@absurdistoic Is Garry an arse hole? Or he simply does not believe his words carry that much weight on these kids?
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lush1us
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Rest day in the Candidates tomorrow. But fortunately we have the much awaited @HansMokeNiemann vs @awonder676 classical match, where one of them will try to farm the other for the next 6 days. 😀😅 Predictions?
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@chess24com It really reminded me of last round of the 24' candidates. Same resigned pose
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Anish Giri defeats Fabiano Caruana with a beautiful finish to move into sole 2nd place, 1.5 points behind Sindarov with 5 rounds to go! chess.com/events/2026-fi…
#FIDECandidates
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@davidllada My experience is that you'll soon get fried. As in whenever I vibe code I really try to read most of what's going on and ask for constant explainers. Whenever that happens I grind some chess courses for a couple days and I reset :)
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I spent the last 5 days working with Claude, setting it up and learning the basics. From zero technical knowledge, I already managed to create two working tools that I very much needed. This is highly addictive! I have been going to bed around 4am all these nights. 😅
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I taught Claude to talk like a caveman to use 75% less tokens.
normal claude: ~180 tokens for a web search task
caveman claude: ~45 tokens for the same task
"I executed the web search tool" = 8 tokens
caveman version: "Tool work" = 2 tokens
every single grunt swap saves 6-10 tokens. across a FULL task that's 50-100 tokens saved
why does it work? caveman claude doesn't explain itself. it does its task first. gives the result. then stops.
no "I'd be happy to help you with that." no "Let me search the web for you" no more unnecessary filler words
"result. done. me stop."
50-75% burn reduction
with usage limits getting tighter every week this might be the most practical hack out there right now
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As much as I enjoy the Candidates Tournament, the challenger should be decided in a Candidates Final match between the top two finishers, like in the good old days.
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@GMNeiksans It was evident from this past year that this kid is a monster but holy smokes
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Holy shit this is one of the most beautifully crafted films I have ever seen.
Very AFK@Cromwelp
Project Hail Mary has been sold out (when I say sold out I mean the only good viable seats prebooked) in IMAX since launch but today is my day!
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@DrChrisCombs In all fairness this is more of a logic question rather than maths
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Evan you might want to ask for a refund
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Something I need to tell the world... Please don't judge me too hard.
I enjoyed the live action Aladdin remake
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@MikeSeeley @NASAArtemis Glad I'm following so many wallpaper generators on here :) great work man
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Artemis II / SLS / Orion with the rising Sun, 4-shot series.
Captured Sunday morning from Titusville with a Canon 5d2 and EF500mm & 1.4x TC over 3-minutes and ~750 feet, running to keep up with the Sun as it moved behind LC-39B.
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This is Stanley. He just helped solve a 160-year-old murder by digging up a bottle of poison in his backyard. Just two doors down in 1865, Mary Ann Ashford poisoned her husband's tea to be with her younger lover. Since his discovery, Stanley has stopped digging. 15/10
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@davidllada Thinking gaming skills are valuable it's too nuanced of a take for those guys. If you know of any who do they are exceptions. Games, even brainy ones, are looked down upon. Also screening process is done by notably unsophisticated people, and auto systems reject games by default
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@lush1us I think you are wrong. HR management has become quite sophisticated in the last couple of decades.
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If you are not adding your rating to your resume, you are missing out on opportunities. I am dead serious. Chess is becoming so popular, and so appreciated, particularly at management levels, that this detail can help you connect or stand out. Do it!
Anish Moonka@anishmoonka
Unilever makes 250,000 job applicants play video games before they’ll even look at a resume. For their Future Leaders program, instead of reading cover letters, they run candidates through 12 neuroscience-based games built by Pymetrics (now owned by Harver) that measure how you make decisions under pressure, how you handle risk, and how fast you learn. The games cut their hiring time from four months to four weeks and saved over 50,000 hours of recruiter time. JPMorgan, BCG, Accenture, Mastercard, and McDonald’s all use the same platform. There’s real science behind this. Researchers at three European universities put 40 business students through Sid Meier’s Civilization, then ran them through a Fortune 500-style management assessment center. Published in the Review of Managerial Science in 2020, the results were clear: students who scored highest in the game scored highest on problem-solving, organizing, and planning. They also had better grades. A 2013 study at Queen Mary University of London found the same pattern with StarCraft. 72 volunteers got 40 hours of training. The StarCraft group showed a significant improvement in cognitive flexibility (your brain’s ability to switch between tasks and think on your feet) compared to a control group that played The Sims. The statistical evidence was 40 times stronger than what you’d expect from chance. SimCity specifically has been used in university urban planning courses since 1994, when a professor named John Gaber started assigning it to teach systems thinking. A 2025 study found students who played it showed a 26% improvement in understanding sustainable city design, and 81% applied what they learned in the game to real projects. The Civilization study was a proof-of-concept with 40 students, not a 10,000-person trial. But the pattern across multiple studies, multiple games, and a $20 billion gamification industry keeps pointing the same direction. The meme is a joke. The science behind it isn’t.
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