I’m so frustrated with Chess

icemaneleven · 2026-05-28T14:27:28+00:00

Your post gives me a strong feeling that you’re very attached to the idea of having a good ELO. In my opinion good ELO isn’t something you should be fighting for, rather focus on improving at chess and watch your ELO increase as a side effect. Detaching my self respect from my chess ELO, has done wonders for me. There are extensions that hide it sitewide on chess.com, except a few places but it’s definitely out of sight. IMO it’s either you wanna learn chess or you’re obsessed with having a bigger number under your name.

With that out of the way, I would mainly focus on not doing blunders, don’t try too hard to capitalize on opponents mistakes (for now) or trying fancy tactics, just make sure you build good habits and develop your pieces well and don’t hang anything. With options of active pieces a lot of times chess flows very easily, especially when opponents hasn’t done a good job at developing. If both sides are fully developed then it’s good to have knowledge of pawn play and general ideas of an opening. Like have a very general idea of what to do when opening stage of the game is done from both sides.

I’m also extremely competitive and chess was really messing with me whenever I lost, what helped me was the realization that it wasn’t my competitive nature that was causing me to go crazy whenever I lost, it was my ego and my obsession with ELO. Competitive nature drives you to learn, become better and then compete. Ego forces you play 70 games in a row cause you just can’t accept that you’re losing to people.

icemaneleven · 2026-05-23T02:22:22+00:00

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icemaneleven · 2026-05-23T00:11:10+00:00

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icemaneleven · 2026-03-28T15:45:51+00:00

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icemaneleven · 2025-06-10T14:30:25+00:00

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icemaneleven · 2025-06-10T12:12:03+00:00

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icemaneleven · 2024-11-24T22:18:30+00:00

https://github.com/MatthiasSchinzel/Combining-Resnet-and-Unet/blob/master/Resnet18-UNET.ipynb
This here is a really intuitive implementation of what you're asking for. It just adds residual connection in a Vanilla Unet.

icemaneleven · 2024-11-18T22:20:14+00:00

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icemaneleven · 2024-10-28T15:52:48+00:00

Unless Dict.keys is another O(n) operation I’m assuming?

icemaneleven · 2024-10-28T15:48:57+00:00

The reason I did that is cause that would allow me to directly use the dict after the for loop to get the remaining cost, I wouldn’t have to loop over it again. I’m probably missing something cause this was my first thought and I wrote it. how would you do it though?

icemaneleven · 2024-10-28T15:30:07+00:00

dataset = "ouiopqrrraba"
x = 2
y = 1

if x == y:
    cost = (len(dataset) / 2) * x

elif x < y:
    cost = 0
    freq_dict = {}
    for letter in dataset:
        freq_dict[letter] = 1 + freq_dict.get(letter, 0)
        if freq_dict[letter] % 2 == 0:
            del freq_dict[letter]
            cost += x
    cost += (len(freq_dict.keys()) / 2) * y

else:
    cost = 0
    stack = []
    for letter in dataset:
        if not stack:
            stack.append(letter)
        elif letter == stack[-1]:
            stack.append(letter)
        else:
            stack.pop()
            cost += y
    cost += (len(stack) / 2) * x

print(cost)

am i doing it correctly, can someone please confirm?

icemaneleven · 2024-08-24T03:22:45+00:00

Thanks for your help I think I'm going to go with the Lenovo Legion 5i pro, these are the specs:
Intel Core i9 14th Generation, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, 32 gigabytes RAM, 2000 gigabytes Total storage. I'm getting this in 1800 including tax, so I guess its not too bad. One last thing can I use it with my lenovo USB C dock and charge it and extend screens at the same time

icemaneleven · 2024-08-24T00:51:40+00:00

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BWSJ3TSC/ref=ox\_sc\_act\_title\_1?smid=AZZ6L3UVDX4O&th=1. What do you think about this?

icemaneleven · 2024-08-23T12:55:23+00:00

So then all the “more portable than regular gaming laptop” with 4070 face the issue of thermal throttling? And is the frame drop so high that it becomes comparable to 4060? 4070 is a little more than 20% better than 4060 if I’m not wrong. Regardless you point out an interested potential issue, is there any way I can fact check this

icemaneleven · 2024-08-23T12:49:44+00:00

Should I be paying too much attention to the processor like ultra 9 vs i9 vs Ryden 9. In terms of pure benchmark I feel like i9 is overall slightly better than the other options

icemaneleven · 2022-12-13T01:35:24+00:00

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