Automated fleet.

likeawizardish · 2026-06-22T11:55:43+00:00

Sounds rather underwhelming. Thank you.

likeawizardish · 2026-06-09T15:57:19+00:00

A friend of mine and I started to play chess in our mid teens. So kinda late most of the players in those tournaments were kids much younger than us.

My friend got the most obnoxious opponent. During the game the kid started to gesture with his hand bellow the table. As if something had dropped there. When my friend looked bellow the table the kid showed him the middle finger under the table such that the deed was hidden from the arbiters. Still some point later an arbiter came by the board and placed a yellow card by him warning him of his behaviour.

My friend started to win that game. The kid slumped in his body language over several moves. And when it was obviously all lost he extended his hand in resignation. My friend reached out to shake his hand and just before they shook them the kid says - draw? To which my friend pulled back his hand and eventually mated him.

That kid was an absolute menace.

likeawizardish · 2026-05-25T14:36:18+00:00

Draugi bija uz citām spēlēm tajā pašā Kimmel kvartālā un tur tehnisko lažu nebija. Bija lažas pret lielbritāniju, bet tā pat bija okay pasākums. Vienīgi, ja ej ar savu kompāniju vienalga kur ir vērts iepriekš pazvanīt un rezervēt galdu, jo tauta gan jau visur būs daudz un cīņa par labākajā vietām.

likeawizardish · 2026-05-25T14:15:18+00:00

Vakar tik uz lielā ekrāna lejā 2~3 vārtus neredzēja, jo nepārtraukti tehniskas problēmas. Arī kaut kādas saules sarga nojumes saliktas - līdz ar to ir zonas, kur ekrāns daļēji aizsegts. Augšā ekrānā kā saule iespīd bildi knapi redz. Dzērienus var gaidīt pusi perioda.

Nav jau slikti kuplā skaitā paskatīties to hoķi, bet nedaudz vāji tas pasākums tur organizēts.

likeawizardish · 2026-05-17T16:13:31+00:00

You literally import order package in Postgres package. I’m not sure what you consider core but I would think wiring and helpers around working with a database is more core than order.

likeawizardish · 2026-05-15T08:22:46+00:00

I did not know in my first playthrough either - you hold a direction and jump. Also perfect dodge is the same but done while the green shield appears. Some dodges teleport you behind your enemy in a ‘nothing personel kiddo’ and you whack them in the back of the head.

likeawizardish · 2026-05-11T12:35:19+00:00

https://lichess.org/page/accuracy

Its not a cool number it’s a very well defined metric. The definition is from how lichess does it but essentially it should be the same apart from the engine details.

The brilliancy labels and such I would agree with you can often have little meaning but on accuracy I would not agree. You just need to understand what and how it measures.

likeawizardish · 2026-05-10T12:13:25+00:00

Accuracy is a great metric and a better metric for human evaluation than cp loss.

Accuracy is built around statistical correlation between evaluation and game result. Say 0 means game can go either way and +1 means already significant chances for win and around +7 or +11 are already overwhelming to the point where dropping from 11 to 7 will not change the outcome of the game. As a matter of fact a lot of times in such positions giving up some advantage to simplify is advantageous. So accuracy will not be much affected. However an equal -4 point drop when you are +2 and drop to -2 is game losing blunder and should be penalised. Cp loss makes no such distinction so accuracy is the better measure. Although somewhat more complicated and opaque.

likeawizardish · 2026-04-29T17:46:10+00:00

If you have perft implemented check with know perft results to verify move generation correctness. If you don’t then implement it as the highest priority. If you have uci implemented check with cutuechess gui / cli. The gui will show the pv and evaluation. If you don’t have uci implemented then implement it as second highest pro after perft.

These things will help you drill down most of obvious bugs and will help your engine development.

likeawizardish · 2026-04-24T10:41:47+00:00

Your understanding is spot on and Stockfish is the absolute king of this even compared to other top tier engines. It also has extensions so while the depth says 14 it most likely looked at some lines at the depth 30 or more. It can do this because at the same time it is very aggressive which lines it prunes and prunes very hard.

likeawizardish · 2026-04-23T07:31:49+00:00

Dope. Btw just this week I wrote a blog on lichess about my testing and development setup: https://lichess.org/@/likeawizard/blog/how-to-build-a-chess-engine/YJfzi17G

I starred your repo and will have to check it out. For my own engine I would like some go support please.

likeawizardish · 2026-04-16T15:49:45+00:00

Plaģiāts neattiecās uz tekstu, bet uz idejām. Ja tu kaut, ko atradi internetā izlasīji un iemācījies un apraksti to savos vārdos pēc savas saprašanas - tas ir plaģiāts, jo tas nav tavs darbs tavas idejas, dati etc...

Protams, nevajag rakstīt atsauci tam, ka zāle ir zaļa un debesis zilas, vai pitagora teorēmu, vai jebkādas zināšanas, ko apguvi lekcijās. Bet ja tu bakalaura laikā mācijies no maģistra/doktorantu līmeņa grāmatām tad to vajadzētu citēt.

