As a follow up, possible Iranian malware be damned, this turned out to be the smoothest running version of the game that I tried.
BitDefender didn’t find anything, but of course that doesn’t mean anything after you have the app installed.
Others that I tried had Chinese stuff on bootup, and stuttered when running.
You’re right, “#” for checkmate is in more common use than the “++”
The writer played multiple games of chess against some conventional chess programs or AIs, and used a simple algorithm to determine their own moves:
For each move, the writer:
This algorithm for choosing chess moves did not result in optimal play, and lost badly against the standard chess programs/AIs.
The illustrated position shows the algorithm generating a blunder or useless move for White (Ne2) that allows a checkmate victory for Black with their next move (… b4#), i.e. “Black Bishop moves to b4, checkmate.”
Black’s winning move is not shown, likely as a brainteaser for the readers.
The writer named their algorithm “AlphaMove” as a take on Google’s famous chess playing AI from 2017 named “AlphaZero”.
Except in the writer’s case, the “Alpha” in their algorithm’s name is short for “alphabetic”, which makes the expanded name “Alphabetic(-sort)Move”.
The most recent James Bond movie No Time To Die (2021).
The plot was like a Bond fanfic. Okay, great you got to do all the stuff to Bond that wouldn’t fly in previous runs:
Bond finally spawns a kid after all that sex, actually loves some gal instead of using her, makes a mistake in judgement, and he maybe even dies, although no body is offered as proof.
Now what? That pretty much ends the franchise, because they’ve written themselves into a corner, and there’s pretty much nowhere to go without a reboot.
Re: Nosferatu
I also liked the Transylvania bits, the crumbling castle especially.
I enjoyed the physicality of Lily-Rose Depp’s performance as not-Mina, although her overacting got on my nerves a bit.
So basically none of the parties with any power: Bezos, the Broccoli family, are desperate to make another Bond movie
Does anyone else think that DiCaprio, and De Niro for that matter, were the worst things in Killers Of The Flower Moon?
I did find an APK on some outfit called apkvision.org, installed it, but it had something something about Iran, so I probably now have Iranian malware on my phone. 😓
Plague Inc. comes in at the top of a search in the Play Store for “pandemic” but I understand that it’s kind of a reverse concept of the Pandemic boardgame: You try to wipe out those pesky humans by developing an incurable virus.
I might be inclined to give it a try if I can’t find a decent implementation of Pandemic.
That was generally happening in the fire area.
I’m sure there are/were a lot of ridiculous homes.
Not when the community notes will be written by AI, and voted on by bots.
Whomever has the most AI and bots to swamp the notes with their text and generate votes wins.
Does that sound like a good way to get facts?
Good point.
Also trying out Bluesky, and it is a lot like Twitter used to be, but it has the potential to turn out like Xitter is today, because at the end of the day Bluesky is a for-profit startup corporation.
Sooner or later, Bluesky is going to want to make money for its shareholders, and that means any of: 1) Selling advertisements, 2) Selling your personal data, and/or 3) In a classic tech startup play, selling itself to the highest bidder like: Android, YouTube, and yes, Twitter.
And with commercialization, or in Xitter’s case a fool with too much money, comes enshittification.
Lemmy is nothing like a for-profit startup company, as far as I know, but that doesn’t make it enshittification-proof, but at least it won’t take the commercialization route.
The rocks will look different when their chemistry will change when exposed to a warmer climate, different climate migrating species grow on them, and they’re covered in micro plastics, and worn down by more acidic rains.
And possibly become radioactive if things don’t go right.
What Jeri announcement?
But don’t take LeVar’s word for it!
It looks like there are 2 kinds of brown things.
One type that is a lighter brown looks spheroid, possibly potatoes or dinner rolls.
Another type is a darker brown, looks like fat cylinders, possibly deep fried breaded fish/salmon/crab cakes, as others have said.
The lighter brown ones could also be fish/salmon/crab cakes, but from a different manufacturer, or just shaped differently.
Or combine all of them with Mars to make something approaching Earth’s volume.
Dr. Evil: “One billion dollars!”
Everyone else: “Haha, nobody’s going to pay that much for… Oh wait…”