WilliamDhalgren

that's an optimistic way to frame the situation; there's heavy opposition from the content industry to limits to geoblocking, and unsurprisingly the industry seems to have support within the commission (Oettinger at least - perhaps the fact he now left the Digital Economy and Society position helps).

I'm not confident at all they'll be able to completely ban geoblocking in one go. Hopeful they will at least poke some holes in it this round. Most parts of the single market needed a couple of revisions of a directive (quite a few years removed) before liberalizing a particular market fully..

curious: what kind of txt editor(s) would make sense for non-code writing, say a novel, say w markdown or something similar? Especially if the person writing is non-technical so stuff like emacs, vim, atom don't seem like a great fit? I'm thinking something non-obtrusive and with limited options, so that UI is not getting in the way of writing, but with very litte learning curve?

And, given the example of GeorgeRRMartin, perhaps something WordStar-like would fit the bill? If so, are there good free editors in the style of WordStar?

I have this friend, and I've seen the mess of unintended font changes, sizes, styles, bulleted lists, indentation changes. and all kinds of horrible stuff in his manuscripts when I had to repair some of that damage because it was getting unusable - think he'd appreciate a more focused alternative..

sounds like General Game Playing task. Well, MCTS alone is often used in that domain, and it wouldn't surprise me if Ke Jie was a weaker checkers player than just a brute MCTS, nevermind any attempts to use neural nets (if that would even make sense for checkers?)

Hm, well you are no doubt right that it doesn't generalize well to a change of rules. Reminds me of that game DeepZen played. It was trained with a komi of 7.5 and it played too soft and lost when in the actual match komi was 6.5 (or maybe it was the other way around?). A human does not have much trouble adapting to such small rules variations, but at least the version of DeepZen that played that match was hard-coded for that exact komi value, because that's what what used in all of its training examples, and wasn't given as a parameter. It shouldn't be a hard limit of the approach - indeed I think AyaMC was said to have been trained with some flexibility in its komi.

Still, I think AlphaGo does demonstrate amazing positional judgement in unseen board states, and that this is visible in the details of how it plays out particular situations. No two games are exactly alike - difficulty of go for computers is precisely in its extreme combinatorial explosion - and in particular tactical situations every detail of the situation matters. Yet you can see AlphaGo judging the correct sequences of moves, "knowing" how to make a particular group alive for eg, even when a particular other move seems more natural. And probably the most amazing thing about how it plays is how early it becomes completely sure that its got an advantage on the board, and how precisely it judges how much it needs to keep the advantage to the end. Every detail of the board is again relevant here, and basically no human would be so confident so soon. A go bot that couldn't adapt its tactics to unseen situation would be easy to beat; just ensnare it in a large complicated fight, and you're going to kill a big group and guarantee a win. Ofc people tried this in some masterP games, and turns out AlphaGo is tactically just as strong.

So, its basically like with other generalizations you can get from machine learning; a net trained on say ImageNet will generalize to different poses, occlusions, contexts and variations of objects similar to what it was exposed in training etc and still do a superhuman job of classifying such pictures, but will naturally be quite hopeless with completely unseen items. So too AlphaGo seems to know the game of go, generalizing from seen examples to correct judgements in other states, but would be quite hopeless if tested on even a slight variation of the game rules.

but humans obtain their watts very very inefficiently, so there's prob at least an order of magnitude to give for the same kind of system-level efficiency. Consider a field to feed a human vs a PV installation of the same physical size. And ofc there's all the other ways to obtain electricity...

yup indeed; and also it started already in December, not just January as stated above. Should've double-checked my memory before writing stuff...

It absolutely should be dominant in a long game too. Even if it loses some of its strength at such time settings, it shouldn't lose THAT much, it was just too superhuman. The play should be interesting though; Ke Jie both had access to other strong bots in China for a long time, and could study the records of the MasterP games; maybe he tries something interesting and gets interesting responses so we all learn a bit about the nature of go (haven't watched the recording of this game yet, just woke up).

There was a computer bot championship recently (UEC cup), but AlphaGo declined to participate. FineArts won, DeepZen was second. Think there's a few other chinese bots that could be stronger than Zen but didn't participate. So the real competition didn't bother to show up really.

Nono, you missed the REAL computer supremacy event then; it was the 50ish (!!!) games MasterP bot played in january against the field of top go professionals on some asian go servers. The bot went 50-0, crushing all opponents often in interesting ways.

FineArt is among the bots that have a positive score against top professionals, yes. But it also can lose to them too. MasterP showed that a computer can completely outclass humans!

After the series of games, it was revealed that MasterP is in fact AlphaGo. As far as we can tell from that series, AlphaGo is some serious ELO above other strong bots. So now the question remains - is it that dominant at longer time controls too, as those games were all quick. So that's this match.

> There are quite a small number of old martial art that's pretty decent still.

could you mention a few more? And distinguish if its possible which of those were generally practiced as highly competitive full contact sports (within their rulesets of forbidden strikes etc), and which mostly as a martial art?

ah, I'm sorry but I really don't remember. this was some years back.

could be, I really don't know. I can imagine perfectly benign scenarios too; if our long-term memory grows with time, maybe there's just more possible connections/associations to filter out with time too, so that decision just becomes harder, with only the deeper old age being simply tissue decline, the exhaustion of cognitive reserves etc.

Somewhat relatedly, I think I heard on some old Skeptic's guide to the universe episode about an experiment with some nootropic, maybe it was a racetam though I think it was mondafinil, and this kind of reaction time to response accuracy tradeoff was observed, on young healthy adults. Those with less correct answers slowed down, presumably concentrated better and gave better answers, but those already good at whatever the task was simply were slower and yet no better.