Charlotte 猫 Awoo Fide @confusedcharlot@awoo.space

<<Thanks to hardware and software improvements in the years since Deep Blue’s victory, even relatively weak computers now routinely beat Grandmasters at tournament level. But as Advanced Chess has shown, relatively weak computers working alongside human players will wipe the floor with the most advanced supercomputers. Collaborative rather than oppositional thinking has yielded radical advances in chess theory, and opened up whole new areas of play.>>

James 'Something is Wrong on the Internet' Bridle on Big Data, 2016, with this interesting bit I didn't know:

https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5104/whats-wrong-with-big-data

<<But something strange happened to chess after 1997. Instead of capitulating, its masters rethought their own thinking. The following year, Kasparov opened the first tournament of what has come to be known as Advanced Chess. In Advanced Chess, players are allowed to use a computer to assist them – and the results have been revelatory.>>

Point precision of a multi axis laser cutter

should i do a christmas cover this year y/n https://mastodon.social/media/aomosSZGVaQ5E7C7CwA

All of the other reindeer USED to laugh and call him names. USED to.

(via @/dangrantwriter on birdsite)