Entries tagged with chess

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Interesting Links for 21-08-2023

1. West Virginia can't require incarcerated atheist to participate in religious programming: (tags:atheism religion USA law prison viaSwampers )
2. English Chess Federation will not exclude trans women: (tags:LGBT chess UK viaPatrickHadfield )
3. The ecological impact of wolf reintroduction to Britain.: (tags:wolves ecology viaDanielDWilliam )
4. Why does global warming lead to both droughts and flooding?: (tags:globalwarming disaster flooding drought )
5. Artists have forgotten how to draw: (tags:art education drawing )
6. Saying Hello To Your Neighbors Linked to Higher Wellbeing, but With Limits: (tags:happiness health community psychology )
7. Two Drums and a Cymbal Fall off a Cliff: (tags:funny video jokes )
8. I am really delighted by how well Rick Astley has done recently. (Here pulled into an impromptu collaboration with the Foo Fighters): (tags:music rickroll video viaDanielDWilliam )

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Interesting Links for 18-08-2023

1. Chess regulator bans trans women from competitions for two years: (tags:chess bigotry LGBT transgender OhForFucksSake )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4123613.html

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Interesting Links for 11-12-2021

"10 years late, I have fallen in love with Dark Souls, and you can too": (tags:games )
Brutal review of Michelin-starred restaurant Bros' goes viral: (tags:restaurant review funny )
New Zealand unanimously passes gender self-ID law in trans rights win: (tags:LGBT transgender newzealand )
Which early hominid are you? (I got homo sapiens sapiens, which delighted me): (tags:neanderthal prehistory quiz ViaDrCross )
The TikTok Couch Guy on what it's like to be investigated on the internet.: (tags:privacy internet socialmedia OhForFucksSake )
"The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience" makes it clear how impressive modern games can look: (tags:games graphics matrix )
Computers revolutionized chess - Magnus Carlsen wins by being human: (tags:chess games AI humans )
What it's like when your brain starts working properly for the first time: (tags:adhd brain )
How do you do on the digit span memory test? (I top out at 8, and seem to use auditory memory to hold them): (tags:memory numbers )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4000083.html

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Interesting Links for 12-02-2021

Scotland's vaccination programme is likely to slow down later this month because of supply problems: (tags:Scotland vaccination )
GameStop missed out on capitalizing on the Reddit rally: (tags:investment business regulation )
Leprechaun 'is not a native Irish word' new dictionary reveals: (tags:Ireland language history dictionary )
Nicola Sturgeon backed by majority of SNP support over Joanna Cherry sacking. Majority support GRA reform: (tags:snp bigotry LGBT transgender )
The Good Friday Agreement is now the most important single document in the constitution of the United Kingdom: (tags:Constitution UK NorthernIreland Europe law )
Stop cats from bringing in wildlife by playing with them more and feeding them a meat-rich diet: (tags:cats food meat play )
Houston Doctor Fired for Giving Away Doses of Covid Vaccine (that would have been wasted. Such a stupid court case): (tags:pandemic vaccination USA wtf )
'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' to End With Season 8: (tags:police TV comedy )
Mark Kermode's pretentious review of an empty cinema: (tags:satire review funny movies cinema )
This perfectly sums up my dislike for Adam Curtis "documentaries": (tags:video documentaries )
Rewilding: Beavers to be reintroduced in record numbers across England and Wales this year: (tags:UK beavers nature )
Have some fun, ridiculous chess variants: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1359663550130761729.html
(tags:chess )
How the language people use changes during a breakup: (tags:relationships language )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3926754.html

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Interesting Links for 12-09-2020

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3753867.html

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Interesting Links for 29-12-2018

Ultima Thule: Nasa prepares to explore most distant world ever probed by humankind: (tags: space )
Steve Jobs hired a career juggler to teach programming to developers: (tags: software learning apple pixar )
Queensferry Crossing improving reliability: (tags: bridge edinburgh )
People adopt made-up social rules to be part of a group: (tags: psychology groups community ethics )
More games should be truly honest about death: (tags: death games )
Researchers analysing soil from Ireland long thought to have medicinal properties have discovered that it contains a previously unknown strain of bacteria which is effective against four of the top six superbugs that are resistant to antibiotics, includin: (tags: earth bacteria antibiotics ireland )
How Facebook Keeps Messenger from Crashing on New Year's Eve: (tags: facebook chat im )
How the Artificial Intelligence Program AlphaZero Mastered Its Games: (tags: ai games Chess Go )
Most English people live with illegal air pollution: (tags: UK pollution death )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3749049.html

