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SethTro··on Alphazero crushes Stockfish in 1,000 game match
They are available in the appendix but here's one of them: https://lichess.org/IVW0T4Jd
SethTro··on Alphazero crushes Stockfish in 1,000 game match
They used the same config as TCEC.

"Stockfish was configured according to its 2016 TCEC world championship superfinal settings: 44 threads on 44 cores (two 2.2GHz Intel Xeon Broadwell CPUs with 22 cores), a hash size of 32GB, syzygy endgame tablebases, at 3 hour time controls with 15 additional seconds per move"

SethTro··on International System of Units overhauled in historic vote
The Doubleclicks write a song about the IPK, the international prototype kilogram, and how it must feel about this.

https://youtu.be/VHd4HPmz5aE

SethTro··on 25 Most Valuable Startups That Failed This Year
A couple of these had smaller max valuations than amount raised this seems independent of year founded.

What's the explanation? Several funding rounds with high burn rate? ...

SethTro··on VirtualBox E1000 Guest-to-Host Escape
I enjoyed reading the author's motivation for posting as a 0day vs Bug bounty.

https://github.com/MorteNoir1/virtualbox_e1000_0day#why

SethTro··on CppCon: Designing a Fast, Efficient, Cache-Friendly Hash Table (2017)
Blog post: https://abseil.io/blog/20180927-swisstables

Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/9jhk7r/swiss_tables_an...

SethTro··on I simulated California housing and learned about simulators
I really Identified with 'Is simulation "real science"?'

IMO it's no small wonder that AI look and feel human to us. As a heuristic we've prematurely discarded all the ones that don't.

SethTro··on Pixelblaze V2 – An advanced LED pattern development engine and controller
I'm working on several medium sized LED projects and am curious if anyone has a guide or links to buying WS2812 or similar strands.

I've bought a ~10 of these https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ZHB9M6A/ref=oh_aui_sear... but I would love to find a slightly cheaper source. Alibaba seems to sell them at half the cost but product titles, photos, and descriptions don't ever seem to match

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