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nilslindemann

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nilslindemann··on Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge
And how we would react if it catched her and put her in a small cage.
nilslindemann··on Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge
Even if you are an endangered species, humans wont leave you alone.
nilslindemann··on Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players
Does UBI not mean that one does _not_ have to worry about finding enough food to survive?
nilslindemann··on Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players
But the robot needs to have an AI brain to be able to do more than just very specialized work.
nilslindemann··on Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players
Yes, that too. Point being that AI is not supposed to think for us but to work for us.
nilslindemann··on Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players
I am not sure. When the market demands robots, there will be people who develop robots.
nilslindemann··on Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players
I find Sony's work valuable. In my opinion, the primary purpose of AI is still, first and foremost, to relieve us of the physical labor we don't want to do. The next step to be taken is to create a universal basic income. Evolution will then unfold, as creative people will be able to dedicate their whole life undisturbed to the problems they deem important.

Here a video where one can actually see the robot in action:

https://youtu.be/lWp6XNHaWRk

nilslindemann··on M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan
https://i.imgur.com/WJ0NM1J.png
nilslindemann··on TX Tesla driver narrowly avoids disaster when autopilot engages at RR crossing
Three animated blue squares on a dark background, fascinating.
nilslindemann··on EU Age Verification Solution
What about users with no smart phone?
nilslindemann··on Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game
Not Open Source but still/now free to play (these are my favs, I played them through back and forth):

- Trackmania Nations Forever (e.g. via Steam) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj2u2OrZ2vI

- Starcraft Brood War - though I have not tested it via the battlenet.exe, played it when it still was payware.

- Gemcraft Labyrinth - played it when flash was a thing, but now it is again, e.g. on Armorgames

And, I got games like Portal 1 & 2, Outer Wilds, Osmos, Manifold Garden, Planet Crafter and many more for under ten, some for under five Euros each when they were on special offer on Steam. I once got Just Cause 3 for three Euros.

nilslindemann··on CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font
1. What does "choose" choose?

2. What does "press arrow" do?

3. Do "choose" and "press arrow" do the same or do they do different things?

nilslindemann··on Obsolete Sounds
It took me a few clicks to figure out what played those sounds. The background images of the play buttons aren't helpful in visually clarifying their function. Otherwise: Good idea, keep it up!
nilslindemann··on Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events
Only logical result is Transgender Olympics
nilslindemann··on Fyn: An uv fork with new features, bug fixes, stripped telemetry
They are all anachronisms, as they have no GUIs, just commands to be typed into a REPL.
nilslindemann··on Migrating to the EU
Yes, how is Proton a US controlled company? At least in the German Wikipedia they sound like a group of saints.
nilslindemann··on Can I run AI locally?
1. More title attributes please ("S 16 A 7 B 7 C 0 D 4 F 34", huh?)

2. Add a 150% size bonus to your site.

Otherwise, cool site, bookmarked.

nilslindemann··on 5,200 holes carved into a Peruvian mountain left by an ancient economy
Has the "Gargantua Wasps" theory already been ruled out?
nilslindemann··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
You are misreading him there. Read the thread again.
nilslindemann··on Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better
This will only be an ethical tool when everyone is honest about the fact that an AI is moderating, and people can reedit their posts. If you give admins the option to disable reediting, in order to hide that an AI is controlling, then they will do. And then it's a tool for suppression of free speech.
nilslindemann··on I found a vulnerability. they found a lawyer
Correct you are.
nilslindemann··on I found a vulnerability. they found a lawyer
AFAIK, what this dude did - running a script which tries every password and actually accessing personal data of other people – is illegal in Germany. The reasoning is, just because a door of a car which is not yours is open you have no right to sit inside and start the motor. Even if you just want to honk the horn to inform the guy that he has left the door open.

https://www.nilsbecker.de/rechtliche-grauzonen-fuer-ethische...

nilslindemann··on Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship
It is also not extraordinary to do that.

I have achieved these results around 2015, sitting at home, relaxed. I was not in a match situation observed by millions. Such a situation can knowingly lead to blunders like Kramniks overlook of mate in 2.

I also sometimes "cheated" by aborting the game when I was tired and continuing it the next day (if at all). That's what the player in a match can not do.

I also sometimes restarted a game at a specific position. Can also not be done in a match. Finally, they used better hardware in these matches. I had eight threads on my old Laptop and I used four of them. The Laptop itself was bought around 2005. Between 2000 and approximately 2020 I trained every day and I was on my peak. I am still around 2400 on Lichess today, without training.

So, I hope it does not sound that extraordinary any more. It isn't. Maybe it is now, but not then.

nilslindemann··on Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship
It is called Placement chess, you can play it on PyChess. [1]

As far as I know no tournament ever used this rule.

[1] https://www.pychess.org/variants/placement

nilslindemann··on Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship
Ah okay.
nilslindemann··on Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship
A fair match has never been played between humans and computers. Let's say we have a fair match:

    * 100 games, to have some statistical relevance.
    * One move per day, so that being tired is no disadvantage (engine can ponder all day).
    * Human has access to endgame tablebases and opening databases, like the engine.
    * Human can make notes and has a software like Chess Position Trainer, which can min max, like the engine.
If the human is a GM with Elo 2700+ I predict 25 draws and 5 wins for the human. The engine wins 70 games.
nilslindemann··on Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship
Well, there is nothing I can do to prove to you that I did, as I can not travel into the past taking you with me. I know, I did win two or three games and drew approximately 25 out of approximately 500 training games. But I can not prove it. You have to believe or not.
nilslindemann··on Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship
The only bet I would take is that I can draw against Stockfish. But I am in general not betting. I also don't have the time currently.
nilslindemann··on Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015
Why can you use CSS conventions in only one project?
nilslindemann··on Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship
@josephg (for reasons I do not know there is no reply link below your post)

Sure, some people are cheaters. Some are not. There is no personal win in cheating against Stockfish. Usually strong players do it for training purposes, or to entertain their watchers when they stream. I actually remember having seen one who did that, and he drew. That was a party.

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