I was playing a move in my game against Mimei and kept swearing that I had a shape similar to the circled shape in another game: Then a few days later in my game against Valgaav I struck by having a similar large-shape consisting of of many common shape patterns (bamboo, table, etc): It’s odd how as White and as […]
Deja-vu about certain shape-aggregates
Filthy block by Franklin
What would you play in this #goposition
Gelato has an interesting corner-oriented style of play, where he often opens with a 3-3 and 3-4 stone… in this game, he chose a 4-4 stone, but played the joseki where he keeps the corner. We pick up the action at move 35 My analysis:
Safe and effective
After a 4-month drop from 5k, I have now returned to 5k
4 months ago, I made 5k on OGS primarily by playing live games based on what Clossius teaches: “just dont lose… play defense”… then I started playing all sorts of blitz games and a whole lot of blitz games and I dropped to as low as 8k. In my return to 5k I have only played 4 or 5 live […]
I am re-focusing on the opening… I got some good feedback
Since Baduk is a martial art, both players should be allowed to place stones at will instead of alternating turns
In boxing, kung fu, jiu jitsu, etc, people do not take turns: once the opening bell sounds, it is up to the opponents to decide if they want to immediately engage or feel each other out with a few jabs and feints. A cool way to play Baduk would be if both players could slap down stones at will without […]
“5 Simple Questions for a Virologist” by Dr. Tom Cowan
reprinted from Truth Comes to Light (who reprinted it from Dr. Tom Cowan’s blog). Hello, everyone. Almost three years into the “great virus debate,” we’re still awaiting answers to questions we have for virologists. I thought this would be a good time to put forward in one place the five most basic unanswered questions, with the hope that any virologist […]
A professional Python developer never writes scripts – they build applications
A recent reddit post about a library making it easier to write scripts has prompted me to spend this Sunday morning taking a stand. I’m currently a senior Python data engineer on a rather large project involving about 4 junior developers. Having spent 3 years on this project, there are a few conclusions I have about reached developing libraries and […]
The University of Science and Philosophy censors the reviews of their books
I scorched the USP for their homophobic-slurring text “Love” by Lao Russell. After writing my review, here is what i saw: In other words: “if it’s 5 stars we’ll print it. Otherwise we will censor it”