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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Could you elaborate? Motivation: looking at racket these days, and have ordered "how to design programs" in the library :)
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
> And they’re always frustratingly incomplete and/or buggy. Have you tried evil-mode (Emacs VI Layer - E.V.I.L.), an implementation of the vim-bindings in Emacs? I've heard it works very well. Or, at least, the Emacs subreddit
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
I'll be using "tobacco companies of the mind"! It's also very refreshing to see the the link between social degeneration and these "addictionware companies" being highlighted. I also watched it happen! And some
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
> Not everyone is some carefully planning nerd who remembers everything all the time. I chuckled at this. The "carefully planning nerds" are being ruthlessly called out here, and I for one did not see it coming.
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
OR - crazy hypothesis - maybe they're familiar with the large amounts of research that already exists which shows that access to devices has a negative effect on attention. Just maybe.
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Very good of you to get back to me with such a generous reply. I'm happy reading it. I'd studied and played (in a club, real tournaments, etc) pretty "seriously" for about six months a couple of years ago, before stoppin
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
> Hacker spirit. Nowadays, the word “hacker” conjures up visions of Russian trolls, Julian Assange, and Angelina Jolie’s 90s pixie cut. But a nobler usage predates this. Hacker culture, in the original sense, grew out of places like MIT
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Reading the replies to your comment, I think maybe the answer to your simple question is: "no". I also wonder if any "serious comparisons" have been made, and would be interested to read about it! A good question, I thin
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
A member of the British upper crust can correct me if I'm off the mark, but the definition there is of a really existing usage, and then the example doesn't match it at all. Did you make the example up yourself, by any chance? The
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
I'll sleep easier tonight after reading this! I know other people know what you say there, but at times reading HN one would suspect that it's not that commonly known around these parts. Maybe public figures were "saying what
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Your couple of comments on this thread are insightful, I will be watching that documentary! Cheers! What have you focused on in your chess learning to get to where you've gotten? I presume - everything?
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Commenting about voting is considered poor form in the rules here, so if you could refrain from spouting your opinions as if they were verified facts, that'd be lovely, cheers. Carlsen won the WCC 5 times. Where you get 10 from, I don&
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Yes to you and the person you are responding to! And the boorishness here is coming from a "tech person" [0], no less. What have the technologically capable people who were the ones architecting these systems the past few decades
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
> He's effectively mastered classical chess Have you heard of Stockfish? Makes Magnus look like a child. Stockfish and the other engines arguably keep getting better too, and in the engine tournaments like TCEC they continue to disc
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
What you're saying is made up. Can you provide a single example of someone who started chess in their 20s who became a grandmaster? Starting in 20s and getting to 2000 FIDE does happen, with an awful lot of work and dedication. GM, I h
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Ahem https://lichess.org/@/lichess/blog/introducing-maia-a-human-...
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Functions Tutorial: Arguments, Multiple Values, funcall and apply, closures(lisp-journey.gitlab.io)
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
A tradition (of being highly dysfunctional at the top of chess) kicked off in great style, I would say, by the legendary Paul Morphy.
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
> Guy was going to continue wasting-away by going to a mediocre foreign grad school Wow. Who knows what amazing stuff that guy could have done if he'd escaped to a new place, with new people, in an exciting new culture, rather than
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
You must not read very much chess writing!
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Echoing other sentiment to say: I agree with others who believe it's a majorly crappy move, with the name. Immediately suspicious of any project capable of such childish attention-grabbing!
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
People feel like this about domains they don't know all the time. Don't allow your ignorance of an area to trick you into thinking you can't learn that area. It's just new to you! Source: teaching beginners piano for yea
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Some progress has been made on Solitaire here, although I understand it's still not fully peer-reviewed (I think) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.12314v3
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
I'd change "thousands" to "millions" and keep all the rest. Very well said, thanks for taking the time to state it!
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Name clash, with this cool-looking emulator: https://virtualmachinery.weebly.com/
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
The "English" terms? Can you please specify the dialect of English you're referring to, instead of falling for the obviously ridiculous notion that there's one English. I have never heard "quarter of 12", and
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
> So you'd first design timbres, and have an idea about how timbres interact, timbres change, transform to each. You may have a theory of counterpoint of timbres. Once you have this, you can apply any standard "harmony skin&quo
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
> musical traditions where the expressive content primarily comes from timbre and synthesizers are common instruments What traditions are you alluding to?
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by sourcepluck 2y ago
Oh sorry, just realised I replied to my own comment instead of yours :D see my response above!

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