Is there a sense that LCZero will eventually catch up to the top traditional contenders like Stockfish, it is there a possibility of a bottleneck with the machine learning?
I would argue that the Alpha Zero algorithm does well at learning chess via self play to get to a master level, but the high level chess engines are super-optimized for their specific domain problem and so will remain out of reach.
Leela and AlphaZero are already comfortable beyond master level and into the 3200s in ELO terms, at least. As for the best engines today (who I've no doubt we'll see win out at TCEC - Wasp has already been holding its own in division 4) I think they're super optimized on one axis - search, but not optimized very much (in the grand scheme of things) on the other - evaluation.
AlphaZero and LCZero show have orders of magnitude better evaluation is available and can go toe to toe with existing engines despite radically fewer nodes searched. I wouldn't be surprised however, after this current generation of NNs get good, if the traiditional Alpha-Beta engines can't encode _some_ of the more subtle positional knowledge they've picked up, in a way that works quickly with their current architectures.
And I expect the flip side is also true - radically better hardware and algorithms for both training and executing neural networks. Even after that, I think there’s a huge gap in the market for a system that not only sees tactics deeply and had an almost flawless positional sense, but can explain and train humans in what it sees.
Xenharminic has a lot of nice info about alternative musical tuning systems. (Note: they are in the process of migrating away from wikispaces. I'm not sure what the current state of the processes is.)
I was looking at this yesterday and I also use a PW3. It seemed you actually have to open the case for physical access to jailbreak it. Did you do that? I punted.
Since it is somewhat risky if you’re not completely sure of what you are doing (as is my case, since I would be almost blindly following steps), and since there is a software hack to jailbreak it, I preferred the latter.
But the community there is very helpful and I’m convinced that if I were to physically hack it, I would find enough help there to guide me through.
With a jailbroken Kindle you can, for instance, install koreader[1], a feature-rich alternative ebook reader application that enhances the somewhat limited capabilities of Kindle’s native reader.
For instance, with koreader you can open djvus, epubs, fb2 (if you’re onto those formats), but what makes koreader especially appealing to me is that it is a far better pdf reader than Kindle’s native.
Or you can look for a pool of available hacks[2] that make Kindle’s overall usage far more suited to your own particular needs. One example is the screensavers hack that allows you to choose either to use your own images (somewhat interesting if you’re onto customizing them to your tastes); or you can, as I prefer, to use that last displayed screen as the screensaver, as this allows you to keep a book’s opened page in display while you are taking notes or doing some other book research related task.
Some of these new features are now so essential to my Kindle’s experience that I can’t imagine myself using an original one without jailbreaking it. Also, I have my Kindle since 2015 and I’m in no hurry to get a newer or more capable model. As it is, it is very tailored to my academic needs.
I just got out my Kindle Keyboard (Kindle 3) and tried it out... the 3G still works! It's a bit slow, but you can launch the browser from the Experimental window, choose the Wikipedia bookmark, and it still loads. I was able to search for the entry for the above referenced book and read it.
(That said, it's probably the first time I've used my Kindle Keyboard in months. I mostly use my phone or Samsung tablet for reading Kindle now.)
I highly recommend koreader. I use it on a Kobo Aura HD, and it's really excellent. It's much nicer for lots of things than staring at a computer monitor.
At one point I was considering jailbreaking and writing a couple apps for the current PW, but after digging around the “Kindle Developer’s Corner” all I found were hacks to install, not really any comprehensible resources about how to develop for the devices.
The best part is you not only get to hang out with lots of fluffy animal people (who often share your variety of not quite cis and straight), you get to bring all your hobbies along. Lots of furry musicians, programmers, writers, etc.
Sometimes I wish I was one because it seems like in a tight knit community like that you can make some really good friends that will have your back and help you out.
There's no entry fee or test. Sometimes furries will even adopt people! Go look up Boozy Badger for a recent example.
You can just decide you're a furry and find an entry point into the community. There's even a furry making new ones with every match in the fighting game community.
