{"id":2932,"date":"2010-07-18T14:21:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T21:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=2932"},"modified":"2010-07-18T14:21:26","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T21:21:26","slug":"the-got-it-rule-for-passing-and-ai-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/07\/18\/the-got-it-rule-for-passing-and-ai-chess\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;got it&#8221; rule for passing and AI chess."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Matisse E. taught me a great trick: when you&#8217;re carrying something heavy and you are going to hand it over to someone else, you don&#8217;t let go until you hear the recipient say &#8220;got it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Like other great techniques, it seems like an obvious thing to do but isn&#8217;t. (Groups of people drop things all the time.)<\/p>\n<p>It reminds me of the difference between technique and technology. I was recently reading an entry by Ben Wheeler about the late 90&#8217;s <a href=http:\/\/www.benandalice.com\/2010\/05\/kasparov-strange-sensation-of-android.html>when master chess players not only played against computers<\/a> but also with them, in &#8220;cyborg doubles&#8221; matches against other human-computer pairs. <\/p>\n<p>It turns out the team with decent players but the best human-computer relationship (i.e., the best teamwork) beat the teams with the best individual human and computer players. Technology requires technique. Or, relationships matter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Matisse E. taught me a great trick: when you&#8217;re carrying something heavy and you are going to hand it over to someone else, you don&#8217;t let go until you hear the recipient say &#8220;got it.&#8221; Like other great techniques, it seems like an obvious thing to do but isn&#8217;t. (Groups of people drop&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,13,14,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}