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I am a human and I don't know how to interpret this prompt.

Happy holidays, dang! Thank you for all the effort you pour into making HN as useful and vibrant a forum as it can be. You help set the bar for productive online discourse, and tha…

Yes, this is good clarification, thank you!

I finally got a chance to look this up, and I think saying that Hans "lied outright" is fair. (Obviously on the assumption that you believe chess.com's analysis of his play on the …

> Where does this report state that the "removal of Hans' ban was controversial among chess.com's Fairplay staff?" Page 58, from the text of a letter chess.com sent privately to Ha…

I don't think engine correlation necessarily proves anything, on its own. It's worth remembering, though, that chess.com's report a) presents more than merely raw engine correlatio…

> I find the decsription "lied outright" unfitting Hmm.. if time allows in the next hour or so, I will find his exact quotes from the interview and will definitely edit this out if…

The report outlines the rationale in some detail. The removal of Hans' ban was controversial among chess.com's Fairplay staff. In recent months, suspicions grew about Hans' tournam…

The full report is worth reading, if you're interested. It reveals a great deal of additional information, not just about Hans' history of cheating and his misrepresentations, but …

This report provides a detailed background of Hans' potential cheating, and detailed breakdowns of certain aspects of chess.com's cheat-detection methodology, including previously …

A key fact to understand in thinking about cheating in over the board chess: a strong player can defeat a much stronger opponent with just 1-3 hints per game indicating the stronge…

Thank you for the link to this paper, as I'd looked for it previously and somehow didn't find. Do you happen to have a link to the spreadsheet handy too? Thank you, if so.

Does the hypothesis in question seem to hold for, say, the world's top 10 languages (by, say, # of living fluent speakers globally)? Top 30? I'm genuinely curious. And also trying …

Mathematics often deal in abstractions, and "God" may be used as a linguistic abstraction for ideal or perfect knowledge. It's a shorthand in writing casually about the most elegan…

I see many comments here asserting that RCV is "fundamentally sound" and that there is proof that it satisfies at least strategyproofness (in the sense of Cooperative Game Theory a…

Thanks for the reply! And apologies I didn't realize the autocorrect on my phone turned "PvNP" to "PnP". I'll read up on the recent works you mentioned here. Appreciate the link to…

I'd just first like to say that I love reading your work. I'm always delighted when I see an update on Shtetl-Optimized and I admire how you are both simultaneously rigorous and fu…

Interledger and other such protocols are designed to facilitate exchanges across distributed ledger networks. The underlying whitepaper this article is based on mentions Interledge…

Wow, to me this read completely differently. More like a primadonna, making knee jerk judgments and contemptuously bandying about his authority. The impressive character was Carmac…

Boy, the logic in this article is bad. PoW is not the only solution to the BFT. PBFT PoS, DPoS, etc are all "solutions", in that they represent a series of tradeoffs to achieve con…

Haven't checked directly but from comments above seems they are profitable in terms of cash flows?

I haven't reviewed yet but from the synopses above, it sounds like they are generating FCF / are cashflow positive? "Profitability" can mean many things (FCF, NI, EBIT, EBITDA, OIB…

If you don't mind sharing your company name or some anonymized form of contact info if you prefer, there are people here who can help, assuming your biz/opportunity is legit.

This is an outstanding comment. Few people understand what Buffet and Munger mean when they discuss "moat" and even fewer understand the importance of cost of capital in BK's inves…