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The other piece of context that's worth noting is that Carlsen is not as good as he used to be (he's still the best player in the world, but not by as big of a margin as he was 5-10 years ago) and that he seems to getting increasingly exasperated with chess itself. Every GOAT eventually retires in a different type of way (Kasparov, Anand, Karpov, all did it a bit differently) and Carlsen's might be coming up soon.

Playing a chess bot that works this way feels like playing a Magnus Carlsen who's trying to let you win.

That's kind of what they do for "training" bots and it produces something which plays NOTHING like a 1300-rated human.

He's not "getting started," it's just that he's finished his first marathon while most 18-year-olds are just tying their shoes for their first jog

Magnus is bored of classical chess and doesn't want to spend 6 months every two years preparing for classical games against one opponent.

Not in chess, where the (by far) most likely outcome of a world championship classical game is a draw. When Magnus Carlsen played Fabiano Caruana for the world championship, EVERY classical game was a draw and they had to go to tiebreaks, which no longer makes it a classical tournament.

Making a computer play like a 1300-rated human is harder than making a computer beat Magnus Carlsen.

The problem with starting with a 555 timer is that the things you can make with a 555 timer aren’t impressive to kids anymore. Oh, you made a sound that gets higher pitched when there’s more light on it? I thought that shit was amazing when I was 8. But my son wouldn’t look twice at that. So we started with Arduino so that the first thing he created was something he saw as “cool.”

This isn’t a community of people interested in playing casual mobile games. Their interest in playing this game can be assumed to be low. The author is trying to have a discussion about the game and might get more interesting feedback from people who can play the game, and is explicitly offering promo codes because of this. And, $1 is material to many people.

> companies in the early stage ignore i10n completely and then eventually realize it's going to be a huge lift to retroactively support it

That's the correct thing to do. When you're first building a product you're trying to prove that it can and should exist: that you can get people to pay you money for it. It doesn't make sense to spend your time or money doing anything else.

Once you're successful then you know that people in one country like your product and maybe people in another company will as well. But until you know that, that's the only thing you should be working on.

I definitely don't think babies should have iPads or preteens Instagram, but I believe that technology can be great for childhood because I had a computer from age 4, in 1987, and it was great for me. I learned how to program, I wrote an entire ~50 page book (which I wouldn't have done with pencil and paper), and by middle school I was sitting down with adults and showing them how to use the computer, which was really empowering for me.

Balls and blocks and Magna-tiles and Legos are forms of "technology" that we universally recognize as good for kids, and a semiconductor junction doesn't magically make something bad for kids. What makes today's technology bad for kids is that it's designed to be hyper-addictive and hyper-extractive.

In short, I am a huge fan of Maria Montessori, and the company we're building, to a first approximation, might be what Maria Montessori would have built herself if she was a TypeScript developer in 2024.

Supabase is one.

He won't be starting such a fund for awhile, because the two of us are building company to make technology to foster a creative and curious childhood. We would be a good fit for any investors trying to do (3) though :)

https://cartwheelcomputer.com/

amal@cartwheelcomputer.com

If the king is trapped he eats the highest-scoring neighboring piece and takes its spot.

YC created a path for 20-year-olds with no work experience to raise money for a company (and sometimes become billionaires). That requires low capital investment because the founders are completely unproven.

Hardware startups are run by people with work experience in hardware and a career track record, because you need more credibility to justify the higher investment required.

It was well-known to people who cared about this (i.e., anyone who would read this recap) that this was Alex Morgan's last game. If ESPN can't capture this and incorporate it into their piece, given their wide reach in sports media, why should a publisher use the ESPN recap service instead of random Y Combinator startup?

Your eyes are a "wide angle lens." Scratches on wide angle lenses are also very noticeable

I want frictionless communication with the people I've already communicated with, but very high friction communication with people I've never talked to before. I'd love a way to charge $10 to get into my inbox. If it ends up being a long lost friend or whatever, I'll Venmo them back the $10.

Corey - I'm starting a new children's computing company and I've literally shown my old Print Shop creations to investors when explaining what we're doing. Would love to tell you more about what we're building -- we're trying to make software in 2024 that makes kids feel what I felt in 1990 when using software like the Print Shop, KidPix, Pinball Construction Set, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, and others. You can contact me at amal@cartwheelcomputer.com

Many people would rather give something they made than something they bought. Even if "making" means choosing the fonts and border, it still feels like a labor of love than a simple Hallmark card would.

David, I consumed a huge amount of dot matrix printer in my elementary school with Print Shop, making every kind of card and banner you can imagine.

30 years later I am starting a company to reimagine technology's role in childhood. In 1990, my friends and I were eating garbage from McDonalds and using brilliant software like Print Shop, KidPix, Pinball Construction Set, etc. In 2024, kids are eating organic pasta salad but poisoning their brains with garbage content on YouTube and Roblox designed to addict them.

Would love to tell you more about what we are working on. You can contact me at amal@cartwheelcomputer.com.

Thanks!

Depends really on what you're doing. If you're just using a Macbook to watch Netflix you don't need any cables but if you're messing around with even moderately old or specialized hardware you'll find yourself needing cables like MicroHDMI for Raspberry Pi and similar.

And in fact PowerPoint is Turing Complete and you can implement some basic programs in PowerPoint.

Apartments are more useful assets to own than storage units.

Do you think that receiving this diagnosis increased or decreased your happiness?

They don't seem to understand the problem. If they link you to a website that tells you to eat a rock, whatever. If they put their brand on that with an AI Overview, that's a problem.

I've tried it and it's extraordinary. Is it worth it, at this price, to you? That's something only you can answer. But it's unlike anything you've ever seen. I agree that it needs to be seen to be understood and hopefully they can get in retail outlets at some point.

I thought I was starting to figure it out then I selected "toad" and was told it was a "toad-skinned frog"

FML

Worth noting that this is preferred stock so the investor will get their money back if Vercel sells for anything more than $250m.

Doesn't have to be smart to be dangerous. The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was just a big rock.