petegrif

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by petegrif 13y ago
It's not that. It's just that Chess is a hard business to monetize.
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by petegrif 13y ago
You must have been using a computer from 1960. There is no way that you would ever end up beating a modern chess program for the simple reason that they are now stronger than super GMs.
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by petegrif 13y ago
there are many places www.chessbase.com has great reporting with in depth analysis and photos. and www.chessbomb.com has live coverage with GM analysis. All these kinds of chess sites offer js boards so you can step thru the moves and the a
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by petegrif 13y ago
Agreed. In fact you have to be an incredibly strong player (2600+) to not be wiped off the board in around 20 moves these days. The Bulgarian cheater who was recently banned regularly crushed GMs - it was scary.
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by petegrif 13y ago
Turn that question around - "I wonder what it's like to live in a country where you don't have to give a second thought to statements derived from scientific investigation rather than religious dogma then move to the US?&#x27
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by petegrif 13y ago
Jees - what a misery guts. Loosen up. He's sharing his thoughts. He's not your psych prof.
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by petegrif 13y ago
I strongly suspect that Rob Pike understands the importance of performance. a) he is old enough to respect resources b) Google programs need performance
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by petegrif 13y ago
The narrator also said that how they did it was a mystery right now.
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by petegrif 13y ago
He's English.
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by petegrif 13y ago
I hope so.
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by petegrif 13y ago
This is an incredibly long piece that doesn't seem to have a particularly interesting point to make.
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by petegrif 13y ago
Let's not allow competitive sports other than between people with identical genomes and identical doping regimes. Then we can be confident that in most instances the winner tried hardest. We already have lab standard rats with identica
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by petegrif 13y ago
An excellent piece.
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by petegrif 13y ago
Absolutely right.
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Bank of America adds someone to my account
12 points by petegrif 13y ago|5 comments
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by petegrif 13y ago
Now that it's dawning on people that this is going to kill the US's international cloud computing business the big money lobbying will kick in and we'll probably see some action.
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by petegrif 13y ago
The notion that once be tried by a jury of one's peers is practically meaningless for any 'crime' involving scientific knowledge or any specialized competence.
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by petegrif 13y ago
a) I didn't read anything that suggested he was protesting the law. Perhaps you could point out that part of the story. b) He didn't release proprietary source code. Or did I miss that part?
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by petegrif 13y ago
'Explain'?
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by petegrif 13y ago
It is a trend. The question is rather, is it a trend that is likely to persist? And that depends on whether you believe that organizations are likely to capture and store more data or less. If you believe the answer is 'more' then
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by petegrif 13y ago
A lot of statistics. It's core.
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by petegrif 13y ago
Great idea.
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by petegrif 13y ago
I was a pro screenwriter for 20 years and am intimately familiar with a great deal of 'prior art' in thinking about screenplays. There is nothing new in 'Save the Cat.'
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by petegrif 13y ago
I don't know why you are groaning. 4 laptops has to be a 'lot of data' surely? It stands to reason. It's four times as much as one laptop and that can be a lot these days. <double groan>
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by petegrif 13y ago
Why indeed? It's the only possible explanation. <sigh>
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by petegrif 13y ago
It's so great that Russia has awesome drugs like that. And such a bummer that we in the free world don't have them. It would be so great if we did. Then we could just give them to terrorists we capture and get them to spill their
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by petegrif 13y ago
No. Google Translate is a tool, just like a DVD burner. It may of course be used in a way that, for example, results in a copyright violation, just as a DVD burner may be used in such a way, but this does not make the tool illegal. The law
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by petegrif 13y ago
"...providing translated derivative works when no alternative exists is fair use." No it isn't. Any more than translating Harry Potter into a language for which there is no current translation constitutes fair use.
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by petegrif 13y ago
It has been explained in several of the comments. It constitutes the creation of a derivative work.
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by petegrif 13y ago
This guy is a neuroscientist so presumably he has given this question some thought and I would imagine he too has 'studied spinal cord anatomy a bit.'

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