Jennifer Shahade
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3x National Chess Champ, @PokerStars pro, author and host of the GRID https://t.co/NfDJpvUCiy Inquiries: [email protected] Views my own
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2 weeks ago |
verity.news | Jennifer Shahade
While this chess experiment is amusing, it doesn't diminish ChatGPT's remarkable capabilities in language processing, creative writing, and problem-solving across countless domains. Chess requires specialized algorithms and deep game tree analysis, which isn't what large language models were designed for. The comparison is like criticizing a race car for being bad at flying — different tools serve different purposes in the AI toolkit.
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3 weeks ago |
thepokergrid.com | Jennifer Shahade
Jennifer welcomes the one and only Jon “Apestyles” Van Fleet to the GRID to discuss a recent hand he played with King-Eight Offsuit. A man who stood the test of time in the poker world, Van Fleet is a well known coach, author, streamer and last but not least, a longtime crusher online and live with over 23 million dollars in poker winnings. The hand in question arose on a busy Sunday grind—Jon was streaming on https://www.twitch.tv/apestylespoker when a fun hand popped up.
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3 weeks ago |
jenshahade.substack.com | Jennifer Shahade
Last month, Nate Silver wrote a post on how “shockingly” bad ChatGPT is at poker, which he also discussed on the Risky Business podcast with Maria Konnikova. A lot of you might guess that any AI, even a large language model like ChatGPT is a lot better at chess than poker. After all, the top chess computers have dominated against the best human players for nearly three decades now.
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1 month ago |
thepokergrid.com | Jennifer Shahade
PokerStars ambassador and Ontario crusher Arlie Shaban enters the GRID to discuss a hand from his first major online victory, the Hot 22. Holding 34 offsuit, he hit two pair on the flop? and was yearning for all that money to go in. Would his growing twitch crowd get one of Arlie’s epic celebrations? After the hand, Jen and Arlie discuss how to treat poker as a business, Big Brother inspired tips on how to nail a job interview, and extreme challenges.
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1 month ago |
jenshahade.substack.com | Jennifer Shahade
Fischer Random Chess, now widely known as Freestyle Chess is seeing the rapid surge in popularity that Bobby Fischer hoped for when he invented the variant in 1996 “to keep chess going.” One of my favorite things about Freestyle Chess is the miniatures. Shuffling the pieces on the back row creates unusual patterns, which leads to more short games.
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