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by thom 2y ago
It was a forced error in the sense that Ding forced that exact endgame for no real reason and then fluffed it with 10 minutes on his clock plus increment. What's incredibly sad is that Ding clawed his way back into the match in game 12
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by thom 2y ago
Well, Ding's prediction was right, it wasn't a short draw. Horrible end to a another pretty disappointing cycle. Ding's game 12 win to tie the match was a positional masterpiece but it ultimately seems fitting that his blunde
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by thom 2y ago
I've always earned roughly the same from Premium Bonds as the equivalent savings, and it's tax free. Doesn't seem a terrible deal as long as you're filling your ISA up each year. Plus you have a frisson of excitement eve
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by thom 2y ago
I'm personally very glad that the word has adhered itself to a bunch of AI stuff, because people had started talking about "living more agentically" which I found much more aggravating. Now if anyone states that out loud you
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by thom 2y ago
Have you looked into something like Materialize? That’d give you realtime updates over even materialised views, works to back Hasura etc.
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by thom 2y ago
On the off chance you’re _the_ Sesse, can I thank you personally for your analysis site. Pretty sure I saw it hit 5000 viewers during Ding’s magnificent win this week.
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by thom 2y ago
Probably, but the bitter lesson still applies.
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by thom 2y ago
ChessBase is a horrible program and you don’t need it to get your own tablebases. You can generate your own with: https://github.com/syzygy1/tb But everything up to 6 pieces is on BitTorrent these days. The 7 piece tab
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by thom 2y ago
Dunno if it’s just the timezone difference, but whenever I play, God’s drunk.
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by thom 2y ago
You’re not risking any capital though, if you mean Premium Bonds.
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by thom 2y ago
There are companies that will charge you 6-7 figures for what you can do in a few dozen lines with DSPy, but I guess that’s true of many things.
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by thom 2y ago
I think it’s less about companies getting ready for scrutiny (although that’d be a great side effect) and more about giving angels and other early stage investors better access to secondary capital so they can reinvest the proceeds. The UK
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Pisces: UK regulated market for private shares [pdf](assets.publishing.service.gov.uk)
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by thom 2y ago
That's so cool! Feels like a long shot but I'll look into it.
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by thom 2y ago
Absolutely loved this game. I used to try and fly an F4 Phantom through the canyon at top speed. My brother created a short film "Attack of the Killer Christmas Trees". Endless fun.
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by thom 2y ago
Seems like you could go further than this with something like DSPy and start evaluating which tools contribute to successful outcomes. Funny how much things start to look like Eurisko the more time goes on.
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by thom 2y ago
99% of the time the top comment is an archive link.
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by thom 2y ago
When WotC first offered digital cards, they had a system whereby you could redeem a complete set for its physical equivalent. At the time this helped convince naysayers they weren’t giving money for nothing. Twenty years later, with their l
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by thom 2y ago
This appears to be the source of the backlash: https://izzys.casa/2024/11/on-safe-cxx/
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by thom 2y ago
I have no idea why it needles me so much, and I will cathartically accept any downvotes, but why has the phrase “digital twin” entered our lexicon when it just means “model” or “simulation”? I’ve worked with incredibly smart AI engineers wh
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by thom 2y ago
M4 is absolutely ancient, one of those things you've probably only seen flashing by on your screen if you've found yourself running `make; make install`. I suppose it is a perfectly cromulent tool for SQL templating but you'r
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by thom 2y ago
On the tactical level, absolutely. But the poster child at a more system-wide strategic level is the classic bogeyman of a Java codebase ruled by XML config and dependency injection of overly-abstract components. And many parts of our codeb
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by thom 2y ago
It's an interesting paradigm. I would be very intrigued to see this implemented at scale, with all sorts of cross cutting concerns (logging, persistence, multiplayer and auth, displaying an error message when you try an illegal move or
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by thom 2y ago
Event handlers don't seem to run (I couldn't get the simplest MsgBox to work, at least). Is the actual language implemented?
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by thom 2y ago
On the off chance that somebody reading this is planning a culinary tour of Cornwall, Salamander in Mevagissey is also a great spot.
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by thom 2y ago
I think the number of things that are impossible is far greater than the number of things that are possible, even in an infinite universe.
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by thom 2y ago
I believe that probability could plausibly be zero.
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by thom 2y ago
What if something in monkey psychology causes them to hit the keyboard with their fist or palm every five minutes or so of typing? What if they regularly lapse into just pressing one key over and over? It seems very unlikely to me that even
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by thom 2y ago
Or indeed its nose!
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by thom 2y ago
Just his stuff, not actually his tomb (which is presumably still somewhere in Egypt, but who knows).

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