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by mindgam3 7y ago
Sure, if you're pitching this as "a simpler way to learn chess", I can get behind that. Anything to make chess accessible to more people is great in my book. But he's selling it as a way to save late-stage classical ches
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Yeah, I don't find these arguments particularly convincing. > In particular, the nontraditional starting positions make it difficult for many amateurs to enjoy the game until more familiar positions are achieved. Actually the nontra
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by mindgam3 7y ago
> the totally insubstantiable claim that facebook ads got trump elected https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/03/22/a... > the alternative is making facebook the gatekeeper
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Former world-ranked youth chess player here. 100% agree with the desire to reduce draws and get people out of opening theory. Not sure though why Kramnik felt the need to invent a new variant when Chess960 already exists, is thriving, and c
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by mindgam3 7y ago
> Mr. Thiel has argued that Facebook should stick to its controversial decision... to continue accepting [political ads with no fact checking] Okay, so just to recap: 1. Thiel is the investor who made billions off of Facebook before beco
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Fixed, thanks.
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Not sure if those apps works as well as advertised. https://www.zdnet.com/article/stingray-detector-apps-andorid... Edit: fully removing amp from link
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ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone surveillance(techcrunch.com)
730 points by mindgam3 7y ago|153 comments
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“Silicon Valley” goes big and goes home in a dark, funny, wistful series finale(tv.avclub.com)
2 points by mindgam3 7y ago|0 comments
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Agreed that most electronics have China influence. But there’s a pretty big difference between influence and actual state control. I have no insider info but from reading the news it appears that what China is doing is several levels sketch
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Hikvision is based in China and partially owned by the Chinese state. Not sure if that would be my first choice for surveillance gear.
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by mindgam3 7y ago
In other news, interest in online chess has never been higher despite Kasparov going down in flames in 1997 in what was billed as “the brain’s last stand.” Can we please stop flogging this tired “man vs machine” narrative? Not only is it to
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Amazon’s Ring Planned Neighborhood “Watch Lists” Built on Facial Recognition(theintercept.com)
35 points by mindgam3 7y ago|6 comments
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by mindgam3 7y ago
In private meaning directly to Zuck, who he claims is his friend. His stated unwillingness to confront Zuck directly means that his entire public narrative is grandstanding at best.
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by mindgam3 7y ago
> Hasn’t Mark said in public...? I don’t know, has he? Citing a source would be constructive as I’m not aware of Zuck saying anything publicly about McNamee ever since his PR stunt kicked off.
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by mindgam3 7y ago
April 2019. See link below for context. To your point: being anti-Zuck in public is a transparent ploy for attention if you're not anti-Zuck in private. https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/roger-mcnamee-facebook.
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Big defector, my ass. He doesn’t even have the cojones to call out his old pal Zuck. McNamee is merely profiting from the techlash to get his name out there. Source: went to see him speak at Stanford. Asked him myself during live Q&A, i
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by mindgam3 7y ago
I too remember forums back in the day. Usenet via AOL was my first online social experience. I think Twitter etc would be more like that old school experience - much more of a niche product, still with the usual trolls etc but in general hi
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Sweet! Will do.
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by mindgam3 7y ago
This is a seriously great idea and looks well executed. Just to add to the chorus of Firefox requesters. I’m sure you have limited dev resources but the spirit of this concept is very aligned with Firefox and less so Chrome. So it might be
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Any explanation of why social media is toxic without mentioning the Like button is incomplete. All of the status-seeking behaviors the researchers describe existed before Likes, but by gamifying social status Facebook threw gasoline on the
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Easy. Chess uses the Elo rating system. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system
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by mindgam3 7y ago
As you yourself point out, the brute force here refers to solving a problem by throwing more hardware at it. Number of nodes searched is not the key metric for gauging how “smart” the algorithm is. You have less nodes searched but you only
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by mindgam3 7y ago
I did point this out at the top of my original comment. “I mean, it's cool that computers are getting even better at chess and all“ > direct comparison only makes sense with equivalent performance level This makes no sense to me. 50
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Sure, but both of them are more brute force than Deep Blue (unless anybody has a compelling counter argument), so we’re actually heading in the wrong direction.
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by mindgam3 7y ago
> In this work we present the MuZero algorithm which, by combining a tree-based search with a learned model, achieves superhuman performance in a range of challenging and visually complex domains, without any knowledge of their underlyin
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Zuck’s anti China stance has nothing to do with having a spine and everything to do with Facebook’s bottom line. He is merely using China as a very convenient punching bag and foil to deflect attention away from Facebook’s own gross abuses
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by mindgam3 7y ago
I’m not arguing about the motives of the big studios cashing in with superhero franchises. Merely pointing out that the root cause of the demand they’re tapping into is the exact opposite of what the parent comment claims i.e. childhood in
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by mindgam3 7y ago
This commentary gets the psychology of superhero narratives entirely wrong: > Primarily, mass-market superhero movies seem to be abetting an audience who do not wish to relinquish their grip on (a) their relatively reassuring childhoods
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by mindgam3 7y ago
> The problem may not be connectivity itself but rather the way social media turns so much communication into a public performance. This is a key insight. The performance aspect is what is killing social media and getting us addicted to

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