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by awb 4y ago
Outside of quality improvement, it would be interesting to have a way to persist a theme. For example, a way to save the teddy bear as a character that can be used in other videos. Or a way to save a version of “large medieval town with a g
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by awb 4y ago
Hikaru analyzed some of Niemann’s games and at certain points he was very surprised by the move, but said that if he was told that there was a strong winning move in that position he would have found the move easily. Kind of similar to what
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by awb 4y ago
Most popular chess tournaments have a live audience. So that would be another vector. Any delay would have to be significant like 30min to avoid players just waiting for the broadcast to match the board state during a critical move where th
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by awb 4y ago
> It will lead to some workaround. A bigger part of the pay in the form of bonuses or discretionary grants, for example. How will existing commission-based compensation be reported, like sales and recruiting jobs?
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by awb 4y ago
> Under the law, employers with 15 or more workers will be required to include pay ranges in job postings I wonder how this will work with small, remote-friendly companies hiring a CA employee and forgetting (or not knowing) to put a sal
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Bank of England in £65B emergency move to calm markets(ft.com)
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by awb 4y ago
Thanks for sharing! Really curious about ML stock market models as they seem extremely difficult to outperform the market consistently over time. A few questions: 1) Were these stock picks for major stocks / ETFs? Or small market cap s
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Either Niemann is capable of playing much better than Carlsen or he is cheating(twitter.com)
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by awb 4y ago
I had a similar experience back in 2008 when I started a fully remote digital agency. One of my first employees was doing fantastic work, until his performance fell to 0 - no communication, no deliverables, nothing. Turns out, he stopped pa
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by awb 4y ago
True, but wouldn’t both cohorts be expected to add connections manually in roughly the same amounts?
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0A.D. Alpha 26 – Free, open source game of ancient warfare(play0ad.com)
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by awb 4y ago
> The key question is how big the difference between the groups. 2x increase in job opportunities. > They found that relatively weak social ties on LinkedIn proved twice as effective in securing employment as stronger social ties.
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by awb 4y ago
E = mc^2 A ton of energy would be needed to transform into a tiny amount of mass.
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But the “by definition” part seems incorrect. Nothing in the definition of “Super Earth” indicates superior habitability.
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by awb 4y ago
> By definition, super-Earths have many of the attributes of a super habitable planet. Is that true? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-Earth > A super-Earth is an extrasolar planet with a mass higher than Earth
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by awb 4y ago
> his offers to rematch and play even naked are really doubling down. Magnus seems scared to entertain these matches. It might make sense to have a theory of how he was cheating before accepting a rematch. Magnus also has nothing to gain
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by awb 4y ago
Are there repercussions for leaving? Like “draft dodging”? Or can you return to Russia later without penalty?
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by awb 4y ago
I can’t help but wonder if there would be less war if supporters had to have skin in the game. Like how many supporters of military action are fine with sending other people to war, but would change their mind if it meant them having to go.
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by awb 4y ago
Surprising that no Blizzard games made the list
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by awb 4y ago
Customer’s demands are rarely arbitrary. Time is money and there are typically many moving parts to any corporate strategy. For example, if the customer’s plane isn’t delivered on the agreed upon date, you now have pilots, flight attendants
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by awb 4y ago
Semi-related recent This American Life Podcast about deadlines: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/776/i-work-better-on-deadli...
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by awb 4y ago
Thanks for sharing! It looks slick. Can you address the elephant in the room: why use Figr instead of Excel?
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by awb 4y ago
Well if there's 3 rapid fire exchanges (trading Queens & Rooks for example) lasting 10 seconds total, followed by a 20 min move, then the broadcast would have to freeze frame on the 1st move in the rapid fire sequence, so as to sta
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by awb 4y ago
> Memorizing opening lines in Chess960 is certainly possible I don't think so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_random_chess > The random setup makes gaining an advantage through the memorization of ope
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by awb 4y ago
Chess turns can take 20+ minutes sometimes depending on the time limit of the game, so that would be quite a delay, and then you would still have a problem with a live audience.
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by awb 4y ago
At GM levels the matches are typically broadcast live and/or have an audience, so it would only require an observer to input the moves.
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by awb 4y ago
In semi-related chess news Magnus resigned on the 2nd move today, seemingly in protest over accusations against his opponent of using computer-assistance to cheat: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32901249
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Bobby Fischer attempted to solve the rote memorization problem by creating Fischer Random Chess: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_random_chess With 960 possible starting positions, opening line memorization is f
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by awb 4y ago
> which is a dissapointing result for whoever plays white. Not necessarily. If black has a higher ELO rating then white is happy to draw and may aggressively seek a draw. I think the problem is that seeking draws makes chess boring. And
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by awb 4y ago
The opening can be a sequence of 20-30 moves long, which includes what most amateurs consider the middle game. I think that’s what Magnus is saying is that if you play by the book you go from opening to end game without much creativity or c

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