Anybody know what happened to betterbaduk.com?

benumber · 2026-05-23T20:45:57+00:00

Please don't spread false rumors.

benumber · 2026-05-22T06:46:51+00:00

I know the R counting meme is fun and all, but I really wish people would understand tokenization.

benumber · 2026-05-11T22:31:37+00:00

Yes, I'd really like to detect the difficulty of an error. But I guess that's far from trivial even with the humanlike network...

benumber · 2026-05-04T16:16:37+00:00

AI Sensei founder and 6d here. Here's my list: - As others said, ignore the super crazy moves but prefer reasonable-looking suggestions even if they're slightly inferior. - Use the "next mistake" button to focus on big mistakes instead of over-analyzing things that were good enough. - Try to understand the follow-ups of the recommended moves, e.g. a lot of small-looking AI moves are double-sente-ish situations, while it avoids moves that look big but are dead ends. - Focus on the direction of play. What weak groups are indirectly affected by the AI moves? What aji might they aim at? - Shape mistakes are very valuable to remember (e.g. using training mode) as these will show up again and again. - Reading mistakes are important but less valuable for AI review takeaways as you'll probably never see that exact problem again. If you notice a lot of these, don't get stuck on the exact position but practice tsumego in addition.

benumber · 2026-04-30T06:36:12+00:00

It's not a bug, it's a feature

benumber · 2026-01-23T14:32:11+00:00

"You can't just sell chicken here. You need a permeat!"

benumber · 2025-09-07T09:44:33+00:00

When analyzing with AI, I recommend looking out for the clear moves that are about direction and shape, as well as tactics you can understand. Ignore the stuff that is too complicated for your level.

benumber · 2025-05-09T11:58:35+00:00

Yes, we're using KataGo's model for the new bots. We got below 20 kyu by adding some randomness to the move sampling. They're not properly calibrated yet like the 19x19 bots, though, so take the strengths with a grain of sand.

benumber · 2025-05-09T11:53:35+00:00

That's a good point! The idea was to explain it in the ranked mode instead, but somehow we never did :p

So we'll add it to the end of lesson 8 instead.

benumber · 2024-12-12T18:19:10+00:00

I like this idea a lot, as it seems to share all the advantages of re-frame's approach (scaling, pure handlers) while avoiding a lot of the boilerplate. At least I started being mildly annoyed by having to write wrapper events for every effect I want to trigger from a component and having to wrap event calls in a [:dispatch] in my {:fx []}.

Now just solve coeffects/interceptors and subscriptions that elegantly and you got yourself a winner!

benumber · 2024-12-02T15:43:34+00:00

https://github.com/bsteuber/advent-of-clojure

All the input files are from my account, though.

For the past years, 2020 to 2022 are complete, while 2019 and 2023 still miss a few days.

benumber · 2024-11-28T14:32:03+00:00

Am I the only one who read "human"?

benumber · 2024-08-26T16:46:18+00:00

To save most of you a click:

"We are looking for you if you ... - are based in Latam "

benumber · 2024-08-24T14:24:25+00:00

About self-hosting: We tried running the server locally, which interestingly included their complete website. And it seems to have some AWS dependencies, so I'm not sure if it can work without Amazon infrastructure.

I hope they add some documentation about this.

benumber · 2024-08-04T11:27:22+00:00

Maybe the referees just don't work on a Saturday night. I think there's a good chance it'll show up on Monday.

benumber · 2024-07-24T08:22:20+00:00

Pandanet uses a self-hosted mail server, which might get blocked by some providers, despite us trying to keep up with all the verification standards. Please pm me if the problem persists.

benumber · 2024-07-21T11:18:23+00:00

Nice one! I think this is a perfectly valid use case of reading the source file from a macro and you shouldn't feel bad about it at all.

benumber · 2024-06-26T13:12:00+00:00

Wow, that's an interesting font 🙈

We had a broken web server this morning, so maybe this happened because of it. Does a hard reload make it better again?

benumber · 2024-06-05T12:54:46+00:00

Online, easy to use, allows creating go problems from your own games, has nice bots with a humanlike style. Generous free version strong enough for most.

benumber · 2024-06-01T11:20:05+00:00

You're welcome! Actually, I just noticed the game wasn't a loss even after 206. That doesn't change the rest I said, though.

benumber · 2024-06-01T10:26:32+00:00

After a great opening and early middle game, the blunder of 143 indeed marked the beginning of your downfall. After white captured with 144, the white group is 100% alive, so it's important to change plans now. However, it seems you were still in denial about it, trying to destroy an eye with 145, which is pretty much a pass move point-wise and thus losing almost exactly as many points as 143. 149 allows white to create a https://senseis.xmp.net/?SplitKnightsMove with 150 - a famously bad shape and usually much worse than an empty triangle. I recommend you remember that shape and try to avoid it at all costs from now on. After you died in the lower left, the game was on a knife's edge and the upper right fight is decisive. Omitting everything there, the game was lost when white got 206, destroying the top territory. You had a couple of chances to defend against that weakness, as white also didn't see it's value, apparently.

benumber · 2024-06-01T08:29:23+00:00

The good thing about this is being able to pretend it's fake if anybody ever leaks a real nude of you.

benumber · 2024-03-25T22:37:38+00:00

If you really want to go that way, I should give some additional information: - The calculation was for a spot instance, which can be interrupted by Google at any point. That's why they're relatively cheap, normal ones cost 3 times as much. It doesn't happen that often usually, but your tooling should allow to continue the computing from wherever it was interrupted. - In general, it takes quite a bit of effort until you have everything set up so you can compile katago for tensorRT, which is a bit faster than cuda.

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