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The Hidden Habits of Genius by Craig Wright ✍️

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BREAKING: Scientists Discover Exact Number of Legal Chess Positions—And It Has a Name! After decades of speculation, a team of researchers at the International Institute for Computational Logic has done the impossible: calculated the exact number of legal chess positions. The final count? 3,479,247,346,952,187,986,658,124,183 They've named it “The Caïssan Constant” — a tribute to the mythical goddess of chess. Using a supercomputer dubbed Capablanca-X, the team filtered out illegal boards with double kings, pawns on the first or eighth rank, and positions with self-checks. The computation took four years and over 38 million core-hours. “This is the size of chess’s multiverse,” said lead scientist Dr. Eliska Novak. “It’s not infinite. It’s just staggeringly, beautifully vast.” Former World Champion Magnus Carlsen reportedly responded: “Cool!” Source: Chess.com

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@martingommel Uefa Manager 2000

Für alle, die zwischen 1999 und 2004 einen Computer hatten: Welches Computerspiel aus dieser Zeit ist euch im Gedächtnis geblieben, und warum? 🖥️

Kick off 2025 with a digital declutter.

Around 240 BC, the Greek mathematician Eratosthenes calculated the Earth's circumference using just a stick and the length of its shadow, with impressive accuracy.

Map with the age of the buildings of Amsterdam

I think about this cartoon a lot.

Bayes’ theorem clearly explained:

One of the sickest tactics I have seen. White to play and win!

many are asking

Mac users watching the #Crowdstrike debacle:

This is a Sankey diagram of how a typical lab project goes. Let us know if we missed any categories #Sankey #DataVis

Reading @Ericmandelbaum's great review of "The border between seeing and thinking", by @De_dicto. philpapers.org/rec/MANTBB

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