>>1382832 (previous)

Chess computers just took a giant step in the opposite direction.

Old style (Deep Blue, Rybka, etc.) There's a move tree, you can see what the computer picked and exactly why, what it evaluated, what was almost as good, etc.

New style (Alpha Zero): you have no idea what's going on inside that neural network, it just pops out one tremendously strong move. You have no clue what if any plan or prediction is there, if any other choice almost (in some ill-defined sense) was picked … but it's somehow a better move than the old computers picked.

>>1384744

Here's a way to approach the analysis though.

1. Recall that Alpha Zero is a general purpose learning engine. It can learn anything analytical, at least any discrete-move 2 player game, certainly a game that's almost like chess.

1. So teach it to play "chess with excluded moves". The object of that game is that, given a position and a list of excluded moves, find the best move that isn't on that list. Those excluded moves should include good moves, so it can't pick the best move but has to learn to compromise.

1. Then for a given chess position, have the computer generate a list:

(1) best move

(2) best move excluding {(1)}

(3) best move excluding {(1), (2)}

This isn't as good as an analysis tree because it's only one move deep, but it's a start.

>>1384876

I don't think I've asked any probabilistic questions. It's deterministic: here's a chess position, what move does the machine play? Each chess position is unique but one could imagine, say, using Alpha Zero to discover tendencies, to rewrite the strategy books on a statistical basis.

One could ask probabilistic questions like: given 1000 different positions of a certain type, should one exchange the light squared bishop for the knight or not?

>>1384929

I like.

>>1384995

We're not getting 3/4 majority anywhere. We would be extremely lucky to get to 60 in the Senate (and thus not needing to worry about filibuster for legislation). 3/4 in the House is a pipe dream, it's surely never been done, and the inner city districts are still militant. I'd be happy to hold on to our current majority in the House, it's all we need.

>>1385033

Yeah maybe his job was to "sell" the idea that Iran was complying and thus keep us in the deal. When we left, he was fired for his failure to achieve his goal.

>>1385053

Yeah that all looks right to me.

>>1385059

Media owners basically use those properties to push an agenda. They have no interest in running an unbiased news organization, that's furthest from their mind or what their bosses / colleagues are telling them to do.

So the media including Fox may be unfixable. It's not needed anyway if we can clean up the internet and get clowns (FB etc.) out of control there.

>>1385190

Notable. Q said something like "Learn CHESS" didn't they?

>>1385181

That's why we need her, to avoid the blowup. That comes through STRENGTH.