Interestingly, this test has been in the public domain for the last seven years, since it is part of all possible chess games with 7 or less pieces, which is solved and published. It is a huge file, but the five pieces games dataset with the FEN is less than a GB. I wonder if it even got included in the training data earlier, or if it will be.
I don't think such datasets are going into AI training. But if this exact question keeps showing up in analytics data, and forum posts, it might end up in training sets.
It might be a reasonable ask for an LLM to 'remember' the endgame tablebase of solved games - which is less than a GB for all game with five or less pieces on the board. This puzzle specifically relies on this knowledge and the knowledge of how the chess pieces move.
I too started learning chess at the beginning of this pandemic when I turned 29. While I knew how the pieces moved as a kid, I was unaware of rules such as promotion, pawns moving two squares in the beginning, en passant etc. When I started I was 900 blitz on chess.com. I moved to ~1750 on Chess.com blitz and ~2000 on lichess blitz. I assume I would be higher in rapid if I played it as much, probably due to less competition in it online. I learned a single opening with white (and probably the most hated - London system), and one with black (Sicilian hyperaccelerated dragon). I guess most of my improvement came from observing tactics in games and in puzzles. Watching a lot of agadmator kind of videos also helped in figuring out what is a better move out of multiple candidate moves (I guess this is what is positional chess is about.) I have reduced playing it these days since it is quite addictive and takes up a lot of my free time. Also, it is quite demotivating to hear that no matter how much effort I put in as an adult, a 5 yo kid will be much better than me with the same amount of effort.
I have a similar story to you, learning those same systems as well! I don’t really buy the guy’s story I’m pretty sure the kid would eventually beat me regularly with enough years, but at age 5? I have access to more resources and more motivation, more focused training, less likely to make blunders.
We created a static version of this (almost similar to shodan but for keys) using publicly accessible Github dump hosted on Google Cloud in 2017. We then hosted the processed data, website and our search infra on AWS. AWS security team reached out to us for a potential “collaboration” and asked us to send all AWS keys that we discovered and we sent them the whole list. As a tiny startup, we were elated. Few days later they call us and threaten with a cease and desist notice if we do not take down the website. Remember we are not targeting AWS keys, neither are we in violation of any licensing agreements with respect to the data. We refused to shut it down. They then ask us to stop hosting it on AWS or “anywhere” else since we were using AWS credits to host the product or they will shut our account. When their this strategy did not work out, they contacted someone at Stripe who had given us the AWS credits, who then asked us to take it down or face consequences. We eventually had to shut it down since we did not have a lot of money to fight these people.
It was a stressful week for us where we learnt that corporates can lie and bully you to get whatever they want and then can shut you down. Unless you have the means to fight back. Does not matter where you live.
It included high entropy strings including keys from 30+ API and service providers, one of which was AWS. We did not target AWS specifically. None of the other services complained. In fact, a customer service widget company even took our help and thanked us. AWS tricked us in taking our findings and then changed their tone.
I know it is unfair to compare a laptop with a desktop but this is what I did based on my specific usage pattern. I upgraded from a 13 inch 2014 Macbook Pro with 8G RAM to a 27 inch iMac. I am still keeping the Macbook pro for travel, though I fear the out of warranty costs now that AppleCare is over. I wanted a faster, powerful machine but did not want to move out of macos with all those programs and settings from last 4 years. Also, all the other laptops had some issue or the other be it the low battery life in ultrabooks to the bad display, weak processors, or build quality issues. The 2017 touchbar MacBook Pro is the best built laptop one can buy but it looked too expensive to me for what it offered. I explored building a hackintosh but it seemed maintaining it was too much pain.
I now use a Samsung T5 external SSD over USB-C as my macos boot drive in the iMac, which I can unplug and boot with my Macbook when I travel. While being 40% cheaper than the 15 inch macbook in my country, the iMac gives me a faster processor that does not thermal throttle after 5 minutes of 100% usage, 24 GB of cheaper RAM (and yes easily upgradable to 64GB), a gorgeous 5k display, lots of ports, a somewhat better graphics card for the rare gaming and lots of space to save data files. With some difficulty, you could also replace the drives and processor.
Yes, when I got the Macbook battery needs servicing thing couple of years ago, the processor was permanently in a low power state of 800Mhz. You can verify it using the Intel Power Gadget thing or terminal.
I have a 2011 Macbook Air (13-inch) and my battery has a “Service Battery” alert. It’s very slow when the battery is not at full capacity but it’s fine when the battery is full.
I ordered a replacement battery off Amazon last week.
Be aware that most "genuine" replacement batteries are counterfeit. I bought a replacement battery for my 2011 MBA too, but it only worked good for a couple of months.
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