Solutions range from wearing a cooling vest that contains gel packs (you freeze them before wearing them) to fursuits with integrated cooling fans. (Often they vent through the ears.)
My favorite thing about the furry fandom is that, for most fandoms, the thing you share is that you're a fan of something, whether that's a TV show or an artist or whatever.
The biggest thing that furries have in common is that they are fans of each other. There's no other central rallying point.
This is interesting.. I've only ever heard bad (well odd) things about them mainly on reddit but I admit I'm quite ignorant on literally everything to do with that culture.
Could you please shed some more light on this community? Maybe a link that describes it properly - I can google but could stumble upon maybe an unfactual website without knowing it.
A community that encourages niceness is something I haven't really heard of before yet sounds super interesting - that's not to say that a community has to explicitly say they're nice to be nice. I know I've had my fair share of going out of my comfort zone meeting others and not knowing whether they are "that" person or not. Although maybe it's good for me to come to terms with knowing that not everyone is friendly and that that's okay.
A lot of the niceness comes from furries being majority LGBTQ+, so they know what it's like to be shut out of things, talked down to, and generally treated poorly for no good reason.
Came here to post this. I've been lurking (and occasionally, although rarely, posting) on that site since I was a teenager. It got me into low-level programming to the point where I even bought some ARM boards and a Sunblade workstation just to play around with different architectures—I have got to refurbish that Sunblade at some point; OpenBSD ran fantastically on it, and being able to code bootsectors in Forth was pretty cool.
Haven't been on there as much since I started university though, my interests shifted towards physics/maths. I'm trying to get back into it because it's a fun hobby and I need a distraction from work/college; I started a kernel towards the end of spring, but unfortunately got distracted by exams. I want to try get in running userspace programs as soon as possible, but I'd like to get the syscall API nailed down first as I don't want to have to rewrite drivers (it's a microkernel) if I decide at some point to rewrite the kernel in rust (currently in C, but I like rust's type-system—the combo of a rust kernel + haskell userspace is also something I've been contemplating, but will probably have to wait a few years)
Mastodon is what Twitter could have been without having to serve the interests of people shoveling millions into it. The interests of people shoveling ones and tens of dollars into Mastodon are well-aligned with the users because they're the same people.
I feel like r/edc and r/buildapc run against r/ultralight philosophically. The first two are about having a bunch of stuff you don't need: for r/edc, stuff like multiple weapons and tools that rarely ever see use; for r/buildapc, excessive hardware ("futureproofing") and furniture for playing games. On the other hand, r/ultralight is about reducing your kit to the actual essentials that will be carried over nontrivial distances and used daily.
r/edc is more like r/guns but I see your point most of the stuff people "carry" about them is absolutely absurd. I just carry my carkeys, a decadent titanium wallet, and my phone.
I mentioned r/buildapc because the way the table layout specs on r/ultralight feels similar. People have a goal and layout everything they use inside of that backpack or pc-case. There's not much else the same besides that.
R.I.P. Golight gear (the original company that went bankrupt because they made such fantastic equipment and priced it too cheaply). I bought their lightest backpack many years ago and it's still great. See: https://sectionhiker.com/golite-trek-backpack/
Elements is an old card game, http://elementscommunity.org is a community I enjoyed for years, enough to create an open source offshoot of the game https://etg.dek.im since its developer went AWOL
Paper notebooks and wood cased pencils. Writing with natural things knowing they’re not 1’s and 0’s and they will likely be around for a long time is fascinating.
Cell phone "phreaking" and ESN/MEID/IMEI crew, they're fun but it's now gotten to the point where it's for profit vs how Qualcomm doesn't care.
Half the people are privacy adverse, the other half just profitters.
