RobboLito_0085g3_w32 - Rybka 3 w32(with 2 cores)

RobboLito_0085g3_w32 - Rybka 3 w32 : 12.5/30  6-11-13 42%   -56
No book again.
It seems that RobboLito_0085g3 is weaker than older version RobboLito_0085e4.

Rybka 3 against RobbolLito 0.085g3-one core

GUI: Arena 2.0.1
Ponder:off
No Book
5' Tournament

•     Engine                                     Score

1. RobboLito_0085g3_w32 - Rybka 3 w32 : 18.5/32   8-3-21 58%   +56
2. Rybka 3 w32 - RobboLito_0085g3_w32 : 13.5/32   3-8-21 42%   -56
   

Rybka 3 against RobbolLito 0.085e4-Again

Rybka 3 in 2 cores in fritz GUI:
Blitz:10'  0
1   Rybka 3 32-bit         +8/-6/=19 53.03%   17.5/33
2   RobboLito 0.085e4 w32  +6/-8/=19 46.97%   15.5/33
+21 ELO for Rybka 3.

Mobile Internet is 450 million users strong and doubling in four years

No surprise, mobile Internet usage is more informational -- search, online news and sports, e-mail and instant messaging -- and where recreational, downloading music and videos.
Besides, the mobile Internet forecast, IDC also offered up a plethora of other information about Internet usage:
-China has more Internet users than any other country -- 359 million growing to 566 million in 2013.
-The number of U.S. Internet users will grow from 261 million in 2009 to 280 million in 2013.
-As measured by percentage of population with Internet access, the United States hugely leads China.
-The United States leads the world with the most Internet connected devices, but China ranks tops for mobile Internet-connected devices -- 85 million, or nearly 20 percent of the worldwide total.
-Global Internet advertising will reach $61 billion this year, growing to over $100 billion in 2013. The 2009 figure represents 10 percent of advertising spending across all media categories. IDC forecasts 15 percent by 2013.

Source: http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Mobile-Internet-is-450-million-users-strong-and-doubling-in-four-years/1260413839

How to create a bootable Windows 7 USB flash drive

It maybe useful for you.
This guide will show you two different ways to create a USB flash drive that works just like a Windows 7 DVD. In order to follow this guide, you'll need a USB flash drive with at least 4GB of free space and a copy of the Windows 7 installation disc.
Source: http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2009/12/-the-usb-flash-drive.ars

Some more games

Blitz:5'  0
1   RobboLito 0.085e4 w32  +9/-9/=14 50.00%   16.0/32  256.00
2   Rybka 3 32-bit         +9/-9/=14 50.00%   16.0/32  256.00
Result: elo difference is 0.
RobboLito 0.085e4 in 1 core is as equal as Rybka 3 in 2 cores! (result of 32 games and is not so accurate)

New test Rybka 3 vs Robbolito 0.085e4

In this match, i use Rybka 3 with 2 threads:

Results:

Blitz:5'  0
1   Rybka 3 32-bit         +8/-7/=12 51.85%   14.0/27
2   RobboLito 0.085e4 w32  +7/-8/=12 48.15%   13.0/27

or +13 elo for rybka 3(in 2 cores).

Rybka 3 w32 vs RobboLito 0.085e4

New benchmark. 20 games:

Blitz:10'  0

1    RobboLito 0.085e4 w32  +7/-3/=10  60.00%   12.0/20
2    Rybka 3 32-bit         +3/-7/=10  40.00%   8.0/20

No book, Ponder:off, rybka 3 run in one core.

My new test: Rybka 3 VS RobboLito 0085e4 w32

Engine-Engine match in fritz GUI:

Result of Rybka vs RobboLito: 10-7

My system is AMD X2 with 2 GB ram. Rybka has runned in 2 cores and Robbolito in one core(surely).

No book with default settings, and permanent brain:off

Researchers develop 3-D squeezable input device

A team of researchers has developed a squeezable mouse-like input device that gives three-dimensional control to its users.

The device is called Suma, short for satsuma or the mandarin fruit, said Duncan Smith, head of consumer product development for Cambridge Consultants, which licenses its innovations to manufacturers.

Inside Suma's pliant foam are light actuators surrounding a sensor core. As Suma is squeezed, those actuators detect pressure and movement changes. Those signals are processed with software inside Suma and then sent to the software program that can accommodate the device.

