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by mindgam3 7y ago
Almost all of the human strategies and concepts would still apply: center control, square control, development, initiative, king safety, the opposition, etc. The only exceptions would be fringe concepts like opening theory (already moot in
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> AlphaGo can play very well on a 19x19 board but actually has to be retrained to play on a rectangular board. This right here is the soft underbelly of the entire “machine learning as step towards AGI” hype machine, fueled in no small p
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21074010
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Not bad, except the thesis involved social capital, not actual cash. The actual app was “mafia” branded, playing off of Mafia Wars which was big at the time. Your friends on the app would motivate you with virtual gifts and (naturally) virt
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by mindgam3 7y ago
I feel that. One could argue that all ambitious entrepreneur types are motivated at least partly by a burning desire to prove that the other guy or “the system” is in fact the asshole.
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by mindgam3 7y ago
This very much depends on how motivated you are by external validation. For some people, the fear of losing social capital by not following through on a public commitment is motivating enough to accomplish stretch goals. Source: used this t
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by mindgam3 7y ago
"Because everyone is going to be able to create their own... spaces... Horizon is going to have this property where it grows and expands and gets better and better over time." - Zuckerberg keynote (1) In related news, a high-ranki
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by mindgam3 7y ago
> “There are some fundamental advantages that we have over really any camera-based technology...” CTRL-labs’ head of R&D, Adam Berenzweig, told TechCrunch in an interview late last year. “There are no issues with collusion or field-o
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by mindgam3 7y ago
> Digital Recognition Network (DRN), is not run by a government, although law enforcement can also access it. Instead, DRN is a private surveillance system crowdsourced by hundreds of repo men who have installed cameras that passively sc
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Company builds private real-time surveillance DB with 9B license plate scans(vice.com)
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Okay. Email sent.
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by mindgam3 7y ago
I agree, it’s not all just due to engines. Carlsen is usually known for a more intuitive playing style, versus Caruana who is basically at the most extreme end of conservative calculator. If Lc0 can inspire the Caruanas of the world to play
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Chess960 eliminates opening theory... for now. I expect Chess960 to rise significantly in popularity and relevance as classical chess declines, at which point theory will become developed. But that will take a few years, and even then, bein
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Mainly full stack web (Node JS). I have a functional proof of concept integrated with Lichess and Stockfish API + custom chess code. It needs about week of love from a full stack dev to turn into an MVP I can test on actual humans.
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Re classical, if you don’t want to take my word for it, look up the chess24 interview after the last world champs where magnus said it was so unenjoyable he wasn’t even sure if he’d defend his title. No offense, only people who suck at bull
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by mindgam3 7y ago
At the amateur level, not much. Other than most amateurs spend way too much time relying on engine evals, and as a result don’t develop their own ability to learn “chess sense”. Competitive players can now prepare easily for individual oppo
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Former chess prodigy here. I had the honor of training with Pal Benko in the early 90s when I represented Team USA in the world youth championships. I remember Benko being a real class act, which I can’t say about many of the chess personal
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Echoing an earlier comment, branding and domain naming is massively important. A crappy brand is to consumers like a crappy API is to developers. People won't be attracted to your idea if they can't relate to it. You need to thi
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by mindgam3 7y ago
The "wealthy friend" referenced in the first sentence would have to be Rex Sinquefield, aka the billionaire patron of American chess, based in Saint Louis. I wonder why Sinquefield would want to remain anonymous for this article.
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Language both enraptures and deceives us(m.nautil.us)
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Squirrels relax when they hear birds relaxing(nytimes.com)
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by mindgam3 7y ago
This is the heart of it: > Almost all diagnoses mask the role of trauma and adverse events... > The authors conclude that diagnostic labelling represents ‘a disingenuous categorical system’. The DSM fails miserably as a manual to alle
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Magnus Carlsen was defeated, but draw remains dominant in chess(newyorker.com)
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On-Device, Real-Time Hand Tracking with MediaPipe(ai.googleblog.com)
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Also, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20717961
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A.I. Is Learning from Humans. Many Humans(nytimes.com)
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DeepMind's Losses and the Future of Artificial Intelligence(wired.com)
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Toolkit for digital abuse could help victims protect themselves(techcrunch.com)
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Not quite as bad as it sounds. > Laptops that have replaced batteries won’t be impacted Edit: re how to check, in theory you could prove it was fixed by showing the service receipt from Apple. In practice, I have no idea what would happe
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Snapchat Glasses, Except Now Way More Expensive(gizmodo.com)
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