Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Zeolite and Fighting Cancer

Can Zeolite help you fight cancer? You may find a lot of testimonials listed online that suggest that this a the miracle for fighting cancer.

While no one should ignore a physician's advice, using Zeolite in conjunction with other treatments could be very helpful. In many testimonials, the use of this substance has made a dramatic difference and in some cases, people have reported becoming cancer-free.

What is Zeolite?

Zeolite is a volcanic mineral. One particular study onCancerFightingStrategies.com listed a 78% cure rate of Stage 4 cancer.

This was not a controlled group so there's no telling what other therapies were also used, but it's safe to say that this mineral should be on your list of things to investigate further, in your fight against cancer.

Beyond Modern Medicine

Modern medicine is amazing. But it's not always enough. Physicians will do all they can to help you but very few will suggest holistic healing approaches because those options may not be sanctioned by the FDA or sent in to the physicians by drug company reps. You owe it to yourself to go beyond seeing the doctor.

While your doctor is going to be a consultant in your fight against cancer, you can and should do more.

Taking the time to learn about other options available means that you are doing all that you can do to attempt to ensure your success.

When fighting illness, it's best to take a holistic approach. Minerals and supplements as well as dietary and other lifestyle changes plus following doctor's orders can increase your chances greatly.

Do be sure that you carefully research sources of minerals and elixirs. You don't have time to waste by buying products that are ineffective so, it's vital to find the right sources for items and information that can help you fight.

CancerFightingStrategies.com provides a lot of helpful cancer fighting resources, reports, and testimonies from people who have had success using specific protocols, including Zeolite.

http://www.lungcancerfightingstrategies.com/liquid-zeolite.html

New Website Reveals Personal Information

New Website Reveals Personal Information Even Google Can't Find

9:06am Tuesday, December 2, 2014

as told to Jessica R.

Ever try Googling someone only to come up with basic information and maybe a link or two to an outdated social media profile? There's a new website going around that promises to reveal much more then just a simple google search can show you.

Been issued a speeding ticket? Failed to stop at a stop sign? What about your family members? And friends? If you are like most of us, the answer to at least one of those questions is “yes”—the vast majority of us have slipped up at least once or twice.

An innovative new website—Instant Checkmate is now revealing the full “scoop” on millions of Americans.

Instant Checkmate aggregates hundreds of millions of publicly available criminal, traffic, and arrest records and posts them online so they can easily be searched by anyone. Members of the site can literally begin searching within seconds, and are able to check as many records as they like (think: friends, family, neighbors, etc. etc.).

Previously, if you wanted to research someone’s arrest records, you might have had to actually go in to a county court office—in the appropriate county—and formally request information on an individual. This process may have taken days or weeks, or the information might not have been available at all. With websites like Instant Checkmate, however, a background check takes just a few clicks of the mouse, and no more than a minute or two.

While preparing this article I decided to run a quick search on myself to give the service a real-world test. To my dismay, the search revealed several items I’d long forgotten—one of them being for the possession of a fake ID I was (embarrassingly) issued back in college when I was just 18 years old.

"possession of a fake ID I was (embarrassingly) issued back in college when I was just 18 years old"

After searching myself and finding those records, my curiosity was piqued, and I began researching family members—apparently my aunt Susanne isn’t a very good driver, judging by the numerous traffic citations that showed on her record.

One of the most interesting aspects of Instant Checkmate is that it shows not only criminal records, but also more general background information like marriage records, divorce records, various types of licenses (medical, firearm, aviation, etc.), previous addresses, phone numbers, birthdates, estimated income levels and even satellite imagery of known addresses—it’s really pretty scary just how much information is in these reports.

In addition to giving information on the specific person you search for, the report also includes a scrolling list of “local sex offenders” for whatever region you’ve searched—along with a map plotting out the locations of those offenders. I started perusing the ones that showed up in my report, and I was absolutely blown away when I stumbled upon my junior high school wrestling coach’s mug shot.

"I was absolutely blown away when I stumbled upon my junior high school wrestling coach’s mug shot."

