[-] jalda@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

For a long time, it was believed that Hawking radiation is thermal and doesn't carry information, except for the mass/radius/temperature of the black hole.

In 2004, Hawking conceded that, due to the holographic principle, information wasn't lost. The basic idea is that the infalling matter can gravitationally deform the horizon and thus modify the distribution of Hawking radiation from the pure thermal emission. And the interesting point is that the entropy of the black hole is proportional to its area and not its volume (holography), so the deformation of the horizon is sufficient to recover all the "missing" information.

[-] jalda@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

I bet you make this exact comment in all the threads about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, right?

[-] jalda@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

Andretti has a stated goal of being able to fight for the F1 title in 5-6 years

When they entered the sport, Haas also claimed that they wanted to fight for the title in 5-6 years, and that their European base was just temporary and they would move completely to the US. Just like Andretti is doing right now.

Promising things is very cheap, comitting not do much.

[-] jalda@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

Also, Magnus Carlsen agrees to play against Hans Niemann if they are paired together in any tournament.

[-] jalda@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

For what jurisdiction?

For one, the Spanish jurisdiction, that is the one that applies to this case. Arguing that other countries have backwards laws is irrelevant to the matter at hand.

[-] jalda@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

Holy latency!

[-] jalda@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

Solution

Bb4!

If white responds with Rxb4, black can simply promote with a discovered check b1=Q+, and captures the rook on the next move.

If white doesn't take the bishop, black can safely promote the pawn because it is covered by the bishop.

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White to play and mate in 5 (media.mastodon.cloud)
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Position from yesterday's game Carlsen vs Pantsulaia, Round 2 of the World Cup

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Ratings Are Broken (lichess.org)
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FIDE World Chess Cup 2023 (worldcup2023.fide.com)
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The 2023 FIDE World Cup is a 206-player knockout taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan from July 30 to August 24. The top 3 players qualify for the 2024 Candidates Tournament.

Format

Each match consists of two classical games of 90 minutes for the first 40 moves and 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with increment of 30 seconds per move. No draw offers are allowed until after move 30.

In case of a tie, a play-off is played the third day, consisting in two 25+10 rapid games, then two 10+10 games and then two 5+3 games. If still tied, individual 3+2 games until a player wins.

Players

206 players are participating in the open section, and 103 in the Women's section. The top 50 are seeded directly to round 2.

The list of players includes Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Anish Giri, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Ju Wenjun and many others.

Schedule

  • Round 1: July 30-August 1
  • Round 2: August 2-August 4
  • Round 3: August 5-August 7
  • Round 4: August 9-August 11
  • Round 5: August 12-August 14
  • Round 6: August 15-August 17
  • Round 7: August 19-August 21
  • Final & 3rd place match: August 22-August 24

Links

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The restriction is he is not allowed to play players from Russia or Belarus. Ivanchuk says he will honor the restriction.

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PogChamps 5 (www.chess.com)
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Players

16 content creators and amateur chess players are participating in this tournament

  • CDawgVA | Variety, YouTube
  • Daily Dose of Internet | YouTube
  • Franks-is-heres | Variety, TikTok
  • Fuslie | Variety, YouTube
  • Ghastly | Musician
  • I did a thing | DIY inventions, YouTube
  • Jarvis | Variety, YouTube
  • Jinnytty | Variety, Twitch
  • Papaplatte | Variety, Twitch
  • QTCinderella | Variety, Twitch
  • Sapnap | Gaming, YouTube
  • Squeex | Speedrunner, Twitch
  • Sykkuno | Variety, YouTube
  • Tyler1 | League of Legends, Twitch
  • Wirtual | Trackmania, YouTube
  • xQc | Variety, Twitch

Format

The tournament features a Group Stage followed by a Championship and Consolation single-elimination brackets. All games are 10+5.

In the Group Stage, players are divided into four groups of four players. Each group plays a single round-robin, with participants playing a two-game match against every other player in their group. If a match ends in a tie, players contest a 3+5 game, with the player with the highest accuracy score starting with White. Players keep swapping colors and playing 3+5 games until a decisive game decides the winner. Players receive 3 points for an outright match win, 2 points for winning a match in the tiebreaks, 1 point for losing the match in the tiebreaks, and 0 points for losing a match without tiebreaks.

In the Championship and Consolation brackets, matches consist of two games and tiebreakers are the same as the Group Stage.

Links

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Format

  • The Play-in is open to all grandmasters.
  • Play-in consists of a nine-round Swiss and a "Match Play" stage.
  • The time control is 10+2.
  • The top-ranked players from the Swiss advance to the Match Play stage.
  • The top four players in the Swiss pick their opponents for Match Play one by one from the players placed between fifth and eighth.
  • The pairings for the remaining Match Play are determined by the final rankings of players in the Swiss round.
  • Two games make up each match in Match Play.
  • A bidding armageddon game with a 10-minute base time breaks Match Play ties.
  • After the Match Play, players move on to the Knockout stage, where they are placed in one of three divisions depending on their performance.

Players

156 players are participating in the event, including Fabiano Caruana, Alireza Firouzja, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Rauf Mamedov, Levon Aronian, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov,...

Links

[-] jalda@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

They have renamed the K9 app to Thunderbird Mobile

[-] jalda@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean, he has 51 points more than Mercedes.

[-] jalda@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

Instagram has more than 2 billion active users, and each (non-EU) Instagram user can conveniently login Threads just pressing a button. If they're fudging the numbers, activating only 1.5% of their potential userbase seems odd. Why not activating hundreds of millions of accounts?

As for the posts, an average of 3.2 posts/users for just the first day sounds reasonable to me.

[-] jalda@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

They are planning to federate via AP unlike Bluesky

We know that they are using ActivityPub. Afaik, we don't know if they are planning to federate with non-Meta instances (or with instances vetted by Meta). It is entirely possible that they use ActivityPub only to federate their own instances and ignore anyone else.

[-] jalda@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, there isn't a word for 99 in Spanish or English, in both languages we say 90+9, so that counts as maths.

If you are asking about words for 70, 80 and 90, that is a peculiarity of French, and not even all dialects, some dialects have septante, huitante/octante and nonante for those.

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