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The state space of chess is so huge that even a giant training set would be a _very_ sparse sample of the stockfish-computed value function.

So the network still needs to do some impressive generalization in order to „interpolate“ between those samples.

I think so, anyway (didn‘t read the paper but worked on alphazero-like algorithms for a few years)

For comparison, car liability insurance in germany typically has a coverage limit of 50 or 100M € (not sure about potential caps per victim though). There is also a legal minimum of 7.5M.

I believe that for a species, longer generations means slower evolutionary adaptation to environmental changes.

(at least for our bodies, our hardware. Ideas/technology can iterate somewhat independently.) (longer lifespan and short generations would probably have caused resource shortages at various points in the past)

Some providers promise to build new renewable capacity that matches the consumption of their customers (not sure about the timeframe). I'm not aware of any provider that builds the required storage too, though

Milk with a multi-month shelf live can't be fresh, I believe. The fresh (mildly processed) milk I know turns bad within about a week, the "extended shelf life" stuff that was introduced a couple of years ago (in Germany) lasts for a few weeks. There is also "H Milch" which tastes very differend and can be stored at room temperature for several months.

I'd like to prefer DDG...

but recently I noticed what seem to be blind spots on many (maybe less popular?) topics. e.g. I can't find how to setup/configure borgbackup on nixos via ddg for any of ~3-5 query variations I tried. For non-logged-in google with uBlock the relevant documentation is the first hit.

A Third Solution 6 years ago

If this concept would work in principle, covid could be reduced to scaling testing capacity. My impression is that estimates about achievable testing capacity don't assume a most-important-short-term-problem-of-mankind priority and resource allocation.

The linked article suggests a novel and much cheaper test, which would be great. But even if that didn't work out, what scale could possibly be feasible with existing tests? Pre-shortage, an RT-PCR seemed to be much cheaper than a missed day of work.

yes, e.g. thunderbird's builtin junk filter seemed much better to me. Gmail's too.

I believe I saw somewhere that fastmail's spamfilter may have a 'feature' that whitelists mails from certain senders so that spam gets through if it was forwarded via my university account.

There even was an option to tell Fastmail about these forwarding accounts, but it didn't seem to work, maybe due to multi-hop forwards.

Such compiler would require solving halting problem.

I don't think so. As long as false-negative results are acceptable. (i.e. it is ok if for some programs no proof if found even though they fulfill the specification)

Occasional false-negatives seem perfectly fine for real-world use.

seriously, are you trolling?

in general, measuring the cost of government decisions seems good.

But here, you seem to be suggesting that a) if the government acts, it should pay the income you'd had if you had kept working (and assuming corona hadn't stopped you anyway) or b) if it doesn't act, I guess you'd like to claim damages for that family member that got killed by corona because the goverent allowed the epidemic to get out of control?

I like to see autocomplete as a history

Not sure if I understand correctly:

Ctrl-r shows command history, filtered by fzf as you type

I find that particularly useful for frequent stuff that I don't bother to put in a script. Optionally add some search keywords in a trailing comment.

(might be not zsh itself, but oh-my-zsh or so)