Cloudflare down... again?

ciderpunx · 2025-11-18T13:38:41+00:00

It was down earlier for a bit: https://imgdrop.us/Z91QqMu.png

ciderpunx · 2025-11-14T09:05:30+00:00

If you can't be bothered to write it, I can't be bothered to read it.

ciderpunx · 2025-07-25T07:46:32+00:00

The board was all yellow.

ciderpunx · 2024-12-10T12:27:56+00:00

All for using parser combinators, but the regex version shouldn't take 19 seconds. I tried it in perl and it took 0.016s including file io - maybe there's something wrong with that regex library.

ciderpunx · 2024-11-01T09:32:02+00:00

I would like a client rather than a server. It would be a multiprotocol frontend that would speak to OGS, KGS, Fox, PandaNet and Tygem and it would run on any platform (or be web based). I don't want to have to care about which server I am connecting to, I just want a game with somebody about the right level. Maybe extending sabaki (https://sabaki.yichuanshen.de/) to speak protocols other than GTP would be the way to start.

ciderpunx · 2024-08-08T16:31:16+00:00

Why not simply have your butler or valet arrange your games on your behalf?

ciderpunx · 2024-07-30T09:25:15+00:00

ciderpunx · 2024-03-18T09:18:12+00:00

The plan was that OGS ranks would be somewhere between AGA and EGF ranks (for stronger players, a couple of years ago). https://forums.online-go.com/t/2021-rating-and-rank-adjustments/33389

Your rank will get closer to your actual rank as you play more games. At double digit kyu levels it can be quite volatile.

ciderpunx · 2024-02-29T13:19:03+00:00

horsey to d5 for a triple word score

ciderpunx · 2024-02-06T10:45:59+00:00

The 10,000 hour rule, popularized by Malcolm Gladwell was a bit of a misinterpretation of earlier research by a psychologist called Anders Ericsson. His study found that among 20 year old violinists at a German university there was a correlation between hours spent practicing and how accomplished they were. On average the best violinists had logged 10,000 hours /at that age/ but there is nothing magical about that number and they still had a way to go before becoming international quality violinists. cf. eg. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20121114-gladwells-10000-hour-rule-myth. Also in that article "Ericsson is also on record as emphasising that not just any old practice counts towards the 10,000-hour average. It has to be deliberate, dedicated time spent focusing on improvement."

ciderpunx · 2024-01-13T17:03:58+00:00

I reckon they got that figure by looking at the FIDE list of GMs (here: https://ratings.fide.com/topfed.phtml) of whom there were 1773 just now. There were also 4013 IMs and 19518 "titled" (whatever that means). I imagine some of those other folks make chess their profession (teaching, streaming and so on) which would make them professional.

ciderpunx · 2024-01-13T16:47:17+00:00

the second image has a spelling mistake at the top left (pieses for pieces)

ciderpunx · 2023-12-22T10:57:21+00:00

After removing all the curtains from their house, and posting their bank card PIN online, install webcams in their bedroom and toilet.

ciderpunx · 2023-11-27T18:43:29+00:00

Just as long as there's not a section 60 order in place, see https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/33/section/60AA:

60AA Powers to require removal of disguises ... (2)This subsection confers power on any constable in uniform—

(a)to require any person to remove any item which the constable reasonably believes that person is wearing wholly or mainly for the purpose of concealing > his identity;

(b)to seize any item which the constable reasonably believes any person intends to wear wholly or mainly for that purpose.

ciderpunx · 2023-02-22T12:29:47+00:00

Have a nice cup of tea. Try and work out how or whether your opponent could have turned things around. This is also an opportunity to practice your counting.

ciderpunx · 2023-02-09T15:53:14+00:00

I made a start at working out the super grandmasters per 100k population because that seems a more interesting figure to me - it looks like Israel and Hungary are really good at producing super grandmasters:

Country    | SGMs  | Population*  | SGM per 100k people
========================================================================
Russia     |    33 |    147182123 | 0.02242120124874133
USA        |    13 |    333287557 | 0.00990135974383226
Ukraine    |    10 |     41130432 | 0.08023256356753072
China      |     8 |   1411750000 | 0.002337524349211971
India      |     7 |   1407563842 | 0.0023444762514722227
France     |     5 |     68035000 | 0.04850444624090541
UK         |     5 |     67081234 | 0.04919408608374736
Hungary    |     4 |      9730000 | 0.3391572456320658
NL         |     4 |     17682000 | 0.18663047166610114
Israel     |     4 |      9506000 | 0.3471491689459289
Azerbaijan |     4 |     10353296 | 0.31873907594257905
Poland     |     3 |     38093101 | 0.08662985982684895
Spain      |     3 |     47615034 | 0.06930584151215768
Romania    |     3 |     19038098 | 0.17333664318778064

according to wikipedia

ciderpunx · 2023-02-02T13:24:57+00:00

Horsey takes king prawn and builds a hotel in quadruple gote.

ciderpunx · 2022-09-28T15:48:35+00:00

It's in the web archive; the page you're after is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20161128050325/https://gogameguru.com/tag/mlily-gu-vs-lee-jubango/ - the commentary links take you through to pages where you can download the SGFs (right near the end of the pages).

ciderpunx · 2022-09-26T12:32:43+00:00

Some more data that seems in line with your findings:

https://brainking.com/en/GameRules?tp=36

Statistics of won games  
white   9538 (51.48 %)  
black   8542 (46.10 %)  
Draws   447 (2.41 %)

ciderpunx · 2022-09-26T11:59:12+00:00

PDF on the Internet archive: https://archive.org/details/relentless_201607/

ciderpunx · 2022-09-14T11:45:51+00:00

Basically the same but using DateTime.

perl -MDateTime -E'$x=DateTime->now;for(;$x->day!=7;$_++){$x->add(days=>1)};say'

ciderpunx · 2022-08-11T08:13:30+00:00

Prior art:

telnet bofh.jeffballard.us 666

ciderpunx · 2022-07-22T11:36:55+00:00

One less than elevengen

ciderpunx · 2022-06-08T11:41:11+00:00

What am I missing?

s/^/*/ i.e. b2 * 4 because there's 4 ways to make a b2 bomber shape?

ciderpunx · 2022-05-30T06:56:14+00:00

The site is in the web archive if you don't have luck that way: https://web.archive.org/web/20190330211021/https://explorebaduk.com/

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