The difference between Suma and a controller for Nintendo's Wii, for example, is that the motion-based controllers allow users to move objects but not manipulate the shape, which has the potential for a new range of applications, Smith said.

 The Suma is "very much a whole picture of the inside of your hand," Smith said.

It's possible, for example, to manipulate the viewpoint of both the user and the object the user is looking at simultaneously, which is not possible with controllers now, Smith said.

Source: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141624/Researchers_develop_3_D_squeezable_input_device

Scientists grow pork meat in a laboratory

The advent of so-called “in-vitro” or cultured meat could reduce the billions of tons of greenhouse gases emitted each year by farm animals — if people are willing to eat it.

They initially extracted cells from the muscle of a live pig. Called myoblasts, these cells are programmed to grow into muscle and repair damage in animals.

Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article6936352.ece

Department of Defense Buys 2,200 PS3s to Upgrade Supercomputer

This isn't the first time that the DoD is using PS3 consoles for supercomputing. In fact, these 2,200 units are going to be added to an existing Linux cluster of 336 PS3s used by the United States Air Force.
With respect to cell processors, a single 1U server configured with two 3.2GHz cell processors can cost up to $8K while two Sony PS3s cost approximately $600. Though a single 3.2 GHz cell processor can deliver over 200 GFLOPS, whereas the Sony PS3 configuration delivers approximately 150 GFLOPS, the approximately tenfold cost difference per GFLOP makes the Sony PS3 the only viable technology for HPC applications.

source(s):
http://academica.tumblr.com

http://gizmodo.com/5414938/department-of-defense-buys-2200-ps3s-to-upgrade-supercomputer

First programmable quantum computer created

Using a few ultracold ions, intense lasers and some electrodes, researchers have built the first programmable quantum computer. The new system, described in a paper to be published in Nature Physics, flexed its versatility by performing 160 randomly chosen processing routines. 

The new study is “a powerful demonstration of the technological advances towards producing a real-world quantum computer,” says quantum physicist Winfried Hensinger of the University of Sussex in Brighton, England.

Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/49951/title/First_programmable_quantum_computer_created

Windows 8 Scheduled to Arrive in 2012

Microsoft launched Windows 7 on October 22 and now the plans of Windows 8 roadmap were spotted on the Interwebs. The successor to Windows 7 is tentatively codenamed as Windows 8 and is expected to be next "Major Release" in 2012. On the contrary, Windows 7 is being treated as "Release Updates" - to what? Maybe the wild Vista code.
Obviously, Gamers would love to go for DirectX12 and who knows what would be incorporated in it.

Source: http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Windows_8_Scheduled_to_Arrive_in_2012/551-107651-580.html

NVIDIA selling gaming PC to raise money for cancer research

I like to help cancer research in software design and algorithms.
100 percent of the proceeds of this sale will be going to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
for more information:
http://www.neoseeker.com/news/12356-nvidia-selling-gaming-pc-to-raise-money-for-cancer-research/

YouTube gets automatic subtitles

it uses speech recognition to do this.
you can see more deatails in: http://education.zdnet.com/?p=3378

my test

I think that robbolito's weaknesses is bad time management, running on only single core and weakness in beginning. it's search algorithm is not bad. i haven't time to complete test.
My cpu is amd X2 and rybka runs in both cores.
I will follow that more.
good luck my friends.

Wolfram Alpha Enriches the Bing Experience

My beloved software in mathematics is mathematica.
and "Wolfram Alpha is the computational knowledge engine developed by British-born physicist and Mathematica creator Stephen Wolfram."
"Microsoft’s Bing decision engine will use the Wolfram Alpha API to incorporate Wolfram Alpha’s trillions of pieces of data and tens of thousands of algorithms in its search results."

link: http://www.findmysoft.com/news/Wolfram-Alpha-Enriches-the-Bing-Experience/

NASA finds 'significant' water on moon

NASA said Friday it had discovered water on the moon, opening "a new chapter" that could allow for the development of a lunar space station.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/11/13/water.moon.nasa/index.html

robbolito vs rybka

This is an open source program that has 50+ elo more than Rybka 3, but i don't test that.
0.085da is the last version(now).
robbolito hasn't multi processor version now.
for more information: http://www.chesslogik.com/robbolito.htm

Why Rybka?

I think that the name rybka for strongest chess engine refers to siamese fighting fish. what you think ?
AND: The Siamese fighting fish has been used as the default background in the first official beta version of the Windows 7 operating system, in an apparent reference to the name "betta".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siamese_fighting_fish

Microsoft to add more anti-piracy features to Office 2010

Microsoft is adding more “Genuine Advantage” features to its forthcoming Office 2010 release to make the product harder to pirate.

