Analyst for @ChessCom, mall walker, board game designer. Follow for all things chess and charts.
Nashville, TN
Joined November 2007
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Congrats to Grant from Ohio, this month’s Board Game Library giveaway winner! See what he's looking to pick up:
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Because of the great response, we’re going to keep the giveaways going. The form takes 5-10 minutes:
boardgamelibrary.com/prefere…
#boardgames
I’m building a board game discovery engine called Board Game Library. I’m looking for folks to help make recommendations better by filling out our 5-10 minute research form. If you’re able to help, you get entered to win a board game gift card: boardgamelibrary.com/prefere…
Thanks!!
Are y'all youths more down with CATAN or chess these days?
chess.com/blog/nathantbaker/…
Chessable gives money to competitively selected #chess research projects from university-based researchers. Apply by May 15! lnkd.in/eFnVh75k
Can you help me with something? What's the best name for my app idea? forms.gle/npMUSsHe1qYKvC2B6
How to make an Old Fashioned
1. Get a 1.75 L handle of Rebel bourbon. Pour out 5 oz and drink.
2. Get a funnel.
3. Add 3 oz of rich (2:1) demerara sryup or 6 oz of simple syrup if lazy.
4. Add 1 oz of angostura bitters and 1 oz of orange bitters.
5. Shake. Label. Enjoy.
Computer: "Update installed. Do you want to see what's new?"
Me: "No thanks I'll just vigorously clean my keyboard with this windex and paper towel and see what pops up."
Nate Baker retweeted
I always thought it odd that the assigned values of chess pieces are integers.
Given the complexity of the game that can't really be true, can it?
And indeed it isn't. A short thread 🧵 1/7
"[Chess players] encounter hot streaks of repeated success, longer for beginners than for expert players, and even longer cold streaks of unsatisfying performance." nature.com/articles/s41598-0… by @san_chowdhary @iacopoiacopini & @fede7j in @Nature
Call this number for a pep talk from kindergartners: 1 (707) 873-7862 (a public art project by @WestSideBobcats)
Nate Baker retweeted
Introducing DeepNash - the first AI to master Stratego, a game of hidden information which is more complex than chess, Go and poker.
Published in @ScienceMagazine, it uses a novel model-free reinforcement learning algorithm.
Here's how it works. 🧵 dpmd.ai/deepnash-tw
Nate Baker retweeted
Two pieces of good news about the🧠 from this cool study of 125 years of professional chess players and how often they make the "optimal move" available:
1) Aging has less effects than you might expect
2) Younger generations keep getting smarter
Paper: pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pna…
