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#45 - Building Dota Bots That Beat Pros - OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Szymon Sidor, and Sam Altman

Y Combinator Startup Podcast

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Scripted Bots in TensorFlow and Python

The full game files are about 17 gigabytes and our Docker registry can only support five gigabyte layers. Turns out that Steam can only be an offline mode for two weeks at a time, so they push new patches all the time. So I had to write a thing to chunk up things into five gigabyte tar balls and put those in S3 and sort them back down. And then the next step was, well, we know we want to be writing our bots in TensorFlow and Python. How do you get that? Well, because so machine learning, you know, that it's actually quite interesting that a lot of the highest order bit on progress is using familiar tools like MAT

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