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Chess Engine 5
Tonight I played a chess engine that is probably the highest beginner level but I have beating computers with a higher rating before,...

James Phelps
Mar 81 min read
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Homophonic Cipher flaw
Today I discovered a flaw or backdoor into the Homophonic cipher. If you input "recipe" as the encryption key to any text encrypted with...

James Phelps
Mar 71 min read
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Knight delivers checkmate
Tonight I was playing Video Chess and the computer kept using the queen it promoted to attack my king in order to prevent me from getting...

James Phelps
Mar 51 min read
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Forcing the King into checkmate
Tonight I played a game of chess with a new AI that doesn't play bad except I think I was able to think ahead of the player the whole...

James Phelps
Mar 31 min read
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Time is the key
Tonight I worked on a puzzle from a video where an electronic voice was saying; "the time is 41 minutes till midnight." Which is 11:19 PM...

James Phelps
Feb 281 min read
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Fooling the Computer
Tonight I played Atari Video Chess online and the AI was putting a tight net up around it's king so much that after fooling the...

James Phelps
Feb 271 min read
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Deciphering Morse code
Today I deciphered some hexadecimal along with bits of Morse code in text and in an audio I found deciphering the hex which led to...

James Phelps
Feb 261 min read
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Computer glitch
Last year I was deciphering pages from Liber Veritatis when I came across coordinates for Null Island, which is nothing but a computer...

James Phelps
Feb 251 min read
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Hexadecimal notations in computer chess
Chess computer programs use a method for finding its next move in chess based on chess notations that are the same as hexadecimal, which...

James Phelps
Feb 241 min read
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Knight takes Knight
Tonight I played another game of chess against Ghosted Bot and I must say; "the computer was putting up a fight" till I took his knight...

James Phelps
Feb 231 min read
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AI Swiss cheese security
I found out why futurist Anders Sandberg feels less optimistic about AI and the reason is because of a term he used called; "Swiss cheese...

James Phelps
Feb 221 min read
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Caesar Shift Cipher
Today I wanted to teach you about the Caesar Cipher, otherwise known as a Shift Cipher which is pretty easy to understand seeing that all...

James Phelps
Feb 201 min read
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Defeating a more advanced AI
Tonight I played another game with a familiar bot, only this is a more advance version of Ghosted Bot to test its limits on just how good...

James Phelps
Feb 201 min read
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Playing an advanced AI
Tonight I tried my hands at playing chess with a bot that's been modified to play harder, and after losing a game, I won a game when I...

James Phelps
Feb 191 min read
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Rise of the Machines
After losing several games tonight to the computer at chess I checked search results to see if the chess bots are getting harder to beat...

James Phelps
Feb 181 min read
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Symmetric vs Asymmetric
To master cryptography you first need to know the basics like how it works? First you have a plaintext that you want to encrypt using...

James Phelps
Feb 151 min read
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Rematch against AI
Today I played another game of chess with Ghosted Bot after losing a game last night to the computer, but this time I got revenge! I had...

James Phelps
Feb 141 min read
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Unbreakable so far
Tonight I tested a theory about AES Encryption, and whether it was fool-proof and found that without applying a 16 character key with the...

James Phelps
Feb 131 min read
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Defeating Ghosted Bot
Last night I played a chess game with an AI called Ghosted Bot. The game was off to a good start because I kept making it difficult for...

James Phelps
Feb 121 min read
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