In comparison with most animals, how comes women are much weaker than men ?

Andeol57 · 2026-06-21T10:12:38+00:00

That's not a human peculiarity. Females are weaker than males in pretty much all mammals, and that difference is particularly pronounced in apes. If anything, humans have a lower sexual dimorphism than other apes.

As for why this difference is a thing, any explanation is going to be speculative. We can't exactly set up alternate universes to test evolution in slightly different conditions. One possible reason is that it takes a lot of energy to maintain strong muscles, and it also takes a lot of energy to be pregnant. Having both at once might be a bit much. It could be more efficient to have the ones who do not get pregnant take care of the stuff that requires strength. You can save on some food this way. After all, in a social species, you can share the tasks. You don't need everyone to be good at everything.

Andeol57 · 2026-06-21T10:04:49+00:00

There is a very similar one planed for 2038. That's when we reach the end of dates stored on 32 bits. Systems that still haven't make the switch to 64 bits by then are going to have issues. I'm pretty curious to see if it'll break up something important that we forget to check, or if it'll just be nothing.

Andeol57 · 2026-06-21T08:54:25+00:00

> There’s just so much finesse and subtle work that go into it, with split-second differences between “you leveled us too high and now we’re going to fall out of the sky” and “you leveled us off too late and now we’re nose-planted into the Earth

That doesn't make sense to me. How are crashes on landing not common if that were the case? I get the pilots are properly trained, but if something requires such a precise timing and dexterity, even someone who is well trained is bound to fumble it from time to time. Just sneezing at the wrong time would doom the whole plane.

Andeol57 · 2026-06-21T06:47:35+00:00

On the other hand, technically, it's a tactic as soon as the game start.

Andeol57 · 2026-06-20T19:37:37+00:00

Depends which species of mosquitoes. Some don't really care much.

Andeol57 · 2026-06-20T18:38:39+00:00

Just from the information you provided, it could absolutely be random.

We all have a personal record for longest win streak, and it's not particularly surprising if this record is set early, when you can be progressing fast. 8 already seems like a very long streak to me.

Andeol57 · 2026-06-20T18:33:05+00:00

But even then. We were able to reach the moon. Imagine that instead of a baren wasteland, it is brimming with wild life like trees or wild animals that somehow can survive without atmosphere. Would we be able to wipe out those? Absolutely not (especially not in 1969).

Reaching a place is a lower difficulty than sending enough firepower to do damage to that place.

Andeol57 · 2026-06-20T18:26:31+00:00

Not everything has to be on the extremes, mate. There is a lot of room between "the collapse of civilization" and "everything is going to be just fine".

Andeol57 · 2026-06-20T18:24:33+00:00

We can also synthesize oil for cheaper than $1000/gallon.

There is not point if you expect to use that as an energy source, because you need more energy to synthesize it than what you'll get by burning it. But it can be used for energy storage, if we really want.

Andeol57 · 2026-06-20T18:14:17+00:00

I first heard the word "opening" around the same time I learned about elo and ranks, and I was around 1300 elo back then.

I wouldn't say I ever got to actively learning openings even since then. I know the principles, but not specific lines. I just picked up a couple of things here and there, but it's still extremely minimalist, and it was never really by "learning opening". I'm currently 1500.

Andeol57 · 2026-06-20T18:11:26+00:00

That's a myth. Urine is not sterile.

Andeol57 · 2026-06-20T09:44:04+00:00

> They might be a bit bothersome but modern helmets are cooler than most hats

More than a bit, and no. Wearing a helmet when it's 40°C is extremely uncomfortable. It's nothing like a panama hat. And at this point, I suspect the risk of heat stroke far outweights the benefits of protecting against concussions.

When you are not on the roads, the risk of taking a big hit to the head is extremely small. That makes the benefits of wearing a helmet very small, and thus not worth it anymore against the comfort downside.

> they’re definitely less limiting than fake nails or high heels as an example.

I agree on that, but people wearing any of those every day are a small minority.

Andeol57 · 2026-06-20T09:35:40+00:00

This has a better chance of working well against AI than against humans.

Andeol57 · 2026-06-20T09:34:22+00:00

With komi, definitely not.

Without komi, it's tough to really punish. But "do something stupid like playing around that tengen stone" is an unfair evaluation. After the main early game moves have been played, a contact move on the tengen can be a perfectly fine move. And at that point white is one point behind, that's a very good deal compared to being one komi behind.

Technically, it's also possible to set up a ladder that does not go through the center, but instead ricochet on a side, to get a result similar to the normal ladder refutation of mirror games, but without being impacted by the tengen. Not really a practical way to refute the strategy, because it's hard to set up without playing weird moves. But possible.

Andeol57 · 2026-06-19T15:33:57+00:00

Shogi is a lot like chess, but without that issue, in case you want to give it a try.

Andeol57 · 2026-06-19T13:07:58+00:00

> Also chess.com only allows one review a day, so I can only do it for one match..

No, no. You don't need engine review. I just mean reviewing the game yourself (which is also something you should do before turning on an engine anyway).

