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by salamo 3y ago
As a side note, I think this blunder-centric approach to chess is underappreciated, especially at low to mid levels where the vast majority of players peak. In addition to working on tactics, players should also specifically work on not blu
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by salamo 3y ago
> The problem is that winning in startups is often a tail event, which means reducing blunders doesn't have much impact on the overall probability. Maybe you could compare it to playing chess against a much higher rated player. In t
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Book Review of Elementary Statistics for Geographers (1998)(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
1 points by salamo 3y ago|0 comments
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by salamo 3y ago
The advantage of this approach that we can run many simultaneous computations on the GPU/TPU. Instead of using maybe a dozen CPU threads, we can approximate the value of a few thousand positions at the same time.
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by salamo 3y ago
I think this is an interesting finding from a practical perspective. A function which can reliably approximate stockfish at a certain depth could replace it, basically "compressing" search to a set depth. And unlike NNUE which is
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by salamo 3y ago
It's actually really interesting to see GOFAI techniques like planning used in conjunction with LLMs.
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Long-term nuclear waste warning messages(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by salamo 3y ago|2 comments
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by salamo 3y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Yes, the installation process is a bit barebones at the moment, a pip install would be a lot cleaner. As far as the wiki link, it's a reference for the code sample I use in the demo.
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by salamo 3y ago
https://github.com/lukesalamone/code_nitro Convert your code to an image from the command line. No internet connection needed, although it can also download and convert code from Github too. Made it because currently t
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A Few Notes on the Transformer(lukesalamone.github.io)
3 points by salamo 3y ago|0 comments
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by salamo 3y ago
https://lukesalamone.github.io I usually write about machine learning & statistics topics as well as chess AI. I'm most proud of the search bar, which is all performed client-side so it's lightning fast.
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by salamo 4y ago
Hey, thanks for reading my post, I'm glad you liked it! I would say the purpose of alphabet chess is to be unequal, but in a semi-predictable way. That's why streamers will use the "egg opening": it puts them at a disadv
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by salamo 4y ago
I have a few ML-related demos on my blog that I created in school to help me to understand some fundamental concepts. I have pointed to them during interviews and I think they helped to demonstrate a depth of knowledge that words alone coul
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by salamo 4y ago
Sure, but petroleum is also high in energy. There are even some bacteria that consume it. Yet petroleum is still available in huge deposits.
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by salamo 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect > Researcher Rodney Brooks complains: "Every time we figure out a piece of it, it stops being magical; we say, 'Oh, that's just a computation.'"
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by salamo 4y ago
Actually it would be really interesting to see code that attempts to e.g. classify MNIST digits from first principles. No neural nets, no GBDTs, no clustering. And no cheating by trying to translate the above into if-then statements. Seems
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by salamo 4y ago
> In the 3rd quarter, one crash was recorded for every 6.26 million miles driven using Autopilot. Teslas not using Autopilot technology logged one crash for every 1.71 million miles driven. Autopilot might be safer, but this statistic is
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by salamo 4y ago
> OVERVIEW Applying leadership and 21st century skills, participants are required to design, build, and launch a website and present a given topic pertaining to technology. I think if the purpose of the competition is to apply 21st centu
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by salamo 4y ago
> kinda worried about how many people are looking to start an "ai startup" rather than solve a problem which might involve AI My issue is that I am working on a project (I wouldn't call it a startup exactly) which does dir
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by salamo 4y ago
It only sorts on the title as far as I can tell.
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by salamo 4y ago
> The idea is simple: Give GPT3 a list of items and ask it to return a list of categories those items belong to. 60 seconds to sort 400 tabs is a hell of a price to pay. It needs to be worth it. Do you really need semantic search? Do you
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by salamo 4y ago
There's even a specific term for shifting AI goalposts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
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by salamo 4y ago
Sure, I'm not a pro but I've played for a bit so maybe this will help. 1. Choose a chess opening and stick to it. That means you'll always know how to react at the beginning of the game. 2. Counting. If your piece has more de
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by salamo 4y ago
Related question, what level of traffic should one be prepared for to avoid HN Hug of Death?
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by salamo 4y ago
There was a 2020 paper called Retrieval Augmented Generation that describes this technique too [1]. That paper used BERT embeddings which are a little cheaper and uses BART as a generator. One of the common failure modes of RAG (and I assum
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by salamo 4y ago
In my experience semantic search is great for finding implicit relationships (bad guy => villain) but sometimes fails in unpredictable ways for more elementary matches (friends => friend). That's why it can be good to combine sem
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by salamo 4y ago
ChatGPT is wrong about the current conversation for the same reasons it is wrong about the rest of the world: it has no model for either one. This is a hypothesis of course. It could be that it holds valid structural relationships between r
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by salamo 4y ago
I think Ezra Klein framed it right during his interview of Gary Marcus: > And his point is that what’s different between bullshit and a lie is that a lie knows what the truth is and has had to move in the other direction. He has this gre
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by salamo 4y ago
Thanks. It's a modded version of a theme called "Hello Friend Ng".
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by salamo 4y ago
My blog is https://lukesalamone.github.io Nothing too fancy, just a static hugo site on github pages. I'm most happy with the search that I added, which all happens client-side. The index is only about 129 KB so I'll p

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