@thdxr If you’re using nvidia then the driver makes a huge difference, up until 565 it felt very buggy to me, more recently less so
I did get some bugs with sway as well, but more like random stuff (segmentation fault when some application sent a message to its ipc port)
@chesscom > To solve chess, you'd have to map them all
No? Checkers is solved and not all positions are mapped (which yes would have been impossible in this planet’s lifetime)
Because at the limit there isn’t much useful to do
I think the most realistic (optimistic) scenario is (1) entertainment/social and (2) purely competitive endeavors, just like how like watching people play chess for fun, even though engines are much better, I think all kinds of competition that we’d find pointless nowadays are going to appear
> If you approach a language decision with how much slow code it allows you to write
That’s your own distorted interpretation of what I said. When one has limited time, using a language that gives better baseline performance is desirable because one may then use time that would have been spent on basic optimizations on other issues (features, deeper optimizations…)
If you take the same architecture and implement in Python vs C, generally the baseline performance in C will be better before any optimizations. If you end up making a mistake (eg over processing some data or whatever), the hit in your program will be felt more harshly in Python than C. And so on
CS papers tend to overuse math formalization/notation, which sometimes makes it harder to understand a simple concept (eg to describe something as simple as “clear least significant bits” they’d introduce a field, use a modulo, etc). In some subfields this seems on purpose as some conferences will reject papers that look too simple
@laplacian28 It’s a ridiculous system. You can end up paying a lot less if your yield is high (because no capital gains tax), but then you have to hope the tax authority doesn’t deem those gains “business activity” and then you’re liable for the higher rate anyway