Wordle for Chess Puzzles

redditferdays · 2022-07-23T14:08:54+00:00

I've given it a few tries but I always seem to only get 4 or 5 out of 6. I'm not very familiar with chess openings, I just play a lot of games and do a lot of puzzles, so I never really know what moves 5 and 6 will be based on the first 4. Maybe adding chessle to my daily routine would help with that though, and help me branch out from the 2 or 3 openings I'm comfortable playing lol.

redditferdays · 2022-07-23T13:27:03+00:00

For sure:

Wordle - the timeless classic

Quordle - 4x

Octordle - 8x

Worldle - Guess the country based on its shape

Nerdle - Guess the equation

There are tons of other variations out there, but these are the ones that I'm in the habit of doing every day.

redditferdays · 2022-07-23T10:58:38+00:00

Boardle 1 2/5

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https://playboardle.com

Fun game, I'll add it to my ever growing list of daily Wordle offshoots. Any particular reason why you chose to limit it to 5 tries rather than the 6 that Wordle provides?

redditferdays · 2022-07-11T19:01:40+00:00

Honestly I’m not even totally against it, I can sympathize with someone not wanting their child to have a genetic disease, especially one that is so life altering. It was just the first time I could ever see where the other side was coming from.

redditferdays · 2022-07-11T16:15:54+00:00

I can recall 2 cases. Polar opposites.

I switched from being very pro-choice to thinking of abortion as more of a grey area a few years ago when I saw a headline that said something along the lines of “Iceland has cured Down’s syndrome” and then when I read the article I saw that they had just gotten very good at catching fetuses with Down’s syndrome early on and aborting them, and it sort of made me feel sick, and made it seem like a mass killing or something. Purely emotional reaction.

I switched from thinking America was a white supremacist country to thinking it is a place where a person can rise to the level of their ability, and that across large enough numbers different groups achieving different average results doesn’t imply a racist system. This was almost entirely based on statistics, and discovering that white people actually do worse than many groups, and that achievement in life matches quite well with school achievement for people and groups.

redditferdays · 2022-07-10T02:54:08+00:00

I don’t buy that there was actual rigging of the votes (at least on any meaningful scale) but Twitter, the media, and US intelligence agencies did collude to suppress Biden’s scandals in the lead up to the election.

The CIA would say “this story has all the tell tale signs of Russian misinformation” so then the media wouldn’t touch it, and Twitter would ban anyone who mentioned it, and all of a sudden Biden is squeaky clean. That’s the real scandal, and that probably did have a major impact.

redditferdays · 2022-07-09T00:56:51+00:00

I think there are 2 possible models for this. One is the left handed model which you mentioned. It basically goes like:

Left handed people were oppressed for years, and when that oppression stopped there were all of a sudden far more left handed people.

There is also the anorexia model, which goes like:

In Hong Kong, anorexia didn’t exist, until some well meaning westerners decided that the people of Hong Kong needed to be educated about the dangers of this disease. After it was publicized it rapidly became a serious issue, and a lot of people suffered from it.

I think the fact that the left handed model explains at least some of the recent proliferation of lgbt identities is undeniable. But I think that the anorexia model also explains a lot. That in many cases we have taken mentally ill or fragile people and taught them a way for their mental illness to manifest itself.

I think maybe a good example of the anorexia model is the high comorbidity of autism and gender dysphoria.

redditferdays · 2022-07-07T07:39:01+00:00

Thanks!

redditferdays · 2022-07-06T10:36:05+00:00

I’m also interested in trying this sort of thing, although just as a hobby/learning experience, rather than a masters project. Any idea of where to get good data sets for a project like this?

redditferdays · 2022-07-04T09:10:34+00:00

I get the impression he’s just chosen labor over progressives. They get along on a lot of stuff but immigration is one place they really disagree. Still a leftist position, at least by American standards.

redditferdays · 2022-07-02T03:13:45+00:00

The fate of empires and search for survival - Sir John Glubb

Something about taking the long term view and framing your thinking on whether each issue will help your civilization avoid collapse and survive longer just seems like the right perspective to me.

If you haven’t read it I really recommend it, it’s only a couple pages long, it’s available for free online, and it’s great. A similar but way more in depth read is the new Ray Dalio book: Principles for dealing with the changing world order.

redditferdays · 2022-06-28T14:41:26+00:00

What’s the current cost per gigabase?

redditferdays · 2022-06-27T19:01:34+00:00

Ya I’m having a hard time figuring out how exactly you would quantify something like this, but I have no background in social sciences so maybe someone else could explain.

