Miscellaneous articles that aren’t part of the syllabus.
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Opening replies
In our course, we have a lesson where we take a beat to learn the Opening rolls. There are only like 15 to memorize, so it’s pretty easy. That’s not at all the case for the second roll, where you can find over 700 reasonable decisions. What are those opening replies? They could be found
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How to install eXtreme Gammon on macOS
As of this writing, eXtreme Gammon (XG) is the most authoritative backgammon bot. This is despite the ticket price ($60), it having no new major releases since 2013 or any active development since 2015. Most damningly, XG only runs on Windows, making it inaccessible to Mac or Linux users. There are also more affordable cross-platform
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It just makes… cents
Why on earth do we use millipoints to describe equity? Here, we have a proposal for a new unit, the cent, with some discussion on what makes it better than the de facto standard. How weird would it be to be given directions in lightyears? It would sound something like “continue on that highway for