His crime was listed as "Out of state offense,"" so I wasn’t able to get the specifics (you usually can—this was an unusual case), but he was definitely a registered sex offender. Scary stuff.

I would definitely recommend this tool to friends and family. Anyone can start running background checks on Instant Checkmate within a few seconds—just click this link to get started.

If you would like to search someone you know, click here.

- See more at: http://www.instantcheckmate.com/pr?src=OBRN&mdm=DISPLAY&cmp=OBRN&affid=163&campid=439&sid=OBRN&s1=&lp=pr&origin=icm&article=public-records#sthash.iZgVJgae.dpuf

A new (computer) chess champion is crowned

A new (computer) chess champion is crowned, and the continued demise of human Grandmasters

By Sebastian Anthony on December 30, 2014 at 12:25 pm

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Garry Kasparov vs. IBM's Deep Blue in the 1997 rematch

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It’s almost 18 years since IBM’s Deep Blue famously beat Garry Kasparov at chess, becoming the first computer to defeat a human world champion. Since then, as you can probably imagine, computers have firmly cemented their lead over puny, fallible meatbags — Garry Kasparov is still considered by many to be the greatest chess player ever, while computers are only getting more and more powerful. Today, following the completion of TCEC Season 7, we have a new computer chess world champion. Called Komodo, the software can reach an Elo rating as high as 3304 — about 450 points higher than Kasparov, or indeed any human brain currently playing chess.

In 1996, IBM’s Deep Blue chess computer lost to Garry Kasparov — then the top-rated chess player in the world. In the 1997 rematch, following some software tweaks (and ironically, perhaps thanks to a very fateful software bug), Deep Blue won. Over the next few years, humans and computers traded blows — but eventually, by 2005-2006, computer chess programs were solidly in the lead. Today’s best chess programs can easily beat out the world’s best human chess players, even when they’re run on fairly conventional hardware (a modern multi-core CPU).

The supremacy of machine over man is mostly down to two factors: Moore’s law (i.e. computer chips doubling in complexity every two-ish years), and improvements to the underlying software. In computer chess circles, Moore’s law is thought to add around 50 Elo rating points every two years — or about 450 points in the 18 years since Kasparov was beaten. Iterative versions of computer chess software can also boost the Elo rating somewhat: The new world champion, Komodo 8, has an Elo rating that’s around 60 points higher than Komodo 7a using the same hardware. It’s also worth noting that most of these chess programs are being run on fairly small computers, usually on 4 CPUs or less — while Deep Blue was a bone fide supercomputer (the 259th fastest computer in 1997, in fact).

Read: Computer learns to play Civilization by reading the instruction manual

Current top computer chess programs (December 2014) via CCRL

Current top computer chess programs, according to CCRL (December 2014). These ranks were confirmed by season 7 of TCEC.

Anyway, as computers began to clearly outstrip human chess players, there was little point in continuing to pitch them against each other. As a result, there are now computer-only chess leagues, where the top chess programs play against each other, for all eternity — or at least until the guy running the league turns his computer off, anyway. The CCRL is probably the most detailed/involved of such leagues, but there’s also the IPON and CEGTtoo. As far crowning some kind of winner, however, the Thoresen Chess Engines Competition (TCEC) is regarded by some as the de facto computer chess championship.

Our glorious leader, Sebastian Anthony, violating Watson at IBM Research

IBM Watson, shown here with a hairy British person captured within, is a spiritual successor of Deep Blue.

Season 7 of the TCEC concluded a couple of days ago, with Komodo 8 just managing to beat the reigning champion, Stockfish 5. You can actually watch the whole season via the TCEC web UI if you like — or any of the previous seasons, for that matter. Komodo’s rise to the top of the charts is most likely due to chess Grandmaster Larry Kaufman joining the development team. Kaufman is very good at evaluation — the value of a particular position of chess pieces — rather than depth (thinking dozens of moves ahead). Likewise, Komodo relies more on evaluation than depth, which results in it playing an interesting, highly positional style. Seemingly, given Komodo’s universal ranking as the top chess program, this evaluative technique seems to be working out quite well.

