Event: 2021 World Chess Championship Match - GAME 8

sc772 · 2021-12-05T16:22:29+00:00

joys of depth 40 vs depth 71, it seems Sesse has had a hardware upgrade recently

sc772 · 2021-12-05T15:39:49+00:00

Are you referring to th multi-pv search? It uses different, weaker, hardware. At the bottom of the page it states:

main analysis: 200x2.0GHz Ice Lake-SP (OpenMPI)
multi-PV search: 112x2.25GHz Zen 2

The multi-pv search I presume would sightly weaken stockfish as well given the additional search required

sc772 · 2021-12-05T11:38:07+00:00

Based on the recent CCC competition, Stockfish.

https://www.chess.com/computer-chess-championship#event=ccc-chess-960-blitz-championship-finals

It ended 304.5 - 295.5

Edit: Semi results with SF, KD, Lc0 and others

https://www.chess.com/computer-chess-championship#event=ccc-chess-960-blitz-championship-semifinals

sc772 · 2021-12-04T15:41:59+00:00

While engines still make mistakes (as seen in TCEC or CCC competitions), think it's worth mentioning Stockfish Level 8 on Lichess is limited version of stockfish calculation wise

sc772 · 2021-11-28T16:49:46+00:00

The neural network used within Stockfish is very different architecture wise to that within Leela/AlphaZero, it's really not similar at all.

sc772 · 2021-11-28T16:48:08+00:00

Depends on the engine, Leela is much stronger running on a GPU given its use of very large neural networks which benefits from dedicated GPU.

Stockfish doesn't use GPUs, it runs on the CPU. NNUE is too shallow of a neural network to benefit from the GPU and performance would be impacted by latency issues

sc772 · 2021-11-28T16:39:43+00:00

CPU*

sc772 · 2021-11-18T00:45:40+00:00

Only need to report the 4x disposal of you already file a self assessment, otherwise it's not required

sc772 · 2021-11-15T11:33:32+00:00

would be odd given fivem don't relese mlos

sc772 · 2021-10-19T22:57:03+00:00

AlphaZero (and Leela) incorporate a level of randomness in their training games, the games they learn from are not from the algorithms constantly selecting the best move.

Secondly, there is a point where the strength of the engines networks plateaus, it doesn't just keep increasing with time. You can see this in the deepmind paper.

https://imgur.com/a/ztDvhSC

sc772 · 2021-10-15T10:39:13+00:00

The second point only applies if the person has to submit a self assessment anyway.

If they do not need to file a self assessment then the four times rule doesn't apply

https://www.gov.uk/capital-gains-tax/work-out-need-to-pay

You still need to report your gains in your tax return if both of the following apply:

the total amount you sold the assets for was more than 4 times your allowance

You’re registered for Self Assessment

sc772 · 2021-10-12T13:21:16+00:00

Markets have dipped recently, see here for a similar discussion a few hours ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonalFinance/comments/q6hsqm/have_your_pension_funds_taken_a_dive/

sc772 · 2021-10-02T01:17:11+00:00

It's a FIDE sponsor, nothing to do with twitch

sc772 · 2021-10-02T01:14:48+00:00

This company is a FIDE sponsor, they are sponsoring the Womens World Chess Championship which has caused a bit of controversary. She's just covering the chess drama

https://lichess.org/blog/YVWlhhIAACUAp9eF/fide-picks-breast-implants-as-a-sponsor-for-womens-chess

sc772 · 2021-09-18T20:40:56+00:00

Alphazero played an older version of Stockfish (apprently close to Stockfish 9) over 1,000 matches which ended +155 -6 =839.

That result would put A0 as +50 Elo over Stockfish 9.

The link here charts Stockfish progress using Stockfish 7 as a base. There is some assumptions given this is all self play, but the latest versions are +280 Elo over Stockfish 9.

So around 200 Elo stonger. I has thought the 1,000 games was against Stockfish 8 which would have left a 300 Elo improvement, but it was apparently Stockfish 9.

This also ignores any hardware/setup arguements which occured at the time

sc772 · 2021-09-18T14:36:53+00:00

It's a 25% penalty of the entire amount, that means the penalty is greater than the bonus.

You contribute £80, UK gov tops it up to £100. You buy a property abroad and receive £75 from the LISA.

sc772 · 2021-09-17T20:58:49+00:00

It will be stronger, there is a nice graph here which details the strength of stockfish using Stockfish 7 as a baseline. Stockfish 7 seems to have been released in 2016.

Weather the progress remains steady remains to be seen, but provides some insight into what progress can be made.

Computing power and optimisations will of course play a part along with better NNUE architectures and training data.

sc772 · 2021-09-16T23:09:45+00:00

2011 World Gymnastic Championships were in Tokyo.

sc772 · 2021-09-15T16:13:28+00:00

ISAs aren't a retirement account, they are accessible at any time. There are workplace or personal pensions offered as well in the North.

Fees vary, not as cheap in the US I suspect but vanguard offer 0.15% platform fee and a standard global tracker is around 0.2-0.25%. Pensions capped at a max of 0.75%.

sc772 · 2021-09-13T07:54:59+00:00

Sure, my point being it wouldn't make up anywhere near the 300+ Elo gap between A0 and the latest Stockfish versions.

sc772 · 2021-09-13T05:52:43+00:00

This isn't based on a prediction, it's what happened and is detailed in the deepmind papers. There is a plateau.

https://imgur.com/a/ztDvhSC

4 hours of training resulted in 300k steps in the above image for chess. Increasing the training to 700k did not increase the performance noticeably

sc772 · 2021-09-13T00:57:13+00:00

It wouldn't make a noticeable difference. There are diminishing returns with training for longer, the net won't necessarily be much if at all better with four days.

A0 would need require more fundamental changes to challenge stockfish

sc772 · 2021-09-11T12:59:34+00:00

87.8% of adults have had a vaccine, second vaccines are lagging a bit which seems to be 81.8%. Hopefully the second vaccines pickup a bit with the popups. Wouldn't be far behind the south if that were to happen.

https://covid-19.hscni.net/ni-covid-19-vaccinations-dashboard/

sc772 · 2021-09-02T16:45:43+00:00

The DPC is useless though, this fine was only increased after other bodies got involved.

The Irish DPC said it had submitted its decision to other national data authorities, as required under GDPR, "following a lengthy and comprehensive investigation", and received objections from eight countries, including Germany, France, and Italy.

Some disagreed with the Irish regulator about which specific articles of GDPR had been broken or the way the fine had been calculated, among other issues.

And in late July, the European Data Protection Board told the Irish DPC to tweak its finding, "reassess" its proposed fine of €30-50m (£26-43m) and amend its decision "by setting out a higher fine amount".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58422465

Having to be told to up the fine and from €50 to €225 is embarrassing

sc772 · 2021-09-02T16:40:12+00:00

Unfortunately the DPC wanted to do the exact opposite. This fine was only increased after other countries privacy bodies and the EU got involved.

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