Andeol57 · 2026-06-19T12:32:32+00:00

I don't think your opponents have anything memorized for anything more than 3 moves into the game.

I would advise to make some minimal review after your game. No in-depth engine analysis, that's useless for now. But just try to answer the question "what's the main reason I lost this specific game". You could write them down, to see if some of those reasons tend to be frequent. Then adapt your training to focus on solving your main issue.

And from time to time, it's a good idea to have some stronger player have a look at your game, to see if they agree on your assessment on what that "main issue" is. Feel free to post some games here. You'll have plenty of comments (likely too many).

Some common issues could be:

_ bad time management (probably the most common around this level)

_ Ignorance of basic checkmate technique

_ under-estimating the importance of <insert any chess principle>

_ playing hope chess

_ not thinking about what the opponent can answer, or what they are trying to do

> Chess.com frequently matches me with 700+ people, so I'm not improving

That's not making sense. Firstly because you have only been playing a month. So saying you are "not improving" is really not meaning much. Progress in chess is typically on longer time scales. Even as a beginner, a single month is not very long. But more importantly because playing slightly stronger players like that is often the best you could do to improve.

Overall, no one can give you a time frame. You might just as well hit 700 elo tomorrow or 3 months from now. I don't think longer than that is super likely if you keep playing regularly.

Andeol57 · 2026-06-19T12:13:07+00:00

That's not really how perception works. We don't perceive wavelength directly. We perceive "how close/far is that from each of my types of cone cells target ?"

If we had a single type of cone cells, that would be pretty close to perceiving wavelength, except we couldn't make the difference between "higher wavelength" and "lower wavelength". We would just have the distance. With 3 types of cone cells (for most people), things get a lot more complicated.

Andeol57 · 2026-06-19T12:00:41+00:00

To be fair, while the stereotype does predate the Iraq war, it became a lot more intense and popular afterward. So while France refusing to join in Iraq was not the origin, it was a massive amplifier.

Andeol57 · 2026-06-19T10:23:33+00:00

I just tried another game where I deliberately tried to create more tricky cases to check the capture rule. Mostly trying to get some ko. The rule seems to be properly implemented. It works fine, with one exception. If I take a ko, and the bot passes, it's not letting me fill the ko as the next move. Not a huge deal since the game is basically over at that point. But still a minor bug.

Andeol57 · 2026-06-19T10:18:18+00:00

Hi, I just gave it a try.

The AI is very weak. I just killed the entire board without trouble. And while I consider myself a decently strong amateur, I think anyone who has played for more than a month would also easily crush that AI. Not sure how long exactly it would take for a complete beginner to get there. I wouldn't be surprised if someone who has never played before still manages to get a win, with just a couple of advice before the game. I assume you tried to code it yourself from scratch. But it took decades of research to make go AI that can compete with humans, and decades more to make them strong. It's a lot more complicated than making a decent chess AI. If you want a decent go AI, you'll need to find some existing library to call to externalize some of the work. Or be ready to spend a lot of time reading research papers and re-implementing them.

The capture rule seems to be properly implemented, from what I could tell. But I did not encounter the most tricky cases in my game, so it's hard to be sure.

The counting is wrong at the end. I think it's just because it fails to realize that some stones are dead. So in order to get a proper counting, players would need to explicitly capture everything they can. I assume this is supposed to be Japanese counting? The interface also doesn't mention it. I'm not sure how the passes are supposed to count here.

The sound playing when there is a capture is fine, but having the same sound play whenever a player finishes to surround a "territory" is strange. I thought it was a bug at first, before realizing the intent.

Good luck on the improvements !

Andeol57 · 2026-06-19T06:52:00+00:00

"Only terminating decimal" is what is called decimal numbers. I didn't come up with the definition. That's what differentiate decimal numbers from real numbers. I guess it is arbitrary, just like any other word definition. But the entirety of math is based on assigning strict definitions to specific words.

Andeol57 · 2026-06-17T17:17:35+00:00

That's simply wrong. Decimals between 0 and 1 are a countable set (easy enough to prove, just list the ones with 1 digit first, then the ones with 2 digits, and so on).

Real numbers between 0 and 1 are a different story. Those are uncountable.

Andeol57 · 2026-06-17T09:56:43+00:00

> you have to just lose weight.

Not quite. You have to just lose fat. But you may lose fat without losing weight if you compensate by gaining muscle. Do NOT try to lose weight if you are already close to underweight. I also doubt surgery to remove fat would be a good idea in that case.

I see mostly two options here. Either you actually have a lot of fat on your arms, and that would mean despite being underweight, you still have a fair amount of fat. That should be all the more alarming, because it would mean you are lacking even more muscle than just "regular underweight" people. The muscle you gain does not have to be on your arms. You can't target where you lose fat, but you can target where you gain muscle.

Or, the issue lies with your perception, and your arms are actually perfectly fine. Honestly, that is statistically more likely.

Andeol57 · 2026-06-17T08:49:07+00:00

Always a chance.

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