kuboble

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I'm building a puzzle game kuboble.com
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Comment · 3 days ago
The same way as we protect those anti-internet or anti-electricity ?
Comment · 9 days ago
To complement on other comments that have already provided definitions.

The big O notation is very often used to denote exact complexity of an algorithm even if the notation is technically an upper bound.

The little o notation is usually used to denote a small asymptotic improvement over some known complexity.

For example if some sublinear algorithm would have n^(7/8) complexity - would be probably advertised as big O of that. But n^(1-eps) is shared as o(n) with exact constant provided as a detail.

Comment · 12 days ago
I would argue that math indeed makes our lives better. Llms themselves are math invention! It doesn't matter much where this math comes from.

I think it's ok to care about math as an art or sport still.

Math will join the ranks of other useful works where human effort was once essential like

Long distance messaging/ running, painting, calligraphy, weight lifting and others.

Comment · 23 days ago
But arguably - it's better for chess community that the best engines are opensource than having superior GoogleChessBot.
Comment · 23 days ago
It has utility so some people will pursue it, but it has no immediate business value so I don't believe ai labs will keep spending millions on it.

Unless they decide that trying p!=np is worth any money.

Comment · 23 days ago
I wonder if top labs will soon abandon math progress like they did go and chess.

In example of go where I'm more familiar Google deep mind poured large resources to get a super human performance first, establish superiority and abandon it. The community then built their own tools starting from reproducing their papers.

I think similar thing might happen to math. Nobody outside of math cares too much about Hamiltonian cycles in some bizarre graphs or proving lower bounds on complexity of some problem.

Once those results stop being worthy of mainstream media attention, they will abandon math and the progress will be done by mathemicians guiding the models and the community will likely establish some new rules about what makes a valuable contribution. Merely solving not yet solved problem might not be it anymore.

Comment · 24 days ago
Given the popularity of the benchmark, is there already a human artist scene that outcompetes llms here?
Comment · 1 month ago
I'm an ok chess player (roughly OP level) and slightly more experienced claude code user.

I tried to use claude to analyze my games using stockfish - this is not a problem claude is good at.

I spent few hours (however admittedly around opus 4.8) with claude on this and it was unable to use stockfish in any useful way.

I think if the skill created by OP works then it's a real contribution. I'll give it a try.

Comment · 1 month ago
it's the opposite actually.

If someone holds their camera or a phone facing you directly you can guess they are filming you.

Normally looking glasses with a hidden camera is a Spywear from spy novels. The diode doesn't change much

Comment · 1 month ago
Retiring is to stop doing what other people tell you to do for money.

There is plenty of room for intellectual and social engagement outside of paid work.

Comment · 1 month ago
I don't know if it's legally binding but hope it is.

I love the saying "you can delegate authority but you can never delegate responsibility".

Your agent committed a crime in your behalf? You're responsible.

Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
It's not public, but the diff is tiny: https://pastebin.com/Nd2sS0KX

Also - it's not only my change is making stockfish not blunder. Any little change in the code or execution will butterly-effect into no blunder.

To reproduce a bunder you have to be very deterministic. You need to specify threads = 1, and fixed cache sizes.

Comment · 1 month ago
N=1 and might be a raw skill issue on my end.

But I all but stopped writing code 13 months ago. At the beginning the code was often bad.

In the last 6 months alone I had received more praise from my customers for excellent work than ever before.

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