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Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
01:48
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Where is the only legal position for the White king to be?
(including legal moves to get into that position)
(This isn't my own puzzle: its one made by Raymond Smullyan)
orlp
orlp
02:15
if it's white's turn then the white king must block the white bishop, and only B3 does that (as kings can not touch), but there is no legal previous move for black that could cause this setup
so it must be black's turn
orlp
orlp
02:27
I'm pretty sure this abuses en passant
Yeah, the bottom left corner is black so we're actually looking at white's side
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Nathan Merrill
Nathan Merrill
nice :)
 
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PhiNotPi
PhiNotPi
12:23
One of the things I'm doing this summer as research is programming a model of basal ganglia pathways.
As a side note, it is interesting to see how our knowledge of these circuits (like, what the actual wiring of the circuits is) has improved.
How we used to think they were wired together:
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How we now think they are wired together:
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flawr
flawr
a lot of wiring
 
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orlp
orlp
14:20
wiring intensifies
PhiNotPi
PhiNotPi
@orlp that's one more gif that didn't need to exist but does
flawr
flawr
14:41
@orlp is that the wiring with parkinsons disease? :D

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