g2 is defended by black's knight, so after Kxg2, black captures the king and wins with Nxg2.
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https://enaming.com/recent-sales
https://www.dnjournal.com/ytd-sales-charts.htm
https://www.namecheap.com/blog/top-domain-sales-of-2021-so-f...
Wormhole is a cool sci-fi word. A fun word that most people know and don't already associate with another brand. It's high tech, it's something at the frontiers of science, it's fast and futuristic. Easy to spell, easy to remember, and easy to build a new brand around.
"Galaxy.com" recently went for $1.8m, apparently, and that's like a better version of "wormhole".
Comparing to recent sales, I'd say Wormhole could easily go for $800k+. With the right buyer, maybe upwards of $1m.
Instagram and Facebook get bland real quick. Youtube/Netflix videos are often too long to be really addictive - "just one more" isn't as persuasive if "one more" takes 10 min+. With shorter skits like Key & Peele on Youtube you do get a stronger sense of that addictiveness. Twitter is mostly text and much less expressive, and even influencers treat it mostly as a communication/announcement platform, not a content platform.
Vine was hugely popular when it was shut down by Twitter, and I think it'll go down in history as one of the largest corporate mistakes every made. They were so close on the format - they just needed to allow slightly longer videos (which they did with Twitter message lengths around they same time they shut down Vine!!!).
I'm sure Bytedance's secret recommendation sauce is good, but I think much of their success is simply thanks to them being the first competent executor of the next major social media content format.
A charter flight would be your best bet. NYC to Paris will run you about $60-70k, that can accomodate about a dozen passengers so the cost goes down dramatically if you can find some people to share the flight (and the cost). Take a train to your final destination. If you bring friends or family with you, they can help with the luggage at this point. Bring as many pets or suitcases as you like - just inform the airline in advance. It'll be a very memorable experience too!
Many airlines allow small-medium pets on board, but unfortunately at 23kg (= 50 lbs) your dog is likely too big for that.
If a homeless person pushes you or spits at you, what are you realistically going to do? Call the police, wait 15-30 minutes for them to show up, and hope they can find a guy who's long gone? And even when they do bother to catch the person, the prosecutors in Seattle have a track record of dropping misdemeanor cases. It just seems like a waste of time, so you end up writing it off as an unlucky experience and moving on with your day.
Other cities may be more violent on paper, but perhaps that's because they have smaller homeless populations and their crimes are perpetrated by people who can be reliably located and prosecuted.
For example, if you want to learn...
Artificial Intelligence (Stanford): https://stanford-cs221.github.io/autumn2021/
Programming Languages (UW): https://sites.google.com/cs.washington.edu/cse341spring2021/...
Distributed Systems (MIT): http://nil.csail.mit.edu/6.824/2021/schedule.html
These courses have all been through the test of time and are specifically designed to provide an in-depth education with material written by some of the best and brightest educators in the field.
You can simply follow along with the material at your own pace. Occasionally you'll come across something that you can't do (e.g. part of the assignment requires running tests on the school's private cluster), but most of the homeworks you can implement on your own. The only downside is there's nowhere to ask questions if you really get stuck (don't go contacting the course staff...), but with unlimited time you can usually figure it out eventually.
- Sudden weight loss (>10-15 pounds without a change in exercise or diet)
- Any kind of recurring pain, especially headaches
- Your poop is messed up
- Blood anywhere - coughing up blood, nosebleeds when you don't usually have them, blood in your poop or urine
- Mood or behavior changes (helpful if you have someone close to you who may notice this)
- Feeling fatigued even when well-rested
- Swelling or lumps anywhere
- Trouble sleeping
Which is a lot of stuff, but fortunately can be summed up as "If you feel consistently worse than you usually do, go see a doctor".
The key is to make your judgement of "I am indeed feeling consistently worse" within a couple of weeks, not a few months or even years while hoping it'll get better on its own. It's harder than it sounds - life is always busy and it's easy to tell yourself that your discomfort is mild and you can hold out a little longer. I waited too long to act on some bad heartburn and my few months of delay were rewarded with permanent damage to my lower esophagus...
https://archive.org/details/C.BargueDrawingCourse/page/n23/m...
The idea is to slowly progress through the book by copying each plate accurately (the sizes are scaled down in book form, so zoom in!). I found it very effective for practicing lines, tones, and form. It's nice to pick up fundamentals first before delving deeper into a specific style.
And the #1 most important thing is to just draw as much as you can. There are tons of before-and-afters on social media where people with awful beginner drawings have shown that they can improve to become very good artists by simply practicing a lot. Much of drawing is raw mechanical precision - and it can and must be trained like any other physical skill.
