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New comment by mafuy in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

mafuy — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:27:06 +0000

Just one example: Facebook is mandatory for school/university in large parts of Asia. You cannot trivially block them. They should be considered an utility.

New comment by mafuy in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"

mafuy — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:49:00 +0000

> Or are these TVs auto connecting open WiFi or the neighbor’s Xfinity WiFi?

Yup. How does that make you feel? Because for me, it was the moment when the border to not only blatantly, but also actively evil was passed.

New comment by mafuy in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"

mafuy — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:37:30 +0000

You'll be delighted to learn that this exact reasoning had, in fact, been used by the copyright industry against (illegal) movie streaming websites. If I remember correctly, this was in Germany and was, after a relatively short time, no longer accepted by the courts.

New comment by mafuy in "More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math"

mafuy — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:58:37 +0000

It is simply unethical, period. Knowing that a solution exists is a gigantic advantage when working on a solution. Normally, noone can abuse the knowledge fast enough to gain an advantage, but here, they could. This is fraud and as a journal, I would reject it.

New comment by mafuy in "QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes"

mafuy — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:31:19 +0000

Especially if they kept telling us how dangerous the machine is.

New comment by mafuy in "Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop"

mafuy — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 20:21:08 +0000

No, the parent is exactly right. I've seen it countless times and I am so sick of it. The poor, poor CEO has to be evil, it is his duty.

New comment by mafuy in "Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap"

mafuy — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:15:10 +0000

Depends on where you put the perfect play ceiling. I think each side has good points in their respective favor. There have been strong pushes by both humans and computers in improving their best play in the past few years.

A 2 stone handicap, however, does not scale linearly with strength. It becomes relatively more impactful at higher levels. For pro players, 2 stones are gigantic, and for beginner players, they make zero difference. Same for a point advantage (komi adjustment). So there might come a point where it is physically impossible for a computer to beat a top human under some handicap.

New comment by mafuy in "Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap"

mafuy — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:08:28 +0000

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to name the source on this here, but someone very familiar with the top Go program scene explained that there is a fair chance that a perfect game has been played already. This is based on the probability of a mistake per move in relation to the number of games there were played by top programs. Hard to believe at first, but perchance it is true. The problem is, of course, that we don't know which games are perfect.

New comment by mafuy in "Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap"

mafuy — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:01:48 +0000

If I remember the numbers correctly, your setup seems to be wrong if you only get 1.4k e/s with 4x 3090. What network did you use?

New comment by mafuy in "Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap"

mafuy — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:57:38 +0000

AlphaGo is a bit difficult to compare because their parallelism efficiency was abysmal. You might as well consider it a regular 8x or so GPU machine.

New comment by mafuy in "Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap"

mafuy — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:55:04 +0000

The tree search in KataGo does not use Monte Carlo simulations at all. It is purely policy/value network based, and works insanely well indeed.

New comment by mafuy in "Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap"

mafuy — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:45:28 +0000

I've not looked at the specific game in question, but in general, doubling the thinking time leads to a very notable strength improvement regardless of the base level of play. The increase becomes slightly smaller at higher levels but does not really diminish, and it currently looks like the ceiling is still a bit away.

If it is "only" 4x3090 at 16s, you will definitely get a drastic playing strength boost from doubling the thinking time. This is still clearly within the interval of a linear relationship between thinking time and playing strength, i.e. elo ~ log time. The relationship, to my knowledge, becomes less clear only starting at about 10-20x the number of playouts.

Source: Wrote a paper on this. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10645535

New comment by mafuy in "Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap"

mafuy — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:37:42 +0000

In Go, we had an extensive documentary on this, based on the strange case of a man possessed by the spirit of an ancient master Go player. I'm not going to spoil the results here; it's an enjoyable series and includes many small introductory tutorials to the game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikaru_no_Go

New comment by mafuy in "Dutch central bank moves 86 tonnes of gold from US citing 'geopolitical unrest'"

mafuy — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:19:15 +0000

His chain of thought has a length not beyond his nose. It's typical for dementia, and I have to see it all the time with my parent. Only the very last sentence is kept in mind, all other context is mostly gone.

I wish a reporter would ask him what question he heard and answered, because I'm sure he would be unable to correctly answer.

New comment by mafuy in "Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems"

mafuy — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:36:46 +0000

This is not the job of the postal service, but of the government. There is zero reason to outsource verification, and the postal service ought to vehemently reject this attempt to shift responsibility. Though I guess they won't, seeing as they are gleichgeschaltet.

New comment by mafuy in "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"

mafuy — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:37:15 +0000

You misread/missed "Imagine".

New comment by mafuy in "Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras"

mafuy — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:24:59 +0000

To my own surprise, I think that the nouns are less interchangable than the verbs. The verbs are way more commonly interchanged, even in my native language. Curious!

New comment by mafuy in "Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras"

mafuy — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:18:56 +0000

ESL here. To me, there is a very clear distinction between these terms, which also applies in my native language: A thiefs tries to steal without you noticing, a burglar is a thief that additionally enters a building, and a robber in contrast steals while intentionally confronting you. The intention and the level of danger each of these pose is quite different.

New comment by mafuy in "EVE Online moves to Python 3"

mafuy — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:45:55 +0000

Not a player myself, but I recall there were some articles about a player organization that helped people who were stranded, or something along these lines. It sounded quite wholesome and fun.

New comment by mafuy in "GLM-5.3 is now open-weight"

mafuy — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 13:42:41 +0000

I built a dual epyc server with 64 cores and 1 TB of DDR4. Draws around 800W or so under load. I used off the shelf liquid cooling. It is audible but not noisy.

The trick is to turn on the cooler's RGB in your 6000€ server to get a free speed boost. I am not liable for sysadmin's heart attack upon reading this.