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#Chess
Inspired while watching videos about AlphaZero.
As a thought experiment, imagine that each piece is an investment, with the potential of certain pieces to be multiple times their initial value. A knight or bishop, normally worth 3 points may in time become +9 points during a game, such as the famous ‘octopus knight’ in game 16 of the world chess championship, where Karpov was forced to exchange a knight with his queen.
The sacrifice of a low functioning material such as out of place pawn or rook, doesn’t mean much if the overall portfolio is valued at a greater level.
In this sense, clarification of the position, and purifying the value of the greatest returning pieces eventually becomes the objective of the game. All irrelevant pieces fall to the wayside during the closure of the middle game period.
This is of course a known element of the game, material vs dynamic/time compensation.
When viewing through the lens of finance, as a portfolio, it does become easier to sacrifice material in my opinion. Understanding that it is improving the value of the portfolio overall and that clarifying existing pieces can create multiples (as it does for investments).
Cheers
Not sure how I went so far without coming across this concept, it is an ancient one: Arete.
Having run across it – it really is my favorite word in the world.
Some things about it:
I simply love this word and what it represents. It is an aspiration and symbol for what is important in life (personally speaking).
Enjoy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arete
is a concept in ancient Greek thought that, in its most basic sense, refers to “excellence” of any kind.[1] The term may also mean “moral virtue”.[1] In its earliest appearance in Greek, this notion of excellence was ultimately bound up with the notion of the fulfillment of purpose or function: the act of living up to one’s full potential.
The term from Homeric times onwards isn’t gender specific. Homer applies the term to both the Greek and Trojan heroes as well as major female figures, such as Penelope, the wife of Greek hero Odysseus. In the Homeric poems, Arete is frequently associated with bravery, but more often with effectiveness. The person of Arete is of the highest effectiveness; they use all of their faculties—strength, bravery, and wit—to achieve real results. In the Homeric world, Arete involves all of the abilities and potentialities available to humans.
In some contexts, Arete is explicitly linked with human knowledge, where the expressions “virtue is knowledge” and “Arete is knowledge” are used interchangeably. The highest human potential is knowledge, and all other human abilities are derived from this central capacity. If Arete is knowledge and study, the highest human knowledge is knowledge about knowledge itself. In this light, the theoretical study of human knowledge, which Aristotle called “contemplation”, is the highest human ability and happiness.[2]
Had never realized this until thinking it through now, but the beautiful yield and inverted yield curve in finance that we all know and love can be considered the same as the forward contracts concept of contango and backwardation. A yield curve that is inverted is identical to an asset in backwardation – we just call them by different names.
If you were to study gravity, you’d want nearly a perfect Zero-G enviroment and then introduce 2 spheres. It would give the ideal experimental result by removing all other noisy variables that you’d find in the real world.
Enter the Lemon…
If one were to think about how multiple items are produced and purchased. I suggest that the 3 citrus fruits Oranges / Lemons / Limes offer a nearly perfect study.
Just a thought but wanted to suggest… Citrus fruits to study substitution effects for producers based on demand.
**it also appears that many other fruits can be grafted onto a tree (up to 40 types from some articles) so interesting to consider**
One concept that I’m pondering is the act of bringing people along… in the same referential frame. An unfinished idea currently..
In my mind’s eye, I see sort of a drivable bus on a rollercoaster type image.
On the bus, what the driver sees is for argument’s sake, exactly what the passenger can see. You are all aboard the same vessel, sharing the same frame of reference and there is no 3rd camera or drone to provide another reference point.
… In such a setting it is possible for someone, the artist let’s say, but not just exclusively artist-types, to drive the bus in such a path as to illuminate the nature of the greater system.
That lightbulbs will hopefully go off in people’s heads if the bus is driven in a certain pattern. That I see as something worth trying to do. There is a higher order message there.
Subversive fire lighting…
Alwin:
Just finished reading the the book 4% universe by Richard Panek, and would recommend to anyone interested in a casual history about Dark Matter.
To anyone who is knowledgable the reasoning, behind why dark matter is not just (matter between the seat cushions ie. dust and gas between stars etc), would love to hear more about this.
Personal thoughts on possible causes:
Sketched a quick idea based on the idea of the classic model 500 telephone, (on a watch). Here it is.
posted this question on Quora:
Hello Astrophysicists, a very specific question for you.
It seems that the Reimannian ‘rubber sheet’ model of spacetime is useful in describing phenomena that we observe. Some examples below.
My question is, what other exotic geometries may arise and are allowed by the fabric.
For eg. I can see a ‘polyp’ or scrunched ball geometry similar to a sock wrapped in a bedsheet during the wash, that would be inaccesible by most other points on the sheet, but still made from the same ‘sheet’.
This would be essentially a untouchable region made from the same fabric of space time.
Is this possible and has this been theorized? Curious to hear more.
Thank you
Queen Elizabeth sends email to US Secretary of defense in 1976 to open the connnection between England and the US for the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (RSRE)
I think of myself as long lived. Growing up in a computer store, seeing many twists and turns within the technology space – I often bounce around as a tech veteran – then you see this, the Queen of England trying email for the first time in 1976 and realize that those among us are much longer lived.. having seen more.
Her email address was hme2 (no hostname to my knowledge). The system was made redundant for military reasons (assured retaliation in case of attack) and its design is ingenious in serving that task. Something I’d like to write about one day.
Enjoy the pic