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yeellow
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Comment #45764994
From my recent experience I believe you can train your mental vision, at least to some extent. I play chess and the ability to imagine a position and moves in your head is quite co…
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Comment #43616048
I've been using this app and its Android version for years (there is also one for iOS) and I've never found anything close. Too bad that the project seems to be abandoned. It's a p…
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Comment #43549890
And a link to the website if you want to check older issues (in Polish): https://www.deltami.edu.pl/
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Comment #43549859
Delta is a pretty special magazine about math, physics, and astronomy that’s been around for over 50 years. What makes it cool is that even though it’s meant for high schoolers, th…
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Comment #42770191
Even though I code for a living and mostly enjoy the process, I’ve spent the last few nights with Cursor, migrating my old C# project to Python. I decided to do it without providin…
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Comment #39973736
I recommend goQuest (mobile app), and playing 9x9 go. I used to play on KGS, but it is less crowded now (the problem is that there are too many servers: OGS, IGS, Tygem, Wbadul, et…
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Comment #38848873
Total Commander (well, it was Windows Commander back then) and I use it daily till today. The best purchase ever.
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Comment #35669845
The problem is that we want names with distinct first letter for the simple chess notation and "horse" and "queen" conflict with "king" and each other.
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Comment #35637748
"I mean, in your example, how can the first "infinite bus" ever empty in the first place to fill up the infinite hotel?" This is easy, you need to shout at the people so each perso…
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Comment #34125915
Can you give some examples of this "ample historical evidence"? I saw quite convincing video recently where a guy goes through all, known to him, sources and debunks them ( https:/…
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Comment #33814540
Very nice surprise from Google, my daughter is delighted, she rushed to her computer to make a game. It's brilliant.
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Comment #33671133
Lucas chess is chess GUI, not an engine, but it comes with many different engines, some even tuned to different grandmasters styles. I am not sure what you meant by "learning how y…
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Comment #33669083
I've found this program a few months ago when I was looking for non-web free chess software for windows. There are surprisingly few options, mostly outdated and with unpleasant int…
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Comment #33108558
Yes, of course he knew that all occurrences are equally probable, but he took into consideration what other people bet. Anyway as I remember when asked about that strategy few year…
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Comment #33105382
I read once about a famous mathematician who claimed that whenever he plays lottery he chooses the sequence 1,2,3,4,5,6 because nobody else would. Also it seems strange that so man…
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Comment #32673917
Indeed, very interesting. Imagine the (not so distant) future web populated with ai generated gibberish that would be indistinguishable form the real thing. It could make English u…
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Comment #32526167
For each human being having GI there are many tasks that person won't be able to perform. For example proving math theorems, doing research in physics, writing a poem, etc. Specyfi…
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Comment #31638925
Thanks, it's a bit unexpected. How good is Power Point for math intensive animations? I am not sure I could easily (or at all) recreate most of the demos from mainm repo, but maybe…
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Comment #31637902
Can you recommend any alternative?