summary: In this essay, the author explores what makes the best essay and how to write essays well. The best essay would be well-written and surprising, telling people something they don't already know. The author suggests that the initial question is crucial, as it sets the tone and direction of the essay. Writing essays is a process of discovering ideas, starting with a question and exploring it through a series of responses. The author emphasizes the importance of breadth and novelty in essay writing, as well as the alternating stripes of inspiration and effort required. Ultimately, the quality of an essay is a function of the ideas discovered in it, and the way to get them is by casting a wide net for questions and being very exacting with the answers.