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I don't see it; a digital copy is identical to the original. If I could hang a perfect copy of a work of art on my wall, why should I care that the original work of art is actually owned by someone else?
This does not apply to reproductions of physical paintings. No matter how good the reproduction, you can't see details like the brushwork, so they are not equivalent to the original.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Chess is hard and I’m bad at it, but I didn’t expect to lose to a program that’s running on 1024 bytes of JavaScript. At least they're not claiming it's an AI
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An interesting program. Beat it the first time.
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Just wait for the 2K version! 
TTFN - Kent
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I forgot to include - how well did it play (I don't do chess)
TTFN - Kent
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It's interesting. It has little concept of control of the center (it opened with Rook's Pawn, basically the worst opening in the book) and is very aggressive with its pawns with little concept of developing its major pieces. The main thrust was an attempt to fork my rook and king with a knight/queen combo. Given that its play style became rather obvious after a few moves, I decided to simply let it expose itself to a couple simple forks, destroyed it's pawn structure on one side of the board and promoted my pawn to a queen. Took longer than it should have, but I also hate playing on a screen, there's something about 3D pieces on a real board that works a lot better for me.
I don't see how the guy who made that post lost in 4 moves - that's, um, rather bizarre.
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It used something like a Crab Opening in my game too. h5 > e6 > a5
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I beat it as well. I played it in a straight-up e4 game (no gambits or traps). I'd say it feels like playing someone who understands the game well but only plays good moves now without considering the implications further into the game.
For example, it brought out the queen early for two checks that really threatened nothing if you knew how to defend. Lost tempo for no positional weaknesses isn't a great plan even if the moves themselves weren't bad. I took that tempo to tear open the center and pull its king out with my knights + rook. It did avoid two checkmates I wasn't expecting it to see, but as you can see from the final position, it had to lose its queen and with the king already out it was over in 2-3 more moves.
This was my final position.
EDIT: Played another game and got a successful Smith-Morra Gambit (..exd4, ..dxc3, ..cxb2 variation). Absolutely destroyed the computer. It's not ready for gambits.
modified 8-Mar-21 18:10pm.
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The amazing thing about a 1K chess program is not that it plays well, but that it plays at all!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: The amazing thing about a 1K chess program is not that it plays well, but that it plays at all!
Very true!
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The White House is calling it an active threat, promising a ‘whole of government response’ To their defense - the warning was in an email, and it ended up in their junk folder
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Over the past 90 days, there’s been considerable demand for technologists with project management and software development skills, which are needed for companies to fulfill their strategic roadmaps. So, people with trebuchets so they can project their management?
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Microsoft appears to have shut down its Office 365 UserVoice forums, which allowed users to share feedback about the productivity apps with the company. Eh, no one was using it anyway (inside the company anyway)
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It certainly seems to me that the whole Uservoice thing is about "giving people a say", in the governmental sense. That is: "Say what you want, we've already decided what's going to happen and we're ignoring anything you say now unless it concurs with what we've already decided".
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Microsoft and Intel have signed an agreement to help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) develop a fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) solution that will eliminate several weak points such as data having to be decrypted for processing. This encryption brought to you by the people that secured Windows, Exchange, and your CPU
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Microsoft can't even write a proper email app. Why would I want them to encrypt anything for me?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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A fascinating case study in machine versus human intelligence This blurb is actually a million dollars (we're rich!)
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If you're daydreaming of future travels while stuck at home during the pandemic, why fantasize about the beaches of Bali or the canals of Venice when vacationing in space could be in your future? Room service could take a while
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Surely this is the ultimate quarantine destination.
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Plenty of space for an outdoor pool, but good luck getting it warm! 
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Good luck getting it filled. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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The hotel will be put up right next to the headquarters of Spacely Sprockets.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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InferSharp brings the scalable, automated and interprocedural memory safety analytics of Infer to the .NET platform. You know what happens when you 'infer', don't you?
OK, it doesn't work like 'assume', I assume?
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As an Italian, "InferSharp" sounds creepy: "Inferno" means "hell"...
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Only available as a docker image...
On the one hand I suppose this is a step up from a decadish ago when they released several VS preview builds with broken installers such that your only way to get the final version involved either a full OS reinstall, or IIRC extensive registry hacking.
On the other hand, that large a dependency is a hard nope for me. The farthest I'm willing to go from a proper windows install is relocating penguin droppings from C:\whatever\ to C:\ProgramFails\whatever\ to keep my root folder clean.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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