Deep learning for… chess (addendum)

1 · Erik Bernhardsson · Dec. 8, 2014, 5 a.m.
My previous blog post about deep learning for chess blew up and made it to Hacker News and a couple of other places. One pretty amazing thing was that the Github repo got 150 stars overnight. There was also lots of comments on the Hacker News post that I thought were really interesting. (See this skeptical comment for instance). A couple of things came up in several places. I actually fully agree with a lot of the skepticism my blog post got. Here’s a bit of clarification + other stuff My assump...