Still, interesting to modify and manipulate hardware and software on cell phones, although the scene is very different (and more complicated) then 05 (where you could replace the $SYS.ESN file in Hex and checksum to get a new valid ESN)
Does the name Mark Bernay ring a bell? He was one of the giants of the "blue box" era. From Slate: "According the New York Times obituary of Apple founder Steve Jobs, after reading [Ron] Rosenbaum's [Esquire] article, Jobs and his partner in founding Apple, Steve Wozniak, 'collaborated on building and selling blue boxes, devices that were widely used for making free — and illegal — phone calls. They raised a total of $6,000 from the effort.'" Rosenbaum article: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/the_spectator/2011/... IRL Mark Bernay (http://www.wideweb.com/phonetrips/;https://twitter.com/phonetrips?lang=en) is Richard Kashdan: https://www.facebook.com/PhoneTrips Very cool guy, alive and well in San Francisco
Some are casters, like T90[0]. They stream a couple of hours of AoE2 commentary every day on Twitch. They collect income from Twitch subscriptions and donations and also Youtube ad revenue. It's very hard work for not a lot of money.
A very small handful of top players plays it full time. Viper[1] is the "top guy" currently and he streams on Twitch. So his income is Twitch + Youtube + tournament winnings.
There are about ~5 people that do AoE2 full-time. The #1 player in the world, TheViper, has over 1000 subscribers on Twitch (~$4 / mo each after twitch fees). So that's $50k/year just in Twitch subscribers. He probably averages another $25k/year in tournament winnings, and at least that in donations, probably a lot more. So at least ~$100k / yr.
T90Official (USA) and MembTV (Spain) are both full-time casters of pro & semi-pro matches, and they probably make $75k and $50k respectively per year, based on their sub counts and what I know of their donations.
I love Forgotten Weapons. I'm not even a gun nut, never owned one, but something about watching him explain the history and mechanical functioning of each firearm is so relaxing and satisfying.
I'm the same. I'm a leftie who enjoys guns (the machines themselves and the physical discipline to use them safely and effectively), but I despise what you might call "gun culture" especially here in the USA.
I wish I could find a good group of like minded who could just focus on the sport without descending into endless political posturing.
/r/guns is great for that reason exactly. You get some annoying folks in the comments, but never anything about politics and the whole "libtard bashing" thing isn't done there.
Im with ya. Live in one of the most liberal cities in the states, definitely lean liberal, but love guns too.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 252 ms ] thread/r/waifuism is probably my favorite
https://www.muffwiggler.com
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The main focus was/is Brian Crabtree’s Monome modules (https://monome.org) but it’s a fascinating community generally.
I can’t really afford any of this stuff (I use VCV Rack and Reaktor), but the design quality of Monome’s hardware is simply staggering.
AlphaZero and LCZero show have orders of magnitude better evaluation is available and can go toe to toe with existing engines despite radically fewer nodes searched. I wouldn't be surprised however, after this current generation of NNs get good, if the traiditional Alpha-Beta engines can't encode _some_ of the more subtle positional knowledge they've picked up, in a way that works quickly with their current architectures.
https://www.chessprogramming.org/Main_Page
http://xenharmonic.wikispaces.com/
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=150
My PW3 Kindle got way better with the many hacks I've learned there.
But the community there is very helpful and I’m convinced that if I were to physically hack it, I would find enough help there to guide me through.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17688324
For instance, with koreader you can open djvus, epubs, fb2 (if you’re onto those formats), but what makes koreader especially appealing to me is that it is a far better pdf reader than Kindle’s native.
Or you can look for a pool of available hacks[2] that make Kindle’s overall usage far more suited to your own particular needs. One example is the screensavers hack that allows you to choose either to use your own images (somewhat interesting if you’re onto customizing them to your tastes); or you can, as I prefer, to use that last displayed screen as the screensaver, as this allows you to keep a book’s opened page in display while you are taking notes or doing some other book research related task.
Some of these new features are now so essential to my Kindle’s experience that I can’t imagine myself using an original one without jailbreaking it. Also, I have my Kindle since 2015 and I’m in no hurry to get a newer or more capable model. As it is, it is very tailored to my academic needs.
[1] https://github.com/koreader/koreader
[2] https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=180113
[1] https://xkcd.com/548/
(That said, it's probably the first time I've used my Kindle Keyboard in months. I mostly use my phone or Samsung tablet for reading Kindle now.)
