I was just about to mention the above so it must be happening for all.
There is no problem playing the game but website does not look as nice.
Wonder if this a quick fix Tom thanks. |
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I really enjoyed this latest video. I was wondering how well you could do by "ensembling" different dumb chess players in some way. I guess the simplest way to do this would be similar to the stockfish-random dilution, but with a dilution of an arbitrary selection of different players.
In particular, I wonder if there's any ensemble that performs better than its constituent parts. I don't have a good enough intuition to work out how or why this might be the case (best I can come up with is some kind of hill-climbing analogy?), and well, you have the program to just run it and see so I'm throwing this up here rather than doing anything about it myself. |
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Thanks Fuzzy, a good recommendation! :) |
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Dude that's awesome you like Anak Ko, I'm loving it as well. I recommend SASAMI if you wanna try something similar and really good! (Self-titled debut from earlier this year)
Cheers from Tucson! |
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hello i am not a computer supergenius like everyone else here probably is and im wondering if its (still/ever was) possible to play tom7 entertainment system the way he does live? i have guitar hero controller and i would like to try it... or is that just not an option |
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And I finally won Dragon Drop. I'd played it some years ago, but back then I couldn't figure out what the goal was. I must have skipped one of the two crucial cutscenes, because the puzzle itself isn't hard. |
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It seems that thumbnails for new levels are no longer showing on the server (look at e.g. the level browser on the webpage, or the comment section). I wonder if it's the case for others as well. |
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Argh no! I'm not a good calendar, am I? You have less than two days. |
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You have less than half a day to post the next entry. |
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Tom, I want to be you when I grow up, unless that comes off as excessively flattering to the point of being obsequious and creepy, in which case I don't want that. Either way I enjoyed this video. The listing of reasons you couldn't find chess partners was hilarious, although it almost pushed into cringe territory with how convincingly more pathetic you looked after each item was read.
NaN Gates and Flip FLOPS was definitely *more* up my alley than this one; by now I've watched it at least twice, maybe thrice. "I think we can do better. I think we can do best." Maybe it's those two semesters of computational logic that unlocked my appreciation for that concept or maybe it's my erstwhile fascination with esoteric programming languages. It was total catnip for me. This one, to be honest, I avoided for several weeks like, "Oh, it's chess, this one's not for me. I don't know the first thing about chess." Little did I know, neither do your algorithms! |
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Who can recommend to me the best product among those in the list on this site?
https://buylatestwatch.com/best-triathlon-watches/ |
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It turns out that Steve Chamberlin from BMOW also had the idea of having a modern computer reply to logic signals in real time as if it was hardware, and he failed: "https://www.bigmessowires.com/2018/06/26/cortex-m4-interrupt-speed-test/" . |
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I really dug the chess video despite knowing next to nothing about chess - always love some robot craftsmanship purely for the sake of a one-off joke. (NaN gates was great too, but a bit hard to follow in parts despite my CS background.)
I've also been playing Mankind Divided - just finished it over the weekend. There were some pacing issues and the story wasn't as meaty as I would've liked but I enjoyed it, it's probably a bit underrated. I didn't quite figure out any non-developer-intended ways to play, myself (aside from some very mild sequence breaking), but I tend to play full stealth/non-lethal in those games which actually ends up being fairly simple and straightforward. Was going for the no-alarms achievement but didn't get it for mysterious reasons which was super annoying. On to the DLC! |
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I would agree that Nan Gates is more interesting but I understood it less, this one had more stuff I knew about, I was familiar with. |
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13641. Anonymous (189.68.238.79) –
04 Aug 2019 23:15:01
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Awesome stuff! |
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I still wonder how hard it would be to make one of Óscar Toledo's chess programs "http://www.nanochess.org/chess.html" to play from any game state you choose. |
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Sorry that the Linux binary/tarball are so old. I didn't even think anybody was using these. There's a lot of technical debt I'd like to get to on Escape, but only so many hours in the day! Glad you were able to get it to work at least.
SSL is definitely something I'd like to do -- I tried with letsencrypt a few years ago but it didn't work for some weird reason. Maybe time to try again. |
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You have less than one day to post the next entry. |
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for getting rid of trace and spare turing tape, make it so that the letter representing halted state (let's call it H) can combine with character to either side to become itself, and delete everything else that way, and lone H would be the destination word. If the starting word couldn't reach “blah H blah” in the first place, it wouldn't have an h to perform the "draw anything" trick with (catch 22, basically). All rules are reversible, so a word that can't reach the destination (H) can't be reached from destination either |
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I just realized why people cam here to comment about the chess article just now. That was when tom7 posted the video adaptation "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpXy041BIlA" . |
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I wonder how possible it would be to create an engine that meaningfully tries to draw the game. It just wants everyone to be friends!
I can think of at least two actionable ways to do this.
First, it always chooses the stockfish move that brings the advantage as close to zero as possible. This will make tons and tons of draws. It will not be very fun, because it was will just be super-humanly boring and unexploitable (by humans, at least).
A more fun way would be an engine that detects the difference in pieces and attempts to create parity. If it is behind by a pawn, it will try to attack pawns. If it is ahead a bishop, it will attempt to donate a bishop to it's opponent. |
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Hi – I found what I think is a typo in one of your papers:
"rare. The dual of dangerous; the score is one minus the probability of ending the game on that square.This player has a thirst for adventure!"
Isn't rare the dual of popular? |
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I have some ideas for other chess engines you could implement (or could have implemented).
Longest road - the engine tries to have the longest continuous distance of contiguous pieces (measured where diagonals are root-2 and cardinals are 1)
Dominion - the engine tries to have the longest possible perimeter for the pieces of it's color.
Perfect squares - starting with a1 = 1, a2 = 2, a3 = 3, b1 = 9, etc... the engine tries to order it's pieces such that the sum of the values of the squares it controls is as close to a perfect square as possible.
The traveler - the engine selects whatever move will allow it to move a piece the most squares in any given move. Ties broken randomly among candidate moves.
Fearful - the engine prioritizes pieces that are closest to the enemy pieces (chebyshev distance) and moves those pieces as far away from the enemy as possible. Ties are broken first by moves that huddle, and then randomly.
Stockfishfried - Selects the first move of the previously moved piece that Stockfish suggests. For example, if the opponent moved a knight, select the first knight move that stockfish suggests. If the opponent moved a light-square bishop, select the first light-square bishop move. If the opponent moved a piece SFF does not have, it chooses a move at random. What's interesting about this is that it makes stockfish "self-select" from it's opponent's pieces. If their opponent only has a king left, SFF will only move it's king (unless it can't legally move it, in which case it will move randomly). |
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You'll excuse me but I just had to.
Secretly hoping that it doesn't break anything actually :| |
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