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by pk2200 12y ago
Stockfish 5 was released yesterday: http://stockfishchess.org/ As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, Stockfish is just an engine - you must install a GUI separately. XBoard is well known, but there are better alternatives
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by pk2200 12y ago
I'd like to learn Clojure. Any suggestions on how to get started? It's my first time using a Lisp dialect. I figured I'd tackle the Clojure Koans, and mix in a few Project Euler problems. I'd also like to do some code
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by pk2200 12y ago
I think even that part is mostly wrong. The author confuses project and engineering managers, but more importantly, this notion that Larry wanted to fire all of them is just not true. The managers all had technical backgrounds (CS degrees
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by pk2200 12y ago
Early Googler here. It's funny how often the story of the mass-firing is misreported. This article gets two basic facts wrong: 1) Larry was targeting engineering management, not project management. 2) Nobody was fired. The engineeri
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by pk2200 13y ago
Try 'Scid vs PC' or ChessX. You'll get a good-looking GUI, plus some cool database features. http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/ http://chessx.sourceforge.net/ A cool feature people may not kno
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by pk2200 13y ago
The Stockfish team has made tremendous progress recently, thanks to 1) putting the code on Github and accepting patches, and 2) building an open, distributed testing framework that tests every patch by playing thousands of games. http:&#x2
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by pk2200 13y ago
Stockfish (ranked #2 on the various computer rating lists) runs on Mac, Windows, Linux, Android. It's also free and open source! http://stockfishchess.org/ https://github.com/mcostalba/Stockfish
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by pk2200 13y ago
Agree 100%. In this regard, Carlsen's playing style reminds me of Bobby Fischer, who was legendary for playing on (and winning) from equal positions.
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by pk2200 13y ago
The "Bulgarian cheater" he's referring to is Borislav Ivanov ( http://en.chessbase.com/tagged?tag=Cheating ). The evidence against him is overwhelming, especially this statistical analysis of Ivanov's gam
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by pk2200 13y ago
Same here. 202 books, going back to 1998. Only 5 are eligible. :(
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Everything we know about Google Glass(roadtovr.com)
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by pk2200 14y ago
I've lived for several years in Silicon Valley and Austin, and would have to agree that Austin has more attractive young women. The University of Texas probably has a lot do with it. It also helps that that Austin has 10-11 months of warm
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by pk2200 14y ago
Please don't let stories like this discourage you from playing tournament chess. There are tens of thousands of tournaments each year, and typically just 1 or 2 incidents of cheating. There will always be some element of cheating in any c
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by pk2200 14y ago
You can replay Ivanov's games (halfway down the page): http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8751
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by pk2200 14y ago
You're criticizing TIOBE, but the article is about PYPL, which uses a slightly different methodology (counting searches instead of results).
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by pk2200 14y ago
Same problem here. My monthly data usage increased by 10x after I upgraded to iOS 6.0. It's annoying that there's (apparently?) no mention of this issue in the 6.0.1 release notes.
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by pk2200 14y ago
For version 2, please get this running in Google Glass and give me realtime aiming assistance. :)
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by pk2200 15y ago
Austin's certainly not as lush and beautiful as Northern California, but it's definitely not "dreary and worn looking". Yes, it gets very hot in the summer, but the rest of the year the weather is fantastic.
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by pk2200 15y ago
The most compelling feature of the skimmer is that it circumvents the paywall!
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by pk2200 15y ago
You may not need the power, but you're going to get it. :) The new MBA will be much faster than your old MBP.
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by pk2200 15y ago
Only WoW and Minecraft, and I never noticed any additional fan noise (although I doubt the GPU was maxed-out). In any case, I'd expect a game's sound effects and background music to be MUCH louder than any fan noise...
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by pk2200 15y ago
My Fall 2009 iMac is virtually silent, even with all 4 cores fully loaded. Sometimes, late at night, when the house is very quiet, I'll notice some fan noise, but it's very soft - nothing at all like the MacBook Pro (which I also own)
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by pk2200 15y ago
The iMac screen is highly reflective, to the point that it's almost like looking in a mirror when running an app with a dark background color. My default IDE background color is black, and I had to change it on my iMac, so I could focus on
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by pk2200 16y ago
Here are a few enormously successful (and highly complex) products that you missed: 1-2) AdWords and AdSense revolutionized web advertising. Those two products generated $6.5 billion in revenue just in Q1 of 2010. 3) Android. Others have
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by pk2200 16y ago
Yep. Even if Topalov missed 34...Qe8!, he should have seen how dangerous it was to open the diagonal for the bishop and walk his king to h3. Maybe he thought he could outplay Anand in a complicated position, but Vishy was more than up to
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by pk2200 17y ago
Several of them (Thompson, Pike, Presotto, Weinberger, Feldman) are already working for Google. The list could be longer - those are just the ones I know about.
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by pk2200 17y ago
You're correct. The branching factor in a typical chess middlegame is 35-36, but top players usually only consider 1-3 moves per position. This is why the best humans were able to beat computers at chess for such a long time. (In the las
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by pk2200 17y ago
He won the 2005 World Championship in rather convincing fashion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_World_Chess_Championship_2... If you're a purist, you probably believe that one can only become world champion by defeating the title holde
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by pk2200 17y ago
I agree that the title is misleading. But keep in mind that every player who has ever been ranked #1 (Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik, Topalov, Anand) has gone on to become World Champion. It's just a matter of time before Carlsen gets