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What happens if you let a chess AI play itself? Is it just 50-50?

What happens if you let a chess AI play itself? Is it just 50-50?


What happens if you let a chess AI play itself? Is it just 50-50?

Posted: 09 Jun 2017 02:53 PM PDT

And what would happen if that AI is unrealistically and absolutely perfect so that it never loses? Is that possible?

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physicists say to laymen "observing a quantum particle causes the wave function to collapse" but what does this mean mathematically? what does a collapsed function look like compared to the original?

Posted: 10 Jun 2017 06:00 AM PDT

Why does sexual fetishism exist and, moreover, why are some fetishes more common than others?

Posted: 09 Jun 2017 08:26 PM PDT

What causes an area to become a salt flat?

Posted: 10 Jun 2017 07:06 AM PDT

What are common applications of usage of the world's most powerful supercomputers?

Posted: 09 Jun 2017 07:34 PM PDT

If there used to be a lot of water on Mars, what happened to it? Did it leave the planet and atmosphere?

Posted: 10 Jun 2017 07:13 AM PDT

There is actually two questions here; how do they keep oxygen in their shuttles or the space station, and couldn't they take plants to create more oxygen?

Posted: 09 Jun 2017 10:53 PM PDT

These may be stupid questions, and I apologize if they are.

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Mercury isn't moving at a speed close to that of light. Why did Newtonian gravity fall short in predicting its orbit?

Posted: 09 Jun 2017 06:06 PM PDT

My understanding is that relativistic effects are negligible at speeds far, far below that of light (~50 km/s, give or take, in the case of Mercury's orbital speed). Does that rule of thumb apply on to special relativity?

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How does alcohol interfere with the endocrine system in the body?

Posted: 09 Jun 2017 04:20 PM PDT

In 1996, the nintendo 64 was released and was '64' bit. The dreamcast which followed was billed as 128 bit. Why did it take so long for 64 bit home PCs to arrive and what's different between a 64 bit PC and a 128 bit dreamcast?

Posted: 10 Jun 2017 02:54 AM PDT

At the time I generally accepted the more bits equals more betterer kind of marketing that these consoles used, but presumably a dreamcast does not outclass a modern home PC in terms of processing power or graphical ability. What did the number of bits mean in a 90's console context and how did it differ to what it means in an average, current, home PC context?

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Since the earth is spinning at roughly 1000 mph at the equator and the air can be perfectly still means the air around earth is spinning exactly with the earth.... What is making the air spin?

Posted: 09 Jun 2017 05:43 PM PDT

And.... Since the air around the earth must be spinning pretty much exactly with the earth's spin, shouldn't we see great tornadoes extending out from each pole at the axis of the spin?

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What determines the speed that a lightning ball travels along power lines?

Posted: 09 Jun 2017 02:47 PM PDT

There was a video posted today of an electricity ball traveling along power lines in a rain storm. I've heard that electrons actually travel quite slowly through electrical lines. Does the speed of the ball traveling along reflect this?

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What is the limiting factor for the rate of deceleration when landing a plane?

Posted: 10 Jun 2017 06:45 AM PDT

When flying to another city the other day i got to wondering what the limiting factor is on slowing the plane down after touch-down? Is it limited by the number of g's the average person will accept or is the available force from air brakes, wheel brakes, reverse thrust etc the limit to slowing the aircraft quicker? Or is there some other factor at play like the structural integrity of the airframe/landing gear/runway? If it is all that the airframe can handle, is this by design because the average person won't accept anything higher anyway?

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Hypothetically what is the worst thing that could happen if I don't turn on "airplane mode"?

Posted: 09 Jun 2017 11:13 AM PDT

Once a neural network is trained for a task, is there any way to examine the network to give insight into how to traditionally think up and write an equation to do the same task, or is it fairly black-box?

Posted: 09 Jun 2017 02:25 PM PDT

Perhaps there is possibly a branch of mathematics that examines equations and optimizes them? Or would some aspect of the incompleteness theorem mean that this is impossible?

edit: maybe the structure of the neural network equation does not lend itself to being rewritten in a form that more readily leads mathematicians to new insights?

As you can tell, I'm not certain about the correct way to word this question, but I'd be happy to (try to) clarify, thanks!

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Is there a good source on resonances/ periodic ratios of orbits in our solar system?

Posted: 10 Jun 2017 05:07 AM PDT

I recently read somewhere (and for the love of it cannot remember where!) that the period of orbits in our solar system can be presented as integer ratios.

So that would mean, when you move from one planet to the next one outwards from the sun, you get a rather small integer ratio for the difference between the orbital periods - within a set accuracy.

And by small in this case I mean something like 94 : 595.

I am looking for a good comprehensive source that shows those ratios - is there any such source that goes:

  • Mercury : Venus = a : b
  • Venus : Earth = c : d
  • Earth : Mars = e : f

etc.

Thanks for any help or pointers you can give me!

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At what point does our body know we are left handed or right handed?

Posted: 09 Jun 2017 05:08 PM PDT

I don't have a child of my own, so I've never observed a child "testing out" their handedness. How does this develop?

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Proper explanation on cooper pair?

Posted: 10 Jun 2017 03:53 AM PDT

Hi. I'm undergraduate majoring material science and studying BCS theory, trying to find not only definition but also various explanation on it. But I couldn't understood how they move.

The question is: Q1. How these 'paired' electrons (or quasiparticles) behave without resistance? I guess they have to 'move' anyway, and how they can move without scatter? Q2. What is superconducting gap? I think it have different derivation with energy gap. What happens if electron is below/above superconducting gap?

I'm struggling with these concepts for weeks. Please somebody help me with eidetic explanation😂

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Why is the J/ψ long-lived?

Posted: 10 Jun 2017 03:32 AM PDT

So I've been reading up on the J/ψ particle lately, and am failing to understand why it's lifetime is so long outside of its narrow resonance width.

I know about the OZI Rule and how hadronic decays of the J/ψ are suppressed for diagrams that can be separated by gluon propagators, making leptonic final states a comparable decay option, however I don't understand what it has to do with the J/ψ lifetime.

Suppressed decay modes, have always in my mind, affected the branching ratios but not the lifetime of the particle itself. Naively, it's like saying as the J/ψ travels along, by process of elimination it tries one by one to decay into a certain mode, until it finds one that works. Because hadronic decays are suppressed by the OZI rule, then it simply takes the J/ψ longer until it finds a mode that "works" for it, thus leading to it's long lifetime. Obviously, this picture isn't the case. Someone at the university mentioned to me that the coupling constant of an interaction is proportional to the speed at which the interaction takes place, and since the OZI rule suppresses certain strong decays, then the "weaker" interactions are left thus increasing the lifetime of the J/ψ. However, I have not found any resources online that support this.

I guess a question that would also help here is why is the J/ψ's resonance width narrow?

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Can the ISS be converted into an interplanetary vessel?

Posted: 09 Jun 2017 11:27 PM PDT

If light is affected by gravity, can light be caught in orbit?

Posted: 09 Jun 2017 12:04 PM PDT

Does electricity have a color?

Posted: 09 Jun 2017 12:38 PM PDT

Saw that .gif of a ball of electricity riding powerlines and it is clearly blue, or at least the surrounding area, while other times lightning during storms it can be seem as having a violet hue, Is it just iluminating the predominant color of the environment around the light or does electricity have a particular color they reflect?

Edit: Answers provided sent me down a pleasent rabbit hole, a much apprecited one.

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Do reptiles have thc receptors?

Posted: 09 Jun 2017 08:29 PM PDT

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