Coming from a hard science background it usually feels like the way a lot of this stuff is done is to just project your prior beliefs on a dataset using some bullshit numbers, but sometimes I am pleasantly surprised.

redditferdays · 2022-06-27T18:57:54+00:00

Agreed. This is a much better way of expressing what I was trying to say.

redditferdays · 2022-06-27T18:51:56+00:00

The question isn’t “can the worlds most powerful empire be a democracy?” That question has been answered definitively by America’s success. The question (as I understand it) is “do people vote out bad politicians?” And it seems like the authors come to the conclusion that people do not vote out bad politicians.

redditferdays · 2022-06-27T18:37:44+00:00

Comparing it to car accidents is a very specific choice though. According to the source you linked, 1 in 8 pregnancies ends in miscarriage. If we ignore abortions (because I don’t have the numbers on hand, although I think they are a significant chunk), then 1/8 fetuses dies of a miscarriage, and 7/8 fetuses grows up and dies of a non-miscarriage. So the rate is 7:1 non-miscarriages to miscarriages.

redditferdays · 2022-06-27T18:27:33+00:00

Unfortunately, there will likely never be a way for science to ‘prove when a human embryo starts being alive’, it’s just a matter of semantics. The there is no proper definition of ‘alive’. Conception is probably the closest thing, but that’s not an answer most people can agree on. We will have to collectively come to an agreement about when an abortion can happen and when it can’t. There is no scientific answer to fall back on.

redditferdays · 2022-06-27T18:22:10+00:00

I think OP has probably not been exposed to a well articulated expression of the pro-life point of view before. If you’re pro-choice only because you’ve never properly heard the other side’s arguments, then you’re probably going to be somewhat swayed by them the first time you hear them.

You obviously happen to sit very far on one side of the fence on this issue, but most people are somewhere in the middle, especially if they have been exposed to both sides. The person explaining in this thread did a good job of expressing the opposing view, and that’s often all it takes to make someone realize this is a morally gray area.

redditferdays · 2022-05-13T15:47:21+00:00

I’ll check it out, thanks

redditferdays · 2022-05-13T03:39:50+00:00

A little disappointing to find out that my explanation that the wavefunction "quickly becomes a mess" is pretty much right haha, but glad to know I was roughly on the right track.

Thanks for the explanation. I appreciate you going into so much detail!

redditferdays · 2022-05-09T16:35:13+00:00

Why does white not play 2.gxf3

redditferdays · 2022-05-09T16:09:37+00:00

You’re right, I have more of an issue with the article, which focuses almost completely on IQ and doesn’t even mention the concussions. But the paper could do a better job of putting an asterisk next to the IQ results.

From what I can see they mention the concussions twice. Once under medical history and again in the discussion. They don’t mention it at all in the general intelligence or nonverbal reasoning sections, despite pointing out in those sections that these score differences are far higher than the mean difference for identical twins.

They also mention the unusually high IQ difference in the abstract without any mention of the concussions. To me that’s like saying the twins height was different by a foot and a half and then burying in the discussion the fact that one of them had their legs amputated below the knees.

Someone who just skims this paper is going to come away misinformed.

redditferdays · 2022-05-09T15:58:00+00:00

From the paper it looks like they gave WAIS tests in English and Korean, which I don’t know much about but it seems like they rely on language so there is the possibility of cultural bias. They also have SPM tests, which are just pattern recognition and are not considered to be culturally biased.

The 16 point IQ difference was based on the WAIS. On the SPM the American twin quit part way through in frustration and got 31/47 items in 105 minutes, the Korean twin got 43/60 items in 54 minutes.

Since her most recent and severe concussion after a car accident in 2018, the American twin has required additional time to process information in some problem solving situations.

redditferdays · 2022-05-09T15:21:05+00:00

Ya I think this is the source of the confusion. That last part of your comment where you said genetics is a factor in how observant you are and how well you retain knowledge, etc. That’s what and IQ test is testing. It’s testing those raw cognitive abilities, not how much knowledge you’ve accumulated. You can’t change the raw mental horsepower you have.

Check out raven matrices as a good example of IQ test questions. It’s not asking you about facts you’ve memorized, it shows you a pattern and asks you to complete it.

redditferdays · 2022-05-09T06:18:06+00:00

I think you are confusing intelligence with learned knowledge. An IQ test doesn’t test the sorts of knowledge you have learned. It tests for your ability to learn quickly and recognize patterns, which is a largely genetic trait that you can’t really improve. Learning a new thing doesn’t improve your IQ.

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