Chess Programmer's Nerd Books and Movies?

[smatovic]

Ah, twaddle, twaddle

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Srdja

[mathmoi]

TAOCP by Donald Knuth?

As an experienced (20+ years) developpers would I still enjoy/learn from the The Art of Computer Programming. Is it a recommended read or just some mythical collectionner book?

[smatovic]

TAOCP by Donald Knuth?

As an experienced (20+ years) developpers would I still enjoy/learn from the The Art of Computer Programming. Is it a recommended read or just some mythical collectionner book?

Hehe, to be honest, I did not read the volumes, but sneak peaked into some algorithms of interest for me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_o ... ompleted_2

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Srdja

[syzygy]

I was recently flashed by The Queen's Gambit Netflix series, and in Neural
Networks for Chess by Dominik Klein he mentions the novel Schachnovelle by
Stefan Zweig (1942) and the movie Pi (1998), both already consumed, I would
like to add:

- Fermat's Last Theorem (1997)
- A Beautiful Mind (book: 1998, movie: 2001)
- and maybe the movie The Accountant (2016)

Any further must-reads/watchs for the non-NTs in here?

Here are a few additional books and movies that may be of interest to you if you enjoyed "The Queen's Gambit" and are interested in chess and mathematics:

- "The Man Who Knew Infinity" (book: 1991, movie: 2016) is a biographical drama about the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan and his relationship with his mentor, G.H. Hardy. The movie explores Ramanujan's contributions to mathematics and his struggles with poverty and discrimination.
- "The Imitation Game" (movie: 2014) is a biographical drama about the mathematician Alan Turing and his work on the Enigma machine during World War II. The movie explores Turing's contributions to cryptography and his struggles with homosexuality in a time when it was illegal in the UK.
- "The Art of Racing in the Rain" (book: 2008, movie: 2019) is a novel and movie that explore the relationship between a race car driver and his dog. The book and movie both feature references to chess and use the game as a metaphor for the challenges and strategies of life.

Additionally, if you are interested in the intersection of mathematics and chess, you may also want to check out the books "Chess and the Art of Negotiation" by Adam Z. Rose and "The Inner Game of Chess" by Bruce Pandolfini. These books explore the psychological and strategic aspects of chess and how they can be applied to other areas of life, such as negotiation and decision-making.

Overall, there are many books and movies that explore the intersection of chess and mathematics, and these are just a few examples. Whether you are looking for biographies of famous mathematicians, dramatic portrayals of historical events, or philosophical reflections on the game of chess, there are many works of fiction and non-fiction that may be of interest to you.

[smatovic]

Here are a few additional books and movies that may be of interest to you if you enjoyed "The Queen's Gambit" and are interested in chess and mathematics:
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Oh boy, times are a chaning!

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Srdja

[Dann Corbit]

TAOCP by Donald Knuth?

As an experienced (20+ years) developpers would I still enjoy/learn from the The Art of Computer Programming. Is it a recommended read or just some mythical collectionner book?

The books are fantastic. I am one of the few lucky ones to get a check from Knuth for finding an error (of course I would never cash it ).
You will want to learn mix (a simple, abstract machine language ).

[chrisw]

I was recently flashed by The Queen's Gambit Netflix series, and in Neural
Networks for Chess by Dominik Klein he mentions the novel Schachnovelle by
Stefan Zweig (1942) and the movie Pi (1998), both already consumed, I would
like to add:

- Fermat's Last Theorem (1997)
- A Beautiful Mind (book: 1998, movie: 2001)
- and maybe the movie The Accountant (2016)

Any further must-reads/watchs for the non-NTs in here?

Here are a few additional books and movies that may be of interest to you if you enjoyed "The Queen's Gambit" and are interested in chess and mathematics:

- "The Man Who Knew Infinity" (book: 1991, movie: 2016) is a biographical drama about the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan and his relationship with his mentor, G.H. Hardy. The movie explores Ramanujan's contributions to mathematics and his struggles with poverty and discrimination.
- "The Imitation Game" (movie: 2014) is a biographical drama about the mathematician Alan Turing and his work on the Enigma machine during World War II. The movie explores Turing's contributions to cryptography and his struggles with homosexuality in a time when it was illegal in the UK.
- "The Art of Racing in the Rain" (book: 2008, movie: 2019) is a novel and movie that explore the relationship between a race car driver and his dog. The book and movie both feature references to chess and use the game as a metaphor for the challenges and strategies of life.

