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

testanull

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import hashlib
import base64
import requests, string, struct, uuid, random, re
import sys
from collections import OrderedDict
from sys import version
from urllib3.exceptions import InsecureRequestWarning
requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings(category=InsecureRequestWarning)
# too lazy to deal with string <-> bytes confusion in python3 so forget it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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

sharadhr

$HOME, Not So Sweet $HOME

• Preface
• 1 What is $HOME to you?
• 2 Setup
  • 2.1 Linux
    • 2.1.1 $HOME
    • 2.1.2 Dot-files and dot-directories
    • 2.1.3 XDG Base Directories
• 2.1.4 xdg-user-dirs

Julynx

Basic Tips - Intermediate Tips - Advanced Tips

candlerb

If someone asked me the question "what layout should I use for my Go code repository?", I'd start by asking back "what are you building: an executable, or a library?"

Single executable

Stage 1: single source file

Create a directory named however you want your final executable to be called (e.g. "mycommand"), change into that directory, and create the following files:

rain-1

Purpose

Bootstrap knowledge of LLMs ASAP. With a bias/focus to GPT.

Avoid being a link dump. Try to provide only valuable well tuned information.

Prelude

Neural network links before starting with transformers.

tjdevries

function RenameWithQuickfix()
  local position_params = vim.lsp.util.make_position_params()
  local new_name = vim.fn.input "New Name > "

  position_params.newName = new_name

  vim.lsp.buf_request(0, "textDocument/rename", position_params, function(err, method, result, ...)
    -- You can uncomment this to see what the result looks like.
    if false then
      print(vim.inspect(result))

andrenbrandao

# Enable Powerlevel10k instant prompt. Should stay close to the top of ~/.zshrc.
# Initialization code that may require console input (password prompts, [y/n]
# confirmations, etc.) must go above this block; everything else may go below.
if [[ -r "${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache}/p10k-instant-prompt-${(%):-%n}.zsh" ]]; then
  source "${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache}/p10k-instant-prompt-${(%):-%n}.zsh"
fi

# If you come from bash you might have to change your $PATH.
# export PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH

andrenbrandao

# Set vi key bindings mode
set -g mode-keys vi
set -g status-keys vi

# Set new panes to open in current directory
bind c new-window -c "#{pane_current_path}"
bind '"' split-window -c "#{pane_current_path}"
bind % split-window -h -c "#{pane_current_path}"

# List of plugins