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War Room Lounge V129: Ignored Content Edition

Favorite Chess piece?

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Prokofievian said:
@Andy Capp I just found the most absurd example of the horizon effect. In a tactics problem, there were two ways that I could win a piece. However, at the moment where you have to make the decision, it evaluates one way as only 0.5 in your favour. When you actually go through the variation it evaluates the position at 6.55 in your favour, though.
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That's very interesting, no doubt, but what prompted you to tag me in particular, if I may ask?
 
Prokofievian said:
Injuries, especially back injuries, can be a motherfucker.

I'm lucky that I've never had a really serious injury before, and I hope that continues. This year, though, it seems as though I finally figured out how to manipulate my body composition, after sifting through the bullshit. I've lost 15kg of fat since September. It's weird how that fucks with your mind. Especially among us colonials, the 90kg or 200lb benchmark is the manlet line in terms of weight. But I would say most men who are above that mark are just above it because they're fat. 90kg with 10% bodyfat is pretty rare.
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I've had plenty unfortunately. Even relatively minor injuries like a broken collar bone and dislocated knee cap have involved pretty substantial recovery periods, let alone bone grafts and spending 11 months in plaster after crashing the bike or my recent run of back issues.
My adult weight has ranged from 78 kg to 117 kg, but I aim to maintain it between 89-95 kg as a healthy range depending on composition.
 
Ruprecht said:
I've had plenty unfortunately. Even relatively minor injuries like a broken collar bone and dislocated knee cap have involved pretty substantial recovery periods, let alone bone grafts and spending 11 months in plaster after crashing the bike and my recent run of back issues.
My adult weight has ranged from 78 kg to 117 kg, but I aim to maintain it between 89-95 kg as a healthy range depending on composition.
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Good on ya for getting back to where you are. I thought having a lie down and waking up with a collapsed lung was bizarre, but an infected spine is up there among the most strange fucked up sounding things that can happen to a person.
 
Pseudo Sane said:
I think I need to start making a list of different posters strengths and special interests, in order to figure out how to engage with them most effectively and learn things.

For example, @Limbo Pete knows history, I think?
@JDragon is German, so is probably very knowledgeable re: scat porn.
I'm reasonably sure that @senri is a cannibal, so if food supplies start running low, probably a good source of recipes for human flesh. Apparently it has something to do with juices?
@Fawlty Elizabeth knows a lot about disk golf, which could be really useful to know more about if I have a psychotic break of some sort.
And apparently @Social Distance Warrior is the War Room's best chess player?

Anyone have any special talents they want to share so I know whose brain to pick next time I need more information? Anything beats the usual screeching, and the riots are making me lose the will to be online.
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Are you an alien? I only ask because there's a bit of a "hello fellow earthling" vibe. I don't know very much about disc golf, though. Still pretty much a noob.
 
Andy Capp said:
Me too. So if you want a daily game, hit me up at Rebound59. I am probably not as good as those other guys but I will try my best.
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Hey, surprised we didn't play this weekend...
 
these pretzels.. are making me thoisty
 
Pseudo Sane said:
I'm praying you get murder hornets, for the challenge.

You're welcome.
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At our student's place, a hornet queen was visiting my balcony for a couple of months. It ultimately settled elsewhere. I was glad as hell because a) I almost shit my pants every time I saw her and b) protected species


Prokofievian said:
I've lost 15kg of fat since September.
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Half of that went here.

Personally I have settled on a low carb in the evening thing (and reduce sweets etc. to about zero). It works out pretty well with a time lag of about 4-5 weeks. The good thing is it doesn't exceed my capacity for self discipline.
 
Prokofievian said:
Didn't we discuss the horizon effect recently in the war room chess tournament thread?
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If so, I've been hitting the mj harder than I realized. Don't recall that. But not to worry. I'm sort of fascinated by this topic now. That's a pretty cool effect and it makes perfect sense. I love these kinds of things. Ever read a book called Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid?

The book brings up Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems:
Gödel’s two incompleteness theorems are among the most important results in modern logic, and have deep implications for various issues. They concern the limits of provability in formal axiomatic theories. The first incompleteness theorem states that in any consistent formal system F within which a certain amount of arithmetic can be carried out, there are statements of the language of F which can neither be proved nor disproved in F. According to the second incompleteness theorem, such a formal system cannot prove that the system itself is consistent (assuming it is indeed consistent).
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So despite the common feeling that any math problem can be solved as long as we keep at it long enough, that's not true. I think it's likely that humans are geared toward problems that admit themselves to some sort of solution, as a matter of practicality, but it is not necessarily so. It's possible some of the great unsolved problems in Math are that way because they can't and we may never know it because of the second theorem. Great stuff.

Fawlty Elizabeth said:
Hey, surprised we didn't play this weekend...
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Oh man, my apologies. Doins and goins-on. I still hope to do that.
 
@Lead @Ruprecht please remove posts that derail from my thread.

I tried to report derailing threads, but was prompted that "I did not have permission for this action."

First time I've tried to use the report button in my memory, so I have no idea if this happens all the time.
 
Ruprecht said:
I've had plenty unfortunately. Even relatively minor injuries like a broken collar bone and dislocated knee cap have involved pretty substantial recovery periods, let alone bone grafts and spending 11 months in plaster after crashing the bike or my recent run of back issues.
My adult weight has ranged from 78 kg to 117 kg, but I aim to maintain it between 89-95 kg as a healthy range depending on composition.
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That's my goal. I don't want to be more than 15% bodyfat anymore. That puts my maximum weight somewhere around 100kg, given my build. I've been as heavy as 112 back when I was sniffing the ''sKwAtZ n mIlK'' glue. I was trying to rock climb back then, too lol. My grip was insane haha.
 
Prokofievian said:
That's my goal. I don't want to be more than 15% bodyfat anymore. That puts my maximum weight somewhere around 100kg, given my build. I've been as heavy as 112 back when I was sniffing the ''sKwAtZ n mIlK'' glue. I was trying to rock climb back then, too lol. My grip was insane haha.
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Like Mountain vs Oberyn Martell insane?
 
luckyshot said:
@Lead @Ruprecht please remove posts that derail from my thread.

I tried to report derailing threads, but was prompted that "I did not have permission for this action."

First time I've tried to use the report button in my memory, so I have no idea if this happens all the time.
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That’s weird. I’ll forward it along to the admins to see if it can be fixed.
 
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