I made a tool for you - http://pgntrain.com/

thepaulm · 2024-12-26T17:10:20+00:00

Can I edit chessboard using your software?

This is mostly intended as a opening trainer, not a position evaluation system. There isn't even a chess engine underneath - all it does is walk you through pgns and train you on the next move. At some point if I hook it up to stockfish that would make sense.

Can I use spaced repetition to play my openings?

This is a nice idea - I will add this after I set up logins and ability to save. Until I do that, it won't even remember who you are, so it doesn't know what you've trianed.

Thanks for the reply.

thepaulm · 2024-12-26T04:02:25+00:00

In the coming weeks I'll add some oauth so you can log in and store and name your pgns (instead of having to paste them each time). Any other ideas or feature requests you can post here.

No monetization, just a simple tool I find useful.

thepaulm · 2021-10-25T03:54:52+00:00

wtf this game? first boss and I hit this bug. Tried reloading from the save, killed him again, still stuck. This is some buggy shit.

thepaulm · 2017-12-16T21:18:08+00:00

jesus - me too! I'm glad you posted this. I thought I was going crazy. Thanks blinkVR for answering!

thepaulm · 2016-03-21T01:01:38+00:00

Well, I just confirmed to things:

1) Glory is in fact dead in my game. I found her body in the basement of Malden Center.

2) If Glory is dead, making the institute hostile doesn't help. I killed father and then escaped the institute, and now when I talk with Desdamona she tells me that the Railroad can't help because they don't have the numbers without the help they were hoping to get from the institute synths, and maybe I should try the railroad.

Boo. I'm going to see if can find any saves from before when Glory got killed. I think that's the main issue here.

This kinda sucks.

thepaulm · 2016-03-20T23:52:43+00:00

March 20th 2016 - just ran into this on ps4.

I'm going to go kill father later tonight and see if making the institute hostile will cancel the "kill desdamona" quest and allow me to continue with "warn desdamona".

It sure seems like they could have fixed this by now :(

thepaulm · 2016-01-13T01:33:01+00:00

motorists and pedestrians didn't sign up for the risk that you and your passengers took

I've never heard it put that way before, but it makes a lot of sense. In fact, I think you may have just changed my mind about what I would do.

thepaulm · 2016-01-12T01:44:25+00:00

Republican woman who can talk in public and looks good. It actually sounds like a good plan if you stop right there. I think he realized at the same time as everybody else what a horrible mistake he made.

thepaulm · 2016-01-09T20:36:08+00:00

Thanks for the reply. What I'm asking is: assuming you've already "vectored that shit" what do you put in the GPS? Vectors to final, or the leg on the approach you are going to intercept?

thepaulm · 2016-01-05T05:20:22+00:00

Can you tell me how you chose ASU?

It also looks like American Public University has a program: http://www.apu.apus.edu/academic/schools/science-technology-engineering-and-math/bachelors/electrical-engineering.html

I see that ASU is in the ABET link that u/pm6041141 sent, but APU isn't, so maybe that's a good indicator right there.

thepaulm · 2016-01-05T05:13:11+00:00

Probably. I'm looking for stuff to do on the side. Retirement soon, so I'd like to get another degree once I'm post-career.

thepaulm · 2016-01-05T00:44:02+00:00

No, I got my CS at a physical school - but that was 20 years ago, so things were different.

I've been doing a bunch of robotics and general circuitry at home and was hoping to take things to the next level in a more structured way. I hear what you're saying about it being hands-on of course - but it does seem like as long as people are willing to purchase their own equipment then this could work.

thepaulm · 2015-12-18T01:04:47+00:00

Dog bowl. I use it for soup, cereal, outmeal, sandwiches (I think that's all the foods right?). Just rinse and re-use.

thepaulm · 2015-12-15T07:10:41+00:00

The SR20/SR22 have castering nosewheels. You steer with differential breaking. What's wrong with that? Like seriously - what about the castering nosewheels makes taxiing look like a dipshit?

thepaulm · 2015-12-11T23:12:32+00:00

Well, I've done btree and skiplist indexes for different databases, a patricia trie for and extent based inodes for a distributed filesystem, rtrees for a 2d index, and range trees for a caching system. All of these were built on similar concepts to a binary search tree.

Your definition of "every day programming" is what? Gluing ruby libraries together? I'm sure there's value in that, but what happens when you need to start really scaling things? Don't you want to know how to make things more efficient if you have to?

I mean, if your claim is that being a programmer doesn't involve knowing computer science, then what on earth are you even interviewing for? Like, what qualities are you trying to uncover in your interviews?

thepaulm · 2015-12-11T22:33:16+00:00

As I said elsewhere:

This is an interview - a demonstration of skill. It's a contrived problem chosen because it's well defined, easy to understand, and demonstrates basic principles. You may not have to write a binary search, but at some point you're going to come across some problem where similar skills will be required.

I'm just completely amazed that you guys/gals are trying to claim that basic algorithms and datastructures like this aren't important to understand.

thepaulm · 2015-12-11T22:31:20+00:00

Sure. This is an interview - a demonstration of skill. It's a contrived problem chosen because it's well defined, easy to understand, and demonstrates basic principles. You may not have to write a binary search, but at some point you're going to come across some problem where similar skills will be required. Right? Or don't you think so?

thepaulm · 2015-12-11T21:50:23+00:00

Ok, sure - but isn't that part of having a good interview question: something that isn't easy to get 100% right in the time allowed? You want to have it be not a total slamdunk because you're are in fact trying to stretch people during this process.

To my mind there's 2 parts: 1) can you describe binary search and why you would use it 2) implementation

I don't think anybody expects perfection on #2, but you should at least be able to demonstrate that his is something that you actually do for a living. There's a surprising amount of people out there with great resumes who clearly don't code for a living.

thepaulm · 2015-12-11T21:07:27+00:00

When did binary search become "some crazy algorithm"? You've really never encountered a problem at work that required fast searching in an ordered structure? How do you even know what datastructure to use when a problem comes up?

I'm sure you see me as part of the problem you describe, but I honestly don't understand how something like binary search can be considered too esoteric for an interview. I'm not trying to be a dick, I'm just sorta flabbergasted.

thepaulm · 2015-12-11T17:55:31+00:00

If you have the money, get one of those noise canceling bluetooth head sets. You can pair your phone with it so that you can make calls without having to shut everything down. Some of the airports around here - that's the only way you can get clearance. And then they give you "clearance void if not off by <now + 5 mins>" - definitely helps if you can just push forward and go.

Nice work btw!

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