LogicalRisk

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by LogicalRisk 21d ago
Both programs had programmed in to their routines the rules of go (and for Alpha Zero the rules of chess and shogi). The programs then followed an optimization program. Absent the extremely specific "rules of this game" set by a h
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by LogicalRisk 7mo ago
Yes, engines would almost certainly never play 2. f4. That's a different question than whether chess is solved, for which the question of interest would be "given optimal play after 1. e4 e5 2. f4 is the result a win for one side
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by LogicalRisk 7mo ago
TCEC does force different openings yes. Engines play both sides.
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by LogicalRisk 7mo ago
Here's a game from a month ago where Stockfish loses to Lc0, played during the TCEC Cup. https://lichess.org/S9AwOvWn Chess is a 2 player game of perfect, finite information, so by Zermelo's theorem either one sid
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by LogicalRisk 7mo ago
Your intuition is correct.
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by LogicalRisk 7mo ago
Latest Stockfish with all available threads and no opening book is still well beyond any human. Elo ratings get a bit silly with computers, but we're talking an Elo of well north of 3000.
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by LogicalRisk 7mo ago
That's an extraordinary claim. What level was Stockfish and what were the settings for these training games?
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by LogicalRisk 2y ago
Fair use is a justification for why copyright restrictions may not apply in a given scenario, not a license to apply new legal restrictions to work you do not own.
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by LogicalRisk 2y ago
A treatment might look like "In the US, XXX are much more likely to be unemployed than are YYY. The unemployment rate is defined as the percentage of jobless people who have actively sought work in the previous four weeks. According to
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by LogicalRisk 3y ago
Without delving too much into the utility of the practice, skateboarding as a past time is a rather commonly banned activity in common spaces. The issue here is not that someone is doing something voluntarily and devoting resources to it, b
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by LogicalRisk 3y ago
"Where does n come in?" I *think* this might help to answer your question for where n comes from. It helps me at least think about it. The definition of the variance of the standard error V[\bar{x}] = V[X]/n. You can back thi
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by LogicalRisk 3y ago
He doesn't actually make very heavy use of the satire plank of fair use. He credits the original artists. From his own website "Does Al get permission to do his parodies? Al does get permission from the original writers of the son
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by LogicalRisk 3y ago
From reading the paper and the original paper that the data for the MTurk/Prolific samples are drawn from, this is a convenience sample of 415 humans on two platforms. Each worker received a random sample of the ConceptARC problems, an