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@WKCosmo Which language?

Playing around with Claude AI. Wrote this nice interactive nonlinear double-pendulum simulation in about twenty minutes with a few back-and-forth iterations with the AI. Pretty damn cool.

@agadmator The old guard is not stepping down quietly.

Standings after round 9 of Fide Candidates Tournament 2026

@naomirwolf It was a perfectly valid and quite normal question. Ignore the haters and keep being curious.

‘Call me ill-informed, I was an English major, but - what is the light source here?’ I reposted my question. Lots of people are having a good laugh, and you are welcome to, but I am not ashamed to ask very basic questions about fields not my own, of other people online; and I prefer to have human conversations with knowledgeable people rather than ask AI or Google websites as a first resort. I put this question badly in haste I concede but I meant: please explain where the astronauts are in space in relation to this image, where is the sun in relation to this image, where is the earth in relation to this image, what time of day or night it is on earth in relation to this image, and what is the relationship of our day or night on earth to this light on the far side of the moon. Curiosity isn’t always well put and wasn’t in this case but I think it’s always a useful quality.

@durarbayli Lol he threw his team under the bus. I'm done with that bozo.

Hikaru Nakamura appreciation post. He is getting way too much disrespect right now. I know he has always had haters because of how directly he speaks and because of some of his actions over the years. But I also think qualifying for the Candidates through those Mickey Mouse events rubbed a lot of chess fans the wrong way, and he is paying the price for that now. Honestly, I think if he had played Grand Swiss and a few more serious classical events in 2025, he would have come into this tournament in much better shape. I also think part of the issue is motivation. It feels like he wanted to play the Candidates mainly because it gave him a path to the World Championship, not because he loves classical chess at this point. And when you already seem half-detached from classical, it is very hard to show up to the toughest event in the world and perform at your best. Because he is having a bad event, everything he says is now being judged through the lens of losing. My feed is full of criticism. When Hikaru criticized the anti-cheating measures, I think he had a point. When he criticized his own team for missing 12...0-0, I think he had a point there, too. But once a player is losing, people stop listening to the argument and start attacking the person. That is exactly what is happening here. I am not even a big Hikaru fan. But people should remember who he is. He is a legendary player. His online chess over the last 20 years is unmatched. In classical chess, he crossed 2800 twice. Only 16 players in history have ever reached that level, and not all of them made it back after dropping below it. Hikaru did. Around 2020, when he became more of a streamer, a lot of people stopped taking him seriously as a top player. Then he came back in 2022 and proved again that he is exceptional. And beyond that, his work as a streamer has been huge for chess. He brought a massive number of new people into the game. He has also consistently brought attention to issues inside the chess world and forced conversations that others would rather avoid. You do not have to like Hikaru. I am not saying that. But the amount of disrespect he gets is absurd. He is one of the most important chess figures of his era.

@ryancbriggs Agreed. Put it this way: if Japan did this, everyone here would praise how awesome the Japanese were.

I hate woke nonsense as much as the next centrist dad but this is a guy signing lyrics to a song and giving a sense of the vibe. I do not see the problem with this (at all). Don’t be shitty to deaf people.

@CP24 'experts' say

Civilians subdued suspects after a robbery in Oshawa. Here’s why experts say there’s ‘danger’ in that cp24.com/local/durham/2…

@Jonathan_Blow The idea of YC used to impress me, then I realized they basically just fund and promote gambling apps.

These statements inherently damage YC’s reputation because either (a) Garry has incredibly poor judgement, which affects the companies chosen and mentored; (b) He is just BSing and knows it, which means YC is not trustable; (c) He is correct, then WHAT ARE ALL THE COMPANIES FOR? x.com/garrytan/statu…

@FischerKing64 They don't have separate titles. There are common titles for everyone like GM and IM and then other titles only reserved for women, like WGM.

Some people point out that open tournaments don’t have separate sections, and women do play in them. What I should have said is that at the highest level - like national championships - the players are all men and so they have separate championships for women. They also have separate titles for women etc.

It’s interesting that chess - which doesn’t require any physical prowess - has distinct sections for men and women. Chess organizers allow women to play in open tournaments against men, but they mostly don’t because they would get wiped out.

@notch @marlinshow Any other conjectures to share? Love conjectures.

@marlinshow I didn't feel accomplished enough to call it a conjecture.

A finite state machine with infinite tape is the same as an infinite state machine with finite tape. No, I haven't proven it formally. This is more of a vibe computer science moment. If I'm wrong and someone has actually studied computer science, I would love to learn more!

@Rainmaker1973 You should fact check your posts. This is provably false.

When the Toronto maple leafs 42 year old Zamboni driver came into the game for the Carolina Hurricanes as a ebug and beat the Toronto maple leafs. David ayres will be remembered.

@stoolpresidente Sidney Crosby was injured.

Here are my favorite Canadien copes on my timeline 1. Canada proved they were better team 2. Us Goalie saved us 3. Refs didn’t call too many men on ice 4. Us hasn’t won since 1980 5. Connor Bedard shoulda been on the team 6. 3 on 3 in OT is stupid 7. American is a bully 8. Tate McRae is a traitor Am I missing anything?

@Rainmaker1973 Risk vs reward of this stunt is idiot level.

Excavator unloading itself

@Anthony_Bonato This method will almost certainly penalize large population countries.

Winter Olympic medal counts are misleading as they are not per capita. The normalized medal count of a country is: (# medals) x (Pop of Norway)/(Pop of country) Here is a normalized medal count for the leading top 15 countries. Yes, you can have < 1 normalized medals!

@DarthKevin81 @Autism_Squared It would actually be the restaurant owner who fucked the server in this case; not the customer.

@Autism_Squared So you fuck your server over bc you are a petty child? Got it.

what in the bloody hell is an energy fee

@AJamesMcCarthy @peachastro @amazing_physics People should mute or unfollow Amazing Physics based on this type of content. Low signal; high noise.

@peachastro @amazing_physics Submitted a community note. Sadly once it gets approved OP will probably just delete this, with the damage already done

NASA has just released an incredible new image of Jupiter taken by the James Webb Space Telescope — the most powerful space telescope ever made. 🌌🪐✨

@chesscom 32

guess how many chess pieces are in the jar! 👇 closest guess wins a player signed #SCCFinals poster!

@Schwarzenegger I love this. Thanks Arnold.

The number of pushups won’t matter until you change how you see yourself. If you see yourself as a lazy person, you’ll always quit. If you start to change who you are, and become someone who trains and doesn’t give up, that’s what matters. Identity change requires action. It’s the proof for your mind that you are someone different than it thinks right now. So start small. Prove to yourself that you’re someone who does 10 pushups and 10 squats right when you wake up every day. You can grow from there, but first we have to change who you think you are.

@agadmator 100 percent what Agadmator said.

I don't mind the eval bar as long as the commentators don't see it. Strong GM going through their thought process aloud is what gives it incredible value. Once they see the eval bar, it is not a genuine experience. Especially if I see the bar and the critical line and they don't, how they break the position down and eventually arrive at that line is the best part.

@MadelnCanada Inflation alone makes this always a bad idea.

Quebec lottery winner chooses $1,000 a week for life over $1 million lump sum. 🇨🇦