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Re:Show HN: Play against well-known chess players' openings on Sunday October 16, 2022 @11:37PM (#33229606)
Lol I did consider that and the stockfish github repo

Show HN: Play against well-known chess players' openings

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Hi, this is my first HN submission so please forgive the rough edges.For this project gathered chess positions from some well-known chess players with a lot of games. (Usually ~25k games and 1M+ positions. The most for any player was GM Aman Hambleton with 1.8M positions indexed.)With each board position I create a probability distribution of moves the player has made from that position. Then,...

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Re:A Danish Political Party Led by an AI on Sunday October 16, 2022 @09:35PM (#33228950)
> How is the last example different from an incumbents paradise? To me it looks like a road to autocracy.

That may be true if your vote is also your guess. But if they are two different things (i.e. I vote for candidate A but guess candidate B will win) I don't see an issue. In theory it simply favors a well-informed citizenry.

I would be curious if exit pollsters have ever asked this question. Ask people who they voted for, but also who they think will win. It would be interesting to see how accurate guesses are.

Re:Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship on Thursday August 05, 2021 @10:35AM (#28074281)
Cyprus is in Europe
Re:Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship on Thursday August 05, 2021 @10:33AM (#28074259)
Eric Schmidt renounced his US citizenship even though he owns 2 California homes and one in Massachusetts.
Politics aside this isn't going to be technically possible apart from plain SMS. iMessage and WhatsApp are encrypted so it won't be possible to intercept and fact check them.