As far as i understood it at the time they where strict classical rules. The hand that touches the clock is the one to move a piece. Touching a piece means you must move that piece. Illegal moves are an automatic forfeit (i always presumed because they are undistinguishable from trying to cheat).

Its possible that tournaments are setup with different rules but i never really had the experience to find out. Considering kids there is also a good chance my opponent would have just lied, queen was already moved to a now legal spot.

I was in a chess club as a kid. Loved it, great people.

I went to a competition once.

There was so much noise, so many people. Scheduling to consider and I didn’t like the food so i was very hungry.

This was more then a decade ago. But there was this one match. I think the last one of the day and i had lost all but a draw before. i felt so awefull, physically, mentally i played so awefull but this is a core memory

My opponent made a mistake. Illegal fucking move with the queen.

“Y uh, you cant… do tht. “

“Wut?”

“Y mda, ts u illegal move. “

My Opponent Looks at board, visible terror dawn on their face. “Oh” Looked me in the eye, and slowly moves the queen to a legal spot.

Did i know i was 100% supposed to call the ref and that i had just won the game. Of course i did.

Did my opponent know? (We were kids) I am pretty sure they did.

So i played a few more moves in silence and resigned the game not long after. To my mind i had already lost a while ago. I felt so sick the basic idea of feeling joy for a win was so far off i just couldn’t muster to take it.

I still love chess Anyway thank you for joining this spontaneous group therapy session. Anyone else have chess related trauma to mate?

The moment you become truly aware of how often ai is incorrect is the moment you are ready to use it properly.

I do hope we have started a long study for the short and long term influence of llms on critical thinking skills.

Also from them to them:

Your catching me off guard but uh sure

• loops is a new tiktok like app for the fediverse. And probably most relevant. I say probable because i am still uncomfortable with this type of social media so i dont know what people expect or want from it.

• odysee. Similar algorithm based video scrolling but have not tried it.

• lemmy, bet you heard of this one before.

• mastodon, a similar trend of today. People left twittercorp shithole. Had to make a choice between established actual alternative or brand new and empty twittercorp shithole 2.0

If these event thoughts me something its that people actually have no problem changing platforms and websites. Which i previously thought was the case. Its just seems unpredictable what actual sets a digital migration in motion and to where people will flock.

Thats /s feels unnecessary honestly. Introversion is on the rise globally.

To add to this.

Just because i failed to act on the stuff that needs doing doesn’t mean i had it easy or that am not exhausted.

Usually the reflective awareness of my stuck state drains me way more then if i would you just be able to get up and do it.

FASHIONIST!

Yeah i cant really find a clear understanding there myself but op does mention the source so thats where i looked.

Sounds like its not a new idea either just that they weren’t sure when they first theorized it up. But assumed they where wrong. Appears like the breakthrough here is some proof that the past scientist where not wrong. But the question remains what this “other” part really is.

I have been breaking my head over this chess puzzle.

Its entirely possible to have the horses and bishops play together but the problem is but they require separate entrances also separate from the rooks entrance. Then you have to position it so the horses cant exploit one entrance into another and escape.

Not for a second do i believe the author is not aware of it, i think they tried it and then gave up on that particular detail.

Come to think off it, the only reason that we cant have a large communal area for all pieces of the same colour is to let the bishops meet with those of the opposite color. If not for that it would mean every one sPIECEs has 5 other sPIECEs to hang out with, surely that an improvement on this premise where its max 2 3.

Last line: “Has Fetterman turned so far to the right that he’s ignoring his own wife’s story—and is Trump secretly applauding him for it?“

Secretly???

Its loud and clear virtue signaling. Other Democrats take the knee and do as i say and maybe i wont be mad at you when i take revenge on everyone else.

It is, i am using voyager for lemmy and it also remains animated when i downloaded it to my phone.

I have yet to figure out why i can download some gifs easily while others either cant be downloaded or become stationary.

Wow i love this. I cant even begin explain the effect this vibe gives me.

I love going to places to look at art. If only some of that was this fucking good.

Thank you for creating tranendal content, as always.

The measurement is “counties” away from the coast. Not miles nor km.

I realise now its literally in the title but for some reason the terminology did not compute and i just kept reading it as miles.

I thought there was something seriously off with this map or that it was a good example of the mercator distortion and had started to compare distances between cities.

Interestingly enough it wan ai (claude) that pointed this out from just the raw pic.

“The methodology of measuring by county units rather than strict distance creates an interesting visualization ”

That they specifically went to another sketchy app is what gets me the most.

I could name tons of social network alternatives that are decentralized, give users control but for some reason those are sidelined as everyone suddenly wants an account on app they never heard off a few weeks ago and its main selling feature is that is at least as insecure and censored as tiktok…

I am also a advocate to better refined and meticulous ai testing using scientific best practices.

But i am not sure if a control really applies or works In this context. Could you elaborate on your suggestion?

An llm configured to respond with randomness is unlikely to produce much readable text. There would not be much to anthropomorphize. You could design one that responds normally but intentionally incorrect to study how quick people get tricked from incorrect ai but that has nothing to do with alignment. You would almost need to have perfected alignment before you can build such reliable malicious control llm.

Alignment is specifically about measuring how close the ai is to desired foolproof behavior to guarantee it does absolutely no undesired reasoning. I feel here a control is as useful as having a control suspect at a police interrogation. The cases i have read about are also quite literally the llm pretending that it is aligned and lying about not having abilities that could be used maliciously. (If I recall the devs made it look like they accidentally gave it acces to something)

A more straightforward control would be simple redoing The experiment multiple times, which i am sure They did just not worth reporting. Working with AI rarely gets results on a first try.

I just realized. Windows 10 is being shelved but there is only one version ahead of it.

I remember xp still being considered good when i had win 8 installed.

How is that not understood as as a blatant attempt to maximize user control?

Actually looking at the numbers xp and 8.1 retired within 2 years of eachother. And 10 first got retired in 2020 a year before win 11 was released to make way of windows as a service updates which is actually what is getting retired later this year.

Microsoft kindly please get your shit together… or dont and strengthen my work requests to migrate systems to Linux.

I cannot fathom how any decent human being could cast any kind of vote for trump but the people that did are not the actual problem.

The fact that there where only 2 options of the same 2 cults the majority has gotten tired off is the problem.

It is post election and we sadly cant redo it. There is little sense to make a “us and them” between voters and non voters besides a subtle “told you so” now and then when leopards eat there faces. Always remember devision is a political weapon used against us. It would be the higher dynamic of the politica Theater working exactly as designed to make sure we the people cant organize power.

Cant see one either.

Found this online: https://news.rice.edu/news/2025/mathematical-methods-point-possibility-particles-long-thought-impossible

The weird thing with this is i became a pc gamer precisely because it was the cheapest platform.

Most homes had/have a desktop pc. The hardware was mostly irrelevant because Low graphics settings where default and actually looked more readable then the dlss blurs of today.