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by autocorr 5mo ago
Echoing others, Chess engines certainly aren't a solved problem! In fact there are a lot of niches that are absolutely starving for effort. Ones I'm interested in are related to Chess variants and puzzles. Fairy-Stockfish is a for
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by autocorr 1y ago
I've heard this referred to as either Placement Chess or Bronstein's Chess (after the GM who reportedly suggested it). It's available to play on https://pychess.org , where it's called Placement Chess.
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by autocorr 3y ago
Lichess also includes a piece set similar to this, although with the notable difference that the Knight is shaped like a greater-than symbol and the pawn is a small square.
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by autocorr 3y ago
Newpipe also works great on Android! Haven't seen an ad since I installed it, and you can also download videos and play while minimized.
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by autocorr 3y ago
The kanji on the pieces adds a significant potential barrier. I started with the piece set that had little directional pips on them and different colors to help (it's the twelfth set in the piece set list when you go to the settings ge
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by autocorr 3y ago
Absolutely! And I'm one of them :) Check out the Shogi Harbor community[1] and their Discord[2]. There's a lot of discussion there and they're very friendly. [1] http://shogi.pl/ [2] https://disboa
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by autocorr 3y ago
For those interested in playing and learning Shogi, take a look over at the great site https://lishogi.org -- a fork of LiChess for Shogi that includes real-time and correspondence play, AI opponents, analysis, puzzles and more.
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PyChess: Play traditional and modern Chess variants(pychess.org)
3 points by autocorr 3y ago|0 comments
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by autocorr 4y ago
This is a little surprising since MNRAS's niche has been that it had no page charges. So if one was short on grant money then you went with monthly notices. That's pretty nice if (a) you have zero grant funding available or (b) wa
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Klopodavka Game in Rust and WebAssembly(ptupitsyn.github.io)
2 points by autocorr 4y ago|1 comments
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by autocorr 4y ago
This is an implementation of a neat pencil-and-paper game from the 1980's in Eastern Europe called Virus Wars or Klopodavka (bedbugs). In this variant of Klopodavka, players can add a bug or squish an opponent's along cells adjace
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by autocorr 4y ago
I don't think cursive is necessarily faster. But I do recall studies that showing what you're talking about: that a person's developed hybrid printing (printing with personal ligatures) are just as fast if not faster than ful
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by autocorr 5y ago
My understanding is that the first conclusive proof that the Earth rotates was the astronomical observation of the aberration of starlight[1] in ~1730. The rotation of the Earth causes about 20 arcseconds of deflection from a stars known po
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by autocorr 5y ago
Just changing my search habits helped a lot in in finding results quickly and managing the SEO spam for both DDG and Google. I'm using Julia for a project right now, and answers are almost always found in either the Julia Discourse for
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by autocorr 5y ago
Light pollution from satellite swarms is an economic externality. Any company can dump sewage in the river (and maybe the sewage is necessary for progress!) but the private sector profits by consuming a shared resource. For the night sky an
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by autocorr 5y ago
To anyone who does not get the irony in the above, this already exists as the Tenth Amendment. It is effectively ignored because it is considered legally redundant with the Constitution itself.
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by autocorr 5y ago
While I totally agree with the point you're trying to make, to be fair to the Byzantines, having a continuous state structure for a near millennium (500-1200 CE) is actually the near opposite of ossification leading to speedy collapse.
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by autocorr 5y ago
> Community and advertiser feedback made clear that we need to offer more ways to control the content that’s recommended as well as where ads appear. So, we’re introducing a new category: Pools, Hot Tubs, and Beaches. If you have chosen
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PuDB: A console-based visual debugger for Python(github.com)
2 points by autocorr 5y ago|0 comments
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by autocorr 6y ago
Start with a small set of binoculars! They are critically underrated. I think the best part of amateur astronomy is knowing the sky in an intuitive way. With a pair of 7x35 binos (~40 USD online) and a dark site you can see a ton of stuff
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by autocorr 6y ago
Thank you! That was a really helpful response. That makes a lot more sense that many transactions are included within a block. So effective transaction fees are likely in the few cents USD range. I've read that one issue with the laten
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by autocorr 6y ago
Can someone explain how transactions are not insanely cost prohibitive for Bitcoin with power consumption figures like those? Those numbers would suggest something like >20 USD. Is it because most transactions in practice actually happen
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by autocorr 6y ago
Where people live just meant that choosing to distort the equator. This does not seem like a useful map to use if you are interested in Africa or South Asia! It's a tradeoff for all projections. However, I don't want to go too har
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by autocorr 6y ago
I'm sorry for posting a classic "shallow dismissal"... but this press-release speaks breathlessly of revolution when similar hemispherical-type projections have been around for ages. And it doesn't mention the major down
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by autocorr 6y ago
From browsing r/ErgoMechKeyboards and GeekHack, I think the main group of people making these custom keyboards are devs actually. Consider how foot pedals are a long-standing emacs thing :) I use a 40% layout on a custom board with p
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by autocorr 6y ago
Thanks for the link. That git diff is absurd: 9 changed files with 21 additions and 30 deletions[1]. It really is just Stockfish using different weights and changing the name... The fact this Albert Silver fella did the same with Leela Ches
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by autocorr 6y ago
I've been playing around with this map and a similar map of population density[1]. I wouldn't be surprised if this cell tower map was almost one-to-one match to a light pollution map: the contrast between North and South Korea is
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by autocorr 6y ago
I find it interesting how the eyes are carved in relief to give the appearance of shadow and reflection (note the little protruding tubercle to simulate a "glint"). Presumably in classical statuary the eyes were either painted to
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by autocorr 6y ago
Like other folks have said in this thread, there is no one size fits all solution to RSI and I would encourage anyone to seek out physical therapy first (or even just start doing strength training, like dead lifts). As someone with a crazy
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by autocorr 6y ago
I was in the same situation for designing my layout too. Most key frequency analyses only look at text corpora. Actual key logging of typical computer usage seems harder to come by. This is a post[1] from a fella who ran a key logger for a

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