marcusbuffett

Not every meaningless achievement with an unnecessary retrospective blog post needs a derisive comment about its existence, and yet here we are. Some people are interested in the content, you’re obviously not, just ignore it.

Yeah this is exactly right, as far as my understanding of elo goes.

Extra pedantry: you’re of course right that 600 points is somewhat meaningless, given that it’s harder to improve in the higher ratings, but there’s nothing logarithmic about elo. A 1500 playing a 500 has the same odds as winning as a 2500 playing a 1500, mathematically. You earn the same # of points at higher elo too.

Yeah this is just as valid. I needed something to sink my teeth into, so I’ve been more interested in the improvement and learning side. The bonus is that games get more fun the better you get, until very recently I just found my own play frustrating, hanging pieces and falling for simple tactics.

Do you mean like if a mate in 2 was passed over? Seems strange to dismiss that since even great players will miss a winning position sometimes.

As an amateur chess player and a software developer that has made some chess side projects in the past, I thoroughly enjoyed this post. Thank you for writing this up.

I too have a friend that has way more chess ability than me, I’m trying to beat him the old fashioned way but I’ll also take a crack at it using this approach, for fun.

I have to really question how the study was conducted if only 1-2% of python errors were considered type errors. Even if the only type error you consider is None vs not None, you'd get more than that. Certainly those errors account for more than 1% of the errors I see in my own professional experience using Python. I'm curious what his reasoning was so I'll watch the talk, but there's something screwy there.

Looks great! I'd add a Copy to Clipboard button somewhere, since that's such a common use case when showing code

Can confirm Apple iOS projects use CocoaPods internally, at least the couple I was aware of when I worked there.

I've been using pullstate as a Redux alternative, found it to be way more ergonomic. Uses immer for updates, and the move away from action-creators, actions, reducers, etc. cuts down on a huge amount of boilerplate, as well as making it more type-safe when using Typescript.

Ha cool, someone beat me to posting my own post here. Curious to hear what you all think about kubernetes for non-google scale

I could probably lazy-load the videos, if that's what's causing it, but despite all the videos and images the page is only 1.2MB. Can't figure out what would cause that :/

Fair point, will include a link to it.