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I played chess religiously as a kid. I attended chess clubs, went to private tutoring, and completed in U.S. Chess Federation tournaments. I even have a few trophies in my room that I'm still proud of.

Some time in high school, while studying openings and their variations, I was curious if computers would ever beat the great Grand Masters regularly and consistently. It seemed to me that the key to this success would be a full comprehension of knowing which opening to start with, how to respond to your oponent's opening, and how deeply that opening variation was memorized.

So, it wasn't surprising to me to learn that the Grand Masters are Grand Masters because of their memorization of opening sequences, the depth of that memorization, and when to use which variation.

Then while studying old games played by the masters, I saw a trend that disturbed me: more and more, Grand Master games were ending in draws. I recall reading an article recently that more than 50% of said games are draws.

This bothers me for two reasons: first, that the game is designed so poorly, that draws can occur as frequently as they do. But, more disturbing, is knowing that they are ending in draws because of a mastery on the opening game.

I am no longer a chess proponent, and won't play it when asked (although that might change if my daughter wants to learn). The only chess I will play is Chess960, by Robert Fischer, where the back row is randomized to 1 of 960 possible starting positions. This way, the game is less sensitive to opening sequence memorization, but on more on basic tactical strategy, such as control of the center board, when to pull out your queen, and how knights can compliment bishops.

Now, I'm a large advocate of Go. The game is much more strategy based and less memorization (although there are a good amount of tsumego and joseki that should be memorized, and you should know opening theory). But, due to the size of the board, the games are considerably different, and it is less sensitive to tactics. Thus, draws occur mostly based on evenly matched strategies, and less on cognitive capacity.

Another game I am enjoying is the currently developed Tak by James Ernest (http://tinyurl.com/takgameks (link to Kickstarter campaign (I'm not a paid schill, I just enjoy the game))). A simpler game than chess and go to explain, yet deep with strategy, and new enough, that patterns and sequences are still being studied.

Don't get me wrong. Chess is entertaining. I am glad there are people that enjoy it, teach it, and play it. It's just no longer for me. Again, unless the game is Chess960.
I constantly read this piece and talk to people about it. It is quite the experience to see their eyes open up when they realize that there might be a hint of a possibility of such scenario being real. Us being the result of some other intelligent specie flipping the switch ON. Thanks for posting it.
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> They are reductions of reality

Sure, but that doesn't mean they don't match reality. It just means they don't match all of reality; they leave information out. Of course all of our models have to leave information out, I agree with that. But that's a separate question from the question of whether the information a given model includes matches the portion of reality it is intended to model--or, better, to how good an approximation a given model matches the portion of reality it is intended to model. That's the whole point of Asimov's essay.
I had a fun experience in the Dominican Republic once: There was no official coverage of the island at that time, but I was able to get a map for my Garmin from some shady Russian website. The roads were accurate for the most part, but they were lacking all of the metadata like highway size, speed, direction, etc. We used it to drive from our resort to another town down the coast, and lacking all of that data, the Garmin just routed us through the shortest path, which turned out to be a country road out in the hills that eventually disappeared. Luckily I was able to ask some bemused farmers how to get to the right road - basically drive 20 miles back and get on the highway.
Because they're a monopolistic entity with unprecedented control of information flow. Nothing quite like this has ever existed. It's in the public interest that it be regulated precisely because it can control the outcome of elections and other behaviors that are functionally essential in a society.
I travel by tiny backroads whenever possible - often dirt, frequently by motorcycle, and sometimes in third world countries. I love the GPS because it allows me to have a reasonable expectation that these crazy little roads will go through.

I've found one "master" secret to not getting lost: Get rid of all that 3D garbage and put the map in overhead view, north up. It takes a tiny bit of practice getting used to the dynamic meaning of Left and Right but you build up a geospatial awareness and can usually tell when the GPS is getting stupid.
> the only real urban areas that exist in the USA are in SF and NYC

I wonder where I was living then, since I've lived in several urbanized parts of the U.S., where I walked or took public transportation everywhere, but have never lived in either of those two cities. :-)
The problem would vanish if we moved from city living to small town living. We only have city living because everyone needs to get to their office which created high density housing near the city centre and urban sprawl everywhere else; both of those things would not be a problem if we moved away from city living and focussed on smaller towns instead; that way we could still have services centralised to a local community that works for everyone rather than having millions of people in one place which cause extreme mental distress for many people (see the mental health crisis).

I commute through the city, if one person crashes their car it impacts thousands of people getting home on time to see their kids before bedtime, how is that a nice way to live?
that idea only make sense if you claim there is a true interpretation of reality. The only way thats the case is if there is a designer who designed it to be understood in a specific way.

