I believe Leela is a machine learning engine like AlphaZero.>

Thanks for sharing that. I watched the whole video. I love the ...Bb4-f8 and 4...b6 variations of the Winawer, and I also enjoy Kingscrusher's videos, and have enjoyed them since way back in, say, 2007 or so.

The unprovoked 4...Bf8 was pretty interesting, but white could have played 5. Nb1 and transposed to the Advance variation, just to spoil the idea that the Nc3 is misplaced because of the coming ...c5. Or, White could have played 5. Nce2 c5 6. c3, just to make it so that black can't have his way, or make his point about justifying ...Bf8 due to ...c5.

This game was crazy with ...c4 coming, and I've seen Leela do that in other positions (I've seen a number of Leela's games on Kingscrusher's channel, and yes I do agree it is programmed similar to AlphaZero).

I wonder what the time control was? Sometimes they have Leela play bullet chess just to get the number of games up, because it learns by playing and seeing the outcomes, or something like that.

I have always regarded Camus as a "liberal" philosopher, although probably not in the sense used in present-day American society.>

<although probably not in the sense used in present-day American society>

https://www.facebook.com/CitizensFo...

https://www.amren.com/news/2018/07/...

<The Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Labor announced an agreement Tuesday to work together in cracking down on companies that “discriminate” against U.S. workers by hiring foreign workers.>

That's the Great White Hope looking out for Americans! MAGA!

<Rosemary Lahasky, the deputy assistant secretary for Labor’s employment and training administration, said in a statement that sharing the information “will help protect U.S. workers from unlawful discrimination.”

DOJ and Labor say they reached the agreement “to better protect U.S. workers from discrimination by employers that prefer to hire temporary visa workers over qualified U.S. workers.”>

Ezra Klein, Vox, July 30, 2018

<I spent months talking with politicians, social psychologists, and political scientists about what happens in moments like this one, moments when a majority feels its dominance beginning to fail. The answer, attested to in mountains of studies and visible everywhere in our politics, is this: Change of this magnitude acts on us psychologically, not just electorally. It is the crucial context uniting the core political conflicts of this era—Obama and Trump’s presidencies, the rise of reactionary new social movements and thinkers, the wars over political correctness on campuses and representation in Hollywood, the power of #MeToo and BlackLivesMatter, the fights over immigration.

Demographic change, and the fears and hopes it evokes, is one of the tectonic forces shaping this era in American life, joining income inequality and political polarization in transforming every aspect of our politics and culture. But to understand what it is doing to us as a country, we need to begin by understanding what it does to us as individuals.

In 2014, psychologists Maureen Craig and Jennifer Richeson analyzed the responses of 369 white, self-identified political independents who had completed one of two surveys. Half of the participants received a survey that asked them whether they knew that California had become a majority-minority state — which is to say, a state where whites no longer made up more than 50 percent of the population. The others read a survey devoid of demographic information.

This was a gentle test of an unnerving theory: that the barest exposure to the concept that whites were losing their numerical majority in America would not just make whites feel afraid but sharply change their political behavior. The theory proved correct. Among participants who lived in the western United States, the group that read that whites had ceded majority status were 11 points likelier to subsequently say they favored the Republican Party.>

(The rest of the article is very interesting and can be read here: https://www.amren.com/news/2018/07/... )

Well no kidding! Do you think regular American folks want to see their country transformed into Haiti? Into Africa? Into Mexico? Into Venezuela?

NO!

The liberals, the Democrats, they hate white people so they are trying to get rid of them by browning the country. This is how the liberal thinks:

Of course Camus was never radical, unlike his compatriot and contemporary existentialist Sartre. Still, how do you interpret Camus in the present day? And how do you feel we can use his ideas (if at all)?>

Hey <Troller>, it's interesting and coincidental that I posted that Camus quote right before the news that Daniel died. As you know, Camus was always exploring the absurdity of life. He thought the only real philosophical question was, "Should I kill myself or have a cup of coffee?"

Basically, Camus spent his short life fighting against the idea of nihilism. Even Nietzsche himself was not too happy with the state of affairs after the death of God. Nietzsche agreed with what is known as the first premise of the moral argument:

1. If God does not exist then objective moral values do not exist.

In fact, no values exist whatsoever, sans a transcendent foundation for the ultimate standard. I agree with Nietzsche that nihilism would be true if God does not exist. Camus struggled with this. To Camus, nihilism was anathema, yet, he could never really overcome the absurdity of life sans God.

Okay, Travis, I'll report this to the police then and they will obtain your IP address from this site, by court order, and your email address.

This is where I am filing the complaint.

https://www.ic3.gov/complaint/splas...

I will contact chessgames.com administration as well.

Well, they were both concerned with what you could call the absurdity of the human condition. Kierkegaard is well known for his 'leap of faith' when dealing with the discrepancy between man's search for meaning and the inability to find such meaning. As I understand it, Camus acknowledged that in facing the absurd, a leap of faith was a viable option, but he opted instead for simply recognizing the meaninglessness of it all as a means of dealing with it, more like resigning to it. A much more dismal solution! Then again, he didn't have Kierkegaard's Christian faith to help him sort things out.

