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11y ago
No. There is a scoring heuristic that AI programs use to determine if they are winning or not - ie: +2 stone ahead, -2 stones behind, etc. (Note: I don't actually know what the real heuristic is, I'm making it up). A computer wil
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1-10 you memorize. 13-100 you calculate it out. 100+ you use a calculator. 11-12 is half memorized/half calculated. I think of them as introducing you to how to calculate with larger numbers you haven't memorized. Some of them you
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11y ago
Every note taker I've found gets the building block unit wrong. The building block unit shouldn't be stylized text with media - it should be content that is digested and summarized. Quotes from books. Summarized web pages - either
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12y ago
I tried Inbox, really tried to love it, eventually switched back. It's something about how it sorts or arranges your mail in non-chronological order that really messes with my way of finding things. Also only being able to see 7 emails
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12y ago
While predictive techniques can help, you really want something that is accurate 100% of the time so you don't have to keep an eye on your output. I'd rather memorize two different chords to get 100% correctness on the I or eye pr
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12y ago
As someone who has always been fascinated with alternative typing systems and shorthand, I took a look at Plover and Steno a couple of months ago. I bought myself an NKRO Keyboard - haven't turned it into a permanent STENO keyboard yet
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13y ago
You can add a simple heuristic to the scoring to increase the win rate by a lot - weighted corners. Add the logged value of the numbers on the corners to the score and the higher numbers will tend to 'stick' to them. This also ser