Same! On-the-fly column splitting, text reflow, and contrast adjustment makes reading academic papers much more pleasant.
The best part is you not only get to hang out with lots of fluffy animal people (who often share your variety of not quite cis and straight), you get to bring all your hobbies along. Lots of furry musicians, programmers, writers, etc.
You can just decide you're a furry and find an entry point into the community. There's even a furry making new ones with every match in the fighting game community.
I don't know what they use to keep cool.
Solutions range from wearing a cooling vest that contains gel packs (you freeze them before wearing them) to fursuits with integrated cooling fans. (Often they vent through the ears.)
The biggest thing that furries have in common is that they are fans of each other. There's no other central rallying point.
It's a culture that encourages niceness.
Could you please shed some more light on this community? Maybe a link that describes it properly - I can google but could stumble upon maybe an unfactual website without knowing it.
A community that encourages niceness is something I haven't really heard of before yet sounds super interesting - that's not to say that a community has to explicitly say they're nice to be nice. I know I've had my fair share of going out of my comfort zone meeting others and not knowing whether they are "that" person or not. Although maybe it's good for me to come to terms with knowing that not everyone is friendly and that that's okay.
One good place to start is with the main furry wiki's own definitions: http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Furry and http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Furry_fandom
Hobbyist Operating Systems Development!
We also have forums: http://f.osdev.org/ and IRC: Freenode/#osdev !
Haven't been on there as much since I started university though, my interests shifted towards physics/maths. I'm trying to get back into it because it's a fun hobby and I need a distraction from work/college; I started a kernel towards the end of spring, but unfortunately got distracted by exams. I want to try get in running userspace programs as soon as possible, but I'd like to get the syscall API nailed down first as I don't want to have to rewrite drivers (it's a microkernel) if I decide at some point to rewrite the kernel in rust (currently in C, but I like rust's type-system—the combo of a rust kernel + haskell userspace is also something I've been contemplating, but will probably have to wait a few years)
http://conwaylife.com/forums/
Ultralight backpacking. Gets you outdoors, can get quite nerdy though!
I mentioned r/buildapc because the way the table layout specs on r/ultralight feels similar. People have a goal and layout everything they use inside of that backpack or pc-case. There's not much else the same besides that.
"22/SDE, my EDC" - proceeds to have a Leatherman, 2 knives, a phone, wallet, gun, and 2 mags...
Half the people are privacy adverse, the other half just profitters.
Still, interesting to modify and manipulate hardware and software on cell phones, although the scene is very different (and more complicated) then 05 (where you could replace the $SYS.ESN file in Hex and checksum to get a new valid ESN)
How does one be Pro at AoE?
A very small handful of top players plays it full time. Viper[1] is the "top guy" currently and he streams on Twitch. So his income is Twitch + Youtube + tournament winnings.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZUT79WUUpZlZ-XMF7l4CFg
[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/TheViperAOC
T90Official (USA) and MembTV (Spain) are both full-time casters of pro & semi-pro matches, and they probably make $75k and $50k respectively per year, based on their sub counts and what I know of their donations.
We just (10 minutes ago) finished playing a round of Quake 2. Some games are streamed (https://www.twitch.tv/thfrw/videos/all | https://www.twitch.tv/communities/openbsd_gaming | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF2MeFBWJoFZtz0ADX3Us0Q/vid...), we even have some more modern FNA games and a list of games available on GoG for the platform (https://www.gog.com/mix/openbsd_engine_available). We generally hang out on irc #openbsd-gaming @ freenode.
Historical Firearms and the Development thereof: /r/ForgottenWeapons
as well as /r/guns in general.
Also, https://www.reddit.com/r/aimdownsights/top/?sort=top&t=all is worth checking out.
And I wish guns weren't so expensive. I'm at the point where I have insurance on my gun collection alone.
I wish I could find a good group of like minded who could just focus on the sport without descending into endless political posturing.
Im with ya. Live in one of the most liberal cities in the states, definitely lean liberal, but love guns too.
For 1st World War guns.
Psychedelics.
Relationship as a Path.
Majagual.org