It has been some years since I read Camus but I always got the impression that he sort of "found meaning in meaninglessness". As I recall he claimed that Sisyphos was happy in his pursuit of rolling up the stone, because the act itself is the meaning. This can also be seen in "La Peste" where the doctor-hero keeps battling the plague even though it is, in the end, a lost cause. If not Christian himself, Camus did believe in what is often labelled Christian virtues, like forgiveness and charity; to act upon these sentiments is where you can find meaning in the modern world.

Did you see him say he wanted to make a bet with me for $10 million dolllars?

Yes, $10 meeeee-leeee-yon dawhl-urrrrs. Like Dr. Evil.

<How Should White People Respond to Anti-White Attacks? - Jesse Lee Peterson>

A MOST interesting interview for sure! Not what you would expect!

Kenneth S Rogoff (kibitz #204266)

The site should have instituted Spank the Booty when they had the chance.

As everyone continues to grieve over his loss, please cut them some slack and try to avoid confrontations (outside of the criminal element) which may spoil the mood and lead to hard feelings. Moreover, I find <ChessHigherCat> to be a very decent fellow and an enthusiastic chess student, so at a later date please consider patching things up there at your discretion.

I respectfully request that you refrain from posting in the Biographer Bistro for the time being. Just think about how awful they must feel with Daniel gone, then even more awful to realize that they watched him get called "liar" and "coward" over and over and over again from April 2016 to August 2016 without helping him when he needed help, and now they never can.

It is quite possible that Daniel was just an extremely nice and selfless and tolerant person who did not mind being dumped on hundreds of times here. Yes I said hundreds. Yet I always suspected that he had a "noble" version of Martyr Syndrome where he put up with unthinkable abuse over the years due to a higher love and greater commitment toward building this online chess database and community as his legacy.

https://www.wikihow.com/Recognize-t...

Meanwhile, his primary tormentor over the last eight years does not have a Persecution Complex but rather a Prosecution Complex. He dreams about punishing others based on the same rules system that he repeatedly violates, thus he is constantly seeking new victims to exploit and draw them into his sad drama. I suspect he was dominated in jail many times. You know I mean.

<The IGNORE LIST is used because of intolerance and a desire to hide from reality. The Favorites List is used because it allows you to see right away the posts that are most interesting without having to look for them. There is no spirit of intolerance involved.>

Agree. In the early days, there was no Premium Membership, so all of our accounts were unmarked, besides the Administrator's handle which had a small King. Also, there was no Blow the Whistle to alert them about hot disputes, so we had to mediate our own arguments in real time within the group context, as you never knew if Dad would be around in one minute or one day. But even way back then, their Moderating style has always involved a heavy dose of Blame the Victim because presumably we should have ignored that user in the first place. Many members of the old guard don't use the ignore feature on principle, although this was the first edition where the Game Collection: Best Games of 2017 contest involved placing four of the worst repeat offenders in site history on ignore, due to the criminal case. There have been other criminal happenings over the years (like the Wesley So page) which is another reason to never use ignore, but this is not the time to recount such old damage.

<Mark AKA Winston is a con man. He said so himself. What he does is buys a user a membership "anonymously" and then tells them, along with some kind of bs heartfelt, true blue compliment. Then he sends them messages on FB so consummate their "friendship". Then he spills his guts about his drug life and the MOUNTAIN he has overcome, pathetically calling for their sympathy. Then he gets a pat on the head, just for almost being normal now, and he uses this flattery, this con, to con certain members of this site into defending him, because trolling on this site is of the utmost importance to this kid.>

Terrific overview, except this career criminal will never purchase any Premium Memberships for anyone when his own mother has to post his bail to keep him out of jail.

We will have to wait and see whether the new management continues their wildly inconsistent Moderation and keeps rewarding repeat offenders with special treatment based on false narratives and revisionist history. Like when <Keyser Soze> posted a supportive note on my player page which was instantly removed by the Administrators here. Instantly.

Beyond that, <Keyser> and I are specifically limiting outside involvement in the criminal cases, so I won't mention him here again.

This is the calm, even tempered and excruciatingly condescending "explanation" that you need to have "explained" to you that "explains" why you didn't understand how wrong you were about disgusting, opportunistic racists like <Sarah Jeong>.>

All I can say to that is that <JFQ> needs to watch the following video that I'm sure she'll enjoy.

Heh nice one <My Good Pawn>.

Actually I was unnecessarily ornery on that one. There was no need for me to be uncivil to <The Good Frog> in this case.

I'm ok with the new word <millenialsplaining>, but I think <Stalinsplaining> is better because it identifies the antecedent to this behavior.

And it should be identified. Frequently.

I have met <Gavin McInnes>, but it's been years and years since I last saw him, in Montreal.

We had a friend in common. <Gavin> founded the zine "Voice" in Montreal with partner <Siroosh Alvi>. Shortly after they renamed it "Vice."

It started out as a left leaning culture zine, but they always had their finger on the pulse- they capitalized on a lucrative advertising market in stoned, middle class snowboarder/skater kids and turned their zine into a glossy.

Nowadays they have a big multimillion dollar hit company with the videos and news and such. I can see that <Gavin> is still involved but I think <Siroosh> dropped out some years ago, though I don't know for certain.

Nowadays, a <VICE> video is as likely to be "left" as "right" or "neither."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1N...