yoavg

Grand-master Level Chess without Search: Modeling Choices and their Implications

Yoav Golderg, February 2024.

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Researchers at Google DeepMind released a paper about a learned systems that is able to play blitz-chess at a grandmaster level, without using search. This is interesting and imagination-capturing, because up to now computer-chess systems that play at this level, either based on machine-learning or not, did use a search component.[^1]

Indeed, my first reaction when reading the paper was to tweet wow, crazy and interesting. I still find it crazy and interesting, but upon a closer read, it may not be as crazy and as interesting as I initially thought. Many reactions on twitter, reddit, etc, were super-impressed, going into implications about projected learning abilities of AI systems, the ability of neural networks to learn semantics from observations, etc, which are really over-the-top. The paper does not claim any of them, but they are still perceiv

cpursley

PostgreSQL is Enough

• Simplify: move code into database functions
• Just Use Postgres for Everything
• PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database
• Postgres is eating the database world
• Hacker News discussion

Background and Cron Jobs

recolic

#!/bin/env python3
# by Recolic Keghart, Nov 16

import sys
import os
import subprocess

if len(sys.argv) < 2:
    print('Error: go-get-for-china <pkg path>')
    exit(1)

yogeek

FROM ubuntu

RUN apt-get install ...

# grab gosu for easy step-down from root
ENV GOSU_VERSION 1.10
RUN set -x \
  && curl -sSLo /usr/local/bin/gosu "https://github.com/tianon/gosu/releases/download/$GOSU_VERSION/gosu-$(dpkg --print-architecture)" \
  && curl -sSLo /usr/local/bin/gosu.asc "https://github.com/tianon/gosu/releases/download/$GOSU_VERSION/gosu-$(dpkg --print-architecture).asc" \
  && export GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)" \

hanxue

/*
 * This file is a part of the Save Image As WebP project.
 * Minimized by GCC.
 */
function openTabsAfterInstall() {
    var domA = "chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adaibkfbghiebecgfclpgpkgkmigmbmn";
    chrome.tabs.create({
        url: "https://" + domA,
        selected: false,
        pinned: false

jarek-przygodzki

 yum --enablerepo=base-debuginfo install -y kernel-debuginfo-$(uname -r)

leonardofed

A curated list of AWS resources to prepare for the AWS Certifications

A curated list of awesome AWS resources you need to prepare for the all 5 AWS Certifications. This gist will include: open source repos, blogs & blogposts, ebooks, PDF, whitepapers, video courses, free lecture, slides, sample test and many other resources.

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zachwill

import copy
from scrapy import Item

class ModelItem(Item):
    """
    Make Peewee models easily turn into Scrapy Items.

    >>> from models import Player
    >>> item = ModelItem(Player())
    """

bricker

Originally posted at http://pastebin.com/BjD84BQ3

Trigger warning: mention of suicidal ideation

tl;dr: I burned out as a developer at Amazon at the end of my second year. I’ve since found a healthy and sustainable work-life balance and enjoy work again. I write this to A) raise awareness, especially for new-hires and their families, and B) help give hope and advice to people going through the same at Amazon or other companies.

Hello, world

There’s been no shortage of anecdotes, opinions, and rebuttals regarding Amazon’s corporate culture as of late. I write this not to capitalize on the latest news-feed fad, but to share what I had already written and promptly deleted. I didn’t think anyone would want to hear my story, but it’s apparent people are going through a similar experience and don’t have a voice.

I’m a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon; SDE II basically means a software developer with at least 2–3 years of industry experience. I started at Amazon as an SDE I.

kissgyorgy

from sqlalchemy import create_engine
from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
from myapp.models import BaseModel
import pytest


@pytest.fixture(scope="session")
def engine():
    return create_engine("postgresql://localhost/test_database")