There was a big buzz in the chess world at the time, but it was hardly front-page material for mainstream media.
That said, of course, newsworthiness is not a competition - so congrats to both youngsters for their awesome achievements. The upcoming chess generation is looking promising! (I expect we'll see similar headlines for Alireza Firouzja someday soon)
I also got a split keyboard which I think helped me improve my posture by allowing me to sit back more comfortably with my arms apart. I got a Dygma Raise but there are plenty of options and they're probably all fine.
Exercise also seems to help, especially shoulder/back exercise.
https://www.osha.gov/etools/computer-workstations/components...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28551960
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29903695
I've been using them for a while, very happy with it so far. Stable connection and high speeds - good enough that I often forget I have it on - and a nice selection of locations.
They even accept cash! Each account is just an ID so you can mail your account number and some money to them and payment will be processed.
Mozilla VPN also uses Mullvad's servers behind the scenes.
Makes you wonder if there are other abandoned techniques that might be worth circling back to nowadays...
And I feel there's a kind of meditative calmness to the blurriness that I think I might miss. It's quite nice when I'm going to bed or waking up and everything is just a blur, no distractions to catch my eye because I can't see them! I'm probably doomed if I'm ever in an apocalypse and lose my glasses, though (see Twilight Zone "Time Enough at Last").
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Internet
They've had great success doing pretty much what you're describing.
In the NLP space there's been a lot of work recently around reducing model sizes, since they've started to reach the point where model weights sometimes don't fit in the memory of most GPUs.
There's also projects like MarianNMT which completely abandon Python and write heavily optimized models with fast languages that can run quickly and accurately even without GPUs. I think we'll see a lot more of this, though of course there's a pretty big barrier in the sheer rarity of being good at both deep learning research and writing optimized low-level code.
- 3d worlds with style transfer on the textures, like maybe there's a cafe with the visual style of Starry Night or something
- NPCs with conversation models that are finetuned for each NPC's personality and saves some history for each person it talks to for continuity
- Game-playing AI on NPCs that make them go around doing actual things or playing minigames with players
- The usual user tracking models, figuring out what people like to do in the metaverse and giving them more of that
- All the lower-level stuff that AI can do better - user inputs, rendering, etc.
Whether or not they can pull it off is a separate question - I think the tech is close but not quite there yet - but there's no doubt that the metaverse concept of "an expansive virtual world with lots of fun things to do" has many ways to use huge amounts of computation.
https://lichess.org/get-fishnet
https://github.com/niklasf/fishnet
There's also the Mersenne prime search which passed some milestones recently:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Internet_Mersenne_Prime_...
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Ok, I searched around for a few minutes and this was the best answer I could find:
> Stephen Raes, economic minister for the Netherlands embassy in Washington, D.C., explained in an article in USA Today that the Dutch nationalized pension system is about 130 percent the size of that nation’s gross domestic product, thus making it the world’s largest relative to the size of its economy. That pension plan favors conservative investments, such as American farmland, he said, adding that historically Dutch immigrants to the U.S. became Midwest farmers all throughout the 19th century.
And apparently, they also own a fair amount of wind energy farms in the US.
It feels like all too often we hear of people getting diagnosed with a few months to live out of the blue... perhaps it's just my inner hypochondriac, but I can't help but worry about my own health every time I read one of those headlines, and wonder if there were really no warning signs or if they were simply ignored out of innocent ignorance/negligence. A mild headache, a dull numbness, suddenly getting winded, how often are serious warning signs ignored until it's too late because of their deceptive mildness making people think "it'll probably go away"? Anyways, congratulations to you on catching something before it happened!
It lets you select a region + record with one hotkey, detects window borders and snap to those as regions, optionally converts between gif/mp4, and uploads to a variety of sites. Also handles screenshots with a quick built-in image editor, file uploads, and more. <10MB total size so fairly lightweight.
It's open source, too!
I also highly recommend kakimori, which builds custom notebooks that you can select all the parts for (binding, paper, cover, etc.). Really memorable experience, and it's in a quieter residential part of the city (but still fairly convenient/central) that feels very different from the usual tourist spots.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Osaka_building_fire
> The victims gasped for air and had difficulties escaping, as there was only one escape route, with the emergency stairs and elevators being located outside the clinic.
> Experts were surprised by the fire's high death toll. The authorities are investigating how victims became trapped and the floor filled up with smoke so quickly.
> Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications Yasushi Kaneko ordered the inspection of some 30,000 buildings in Japan that have three or more floors, but only a single stairwell.