Otherwise no model can be representing reality in any objective way they can per definition only be interpretations (The map is not the territory).

Reality don't care about true or false models. Reality has no evolution or planets or black holes. These are all interpretations at a very specific scale from a very specific perspective.
Maybe not (or may be, I suppose) what parent was referring to, but consider the following possibility:

"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a nonlinear, nonsubjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff." -- The Doctor [1]

To be a bit more serious, causality in general is (by some accounts) an open philosophical problem. That is, there's no generally accepted proof (and not even really a concept of what would prove or disprove) that causality actually exists as an independent rule/law/standard/phenomenon, as opposed to being an abstraction of correlation that we made up to reason about our decisions [2]. For all we know it may be that an effect without a cause violates merely our intuitions, not the laws of nature.

[1] Doctor Who S03E10 - Blink

[2] http://www.iep.utm.edu/hume-cau/
This is interesting, but also a little discouraging. Coming from a background of Python and JavaScript, and using a little bit of Elixir (which also supports macros) lately, the power of macros for defining DSLs is the main draw for me.

As an example, I've been using GraphQL quite heavily for the last 8 months, primarily with JavaScript and i've found it to be a fairly tedious experience. I tried out an Elixir GraphQL library that's heavily based on macros and was almost immediately more productive - despite not even knowing the language.

Similarly, coming up with a nice API for working with forms seems to be pretty much impossible with JavaScript. I've evaluated dozens, and not one comes close to the simplicity of Django's forms (which is only possible thanks to Python's metaclass magic).

Having sampled the power of languages with macros, I'm naturally drawn to Clojure, simply because it has a very decent JavaScript implementation. I'm sure there are other very good reasons for using the language, but right now macros are the motivation.

I'd like to understand why one would need 10 years of lisp experience before starting to author their own macros, it feels like a philosophy that's just going to stop people trying out lisp.
Looking at my P9, those are torx screws, soo... this author didn't do his homework.

At the same time, I agree. I bought the phone from overseas and hadn't seen it before. When it arrived, I couldn't believe how much it looked like the iPhone, and that disappoints me. Not because I don't think it's a great phone, I just wish they would have thought for themselves.

Back when everybody was copying the Macbook Air, I got a Lenovo U260. It was the only ultrabook I found that had it's own unique design. 7 years on, it still works and looks great. It doesn't have the dated look of something that has been seen a million times before. It doesn't get confused with something that is out of fashion.

I'm not going to pretend that I don't care. I do. I care not only because I'm not an Apple fan, and it feels like every Apple copy helps to promote the Apple mentality and marketing. More importantly, the Apple design isn't the only way to build a phone. I don't believe there is anything 'magical' about this design. Like most Apple designs, I find it pedestrian bordering on boring. My favorite hardware design is my ZuneHD. The angles and indents feel so good. it has a tactile feel, it isn't just a block of aluminium with carved rounded edges.

I wish manufacturers would look at different materials. I quite like Lenovo's soft-touch on their laptops, bamboo is also a nice warm material (not sure about heat dissipation).

Copy, yes last screw, no.
I'm not sure the new design is a good thing because using Emacs is like entering another world. If newbies have the impression that it's just another editor like all the others with fancy websites they will be quickly disappointed. On the other hand, if they are looking for something that challenges their understanding of what an editor, or software for that matter, should be then they may be motivated to overcome more hurdles such as an archaic homepage.
I do not believe this is true. The way they arrive at such numbers is to assume that a highway between San Francisco and Los Angeles is there for the benefit of people in the Central Valley. It's not. There are significant services built outside urban cores for the benefit of people in urban cores.
> By your "fewer restrictions" logic, permissive licenses would be the ones most copyleft

Please don't strawman me. I already explained how there's two different freedoms that copyleft licenses seek to protect, and it's perfectly valid for someone to care only about the first freedom but not the second, and for such a person the GPLv2 is superior.

> Most GPLv2 bias which isn't caused by Linux' licensing is due to the kind of FUD you've perpetuated in this thread, not any actual issue with GPLv3.

