Kazumara
@Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Galaxy S10 til the wheels come off 3 days ago:
That’s exactly why I ended up going the used Pixel 6 + adapter route instead :-)
- Comment on Galaxy S10 til the wheels come off 3 days ago:
Yeah I only found out when buying my own adapter after getting a used Pixel 6. Luckily saw it in time before ordering, so I thought I’d share it forward.
- Comment on Automation 3 days ago:
No, they can’t
- Comment on Galaxy S10 til the wheels come off 3 days ago:
There are two kinds
- the purely analogue that just connects some of the USB pins to the jack
- the digital that contain a DAC
Not all phones have the internal wiring from their internal DAC to the USB port to make the analogue type of adapter work, so watch out what you buy, if you follow SomeGuy69’s advice.
- Comment on Automation 4 days ago:
All possible moves one step from a given position sure.
But if you then take all possible resulting positions and calculate all moves from there, and then take all possible resulting positions after that second move and calculate all possible third moves from there, and so on, then the possibilities explode so much in number that you can’t calculate them anymore. That’s the exponential part I was refering to.
You can try and estimate them roughly, let’s say you’re somewhere in the middle of the game, there are 12 units of each side still alive. About half a pawns so we take 1.2 possible moves for them, for the others, well let’s say around 8, thats a bit much for horses and the king on average, but probably a bit low for other units. So 6 times 8 and 6 times 1.2, lets call it 55 possibilities. So the first move there are 55 possible positions, for the second you have to consider all of them and their new possibilitues so there are 55 times 55 or 3025, for the third thats 166375, then 9.15 million, 500 million, 27.6 billion, 1.5 trillion etc. That last one was only 7 moves in the future. Most games won’t be finished by then from a given position, so you either need a scoring function or you’re running out of time.
- Comment on Automation 5 days ago:
You don’t use it for the rule-set and allowable moves, but to score board positions.
For a chess computer calculating all possible moves until the end of the game is not possible in the given time, because the number of potential moves grows exponentially with each further move. So you need to look at a few, and try to reject bad ones early, so that you only calculate further along promising paths.
So you need to be able to say what is a better board position and what is a worse one. It’s complex to determine - in general - whether a position is better than another. Of course it is, otherwise everyone would just play the “good” positions, and chess would be boring like solved games e.g. Tic-Tac-Toe.
Now to have your chess computer estimate board positions you can construct tons of rules and heuristics with expert knowledge to hopefully assign sensible values to positions. People do this. But you can also hope that there is some machine learnable patterns in the data that you can discover by feeding historical games and the information on who won into an ML model. People do this too. I think both are fair approaches in this instance.
- Comment on Fuck the law 1 week ago:
I’m not sure we’re thinking of the same hypothetical here…
I’m saying if you bring chicken to the cinema, and the staff (citizens) arrest you for it, they are beyond wrong. Because it’s oviously not illegal to bring chicken to the cinema, only against policy and therefore it would be false imprisonment.
- Comment on Fuck the law 1 week ago:
Yes, sure, but norimee is right, they can’t arrest you. If they do arrest you for it, it’s false improsinment and they’ll get arrested instead.
- Comment on no it do not 2 weeks ago:
I think those are two entirely different days, and the second day the friendly neighborhood field office agents brought the printout of the first day with them to confront CoreyPilat over his vague threat towards federal officers.
So the remote being on his kitchen countertop is just random coincidence and does not figure into the continuity between the two posts.
- Comment on Justice for our boy 2 weeks ago:
To me it reads like the author forgot there were depressants and stimulants that are not controlled. But I wouldn’t take that as a sign that the sentence only applies to the subset of controlled depressants or stimulants.
- Comment on Anon knows what he likes 3 weeks ago:
When I visit places, tasting the food is a big part of the interesting experience to me.
- Comment on The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered on PC has been ready for at least seven months, it’s claimed | VGC 3 weeks ago:
The Last of Us Part I released last year in March. Part II isn’t out yet.
- Comment on This woman donated her nose to this man. 4 weeks ago:
No sympathy for monarchs.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like any web browsers 1 month ago:
Firefox actually doesn’t break. And it’s also not Chrome with a layer of paint. So that’s the obvious solution. Degoogled Chromium is the other.
- Comment on penguins 2 months ago:
Here, I found the original, unfortnuately on Instagram: www.instagram.com/alwaysyzy/p/C5KdNvmrJiT