> there's no, say, "fivefold repetition" draw that could be enforced despite the players' will

There is exactly such a rule. See the FIDE Laws of Chess [0], rule 9.6.1.

[0] https://handbook.fide.com/chapter/E012018

Pandas does have the .pipe() method [0], which allows you to put an arbitrary callable in a method chain, but it is a bit more cumbersome than in R.

[0] https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/p...

Except you can't actually use it, because it will kill the performance of your program.

Lichess’s cheat detection is open source (like everything else on the site) [0]. The training dataset isn’t public, though, and it’s practically undocumented. If you look in the `modules/game` directory, though, you’ll get an idea of what sort of data that goes into the model. Besides the engine analyses, it also looks at the time spent on each move (the `Emt` type is short for elapsed move time).

[0] https://github.com/clarkerubber/irwin

A Nobel Prize is about a million dollars cash.

Ah, they split the cash along those lines? I see.

My favorite part of the paper that used field experiments to demonstrate that rice in Hunan is a Giffen good for the poorest consumers [0] is the cheeky inclusion of this quote from George Stigler:

> Perhaps as persuasive a proof [of the “Law of Demand”] as is readily summarized is this: if an economist were to demonstrate its failure in a particular market at a particular time, he would be assured of immortality, professionally speaking, and rapid promotion while still alive. Since most economists would not dislike either reward, we may assume that the total absence of exceptions is not from lack of trying to find them.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2964162/

A slight correction: C-x C-e and fc open $EDITOR, which is vim by default on most machines. You can change it to anything, though.

I don't think he's right that you could implement a bagel mode on that toaster by just running the center heating element. Both heating elements are necessary for the toaster to function (which he mentions!). You need to run the center element to drive the bread lifter, but you also need to run the outer element to heat the side of the bread facing the bimetallic strip. You can't put the bimetallic strip on the center side of the bread, since it needs direct exposure to the heat radiating off the bread, and the coiled center heating element would get in the way.

Additionally, there must not be a hole in the center of the bagel as that would cause the heat from one side to radiate directly to the bimetal on the other side.

For comparison, the relevant excerpt from the Iliad (Fagles translation): https://home.ubalt.edu/ntygfit/ai_01_pursuing_fame/ai_01_tel...

You beat me to it! For those who haven’t read The Iliad, and prefer audiobooks, check out the Robert Fagles’ version voiced by Derek Jacobi.

Thank you for this comment! As someone who fell in love with Derek Jacobi's voice since recently watching Kenneth Branagh's Henry V (my favourite opening ever), that's definitely something for me!

Totally unrelated to that but Ransom (the ransom of Hector’s corpse) by D. Malouf is really astounding.

> In Russian, the verb that means discover or recognize also contains the verb to know.

The English very nearly does as well. The "gn" in "recognize" has the same etymological root [1] as the "kn" in "know"---and as the "зн" in "сознать" (recognize) and "знать" (know). It's not quite as obvious as in the Russian, but "acknowledge" means nearly the same thing as "recognize" and includes "know" as a substring.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...

Perhaps in German it is even more obvious. "to recognize" => "zu erkennen" "to know" => "zu kennen" (alternatively, "zu wissen")

Also same root as "cognition". Similar in Spanish, "reconocer" and "conocer" (which also means "to meet", i.e. to know for the first time).

According to Wiktionary the early Latin word was gnōscere. Old English had cnawan and cunnan.

Besides “know”, etc., modern English words “can”, “cunning”, “canny”, etc. also come from this root.

I've used Ghostscript to shrink scanned PDFs for emailing, although I don't know how lossy the compression is.

[0] https://askubuntu.com/a/256449

I tried it but it was cpu intensive for very small improvements