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Thinky Dailies: Daily Puzzles(thinkygames.com)
1 points by drw 16d ago|0 comments
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Driftsort: An efficient, generic and robust stable sort implementation(github.com)
2 points by drw 17d ago|0 comments
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Kids Trends Art Search(walzr.com)
1 points by drw 23d ago|0 comments
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Usenet-Rewind(usenet-rewind.com)
2 points by drw 23d ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Mycli 2.0(github.com)
3 points by drw 3mo ago|0 comments
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by drw 4mo ago
I'm sure they are getting training data! But it is hands-off otherwise.
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by drw 4mo ago
Mycli ( https://github.com/dbcli/mycli ) is a happy recipient of sponsorship from this program. OpenAI asked for nothing in return; not even a link.
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Spooky-connect4: a Rust/Python library with variable board sizes(github.com)
1 points by drw 6mo ago|0 comments
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Spooky-chess: a Rust/Python library with variable board sizes(github.com)
1 points by drw 6mo ago|0 comments
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Spooky-chess: a Rust/Python library with variable board sizes(github.com)
1 points by drw 6mo ago|0 comments
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Memoir of chess influencer and cult survivor Danny Rensch(newyorker.com)
1 points by drw 1y ago|0 comments
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How Many Elite Chess Players Cheat?(wsj.com)
16 points by drw 2y ago|6 comments
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Are There Too Many Upsets in Titled Tuesday on Chess.com?(chess.com)
2 points by drw 2y ago|0 comments
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Chess.com Robots.txt(chess.com)
2 points by drw 4y ago|2 comments
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by drw 4y ago
More flexible would be a double-quote-region widget which can be applied arbitrarily to any region of a command line: emulate -L zsh if [[ "$REGION_ACTIVE" -eq 0 ]]; then return fi if [[ "$MARK&quo
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“Stop the War.” 44 Russian Chess Players Publish Open Letter to Putin(chess.com)
16 points by drw 5y ago|0 comments
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by drw 6y ago
The team had to selectively throttle access to that one game and change things around to get through the overload. I'm trying to pun "paged" with "Phish" and it doesn't work. But ops was definitely on deck, on
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by drw 6y ago
Among chess.com players who have played 10+ blitz games and 10+ puzzles, the average difference between their blitz rating and puzzle rating is 45 (blitz rating higher). The standard deviation of the difference is 374. Among players who ha
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by drw 6y ago
Yes, the rating differs by theme quite a bit. +-------------------+------------+ | theme/tag | mdn_rating | |-------------------+------------| | Opposition | 1725 | | Passed Pawns | 1494 |
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by drw 6y ago
Definitely on the roadmap.
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by drw 6y ago
We sometimes do that. I'm resetting that puzzle down to 1480.
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by drw 6y ago
Last month we added 2800, the vast majority automatically derived, though we also prize expert review. We are thinking of doubling that rate next month. I'm not sure much can be done about the predominance of certain puzzle types in th
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by drw 6y ago
There certainly can be short difficult puzzles, but as I mentioned elsewhere, I think the current 4000-rated puzzles look like outliers and may be removed. +----------------+---------+-------------------+ | ratings_band | count |
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by drw 6y ago
I am not sure that the 5 specific puzzles maxed out at the 4000 also represent the very best, most fun, and most insightful. Sometimes the reason a puzzle comes up as an extreme outlier is somewhat obtuse, and we are more inclined to remov
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by drw 6y ago
The iOS team doesn't see any recent crashes that associate to viewing videos. If you want to follow up, feel free to email me your chess.com username and the approximate date when you had trouble; the team could look up crashes which h
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by drw 6y ago
Something we work very hard on at chess.com is the rating of the individual tactics puzzles. Some of you might enjoy looking at the distribution of our puzzle ratings. Truly hard problems are precious, and we would always like to have mo