The company is planning to add new volume-licensing activation technologies to Office 2010 in an attempt to thwart the pirating of volume-license keys, Microsoft officials said via a press release. Microsoft also is adding more counterfeit-detection and tamper-resistant features to Office 2010, the press release says. It sounds like Microsoft will limit the ability of Office 2010 users to do an “Anytime Upgrade” to those users who those who allow Microsoft to do a Genuine Advantage scan.

source:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3790
and
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/Aug09/08-25AntiPiracy.mspx?rss_fdn=Top%20Stories

Microsoft Visual Studio upgrade holds dynamic language capabilities

Microsoft is busy factoring in the growing use of dynamic languages in its planned upgrade to the Visual Studio software development platform.

"C# 4.0's major themes are interoperability with dynamic programming paradigms and improved Office programmability. Dynamic lookup, a new feature in C# 4.0, allows you to use and manipulate an object from IronPython, IronRuby, JScript, the HTML DOM, or a standard .Net library in the same way, no matter where it came from," Somasegar said.

A dynamic keyword capability in C# 4.0 allows a type to be resolved dynamically at runtime rather than in a static fashion compiled at runtime. "This allows dynamic languages to expose their objects to C# in a way that feels natural to a C# programmer," Somasegar said.

from: http://infoworld.com/print/88433

TweakUAC

I want to introduce a program to disable UAC in vista. this program can disable UAC in 2 modes:
1- Turn UAC off : This option turns UAC off completely and you need restart your computer.
2- Switch UAC to the quiet mode: This option does not turn off UAC; instead, it only makes UAC to operate in the quiet mode. In the quiet mode, UAC does not display the elevation prompts for the administrators. That is, when you attempt to do an administrative task, you will be allowed to proceed automatically, without prompting you to confirm the operation.

download from: http://www.tweak-uac.com/download

The generation gap: Windows on multicore

I see a comparison: Windows XP vs Vista vs Windows 7

There are two key takeaways from the above data points. First, the workloads still run much slower on Vista than on XP. This is true for both dual- and quad-core systems. Second, Vista scales better than XP when moving from two to four CPU cores. This is demonstrated by the way that Vista closes the performance gap with XP as you increase the core count. Taken to its logical conclusion -- and disregarding for the moment external factors, like bus speeds, I/O contention, and memory latency -- Vista would ultimately overtake XP when the core count reaches between 32 and 64.

For example, when viewed under the same processor-utilization parameters as Windows XP, Windows Vista consumes 40 percent more CPU cycles per database transaction on our dual-core test bed and 44 percent more on our quad-core test bed. Similarly, Vista chews up 30 percent more cycles when executing our workflow transaction loop on dual-core and 27 percent more cycles on quad-core.

It should come as no surprise that Windows 7 performs very much like its predecessor. In fact, during extensive multiprocess benchmark testing, Windows 7 essentially mirrored Vista in almost every scenario. Database tasks? Roughly 118 percent slower than XP on dual-core (Vista was 92 percent slower) and 19 percent slower than XP on quad-core (identical to Vista). Workflow? A respectable 38 percent slower than XP on dual-core (Vista was 98 percent slower) and 59 percent slower on quad-core (Vista was 66 percent slower).

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/platforms/generation-gap-windows-multicore-273?page=0,2&source=rs

Firefox 4

The new firefox has glass tabs and go, refresh and stop buttons in combo mode.
You can see some images in here:

http://mashable.com/2009/07/27/firefox-40

Super compressor

Nanozip is a powerful program to compressing data.
It has the power of PAQ(near power) compressor in output's size and very fast in comparison.
In my test it can only use only one cpu of a multicore cpu. It is in alpha version. latest version is Nanozip 0.07a.
Link: http://www.nanozip.net

ChessBomb

A good site for chess enthusiastics.
They will broadcast live most significant chess events (tournaments and matches), with realtime computer engine analysis by Rybka 2.2n2.
Rybka 2.2n2 is most powerful free chess engine. It has the rating of 3085 in ccrl site.

http://chessbomb.com

ریتینگ های جدید

Rating List

http://ccrlchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/rating_list_all.html

Crazy talk

An impressive software to animating your images.
You can download trial version of this software from here:

http://www.reallusion.com/crazytalk