I’ll leave you with a fun, human-computer chess-related anecdote. In the first game of the 1997 rematch between Garry Kasparov and Deep Blue, the computer (reportedly) encountered a bug. This bug resulted in Deep Blue performing a fail-safe move — but Kasparov didn’t know about the bug, and he couldn’t work out what Deep Blue was trying to do with the move, and so he mistakenly concluded that the computer was better than him. He won the first game, but was on tilt for the second game due to the bug, resulting in him accusing IBM of cheating and eventually resigning the game — and later, losing the match. If you have 15 minutes to spare, I strongly suggest watching FiveThirtyEight’s short documentary about the Kasparov-Deep Blue rematch and the software bug that ultimately defeated the world’s greatest chess player

Monday, May 25, 2015

The best open source chess engine "Stockfish"

		Stockfish, an UCI compatible open source chess engine developed by Tord Romstad, Marco Costalba, and Joona Kiiski. Marco forked the project from version 2.1 of Tord's strong engine Glaurung, first announced by Marco in November 8, 2008 [1] . Starting out among the top twenty engines, it has quickly climbed in strength.The name "Stockfish" reflects the ancestry of the engine. Tord is Norwegian and Marco Italian, and there is a long history o

Science versus Commerce?

There is a wide range of opinions about strong open source chess engines affecting commercial and competitive interests, as well as monetary interests from computer chess users, who obtain a top engine for free. The scientific and social value of strong open source programs is indisputable. The teamwork effort to share ideas and knowledge to write one of the strongest programs, which everybody may follow and share to learn and play for free, is definitely a challenging and motivating task, gathering both admiration and enviousness. Obviously, professional programmers of commercial chess programs are not that enthusiastic about the development, and need to improve further and/or focus more on secondary features or other business concepts like on-line play and/or user interface issues rather than on pure playing strength.

Also many hobbyist chess programmers feel in antagonism as well, not only caused by Stockfish with its highly respected authors, and before by Fruit and slightly Crafty, but from Ippolit and all its successors by pseudonymous authors and disputed origin. The implications on commercial and competitive computer chess are not quite clear, but presumably the decrease in number of participants of over the board tournaments will progress and clone suspicions may float like a Sword of Damocles over the scene, whether programmers took ideas too literally or not.

Testing Framework

The Stockfish Testing Framework called Fishtest [3] is a web application written by Gary Linscott [4] [5] mainly in Python under the Pyramid Application Development Framework [6], to distribute games across different machines to reduce the test latency and increment throughput. Started in early 2013 with Stockfish 3.0, Fishtest has hundreds of contributors, as of May 2014, 744 testers and 52 developers [7] active in testing ideas and tweaks [8], to make Stockfish the strongest open source or even chess program of the world.

Tournament Play

Stockfish is top contender of the prestigious Thoresen Chess Engines Competition (TCEC), reaching the superfinals at season 4, season 5 and season 6 so far, losing season 4 from Houdini and season 5 from Komodo TCEC, both narrow matches with 23 - 25, but won the season 6 superfinal versus Komodo 7 conveniently with +13=45-6 and 35½ - 28½. This version but without tablebases was released in May 31, 2014 as Stockfish 5 [9]. Successor Stockfish 141214 qualified for the TCEC Season 7 Superfinal in December 2014, versus Komodo again, this time with the better end for Komodo 8 successor 1333 with 33½ - 30½..

GM+Rybka vs. Stockfish

On July 19, 2014, Stockfish 5 played a four game match versus Daniel Naroditsky plus Rybka 3 (2008), 45 minutes plus 30-second increment. Stockfish won 3½ - ½ [10] [11]. A few weeks later the experiment continued with Hikaru Nakamura in Burlingame, California [12]. Supported two games by Rybka 3, Nakamura lost ½ - 1½, two games with pawn odds (Stockfish both Black without h- and b-pawn) ended ½ - 1½ in favour to Stockfish 5 as well. It played the latest development build compiled for OS X running on a 3 GHz 8-Core Mac Pro [13].