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pianowow

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pianowow··on Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess Championship
The entire tiebreak, which was played today, is this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBvQ36SqgqM

The entire match, played over the past weeks, is this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJlVjicymKI&list=PLAwlxGCJB4...

pianowow··on AVIF – AV1 based image format
Jpeg still trims the trees, just not as much.
pianowow··on AVIF – AV1 based image format
In your demo, how are the images chosen for each image and algorithm combination? I mean how do you choose the compression level for each, to keep the comparison fair? I would hope you have a budget in KB and go as high quality as you can without going over that KB limit.
pianowow··on Interactive map of Linux kernel
How do you go about making such a map for a large code repository? I'd really appreciate a link for reading on this subject.
pianowow··on Garry Kasparov: Open-Ended AI [video]
This limited scope is still progress though, toward the general AI he is saying will not come in the near future. The Alpha Zero project showed that it could be adapted for any 2-player perfect information game. This is still quite limited, but not nearly as much as a program like Stockfish is, which will basically only ever play chess.

Perhaps the next step is bringing the system further into the realm of the unknown in games, like chance and imperfect information. I don't know if Google is continuing this, but it would be a shame if it wasn't.

pianowow··on Secretary Problem
Several mobile strategy games like Clash of Clans present this problem when raiding. You can skip to the next base or raid the current base.

Numberphile did a nice presentation of this problem and a solution here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWib5olGbQ0

pianowow··on Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S.
Money did not have the intended effect on this election. Clinton outspent Trump by quite a large margin.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-electi...

pianowow··on Appeals court upholds FCC's net neutrality order
It's in T-Mobile's interest to do this for its own network management. The unlimited video is of much lower quality, using less bandwidth. The only agreement between T-Mobile and Netflix/YouTube is for T-Mobile to be allowed to control which quality is served over their network.
pianowow··on I taught myself Python on the Internet and so can you
I agree. I don't see any evidence he has attempted to solve any problem or made something with Python. This is the measure of proficiency.
pianowow··on Millions of Facebook users have no idea they're using the internet
Is this surprising? Facebook has a billion users. So this article is saying that <1% of users on Facebook don't understand they are using the Internet.
pianowow··on “I'm not smart enough.”
The Venn diagram in this article really bothers me. Venn diagrams aren't meant to show the makeup of a whole. This should be a pie chart. The diagrams implies that there are more persistent people than inspired people, not that you need more persistence than inspiration.