Contrary to what you may believe, FUD is not defined as "any opinion you disagree with". And by calling my arguments FUD instead of actually trying to address the points I made, you're just telling me that you can't actually argue against what I said so you'd rather try and discredit me.
Why? Voting only has influence in aggregate.
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I hear you, but I think enforcing compliance would be impossible not dissimilar to the "Evil bit".
Hopefully they will get UI data. Even the best of current generation of GPS are awful to use if you want to force it to take specific routes. Even analysing the route the GPS is building for you is not often easy and in any case a lot of the metadata is not available visually before the fact. For example, you will get the same symbol for a 4 lanes national road or a 2 lane one. No way to tell the difference on the map as they are the same road category, however, the GPS knows the difference ( it has lane information, different exit strategies, speed limitation difference, ...) but doesn't display it.

When the car primary control is the GPS that better change.
To me the relationship between NYT and FB (or any other content creator and FB) is not very different from that of freelancer content writers and content companies like Demand Media, of eHow and Livestrong fame. The only difference is that content published in FB, either by users or sponsored, gets to keep its branding, whereas content freelancer are ghosts - although most people I know share content in FB with total disregard to the source. It's sad to see how quality content creators like NYT now get to share the wall with unscrupulous ones. To all effects, FB is turning news into a commodity.
1. This reduces the overall cost by some small percentage but I doubt it actually makes it free

2. In theory this is correct, are there any studies that actually show productivity gains for companies in this respect? (I think the real reason for this is because a lot of the valley companies are in the middle of nowhere and therefore it's not really feasible for employees to go looking for food). I recently visited the HQ of my company in Silicon Valley and I was not impressed by how far it was from everything else.
Any chance you could export the slides to a PDF or similar?

It looks like the reveal.js pdf export function of appending /reveal-js?print-pdf to the URL seems to be broken.

EDIT: Thanks to someone in the comments below who linked to the PDF, it was 28MB so I compressed it down to 1.7MB here (image quality wont be as good but meh): https://www.dropbox.com/s/8bu3rkj6pjbneiv/giant-bags-of-most...
I live in a Bay Area suburb and would not move to SF. Why do you ask?
It's been mentioned that their USB-serial converters are PICs that failed tests of other peripherals:

http://hackaday.com/2011/01/18/mcp2200-usb-to-serial-chip-ha...

One of the code samples they have on the site is a USB-serial converter, so it is likely to be running that firmware too.
> All I need is a download link.

A download link is less useful if you want to find out about an editor vs just trying it (especially with Emacs when you first open the program, the killer features are not immediately apparent).

The old site showed a change log, which seems much for like a site for current users than a site for new users.
I really can't wait till more people figure this out. Using html for documents again is going to be very powerful and freeing for those who adopt it.
You're confusing physical access with ownership. If I have physical access to a device, that does not mean I should have the power to install compromised software on it, because it may not be my device at all.

This is a surprisingly common oversight that the hardware freedom crowd keeps ignoring. I don't understand why so many people just implicitly assume that physical access means security should be thrown out the window.
Oh, you're a legend, no more reveal.js thanks for the link!

EDIT: It was 28MB so I compressed it down to 1.7MB here (image quality wont be as good but meh): https://www.dropbox.com/s/8bu3rkj6pjbneiv/giant-bags-of-most...
All you coders out there say it with me: "cost function".

Really, is that so hard? I see a lot of comments about what is going to happen when robotic cars do this. Well, every roboticist I know, and I know a big bunch of them, is well acquainted with the concept of having a cost-map overlay on the world map. And it is not only OK, but common, to have infinite cost assigned to many nodes -- "Don't go there robot, you will not be a happy robot."

So why does the GPS database have poorly assigned cost values on certain road segments? Perhaps because QA de-prioritizes little-traveled roads?

But more to the point -- I'll get out of roboticist mode and into seasoned backwoods traveler mode for a moment -- don't go where you are not prepared to go. Look at a paper map, ask a local at the gas station about conditions, and if the road ends up bruising your kidneys, turn back.
That doesn't solve the problem since heat and cold don't choose to be present or absent while God does.
For whatever it's worth, I found this explanation useful, at least when rendered visually, when first encountering this stuff.

But clearly the geometric viewpoint isn't important to everybody, because the author of the post would have mentioned it if so!

See also, maybe: http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Galton/imagery.htm http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/23/science/aphantasia-minds-e... https://www.facebook.com/notes/blake-ross/aphantasia-how-it-...
And, other religions might insist that the problem of evil has nothing to do with "God" and everything to do with humanity, and that "God" is beyond good and evil.

Or, in the case of some older religions, they just accept that the gods are spiteful and cruel.
No it's not - there are very few companies that live and die by this - it;s not in any job spec I've ever seen and even if this is true for some companies, I never claimed this would work for all companies. You have cherry picked one thing from my overall argument.
I'm curious if Estonia is a decent alternative to registering in Delaware. Are investors as comfortable investing in an Estonian company as Delaware? If the tax system is easier (my 'representative' cancelled my account in Delaware this year without notifying me, so my taxes sat there, cheque as the tax department but unable to be applied to the account).

