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There is a relatively successful corporate backed political party in Kerala, India. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty20_Kizhakkambalam

They have done quite well over the years, but have limited themselves to the small area around which the company has influence.


It is already there and it works.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/android-ports-for-gnu-emacs...

There is a catch though, you need to download and install Termux & Emacs from this project as per the instructions. It took me a while to get it working, but after that it worked like a charm.


Termux isn't required, unless you want other applications (e.g. git, python, or GCC).

If you do want Termux, a signed and compatible version is provided by the Emacs devs. It should all be in the README (at least it always has been, through various updates, since I started using the Emacs on Android before it was merged into the main branch).


Same here. You can drop as many ISO files as you want and select during boot...


With _array formulae_ you can live without pivot tables, to a certain extent. They would auto-refresh, too...


The advantage of Pivot Tables is they are interactive, but (modern) dynamic array formulas are better in cases where you are producing a static result.


This can be compared with fine art (as against photography or digital art), theatre (as against films), handmade (as against factory produced) etc. In all these cases, the originals occupy an expensive niche, usually beyond the reach of the common-folk.


You are probably right. That would track well with prior behavior.

I suppose it will also depend on how affordable/accessible these models will be.


From what I have seen, tmux is the _only_ multiplexer with with you can select from the scroll-back buffer using only the keyboard (without using the mouse).


Absolutely! You also have full control over the history size, along with powerful search capabilities. You can move panes and windows seamlessly across sessions, and even share those sessions with other users. My yank script integrates with tmux buffers, so copy/paste works flawlessly, even in vertical splits. I strongly disagree with the article; I simply can’t imagine using a terminal without tmux.


screen does as well. Unless I'm missing something here.


Loosely speaking neovim is a terminal multiplexer, and it can also do this, you have full vim motions and commands available on terminal buffers.


Do you mean select into the clipboard?


To tmux's clipboard and if required to the system clipboard too...

set -s copy-command 'xsel -i'


Insightful and pithy! Well written too...

Along similar lines, after decades of struggling with the demands of multi-taskng, I came to realise that I am clearly incapable of it. I have now learned to work like Javascript. I have a list of items lined up, which is processed sequentially, in a single thread. Anything new that is not pressing goes to the bottom of the list. Urgent inescapable interruptions go to the top.


An easier alternative is Ventoy. https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

Install Ventoy on a USB flash drive. Copy the ISO - copy as in cp. That's it.

You can add as many ISOs and select which one to boot with.


Ubuntu's Install medium supports secureboot. (As do many other Linux install mediums) I assume ventoy requires SB to be OFF, which does complicate things more, than just using Rufus.


I checked the Malayalam page for David Woodard as I have native proficiency and also when it comes to translation to Malayalam, even the finer engines are patchy at best. Firstly, there is an alert at the top which says that the article seems to be translated automatically and needs improvement, and frankly, this is quite self evident too. Which makes me wonder, whether someone tried to script/automate the translation (of this article) to a large number of languages?


That's what it looks like. Same for Spanish, weird automatic translation.

I've also seen that they've uploaded "name pronunciations" to Wikimedia that are done via TTS engines that are not, precisely, last generation. [0] Looks like some sort of automation exercise. Edited in a bunch of languages, but mostly in English. [1]

  0: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pronunciation_of_the_English_surname_Woodard.ogg
  1: https://xtools.wmcloud.org/ec/en.wikipedia.org/Swmmng


Well, Bridge remains unconquered, although it is unclear whether it is because of disinterest or incapability. As I have highlighted before, the day a computer false-cards will be the day. (False-carding - playing a certain card with the primary intention of deceiving the opponents and forcing an error)


Does Bridge have card draw from a randomized deck? Because that's most likely the issue. I'm facing similar problems when trying to build something that plays Magic The Gathering like games reasonably competent. The combinatorics explosion and dealing with bluffing/hidden knowledge is really a tough nut to crack. My current guess is that you need something like monte carlo reinforcement learning to do it.

Forcing an Error is an especially hard case because in machine vs machine matches both sides would be aware that something could force an error and would therefore not fall for it.


How about the slightly easier* Poker? OpenAI seem to be mildly interested

https://xcancel.com/polynoamial?lang=en

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09159

(To be fair, re (card) games: I'm also only interested in seeing Cyborg-on-Cyborg action. Lee vs a-G almost qualified :)


I need to ask, when playing against AI players in poker games, are they fair (= work on the same sets of cards, are not aware of your hand) or do they get to cheat?

(I played a MTG game years ago and it was not fair, the opponent's deck was not shuffled but they always had cards that provided a certain experience)


They are indeed fair. The strongest poker bots are not AI in the way it is commonly defined. From my understanding they calculate the nash-equilibrium for a simplified game and extrapolate that to the full game.


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