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by maegul 4y ago
Personally, I like the idea. IMO, we lost something when it became normal/expected to link our real-life self to our internet selves. We arguable gained some unpleasant things too (thinking of Facebook here). A persistent avatar/a
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by maegul 4y ago
Just adding to the positive feedback here ... I was literally thinking about, as a newcomer to chess, how bad the learning experience is with online chess engines and how surely something could be done to make the engines work with you at y
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by maegul 4y ago
Australia has a similar confusion about Euro sporting culture. Australian Football (AFL) is a more violent sport and alcohol is allowed in the stadiums yet to Europeans it is a strikingly family friendly affair with children present and no
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by maegul 4y ago
Interesting! As other comments ts have pointed out, didactics as an important aspect of how humanity responds to such a dynamic. Otherwise, I’d say our two thoughts are connected. With increasing difficulty in understanding new progress, th
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> but it now requires so much knowledge just to get to the frontiers of human knowledge, not to speak of making a dent into uncharted territory, that results are being obtained later and later in life. When mathematicians have had time t
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by maegul 4y ago
I appreciate the argument. It made me think that we might have a “photographs steal your soul” kind of moment here with new technology. Nonetheless, the difference is pretty clear here I think. An AI makes the artists style infinitely repro
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> Advice is dangerous. It has built in moral hazard. Advice is too often given in well-meaning ignorance and pride - but ultimately advice gets someone else to test your hypothesis for you. I've become somewhat convinced of "it
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by maegul 4y ago
As a casual listener of Lex's podcasts, my position is now to ignore him unless a good reason for this guest right now can be made clear. I can imagine Lex himself talking about openness and diversity etc but this just reeks of opport
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by maegul 4y ago
FWIW I agree. Limiting the total number of notebooks the free tier provides, incl. private notebooks, would probably be a much more humane policy.
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Been a while since I’ve touched observable (not a criticism, just that I’m out of the loop) and didn’t know or forgot they had free tier private notebooks. Doesn’t seem to me to be a big deal and a relatively normal way to differentiate fre
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by maegul 4y ago
I recently commented on a similar discussion here about a month ago[1] to the effect that double blind review is a cheap and idealistic shortcut that runs into its own issues (research areas are simply too specific to pretend that we'r
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by maegul 4y ago
The existence of side-by-side GUI representations of LaTeX (eg overleaf) demonstrates your point well IMO. It seems to be a common pattern for many to render their pdf every paragraph or so, check, then tweak as desired. It may be a bad hab
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I'm a completely naive fan of smart watches (as I don't own one and probably won't any time soon) just because of the possibility to reduce much of what the smart phone provides down to a less attention stealing device. Mayb
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Nice run down. But in this context it seems to boil down to > I have the feeling that trying to address these points by bolting features or DSLs onto a general-purpose programming language doesn't work. At least, I have yet to see a
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by maegul 4y ago
Never used OilShell (OSH) before, but this opening line on their home page struck me: > … and it's a new language for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell! Why not work towards using python/JavaScript as shell languages?
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by maegul 4y ago
Ok ... then aren't we stretching the term "design skill" too thinly then, to the point of disrespecting the actual skillset? I suspect there'd be a tendency to presume a design process is more like solving a problem with
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Honestly wonder how much of a HN crowd viewpoint that is. I'm not sure there's too much "correlation" between the two. Instead I'd say that if your job involves communication and data, then that necessitates decen
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by maegul 4y ago
Yes! Had exactly the same thought myself. There's a video of Hikaru Nakamura looking at some of the games identified by this report, and he was admitting that it wasn't immediately obvious to him: the games looked like good games
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> I suppose any strategic, turn-based game breaks down as soon as you have a world class engine for it. Yep. Perhaps just a consequence of technology and an oncoming "singularity" ... professional sports just don't make m
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Totally fair ... and it would make a lot of sense that this event brings about some sort of cultural cleansing or realignment. I guess I really just meant "dead to me." That being said, if it turns out that online chess continues
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> It seems to me as though they're inserting themselves into this unnecessarily with their analysis too. They spend a great deal of time explaining their rationale in a few places and then toss in a "In our view, no conclusions
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I would be surprised of over-the-board cheating was viable in the long term. Seems like it should be relatively easy to stamp out provided there's a will to do so.
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Yea generally I wouldn't characterise the report as being a glimmering indication of the scientific quality of the chess.com cheat detection team. Even the graphs look a lot like copy-paste jobs from excel, which is fine obviously, but
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by maegul 4y ago
From page 17 of the report: > In conclusion, while we cannot definitively prove that Hans’ rise in strength is entirely “natural,” we have also found no indications in the game data to suggest otherwise. While some have suggested that a
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by maegul 4y ago
> [1]Tangentially, this induces an obvious concern about cheat and cheat-detection arms races. A clever cheater might scrutinize this report and refine their cheating plan. For example, they might recognize the need to use a second devic
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by maegul 4y ago
Thanks ... didn't listen to that interview. Also, I'm not a chess person, so everything is AFAICT. But ... 1) Magnus is one of the greatest ever, so he doesn't count as an example; 2) From excerpt, his *team* does use engine
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by maegul 4y ago
Well athletes are required to provide urine samples and sometimes at random inconvenient times. For chess, maybe your rating doesn't mean anything until you've gone through a "verified" bunker-play tournament that operat
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Agreed on all fronts. I've gotten the vague impression over the years that the chess establishment isn't the most fair and non-corrupt organisation (par for the course perhaps for sports organisations). It also seems to be relati
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That makes lots of sense for quick real time games. But getting back to my point about how integral computer engines are in chess for training/preparation ... a script to enhance reaction times seems much more like doping in sports wh
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by maegul 4y ago
Thread on full report here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33088332

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