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Interesting Links for 11-12-2018

Google Translate takes a stand against singular "they": (tags: language translation gender google )
SNP offers to support vote of no confidence if Labour makes one.: (tags: snp labour politics )
Chess, a Drosophila of reasoning: (tags: chess games intelligence ai )
UK House of Commons expert answers questions on the Meaningful Vote procedure.: (tags: politics UK europe )
Nihilist Dad Jokes: (tags: jokes funny humour )
The irish potato famine: (tags: ireland food history inequality )
This is the ridiculous depths the government has sunk to: (tags: UK government OhForFucksSake Europe )
A metaphor that explains Brexit very neatly: (tags: cheese metaphor uk europe politics )
The Technology That Changed Air Travel: (tags: airplanes travel history technology computers xml viaFanf )
The autistic view of the world is not the neurotypical cliché: (tags: autism stereotypes fiction viaFanf )
Increasing numbers of pubs and cafes no longer take cash: (tags: money Technology )
An amazing story of gay love and loss in World War 1: Dammit! Now confessed to be fiction! https://twitter.com/TenshiAngelina/status/1072172791812812800?s=09
(tags: history love wwi )
Kenshi is a game I suspect would appeal to a bunch of my friends. Incredibly open world: (tags: games review )
"Godzilla: King of the Monsters" looks like ridiculous fun: (tags: movies Godzilla trailer )
Psychology research is still fixated on a tiny fraction of humans: (tags: race gender society psychology )
New study finds bias against women and girls when intellectual ability is sought: (tags: intelligence psychology sexism )
In the “Trust Game”, men with more autistic traits were less influenced by their partner’s facial appearance: (tags: autism trust psychology faces )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3646928.html

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Interesting Links for 28-12-2017

Why you should give money directly and unconditionally to homeless people: (tags: GuaranteedIncome homelessness )
As 'The Last Jedi' Tops $800M In Two Weeks, Is 'Star Wars' Doomed?: (tags: StarWars money )
India and Pakistan are conducting raids into each other's territory: (tags: India Pakistan OhForFucksSake )
Common Symbols Found in Ice Age Caves Across Europe: (tags: prehistory language writing )
Words We're Watching: 'Doggo': (tags: dogs language viaSwampers )
Chess champion to miss Saudi Arabia tournament over women's rights: (tags: women chess saudiarabia )
The Revenant Problem - When the trolley problem meets Doom: (tags: doom games video morality funny )
The day the women went on strike: (tags: iceland feminism work women )
An inspirational blog post from GBBO's Yan Tsou.: (tags: life advice christmas bakery )
What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year? (And noses. And vaginas. And pensises.): (tags: bodies aieeee! )
If you find it hard to think of babies as cute, this might help: (tags: cute babies )
Sex - now with in-app purchases!: (tags: games sex funny satire )
Clegg: A reappraisal: (tags: NickClegg libdem politics uk )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3633571.html

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Interesting Links for 11-11-2017

The UK spends more of their money on childcare than any other OECD country: (tags: uk children money OhForFucksSake )
The iPhone X Is A User Experience Nightmare: (tags: apple iphone ux fail )
It is the Time of Trump. Europe needs to step up: (tags: Europe usa politics )
The real lesson of that self-driving shuttle’s first-day accident: (tags: driving accident automation )
How can liberalism be to blame for everything when we can't even agree what it is?: (tags: liberal language politics society )
Reacting to the Louis C.K. Revelations: (tags: abuse comedy )
Mexico baby death trial reveals growing persecution of women who miscarry: (tags: Mexico women pregnancy OhForFucksSake wtf )
Men, get ready to be uncomfortable for a while. While forgiveness may come one day, it won’t be soon.: (tags: abuse women men society thefuture forgiveness viaErindubitably ViaDrCross )
The naked truth about Facebook’s revenge porn tool: (tags: Facebook nudity Technology )
At DC Comics, An Editor Rose Through The Ranks Even After Being Accused Of Sexual Harassment: (tags: harassment abuse comics dc )
CBS Diversity Showcase Is a Racist Mess, Participants Say: (tags: racism comedy )
EU citizens worth £4.42bn to Scotland (not that the money is the point): (tags: Europe immigration money )
Two marine scientists are now playing each other, on Twitter, in an ocean-themed game of chess.Scientifically-accurate kill scenes are required: (tags: chess games ocean twitter )
Senior Saudi figures tortured and beaten in purge: (tags: saudiarabia )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3593400.html

