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- A thought on chess engines:
- Stockfish 15 is ~3600 and can crush any human, so we use it to evaluate games in realtime, determining “absolute” probabilities of winning at any moment.
- Humans can play some positions easier than other positions. Coordination of pieces, logical continuations, centralization, etc. So the gap between human/engine play is smaller in those positions. Other positions have a larger gap.
- This applies for offense and for defense. There may be an insanely deep move to launch an attack or to hold a draw. A computer finds it easily. A human doesn’t. The eval bar may show 0.0 when black has an extremely tough sequence of moves to find, simply because stockfish finds them. This is very different than black with equal pieces and equal pawns in a drawish endgame.
- Therefore the difference between human/engine play matters in a position.
- Proposal: Run and show the normal eval bar (3600 on both sides). Silently run an eval bar of engines tuned to the player ratings (eg 2756 vs 2810) and then calculate the delta between that and the normal eval bar. That delta shows the “difficulty” of a position. Then manifest it as a color spectrum on the current eval bar. So if the eval bar jumps to 4 and is bright red, you know there’s a winning move in the position but it’s very hard to find. If the bar is at 0, but green, it’s an easy draw.
- Coney Island was cool yesterday. Luna Park. Even got Di Fara.
- UFC, Warriors, Jake Paul Anderson Silva, World Series, Fischer Random Chess, NFL.
- Work all morning.
- Tried to feed strawberries to the fish, none really took.
- Quickbooks for tracking SMB accounting. Rentastic is good for rental property.
- Redeemed Uber rewards (50% off next green ride, 10% off next general ride) since the points expire on Tuesday as they move to the Uber One program (membership, $10/mo).
- Checked AWS billing. Built a few reports in the cost explorer to show my daily costs per service.
- Checked GoDaddy – I had paid the annual bill in september so this timing wasn’t efficient, but next year’s bill should be this blog and no sbsc.
- November’s DigitalOcean bill should only be the wp droplet as well, no sbsc.
- There are ~500k verified users on twitter.
- Microsoft released their demograph vs pay report. Just considered white/black/hispanic and man/woman (not level, exp, department, academics, etc).
