Life In 19x19

Off-topic:

I recently had a different experience:

Years ago, YouTube stopped notifying me when someone liked one of my comments. This change was not unwelcome.

Last week, I suddenly got notices that someone had liked two of my comments. One of them was for a comment I made years ago. But, it ...

Pioneers of Reinforcement Learning Win the Turing Award

https://www.wired.com/story/pioneers-of ... ing-award/

Reinforcement learning was perhaps most famously used by Google DeepMind in 2016 to build AlphaGo,

There is video on the Veritasium YouTube channel about QR codes. The host illustrates with a "25" by "25" go board.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5ebcowAJD8

The man who created QR codes had the idea when looking at black and white stones on a go board.

CNN: How AI turned the ancient sport of Go upside down https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/24/asia/ai- ... index.html

Gordon Moore, co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, has died. You might recognize his last name from "Moore's Law", a prediction about the increase of number of components on integrated circuit chips. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Moore

Elom0 wrote:Another way to think of it, is that negative apples are apples created backwards in time, well at least that's how I've been thinking of it. But I think that means negative apples have negative mass, doesn't it?

Have you heard of the Single Electron Universe?

In another area of Life in 19x19, I learned Steve Fawthrop, a.k.a. Dr. Straw has passed. https://nrvnews.com/fawthrop-stephen/
https://lifein19x19.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=18730

It is reasonable to assume, because of the way KGS works, there is a database of users. Furthermore, that database some mechanism, such as a field (attribute), or linked entity, that indicates account capabilities, such as superadmin, gold admin, silver admin, wiki editor, teacher, translator. If ...

No. It hurts to have outdated copies everywhere. KGS should have a page of its own, and the other places only link there.

That's a good point.

However, one of the things I don't like about KGS is that the admins don't update the help pages. A big one is that the "Main Rooms Policy" page has also ...

The list of KGS admins is years out of date.
Can someone, please fix it? Preferably a KGS admin?
And, it would not hurt to have a current copy here in L19.

https://senseis.xmp.net/?KGSAdmins

This is from Snopes:

J Street was likely omitted simply because the letters I and J were often indistinguishable from each other (especially when handwritten), and in 18th century English they were still largely interchangeable. (The 1740 “New General English Dictionary” published in London had a ...

Here is a book: Chess Variations Ancient, Regional, and Modern , from Tuttle Publishing. It's from 1968, and no longer being printed. https://www.amazon.com/Chess-Variations-Ancient-Regional-Modern/dp/0804800898/

By the way, I, too, read that Murray's A History of Chess was lousy. But, I forgot ...

It took Boston Dynamics a year-and-a-half to make that video. In the process, they learned they need to upgrade their bots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE8mWcmi8Ds

Four Robots dance to Do You Love Me?. They are two Atlas (bipedal, android type), one Spot (quadruped), and a two-wheeled model.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw

A couple of years ago, a guest on a radio program claimed half of Shakespeare's rhymes don't rhyme, because pronunciation changes over the centuries. Although they did rhyme when Shakespeare wrote them.