sherkaner

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by sherkaner 2y ago
Magnus blundered simple Nxe5 in better endgame in the 6th game of the second match with Anand. Anand missed it as well.
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by sherkaner 2y ago
And here people thought it's LLMs who are statistical parrots...
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by sherkaner 2y ago
On the contrary, sociopaths are not emotional or political. They manipulate, while Peterson fights. We might disagree with him, but I'm 100% sure he is an honest human being.
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by sherkaner 6y ago
By your calculations I should be spending less than $10 per month on software. And I'm a software developer, just not in USA. If I spent $4 just for Obsidian, I'd be left with $6 for cloud file storage, music and video streaming,
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by sherkaner 7y ago
That's actually pretty easy for any experienced chess player. The world record is simultaneously playing 45+ opponents blindfolded, which is actually incredibly hard.
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by sherkaner 7y ago
I feel that I read in a wrong way. My productivity and ability to think often plummets after reading fiction. Could it be connected with vizualization? Do you visualize your characters, setting, predict what's going to happen, etc? Usu
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by sherkaner 7y ago
While common, it's not so bad. Carlsen has a good family and he wasn't pressured to do anything. Polgar sisters were raised as chess players, but they all say only positive things about their childhood. 9 y.o Tihon Chernyaev is cl
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by sherkaner 9y ago
I'm completely opposite. I was playing chess from the childhood, and started programming only in the university. As a result, I'm addicted to chess, but not to programming. It is ridiculously hard for me to get in a zone while wor