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email: samuel.le@gmail.com

currently working on a web app to help junior high school students with math: http://magako.com

I am based in Barcelona, feel free to ping me if you want to meet there.

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www.sciencenews.org 3y ago

Brain wires itself to match your native language

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tarides.com 4y ago

OCaml Labs Joins Tarides

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en.chessbase.com 4y ago

Magnus Carlsen retains title after winning lopsided match

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daily.jstor.org 4y ago

Black Radicalism’s Complex Relationship with Japanese Empire (2018)

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www.theguardian.com 5y ago

Vast underground ecosystem containing billions of micro-organisms (2018)

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twitter.com 5y ago

Ian Nepomniachtchi to Challenge Magnus Carlsen for the World Chess Championship

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old.reddit.com 5y ago

I started lichess, ask me anything

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www.theguardian.com 6y ago

Contact-tracing and peer pressure: how Japan has controlled coronavirus

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en.wikipedia.org 6y ago

Fast Inverse Square Root

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www.coloring-book.co 7y ago

Illustrating Group Theory: A Coloring Book (2017)

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www.theguardian.com 7y ago

Want to tackle inequality? Then first change our land ownership laws

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www.theguardian.com 7y ago

I met my Islamophobic troll

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www.cnbc.com 7y ago

One of the biggest mistakes parents are making when raising their children

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en.wikipedia.org 7y ago

Victor Lustig, the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower

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en.chessbase.com 7y ago

Monte Carlo instead of Alpha-Beta for chess programs?

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nikoli.co.jp 7y ago

Nikoli Puzzles

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www.theguardian.com 7y ago

Amsterdam seeks to ban buy-to-let on newbuild homes

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en.chessbase.com 7y ago

Monte-Carlo instead of Alpha Beta search for chess programs?

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old.reddit.com 7y ago

I helped Google screw over James Damore

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www.orangecoast.com 7y ago

Center of the Universe

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www.theguardian.com 7y ago

In 2012, North Carolina banned policies based on sea level rise forecasts

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github.com 7y ago

A curated collection of OCaml tools, frameworks, libraries and articles

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www.quantamagazine.org 7y ago

A number theorist who bridges math and time

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www.theguardian.com 8y ago

Trump: soft Brexit will 'kill' UK's chances of US trade deal

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m.xkcd.com 8y ago

Containers

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twitter.com 8y ago

Fabiano Caruana to Challenge Magnus Carlsen for the World Championship Match

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www.newyorker.com 8y ago

Einstein's boyhood proof of the Pythagorean theorem (2015)

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Show HN: Spendbook, a web app to track your expenses

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www.tanyakhovanova.com 8y ago

Main list of math “coffin” problems

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www.codementor.io 9y ago

I Just Finished a Company’s Coding Challenge, and Here’s What I Learned

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Hi, I would be interested to help a bit, as I think human trafficking is disgusting and should be stopped. Do you have a contact detail - my personal email is in my HN profile)?

I played three games and lost them all. It's as you said, I felt that in the opening they knew something I didn't and they entered quickly in my camp. The strange thing is that when I played last year, I didn't have that feeling at all, the games felt pretty even - I won one game because my opponent resigned after I declined his draw offer.

If you want we can play some games some day. My email is in my profile if you're interested.

I don't have the source, but I remember read the lichess didn't want to implement other board games in their interface.

For XiangQi, I know that you can play it on playok.com (I know the rules and played a few games last time just to get the feeling, but I am more into chess and shogi...).

Try APL 5 years ago

I got a D from my professor. I questioned why and was told that it was unreadable, and that the solution was inefficient.

That is such a bad faith argument, how can a brute force solution be efficient or inefficient?

You can make it! There is already lishogi.org for shogi (Japanese chess) and lidraughts.org for draughts. They took the code for lichess and tweaked it for their respective games.

Taikyoku Shogi 6 years ago

You are right, the game could just be programmed to stop when one player is mated. The reason they didn't is, I think, to mimic the real life shogi play where the game ends when one player recognizes defeat.

Taikyoku Shogi 6 years ago

No, "checkmate" in shogi is the same as as in chess. What I meant to say is that if you are checkmated, you have to resign for the game to be over (on 81dojo). In theory, you could be a dick and not do anything until you run out of time for example, but that would be bad manner and you would be sanctioned for that.

Taikyoku Shogi 6 years ago

I also play shogi online on 81dojo like the GP. Yes, I think the penalty is meta-game: people can say you have bad manners, which will affect your "social credit" on the server, or you will banned from playing for a while if you do it too much (not sure about that).