I'm seriously considering moving a new company elsewhere. What else should I consider? What considerations do you make when deciding where to incorporate?
In this case, it's like going from "the stingray told us you were in the house" to "we interviewed your neighbors and they say you were in the house". Interviewing neighbors is legitimate and can be used as evidence, but they wouldn't have interviewed them at all if they didn't use the stingray.
"Arduino as GPIO" on google leads to this:

https://github.com/BLavery/virtual-GPIO

Looks like it's become the "mainstream" implementation since last time I looked.

Honestly, I don't see much gain in using something like this in "production". After you hack something together, carrying a PC around with it isn't comfortable[1].
It may be useful for prototyping, but the arduino IDE is pretty good by itself. I have never actually needed a GPIO firmware. But it's there.

[1] In my 3D printer, that I really couldn't get away with it, I plugged a rPI with a wifi module so it can stay far away. I have a project where I will need a PCIe bus, this one bothers me.
Wikipedia has some good animations of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zier_curve#Constructing...
The doctrine is subject to four main exceptions. The tainted evidence is admissible if:

> the chain of causation between the illegal action and the tainted evidence is too attenuated; or
I guess it all depends on what you want. From my perspective suburbia has all the advantages of both without the disadvantages.
To absorb the first shock they have to lengthen. To act as a normal seatbelt afterwards again, they would have to shorten again to properly restrain you. They might not have enough time for that.

(All just speculation.)
If you like both the content and the tone of this post, you'll probably also like Christopher Alexander's _A Timeless Way Of Building_ and _A Pattern Language_, which has a similar tone and topic, but with a broader sweep.
> the three dimensional world of aircraft.

No, that's not how it works.

En route airways are 3d, but approaches are 2d and landings are 1d. Large US airports are already at capacity, and above capacity in poor visibility conditions (like fog at SFO.)

Also, trains can just add more engines and cars.
Thanks. A world without causality surly seems absurd. However, i'm sure dogs feel the same way about physics.

On many things it just comes down to a choice of the world you want to live in.
Don't forget writing malware to help attack anonymizing software! http://www.dailydot.com/politics/government-contractor-tor-m...
I think this article is poorly descriptive of most of the older and most popular Chicago suburbs, but very well describes the Chicago "exurbs" and the Atlanta sprawl suburbs. So to me, it's not that the author is wrong, so much as semantically imprecise with the word "suburb".
> took all of our municipal water supply

Can you expand on this a bit? Do you mean to say when you turn on the tap in the kitchen nothing comes out and that you are no longer able to use the shower or flush the toilet?
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The worst part is that there was one GPS manufacturer who actually did implement the feature you're talking about: http://cdn.itechnews.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Navigon-...

They were summarily purchased by Garmin and their devices are no longer for sale. The only remnant of their awesome Lane Assist Pro feature is in $30 GPS navigation apps.

It's really too bad.

But hey, if you're a clever person who knows how to code, please file a PR for this feature for Maps.me: https://github.com/mapsme/omim
I believe and trust that no one is trying to diminish the suffering. But within that I still feel there is condescension when someone describes the idea of investigating a person's symptoms as directly reported "Chasing down rabit-holes by pretending the anxiety is something /else/". There is way more certainty and dismissal in that attitude than anybody has justified in my opinion.

Don't get me wrong, I understand if investigating the direct symptoms might not be practical under some circumstances. But saying it's useless and "pretending" goes too far IMO.

> But these things tend to self limit. Ann says she has chronic fatigue. She undergoes some psychological therapy. She gets some relief from her symptoms. A bunch of people in the CFS organisation now shun Ann, and tell her that she didn't have real CFS.

I don't see how this scenario answers my question. Your story suggests that their is social pressure to resist the idea that the condition is treatable. It doesn't explain what would prevent an expanding scope for where the condition is identified.
I once asked a few angels whether higher preferences increase the startups valuation, surprisingly they told me no.

I'm guessing they view it as more of a reactionary tool against the founders desired valuation

Also... is it just me or does participation and preference combined seem a bit sharky?
Tariffs are not profitable. Deadweight losses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadweight_loss
Mass transit has problems that lead me to prefer that single occupancy vehicle known as a bicycle. Even in the snow.
I've found s-expressions to be one of my favorite things about Clojure. I understand that many people dislike them, and that many people get used to them, but I loved the syntax from the get go.