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AlphaZero's code is written by humans. There was human input everywhere: general design and concept, net format, search algorithm, training game parameters, and so on. Having some part that can improve through automated training is not the same thing at all as humans being useless in the process and...

2 and 3 are absurdly hard. They require humans to become absolutely worthless compared to automated methods at making better engines and at teaching humans. It won't happen in our lifetimes and may never happen at all. 1 is just about playing strong chess moves, we're close to it (already there from...

Many claims about the superiority of the M1's as a CPU are exaggerated. I argued earlier how the power efficiency comparisons with desktop x86 CPUs are highly misleading. I don't like apple either (from a dev's perspective), in general I don't like how the company behaves. but I'm really impressed ...

You are already deeply converted to iSheep, so you are not a target audience of ppl that write realistic (well bad in a view point of a rotten apple fan) posts about Mac hardware. Ppl write here as warning for others that didn't yet cross to the dark side ;). Apple is an (evil) multi-billion dollar...

Games are being played with Drawkiller v4 at CCC currently.

Presenting Fat Fritz in the list without some obvious disclaimer that it's a Stockfish clone is a shame.

Engine chess from the start position is pretty much dead.

I understand. I originally thought this is what the GPL is doing. But the GPL (even the GPL-3) apparently does something different. It relies on copyright law to define a derived work (or rather something legally equivalent to it but not depending on American copyright law). After that it puts rest...

An analogy to consider the problem differently: Imagine there is a law saying "chemical compound X can only be distributed alongside chemical compounds that do not explodes when mixed with X", in order to ensure safety. Chemical X explodes when mixed with chemical Y. No law restricts the distributio...

Everything starts with the copyright law question which permissions I need. The permission I need is the permission to distribute FF2 SF. So I invoke the GPLv3 to obtain permission for distributing the entire covered work "FF2 SF" (as part of a zip file), not for distributing the zip file as a whol...