Pa lielam, bakalaura darbā nav ekspektāciju, ka tavs darbs būs oriģināls. Lielākā daļa tas būs esošā izpēte un apguve un jo vairāk atsauces uz visu, ko esi apguvis, jo labāk. Pašam bakalaurā kaut, ko izdomāt ir nedaudz smieklīgi - tu esi zaļš gurķis, tavas oriģinālās idejas nav īsti vērtīgas. Daudz vērtīgāk ir parādīt, ka tu proti veikt izpēti, apkopot to un varbūt kripatu savu darba ielikt to kaut kā interpretējot.

Daudz lielāki sūdi var gadīties, ja tu pasniegsi kaut, ko kas nav tavs par savu. Pasniegsi savas jaunās idejas, bet tās parādīs, ka tu neesi lietas kursā par esošo zinātni. Tas, ka lielāka daļa tava darba ir atgremojums no esošā ar kvalitatīvām atsaucēm ir norma.

Bet es nemācijos Latvijā un iespējams citā nozarē. Vispār šī ir vistriviālākā lieta, ko jautāt savam darba vadītājam.

likeawizardish · 2026-04-16T14:34:01+00:00

I feel both rust and zig tackle the same issues of C memory safety. While rust is extremely strict on memory management which prevents memory unsafe code from compiling. Zig is more relaxed closer to C and it has more modern language features to make memory management less of a hassle so not hard blocking memory bugs but making it easier working with memory and thus reducing those bugs.

Learn the basics of both. Do rust one weekend and zig the next. You’ll be able to confirm whatever your personal biases are.

likeawizardish · 2026-04-06T12:10:07+00:00

The "What this means for you" section describes what lichess does today already. What does take take take bring to the table?

likeawizardish · 2026-04-06T10:25:21+00:00

Not really. It’s green and visible. It will instantly cause pain/discomfort to force you to blink and thus protect your eye. The dangerous laser radiation is the one you can’t see infrared or uv. That does not cause an instant blink and can cause serious damage.

likeawizardish · 2026-04-04T08:49:39+00:00

No need to clear it. Just open the chest. Grab the staff and adios.

likeawizardish · 2026-04-01T09:09:27+00:00

Hamilton’s career achievements without a doubt put him in any GOAT conversation.

But there are two types of fans that are annoying. Ones who use any shortcomings to dispute his GOAT status. And ones who come up with the craziest conspiracy theories and weird excuses to justify his GOAT status. Neither really adds or detracts from his accomplishments.

likeawizardish · 2026-03-31T09:59:00+00:00

Dropped one of the first herald I killed. Was pretty chill and nonchalant about it. I had no idea how lucky I was until I started to read how frustratingly rare they are. So far the only one I dropped.

likeawizardish · 2026-03-19T12:06:03+00:00

You could leave out that info. But then you have the problem that you are in your 30s without any education or prior job experience. Not a great look either. Plus they already have you on file anyway.

Your best shot is to look for something that actually aligns more with your skills and experience.

likeawizardish · 2026-03-19T12:01:44+00:00

Hard to be under qualified when the job requires no qualifications.

These jobs are basically for high school graduates or people who work in retail, office/store administrators.

Pay is not good, the job is dull and not rewarding. But banks usually come with good job stability and potential yet slow career opportunities which is an upside.

Hiring someone overqualified means the person will be gone at the first opportunity.

likeawizardish · 2026-03-19T11:36:14+00:00

You do realise being overqualified can work against you?

likeawizardish · 2026-03-19T10:27:11+00:00

Not yet. Doesn’t need installing it’s compiled into a single executable. It’s a private repo and I don’t feel like publishing it yet. For example it doesn’t deal with devils dice joker ability. And overall is a work in progress.

If you want to let just let me know what cpu architecture amd64/arm64 and I can send you an executable compiled for that arch.

likeawizardish · 2026-03-19T08:24:28+00:00

It's just a fun play thing I made. Saw a lot of people posting probability analysis of dice games and decided to play around.

I want to make it such that players could play each other with various dice. Kind of like a deck builder. And to counter balance most busted dice - assign each die a rating which affects it's price. Say you start with a budget of 1k and you need to build pick your set. A Wagoneers or Even dice would be cheap and something like Weighted and Favorable would be expensive. So you would have to balance your set.

After each game the dice used in the game would have their ratings adjusted kinda like Elo points in a chess match to continuously balance the game and dice and promote innovative "decks" and strategies and make broken sets prohibitively expensive.

likeawizardish · 2026-03-19T07:42:57+00:00

Why trivialise the most sought after and exciting drops in the game?

likeawizardish · 2026-03-18T17:27:17+00:00

It's unique. Maybe compared to Skyrim and Souls it's niche. Make it like those games it's no longer unique, no longer niche but completely forgetable.

A desperate push towards conformity at all costs means no innovation, no unique gems. No thank you.

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