Re: [FRIAM] Loyal Hound as provisional regular spot for Wedtech lunches ( was Re: Lunch today?)

I'll be there. BTW, I beamed into the calculator conference program a couple weeks ago. I love the long tail of communities :-) -Stephen ___ stephen.gue...@simtable.com CEO,

[FRIAM] The other side of Web 3.0

Since crypto is doing so great this week, here's Sandy Pentland explaining why and how he thinks blockchain is about to take off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbd_QHtLTp0 The lecture is from May this year. The questioning from the Stanford audience is instructive. Interestingly, the

Re: [FRIAM] Adversarial Go trick defeats KataGo

It looks like the adversarial net paper and KataGo use almost the same algorithm for scoring. The paper ars is discussing uses the Tromp-Taylor algorithm (stated in the caption of Fig. 1 in https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.00241.pdf), whereas the training for KataGo used a modified version of

[FRIAM] Is America's essential philosophy pragmatism?

"Pragmatism emerged in the US in the late 1800s as a response to the Enlightenment push for absolute truth. The pragmatists — people like William James and John Dewey — were less interested in certainty and more concerned with immediate

Re: [FRIAM] Adversarial Go trick defeats KataGo

Jon will probably chime in with his annoyance as well, but the headline here is fake. In particular, they have bungled the implementation of how a game of Go is scored severely to get the paper result. The key "technicality" of the paper, quoting from the article, is: "As a result of its

[FRIAM] gaming

https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2022/Items/Nov11-2.html Democrats spent close to $20 million promoting 16 different far-right candidates who went on to claim the Republican nomination in their respective primaries. That list includes, most notably, Darren Bailey, Dan Cox, John Gibbs, Don

[FRIAM] dictation question

Hello everyone! I hope everyone is doing well! Recently I have been into dictating my emails. I have noticed the quality of at least Google's dictation or voice typing software as it calls itself. has at some point since I last used it become noticeably better. Where I can speak modestly fast

Re: [FRIAM] Adversarial Go trick defeats KataGo

"the adversarial policy works by first staking claim to a small corner of the board. He provided a link to an example in which the adversary, controlling the black stones, plays largely in the top-right of the board. The adversary allows