ALLEZ REZA - GM Alireza Firouzja wins for France, gets a 3000+ tournament performance, a gold medal board prize... Oh, and will be the youngest chess player to ever hit a FIDE rating of 2800. How was everybody else's Sunday night?
For all those ppl who just learned #chess and are dreaming about becoming Grandmasters, have you wondered why there are only under 1800 Grandmasters in the world? Compare that number to PhDs.
Did you know that Connect4 is a solved game?
A game between two perfect agents results in (W)in, (D)raw or (L)ose:
L-D-D-W-D-D-L
for the first player according to the column chosen for the first move.
#gametheory#gameAI
https://t.co/ZTAVxFqB8z
i want to get into ML research, what topic would you recommend?
nothing. now it is not time to get into ML research. now its time to either observe what others are doing, or to build innovative applications using established techniques, or both.
Exactly.
Early and fast communication through arXiv and social media has *demonstrably* accelerated the progress of science.
Slowing down progress for the sole purpose of counting point is unethical.
#OpenScience
"Poorly describe what you do for a living"
I'm a lazy and ignorant quasi-computer scientist, so I try to get computers to program themselves.
I'm even trying to avoid supervising them.
Turns out I'm so bad that computers can program themselves better than I ever could.
NEW – For the first time ever, watch part of the "seven minutes of terror" when landing on Mars.
NASA rover #Perseverance captured stunning video of its entry and descent to the planet's surface last week: https://t.co/m3G4TRxuiu