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Interesting Links for 01-07-2017

Renewable energy sets new record for UK electricity generation (26% in first three months, low-carbon now at 46%): Also, that top photo is _really_ odd. Those wind turbines are at Braes of Doune, a good 10km North of Stirling. How on earth was that photo taken?
(tags: windpower renewables uk )
Designing Genderless Emoji? It Takes More Than Just Losing the Lipstick: (tags: gender emoji design )
Having more than one illustration per page results in poorer word learning among pre-schoolers: (tags: pictures language learning children )
A Brutal Intelligence: AI, Chess and the Human Mind: (tags: chess games brain Intelligence ai )
Neural networks + Kittens = !!!: (tags: AI cats names )
Women in Tech Speak Frankly on Culture of Harassment: (tags: technology abuse harassment usa )
Summary of Solutions to Climate Change: (tags: climatechange Technology )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3523704.html

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Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3361869.html

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Interesting Links for 02-11-2015

The most evil Halloween idea I've ever seen
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Always the Wallflower at the Orgy
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Software is made of decisions
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UK losing millions in VAT from non-EU sellers on Amazon and eBay
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I have a new favourite Star Wars theory!
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Morality is fractal, the closer you get to things, the less you can easily divide things into good and evil.
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Common anticholinergic drugs like Benadryl linked to increased dementia risk (54% !!!)
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The Chemist Who Hasn't Showered in 12 Years Explains Why He Doesn't Stink
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A lovely fan suggestion involving Batman and Time Travel
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Zugzwang (I just learned a new word!)
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One of my favourite things about Tumblr is the little snippets of people's lives
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How our housing choices make adult friendships more difficult
- I'd love to live in a co-housing development with a bunch of likeminded people, but I can't see how to make it happen.
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Netherlands revokes Scientology’s tax-exempt status
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If you want to understand Russia's behaviour then you have to understand its geography
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When is competition beneficial?
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Alabama is clearly engaging in racist voter suppression
- (tags: usa voting racism )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3246924.html

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Interesting Links for 05-03-2015

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2875066.html

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Interesting Links for 23-02-2013

59% of America’s “tuna” isn’t actually tuna
(tags: tuna viaJennieRigg usa )
Can You Eat Your Own Poop?
(tags: science )
Caste discrimination in the UK
(tags: uk discrimination society culture )
Mass Effect 3's final DLC hits in March, so I can finally starting playing it! (Sadly, Sim City arrives the same day...)
(tags: games MassEffect )
More than 7 million people in the UK have never used the internet.
(tags: uk internet )
How the economics of movies is changing
(tags: movies business )
Edinburgh parent starts petition to remove 'religious observance' in non-denominational schools (I signed it)
(tags: religion school edinburgh )
Playing Chess With Kubrick
(tags: chess StanleyKubrick )
Are juries too stupid for justice?
(tags: law uk )
Very nice writeup of what it's like to wear Google Glass. Want.
(tags: transparentsociety google glass video )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/2672726.html

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Interesting Links for 10-03-2012

Why I Pirate - An Open Letter To Content Creators
(tags: copyright piracy content media business thefuture )
Can 'financial repression' solve the debt crisis?
I do sometimes think that inflating our way out of debt is the only response that's going to work in the long term. It's not going to be any fun though. And much harder for countries in the Euro.
(tags: euro debt finance )
Why we should be hoping that Greece defaults today
(tags: greece debt insurance money )
Ofcom lodges porn TV complaint with Dutch regulator
(tags: porn tv uk europe censorship children )
Religious TV host Pat Robertson wants pot legalised
(tags: religion usa marijuana legalisation )
10 Things You Should Know about Comics.
(tags: comics funny )
Playing chess in short skirts is now forbidden!
(tags: chess women clothing )
The Wolves, the Pig, and the Retarded Bunny
(tags: society offensive language )
The NHS Bill will remove the obligation to provide free treatment and allow charging for health services
(tags: politics uk nhs )
There was, apparently, an R-rated cut of Galaxy Quest
(tags: scifi movies )