Chessprogramming wiki, @Gerd

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Re: Chessprogramming wiki, @Gerd

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hgm wrote: Fri Oct 06, 2023 12:06 am
Congratulations or condolences on losing the Nobel prize. I'm not sure which to pick!
Actually I am not sure either. Winning it would result in tons of invitations to present talks in far-off places all over the world for the upcoming year, and it would probably be considered extremely rude if you would refuse them all. It would damage your reputation more than being awarded the prize would have lifted it. It would change your life. And it would give you the feeling that there is nothing more to achieve that could possibly top it, which seems very demotivating. Of course you get a sizable sum of money on winning, but it is not like I am short on that, and only the beneficiaries of my testament might notice the difference. Having the medal that goes with it would be cool, of course. But it is also cool to know you were a member of a small team that conceived and performed an experiment that was deemed worth a Nobel prize. So perhaps I have the best deal here.
If it's only for a year, visiting some far-off places seems survivable and would leave you some nice memories. But you'd also have to be interviewed for the Jeugdjournaal and be a guest in whatever has replaced De Wereld Draait Door :-).

I wonder what was the last time that the Physics Nobel Prize went to the full group of (max 3) people who made the discovery for which it was awarded.
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Re: Chessprogramming wiki, @Gerd

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:D

I added an entry with the paper to your selected publications:

https://www.chessprogramming.org/Harm_G ... blications

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Re: Chessprogramming wiki, @Gerd

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Thanks!
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Re: Chessprogramming wiki, @Gerd

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hgm wrote: Thu Oct 05, 2023 2:25 pm I saw that some of my publications on attosecond pulses are mentioned in my description on the chessprogramming wiki. Can you replace one of those by the paper for which the Nobel prize is now awarded? (But alas, not to me. :lol: ) That is reference 23 in the announcement:

23. P.M. Paul, E.S. Toma, P. Breger, G. Mullot, F. Augé, Ph. Balcou, H.G. Muller and P. Agostini, Science 292, 1689 (2001)
Awesome!!! My genuine congratulations for your work!
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Re: Chessprogramming wiki, @Gerd

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Can we dream of attosecond chess ? :D
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Re: Chessprogramming wiki, @Gerd

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I notice that the article about me doesn't mention any of my activities on the development of web applications related to chess. In particular the Interactive Diagram for embedding chess(variant) diagrams on HTML pages, and its spin-offs. Such as the Play-Test Applet for chess variants that is based on is, and allows the user to create such diagrams for variants of his own design, in a user-friendly way. A quite large number of variant descriptions on the chessvariants.com website has already been equiped with such Diagrams, which also contain an AI for playing against. This allows many people to easily create computer opponents for the variants of their own design on webpages, which they often do.

Other spin-offs are the Checkmating Applets, in which the Diagram's native AI has been replaced by an EGT generator, so that people can practice checkmating a bare King with one or two pieces of their own design, on boards of various shapes and sizes.
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Re: Chessprogramming wiki, @CPW-admins

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Point is, since May 2022 Gerd, the top quality and quantity contributor on CPW, is inactive (idk what happened) and it seems since March 2023 I am the only one who gives updates on the site. Usually I would say CPW has either to recruit new members (qualified and neutral) or to freeze the current state of CPW (cos chess is dead), but I do not even know who the admins resp. other members of CPW are and how to contact them....

I was invited by Gerd to CPW to work on the GPU article, I myself cover 4 articles from >4000, I am willing to update some of the most frequented articles as long I am involved in computer chess and read TalkChess, but I can not cover all aspects of computer chess on the wiki (seriously, idk where Gerd took the energy from).

@CPW-admins: either invite new members (qualified and neutral) or freeze CPW state (cos chess is dead).

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Re: Chessprogramming wiki, @CPW-admins

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smatovic wrote: Mon Oct 09, 2023 4:46 pm Point is, since May 2022 Gerd, the top quality and quantity contributor on CPW, is inactive (idk what happened) and it seems since March 2023 I am the only one who gives updates on the site. Usually I would say CPW has either to recruit new members (qualified and neutral) or to freeze the current state of CPW (cos chess is dead), but I do not even know who the admins resp. other members of CPW are and how to contact them....

I was invited by Gerd to CPW to work on the GPU article, I myself cover 4 articles from >4000, I am willing to update some of the most frequented articles as long I am involved in computer chess and read TalkChess, but I can not cover all aspects of computer chess on the wiki (seriously, idk where Gerd took the energy from).

@CPW-admins: either invite new members (qualified and neutral) or freeze CPW state (cos chess is dead).

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I've got access as well but got frustrated that we can't easily include pgns and such so gave up.
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Re: Chessprogramming wiki, @CPW-admins

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flok wrote: Mon Oct 09, 2023 5:43 pm ...
I've got access as well but got frustrated that we can't easily include pgns and such so gave up.
I still have some chess projects in pipe to finish during 2024, when done I will move on from computer chess too, as others did....

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Re: Chessprogramming wiki, @CPW-admins

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smatovic wrote: Mon Oct 09, 2023 6:32 pm
flok wrote: Mon Oct 09, 2023 5:43 pm ...
I've got access as well but got frustrated that we can't easily include pgns and such so gave up.
I still have some chess projects in pipe to finish during 2024, when done I will move on from computer chess too, as others did....

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