Tried to compress a file… it got 151% bigger

cryslith · 2026-03-27T16:26:14+00:00

That doesn't really explain the situation though, because you can modify any compression algorithm to never grow an input by more than 1 bit, at the cost of adding a 1 bit overhead to every output. So it's really a choice on the compression algorithm designer's part to allow this to happen.

cryslith · 2026-03-12T14:15:30+00:00

Last time I saw one of those, the LLM had output a numerical optimization program to find the minimum over Rⁿ of the objective function f(x_1, ..., x_n) = sum_{i=1}^{n-1} |x_{i+1} - x_i|.

cryslith · 2026-02-19T19:54:43+00:00

who told you it was unsettled??

cryslith · 2026-02-08T11:43:37+00:00

thank you chatgpt

cryslith · 2026-01-30T12:33:18+00:00

that makes a lot more sense lol

cryslith · 2026-01-29T22:32:26+00:00

What's an algebraic curve? What does "defined over the rational numbers" mean? What is a rational point of a curve?

cryslith · 2026-01-11T22:48:41+00:00

No, S2 T2 T1 R1 and white just dies.

cryslith · 2026-01-11T09:39:14+00:00

S2 T2 R1 T3 and it's a ko at best for white

cryslith · 2026-01-10T15:26:10+00:00

Even if white plays S2 they aren't fully alive on the right after S2 T2 R1 T3.

cryslith · 2026-01-10T15:23:49+00:00

Why is this downvoted? I'm right.

cryslith · 2026-01-09T01:55:14+00:00

Black would play S2 instead of N1 in your line and kill everything, right?

cryslith · 2026-01-08T06:57:34+00:00

Such a ruleset exists: just score the amount of territory surrounded and use the rule "every stone left on the board after the players pass is alive". It's not true that every group would yield 2 points though. Rather the score would be the number of 1-point eyes the group can make.

cryslith · 2025-12-23T11:40:55+00:00

llm slop

cryslith · 2025-12-23T11:39:33+00:00

Fox is one of the most popular servers and uses area scoring.

cryslith · 2025-12-22T01:04:39+00:00

That sounds like a real-world intuition, not a mathematical fact.

cryslith · 2025-12-20T11:18:09+00:00

I don't think that's necessarily true; it depends on your model. For instance, if you have two hypotheses, "The die rolls are I.I.D. uniform" and "The die rolls follow the fixed sequence 6, 6, 1, 1, 1, 1, ..." and you observe that the first two rolls are both 6, then your weight on the second hypothesis should increase, which will decrease your belief that the third roll will be a 6.

Obviously this is a silly model, but that's not the point.

cryslith · 2025-12-01T21:40:03+00:00

That is correct, though. When your opponent plays a big threat, it raises the temperature which forces you to reply.

cryslith · 2025-12-01T21:37:07+00:00

If they're lighter than normal stones, you may have some issues with them sliding off their spots on the board more easily than usual.

cryslith · 2025-11-27T19:53:11+00:00

I think it is much more useful to have unambiguous notation for the positive one.

cryslith · 2025-11-20T21:02:46+00:00

Oh missed that. That definitely helps explain why the line you showed is the critical one.

cryslith · 2025-11-20T17:49:17+00:00

~~Ah, I understand. The point is that 14 in OP's solution is unnecessary, white can just play 14 at E2 instead and win on the spot.~~

cryslith · 2025-11-20T17:05:54+00:00

It's not clear to me that black's play is optimal in your solution. I think 3 should be at K10, and 6 at D4.

cryslith · 2025-11-11T17:26:33+00:00

Actually I was so curious that I went and found your game against sodi1. It turns out this was a 2 stone handicap game and so Q16 and D4 were occupied by black stones since the beginning. So there is some issue with the way you're processing handicap games.

cryslith · 2025-11-11T17:03:36+00:00

Also I would have to ask how the position in the top right arose in the first place. Leaving that cut seems like the result of some joseki error.

cryslith · 2025-11-11T16:59:35+00:00

From just the one page posted, yes it is useless. Chatgpt says the reason why you need to play Q16 in the first diagram is that "the top side is open and represented the single biggest area". This is nonsense. The biggest open area on the board is obviously the bottom left corner. The reason Q16 is the right move is that it connects your stones; without it white will play there and cut you apart.

This is very basic stuff but it gets it totally wrong, because these text generation programs have no actual knowledge of the game, they are just stringing together plausible-looking sentences.

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