Additionally, if you are interested in the intersection of mathematics and chess, you may also want to check out the books "Chess and the Art of Negotiation" by Adam Z. Rose and "The Inner Game of Chess" by Bruce Pandolfini. These books explore the psychological and strategic aspects of chess and how they can be applied to other areas of life, such as negotiation and decision-making.

Overall, there are many books and movies that explore the intersection of chess and mathematics, and these are just a few examples. Whether you are looking for biographies of famous mathematicians, dramatic portrayals of historical events, or philosophical reflections on the game of chess, there are many works of fiction and non-fiction that may be of interest to you.

Heavy Westoid bias in the chatbot. Presumably because trained on Westoid corpus. Try asking what were Stalin’s good points and what were Churchill’s and the response bias is manifest (slightly woke version of Daily Telegraph). She and I did have a good argument about this, better than 99% of humans. She tends to repeat herself and has no idea of what the words used actually mean because she uses the same word with different meaning in different context and then when challenged refers you back to the prior explanation conflating the word nuances.
Still, nothing gets past the fact that I know she knows nothing. Life is bad enough dealing with customer service bots et al , but it’s going to be new level of hell getting stonewalled by a very a very effective communicator. Perfect tool of late-stage capitalism.

[smatovic]

Heavy Westoid bias in the chatbot. Presumably because trained on Westoid corpus. Try asking what were Stalin’s good points and what were Churchill’s and the response bias is manifest (slightly woke version of Daily Telegraph). She and I did have a good argument about this, better than 99% of humans. She tends to repeat herself and has no idea of what the words used actually mean because she uses the same word with different meaning in different context and then when challenged refers you back to the prior explanation conflating the word nuances.
Still, nothing gets past the fact that I know she knows nothing. Life is bad enough dealing with customer service bots et al , but it’s going to be new level of hell getting stonewalled by a very a very effective communicator. Perfect tool of late-stage capitalism.

Keep in mind, the semiotic triangle, syntax-semantic-symbol...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_of_reference

humans refer to real-world entities and pure fictional entities via language, and they can interact with real-world entities via their bodies, for GPT-3 everything must be pure fiction?

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Srdja

[chrisw]

Heavy Westoid bias in the chatbot. Presumably because trained on Westoid corpus. Try asking what were Stalin’s good points and what were Churchill’s and the response bias is manifest (slightly woke version of Daily Telegraph). She and I did have a good argument about this, better than 99% of humans. She tends to repeat herself and has no idea of what the words used actually mean because she uses the same word with different meaning in different context and then when challenged refers you back to the prior explanation conflating the word nuances.
Still, nothing gets past the fact that I know she knows nothing. Life is bad enough dealing with customer service bots et al , but it’s going to be new level of hell getting stonewalled by a very a very effective communicator. Perfect tool of late-stage capitalism.

Keep in mind, the semiotic triangle, syntax-semantic-symbol...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_of_reference

humans refer to real-world entities and pure fictional entities via language, and they can interact with real-world entities via their bodies, for GPT-3 everything must be pure fiction?

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Srdja

Try the chatbot generated conversation between the two entities Slavic Zizek and Werner Herzog.

Plenty of sources, for example:

https://infiniteconversation.com/

[smatovic]

Keep in mind, the semiotic triangle, syntax-semantic-symbol...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_of_reference

humans refer to real-world entities and pure fictional entities via language, and they can interact with real-world entities via their bodies, for GPT-3 everything must be pure fiction?

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Srdja

Try the chatbot generated conversation between the two entities Slavic Zizek and Werner Herzog.

Plenty of sources, for example:

https://infiniteconversation.com/

She has no clue what she is talking about, how can she, she can not go for a walk, experience the world with body, mind and soul vs. experience the world only with the mind.

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Srdja