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To complete this: the pass stone stick is evidently the result of poorly specified end conditions. From Adversarial Policies in Go - Game Viewer (Under “pass attack”) These are not the usual end game rules and are countered by using pass stones and playing until no valid plays remain. See...

So, what that article says about Go is not meaningful. The following is not true: Looking over the game, KataGo is truly well ahead. The adversary’s stones which are in KataGo’s territory have no hope and can be reasonable described as captured. KataGo’s territory is real, and KataGo should...

Is this really true? For example, Alpha Go has led to a sea change in the play of Go. Many previous sequences have been re-evaluated with disused sequences being promoted and then preferred sequences being shown to be incorrect. Also, could Rubens create a Picasso? Rubens could learn a new...

Yup. That thought follows rather quickly from the initial statement. I did start down a path of trying to understand different ways that systems can be incomprehensible, but I don't have the expertise to provide a clear answer. My best so far is one possible outline of questions to ask: What...

If I may throw out another, possibly illuminating question: How is RNG, plus extensive technical ability, plus having lots of examples, plus an AI to tie these together, different than an actual artist? When asked to create a scene with several elements, such as was done earlier in this thread...

To followup on the issue of bias in AI. This article seems OK. Notably, it has links to other articles which discuss the issue: https://ucalgary.ca/news/law-professor-explores-racial-bias-implications-facial-recognition-technology I'm not endorsing the accuracy of the article one way or the...

Not sure this helps. There are plenty of completely open systems which exhibit complex, unpredictable behaviors. See for example, the Mendelbrot equation, which is the essence of simplicity but which has complex behavior on critical values. The thesis which seems to be central to the...

Also, folks seem to be talking past each other re: the logic of how the AI works. One part of that logic is how the AI is trained. Another part is how neural networks operate, in general. Another part has to do with the operation of the trained AI when handling a particular. This is like the...

This is different than what was presented to me re:Bias. It’s not about problems in random number generation. It’s about bias in the data sets used to train the AI. A noted example is facial recognition failure on particular groups because those groups were not well represented in the...

I tend to agree. Initially, there was a decent selection of things to watch. Plus, enough shows that I was willing to outright purchase that there was value. Lately, there don't seem to be very much worth watching (*), including shows that I can purchase, and more and more is on channels...

But, can I still be from Mars? 🤔 TomB

Maybe I'm from Mars, but is anyone else (1) in the habit of ignoring ads, (2) dis-inclined to buy from online ads that pierce their awareness? I find very very few ads to be of use. When I need to buy something I do some queries and figure out what to get. Ads and search placement are huge...

Not a lawyer, but I thought there were limits to such terms. A contract that can be changed by one side isn’t much of a contract. But, changing terms on renewal is fair game. All Amazon needs to do is make the changes effective on the next renewal. TomB

Ah, not quite. It seems the goal is to prevent the pop up’s on the smaller screens, where they rather do not fit. So, I’m very much speculating. There was a 13.5 inch with check which was commented out, then reappeared as an 8 inch width check. 13.5 inches cuts out most tablets and most...

It seems that the width test changed again. I'm seeing a new minimum width of 8 inches. My guess is that they are trying to find a "reasonable" width for which the window is not too terrible. Less than what they had, enabling the pop-up on more browsers. You can check this by viewing the...

I’m just getting the bottom anchor ad. Looking at the page source, it seems a width check was uncommented. Has anyone tried on a wide monitor? Although, aren‘t iPads more than 1300 pixels wide? [Edit: one ”px” is 1/96 inches. 1300 px is 13 1/2 inches, plus 4/96 of an inch.] TomB old <!--...

Ugh, JavaScript is a truly evil language. Just for interest: There are some ads from gamerati and others from nitro pay. Nitropay seems to be adding the pop ups. The interstitial add is in a comment (“<!— —>”) so is disabled. The floating video and the bottom anchored look enabled. TomB...

IMO the pre-painted miniatures version suffered because of the use of randomized packs, and because of fairly horrid miniatures. A few were OK. Many were quite bad. For a while it seemed to capture some players, but it didn’t last. Nowadays, there are a couple of skirmish games. The ones...

Perhaps one should ask ... how quickly? Most folks would be moving quite quickly relative to the now non-rotating earth. Folks at the equator would suddenly be moving at about 1000 m/hr relative to the earth. Folks at the poles would be OK. There would be rather large ocean surges if they...

I think we are in agreement. My point in regards to cultural variation failed to convey that the cultural variations seem to have a much stronger regard for these things. TomB