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As a relatively new member of this community, I am writing now to express my appreciation for the very useful discussions and information that I have found here. I did not realize how much I was relying on it until it was gone for a few days. I know there has been a lot of drama around here in the l...

Are we all using “epoch” the same way in this discussion? In the nodchip trainer, the time to train depends (first approximation) on the total number of positions. In this case 256M positions in ten minutes is darn fast, no matter how we break up the batches. The original nodchip syntax would define...

FWIW, I read Albert’s comment completely as a political joke about crazy Trump COVID cures. Such jokes (about sunlight, bleach etc.) are ubiquitous these days in the USA. Everyone works so hard on their engines here, so we are all primed for attacks. I understand that. But this really looked like a ...

I have read some of the tensorflow vs. pytorch debates but come out still feeling confused. Is there any reason to prefer one of these environments to the other for NNUE development? Or is it 99% driven by whichever one you are most familiar with? I ask because I am looking to starting from scratch,...

Ah, it seems I had misunderstood the bona-piece-zero. I had thought it was a clever way to encode that the previous move had been a capture, thus allowing the NN to see that the position might require a recapture if it currently had a material imbalance. Since that is not the case, I wonder how the ...