tspduck | 4 years ago | on: How I got wealthy without working too hard
tspduck | 4 years ago | on: The Unix Magic Poster
tspduck | 5 years ago | on: Why northern Europe is so indebted
Is it true that the debt-rate in Denmark is high, but that is debt in DKK, which is very importent. The majority of the real-estate is owned by huge pensions funds and institutions which are also danish.
As other mentioned the numbers do not seem to be normalized either.
tspduck | 5 years ago | on: The neural network of the Stockfish chess engine
Chess is a hard game to solve completely, and I think one reason is that there are many states in chess where there is not one superior move, but only a probable optimal move, in the sense that the game-tree for winning against the move is smaller than other moves. Then the agent/player has to guess what the opponents strategy is given that move, and that depends on the opponent.
I plays are truly creative, and its results speak for itself.
From wiki: "In AlphaZero's chess match against Stockfish 8 (2016 TCEC world champion), each program was given one minute per move. Stockfish was allocated 64 threads and a hash size of 1 GB,[1] a setting that Stockfish's Tord Romstad later criticized as suboptimal. AlphaZero was trained on chess for a total of nine hours before the match. During the match, AlphaZero ran on a single machine with four application-specific TPUs. In 100 games from the normal starting position, AlphaZero won 25 games as White, won 3 as Black, and drew the remaining 72. In a series of twelve, 100-game matches (of unspecified time or resource constraints) against Stockfish starting from the 12 most popular human openings, AlphaZero won 290, drew 886 and lost 24."
