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I think your valuing of moves is flawed. Yes, during the fuseki the best move may be worth 20 points. But there are often many moves that may be worth 19 or 18 points. So, playing …

I think the point the poster you're responding to was making is this: If people lose their money quickly to bots/collusion/cheating (or simply skilled players), they will quickly r…

Similarly: > Lastly, I = AC means that we can’t tell the difference between doing nothing at all, compared to adding an egg and adding nuts on top. But test 0 and test 2 are doing …

If the whole list was sorted last, then first, "Alpine Linux" wouldn't appear first.

Time dilation! Time is relative. For an outside observer, over 1000 years pass, but aboard the ship, much less time passes. There are calculators for this, e.g. at [0]. If you cons…

You can replace Ctrl+k, ESC, ESC with Ctrl+L, I think.

What helped me overcome the dreadful empty mail window was using a brainstorming / editing approach: 1. Using a different editor to write the draft, to prevent the immediate negati…

Beside the difference in scale, there are also different incentives. The bartender typically doesn't sell your data. They probably don't have a list of favourite drinks which they …

Discussions on the BBC article about the incident: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27468766 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27462952

I know this idea is a little ridiculous, but it just popped into my head: what about using one of those rubber ducky USB keys that pretend they're a keyboard and enter certain keys…

Using `dosbox .` skips two steps by mounting the current directory (at least on linux where I tried it)

I remember minikanren being able to generate expressions that evaluate to a value. In general, I guess the search space of all algorithms that might or might not solve a problem is…