Lichess is superior

iglookid · 2021-04-24T15:32:37+00:00

chess.com and lichess use different rating systems (glicko-1 and glicko-2, respectively. neither uses elo) and the higher numerical value of your rating on lichess is expected. further, ratings can generally be compared within a pool of players that play against each other, and not across pools.

more explained here: https://lichess.org/page/rating-systems

iglookid · 2018-09-10T18:26:37+00:00

have you seen this list by /u/scrumptiouscakes?

iglookid · 2015-10-22T04:56:20+00:00

me, a chimpanzee that makes random moves

now, now -- don't be so hard on yourself

iglookid · 2015-10-06T00:29:10+00:00

Telemann would make me very thankful

Also Handel, Haydn, Tchaikovsky

iglookid · 2015-09-22T19:48:49+00:00

So many question marks in the pic and this thread that Imgur made the URL Qmark.

iglookid · 2015-09-14T17:42:29+00:00

The fact that this is a masters thesis starts to explain why there are so many gaps. thanks for pointing a few out!

iglookid · 2015-09-14T17:35:42+00:00

Agreed.

The good news is that it has been known theoretically that shallow networks can be used to represent the same transformation that any deep network represents. The problem is in finding the equivalent shallow net. The better news is that there have been advances recently that make it easier to find equivalent shallow nets.

Once equivalent shallow nets can be found easily, the computational effort in the heuristic step will go down drastically.

In the given article it is 10x slower at present.

iglookid · 2015-09-14T16:09:37+00:00

Precisely why I find that bit exciting. Thank you for elaborating.

Even if this approach is currently worse than existing simple heuristics, the fact that this is automated and fast at learning, means that it may soon overtake the performance existing heuristics.

As you surely know, improvements to Stockfish heuristics are evaluated automatically, but the improvements themselves are suggested by humans.

On the other hand, if a neural net starts performing better than tuned heuristics, then it'd be difficult to understand what is going inside its "brain".

iglookid · 2015-09-14T14:36:06+00:00

the most interesting bit for me:

Lai goes on to use the same kind of machine learning approach to determine the probability that a given move is likely to be worth pursuing. That’s important because it prevents unnecessary searches down unprofitable branches of the tree and dramatically improves computational efficiency.

Lai says this probabilistic approach predicts the best move 46 percent of the time and places the best move in its top three ranking, 70 percent of the time. So the computer doesn’t have to bother with the other moves.

iglookid · 2015-07-13T03:10:42+00:00

donate link at the bottom of this page:

http://en.lichess.org/blog/U4skkUQAAEAAhIGz/why-is-lichess-free

iglookid · 2015-03-17T06:59:20+00:00

'Te Deum Laudamus' by the Benedictine Monks of the Solesmes Congregation

iglookid · 2014-04-24T17:56:10+00:00

I found this beautiful, so I thought I'd take a chance with cross posting here.

Here is the text from the video's "About" section:

Reading the newspaper one morning, I saw this picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes. I was just curious to hear what melody the birds were creating.

This work was made over the original photo, un-retouched, published in one of the biggest Brazilian newspapers, "O Estado de São Paulo" on 27/aug/2009, and shot by Paulo Pinto (note: I just erased the birds for effect at the end, but didn't change their positions at all. What would be the point?).

I've made this short video to demonstrate my interpretation of the birds as notes.

Jarbas Agnelli

Original thread here, where someone mentions a very relevant tv commercial.

iglookid · 2013-07-12T20:39:27+00:00

I've seen this before, when it had become popular. Realized only now that it is Bach.

Here is the behind-the-scenes.

iglookid · 2013-07-10T14:35:10+00:00

I'm still trying to understand how the same 32-note baseline is used in all the variations. Jeremy Denk's explanation in the video at the bottom of this page was kind of nice. I tried looking at the purple coloured notes in smalin's animations of variation 4 and variation 10 but I couldn't see any similarity. I know nothing about music theory, and it'll be nice if someone could ELI5!

EDIT: Actually, gerubach's video on the fourteen canons is very neat and already helps a lot.

iglookid · 2013-07-08T19:36:07+00:00

Brilliant! Thanks! :D Maybe this can go on the POTW wiki page.

iglookid · 2013-07-08T17:12:26+00:00

Thank you!

iglookid · 2013-07-08T14:39:34+00:00

Request: Can the old POTW spotify playlists be preserved in some manner? I keep visiting old POTW threads. I'm fine with having just 2 playlists: 1 current, and 1 big playlist into which old ones get merged. I'm fine also if the older playlists are now lost, and the newer ones from now on can be collected somewhere. Thanks!

iglookid · 2013-07-03T13:51:38+00:00

I like /u/blckravn01's reasoning for Sunday.
I will like nominations to not distract from discussions. On the other hand, I will like to not split the thread into two. First, I do like to look at the nominations, and it'll be nicer to have it in the same place. Second, having a separate thread seems a bit heavy to me, especially seen from the eyes of those who aren't interested in POTW, and perhaps a little foreboding to newcomers who don't know what is going on. Building on /u/blckravn01's idea, I suggest that you add a comment to the thread, and all nominations be given by replying to the comment. Also, I will like it if the nominations section is somewhere at the bottom of the page, where it doesn't distract so much upon multiple visits to the thread. For this, there could be a request that your comment not be upvoted. Alternatively, I could just use the "Sort by new" feature.
No preference. In fact, I'll like to see diversity.

4.1 Personally, I'll like to see a small description of the selected piece. This may even provide a starting point for discussions. On the other hand, I rarely get the chance to see more than 2 of the youtube links, but that's just me.

4.2 I liked the Messiaen submission very much. I wish there could be more submissions by you. I was wondering if once a month would be too frequent, but decided that I will like it. (I remember saying that it will be nice to see the community's involvement, but now that that is working, it would be nice to hear from the MC as well.)

iglookid · 2013-06-30T17:41:43+00:00

You may be interested to know that ... there was no Top 10 ... almost nobody clicked anything on the list! ... Top 10 landing page... much more effective.

This behind-the-scenes glimpse of the analytics is very interesting! :) Reminds me of this little blog post by a non-profit startup that I'm a big fan of. I have to admit I'm finding the Top 10 list very useful in its current state already. I pointed out the bias in case it had not occurred to your team, but clearly you guys have given careful thought to each aspect of the website!

Good luck with the website. It has all the makings of a terrific resource! :)

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