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They have a team helping them prepare called seconds, they also keep aware of opening updates by following games around the world. They have large opening databases, and will use computers to find new moves (originally just a team of GMs) known as "novelties" (a surprise). The novelties take the opponent "out of book" or the prep (preparation) he has developed. This means the opponent will have to use more time, and find his way out of a tricky situation you are more familiar with, through computer analysis.

Often old sidelines will come back into fashion in order to avoid prep, or to lead someone into unfamiliar territory.

If you watch on a video feed, announcers will sometimes say "this position was played in city (x) in year (n) between player(1) and player(2)" this is to show that there are few games left in the database, we are entering deep prep.

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Strength in faster time controls strongly fits overall strength.

Caruana knew he was the underdog in Tie-breaks, he had 12 chances to avoid that and he was unable to.

Carlsen could have pressed in game 12 but he knew he was much stronger in faster controls, why risk anything?

Using computer evals through the match, I felt that Carlsen was slightly stronger, and their head to head record suggests as much.

You have to understand "art for art's sake". Read Whistler's "Ten o Clock" lecture. Whistler was a friend of Oscar's and some say had a stronger wit.

Oscar Wilde: I wish I had said that.

James McNeill Whistler: You will, Oscar, you will.

Basically people want artists to make things that serve a narrative, or have a utilitarian function, but art does not have to justify its existence.

Yeah I struggled with grip after a point, would use the hangboard all the time. My frame is thin. Also just a lot of understanding how to move is hard to get.

Bouldered a bit in college, feel like code challenge sites like Project Euler are like a programmer form of bouldering. you fail a few times, gain an insight, make some progress, finally get it, then feel a big rush of accomplishment.

My view is that he is simply promoting himself. Any press is good press.

Agent will say, you're slipping, you have to do something to get in the papers.

His wife Kim Kardashian is self promotion and little else.

Yu Suzuki's Virtua Fighter is in the Smithsonian.

Not necessarily, Taleb had an essay which is also a chapter in his book "Skin in the Game" which I think you can find online, called "most intolerant wins: dicatorship of the Small Minority".

If a group can be loud and forceful, even if their numbers are small, they can create positive change to help orangutans

"Great to see it indeed - but I don't get why now and not earlier. "

There was a story posted earlier this week about orangutan populations on decline due to Cadbury using Palm Oil.

This story made me rather angry, as they are just trying to live and we need to make sure they can.

I think it will help the blind, and people with seizures, so I hope it gets figured out. I do some driving for people with visual impairment, and I enjoy helping, but this would be best.

There was union carbide accident in the 1980's a tragedy.

Unlike software, the world is not binary.

So what it is speaking to me is

It seems there is a war against Radical religious terrorists which is stateless and more regional, and stopping dictators.

I get really tired when I use it. Like the five minutes is not enough and I burn out. I get better just losing myself but I would like to be able to be better at it.

They could say your rating is not high enough, you are now cut off completely. Or they would know all spending so it would be a bit nosey. And then people would not spend on things causing money circulation to slow, but maybe that is offset a bit by ease of swiping a card.

I knee-jerk want to say this guy is bad for censorship, surveillance and so on, but I think he is sort of like Roger Goodell, commissioner of the NFL, he is there to take the unpopular choices so owners can get wealthier without responsibilty.

He was a product star. He could see demand unmet, and guide to a filling of it. He saw the big picture.

Unreal engine was used to model Jerry's World (Dallas cowboys stadium) so people could walk around

has that viral ad feel. Lots of game engines would be better tools for the job.

For the informal organizing part

Alternatively they do have explorers scouts as a coed part, and those are often attached to a regular troop, so they already have this for older scouts.

Right, I'm saying it's a stable but stale form where candidates optimize being tepid. May seem fine but I see how it would lead to further entrenchment of a ruling class

Seems like it pushes everything to a lukewarm center, change already difficult to enact would be even harder, it goes to "who sorta kinda appeals to the most". I imagine turnout would decline.

Well, I think there could be lots of rocks but they are hard to see.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan

Thank you! Will do

Oh wow! I never considered that.

Thank you! I am really starting webgl, opengl study, and so I am hoping to start on the right footing. I was beginning those quaternion videos, but I think it will benefit me to look closely here too!

So I have a layman's question: 3blue1brown and Ben Eater did a quaternion visualization set of videos. And they said it was good because it avoided an an axis lock thing that happens when x y z rotate. He said there were maybe some errors with other models as well. So I guess the question is "does this also not have the locking axis problem?"

I think it's called gimbal lock?

Thiel wrote "Zero to One" specifically about his general thoughts on innovation.

For me, it's hard to say, because we can't see what talent is in the farm systems. Also, we often won't see innovation happen in ways we can predict.

I have a Bluetooth keyboard, but it seems like a lot of apps are sandboxed in and limited. Or maybe I just wasn't able to find the right IDE.

Like you could do some math or make a web page, but lots of access was limited.

Also, a large external screen would help