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by gort 10y ago
Link didn't work for me, but Google brings up this: https://qz.com/897498/by-sparring-with-alphago-researchers-a...
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by gort 10y ago
There are a number of questions that are probably answered behind the paywalled article... * In order to reproduce (and maintain the new bases in its DNA), does the organism need a source of these nucleotides in its growth medium? (i.e. in
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by gort 10y ago
It was given a "9d" ranking and a "(P)" mark (for "professional") by the Tygem server, who presumably knew its real identity. Also, I get the impression some of the pros did in fact know.
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by gort 10y ago
I believe its record is 60-0, against mostly or entirely high level pros. It's impressive.
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by gort 10y ago
Now confirmed to be AlphaGo. https://twitter.com/demishassabis/status/816660463282954240
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A mysterious AI 'Master' is beating top players at Go(businessinsider.com)
3 points by gort 10y ago|0 comments
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by gort 10y ago
I think the strongest commercial engines are Zen and CrazyStone. Zen has certainly become pro-strength on fairly modest hardware (it had an exciting BO3 against a Japanese 9-dan, which it lost 1-2), but the strong version isn't availab
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by gort 10y ago
He could, of course, say that nobody is forced to share their beliefs on Facebook. (My own "religion" is currently blank, for instance.) Still I get the impression that Facebook does so much tracking of users via embedded wotsits
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by gort 10y ago
Was this deleted (or heavily down-weighted) for disagreeing with some admin's politics? I'm pretty sure when I saw this it was on the front page, now it's totally disappeared, except from the "New" tab. [All these d
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by gort 10y ago
Things are not this simple though, are they? It's certainly not the case that Jews or people of Jewish descent will reliably support Israel. (I was interested to learn today that Jill Stein is aligned with BDS, for example. And Greenwa
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by gort 10y ago
Are you labouring under the impression that The Intercept is a British thing?
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by gort 10y ago
British media?
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by gort 10y ago
What fraction of people using the word intend it in that sense, and what fraction do not, and how are we ever to discover these numbers? I saw this rhetorical move once before, where someone complained that the concept of "SJW" --
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by gort 10y ago
The article mentions the problem of "local minimums". The author suggests occasionally accepting worse solutions, in order to escape from such. "The hope here is that by following this worse solution, we can eventually get to
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by gort 10y ago
I'm not sure this is the name to use if you want people of only average political commitment to use your app. Although at least it's a striking name.
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by gort 10y ago
"Isn't the current theory that all life on Earth has a common ancestor? Wouldn't this point put that into question" Not really. For one thing there's too much commonality across life in terms of things like the gene
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by gort 10y ago
I'm no crypto guy, but what's all this about different versions of OpenSSL succeeding or failing to validate a signature? That sounds like it should be interesting in its own right...
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by gort 11y ago
Yes it's quite common, but probably requires reading about strategies. (I've never done it.)
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by gort 11y ago
Fan Hui played more than just the official 5 games against AlphaGo, and did win some of the others. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v529/n7587/fig_tab/natu...
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by gort 11y ago
Looks like it, see: https://github.com/lukaszlew/EasyGoGui/blob/master/src/net/s... And search for MSG_RESIGN_2
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by gort 11y ago
Likely they're using SGF format to store game records: http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/properties.html#RE
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by gort 11y ago
I had a similar experience in the opposite direction. Two weeks ago I moved some code from a mutex-based design (including a map of string to mutex, which itself needed to be behind a mutex) to channels, and I love it, though the result see
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by gort 11y ago
Unable to validate my email. Earlier it wasn't working at all, now it tells me I need to be logged in (but I am, I think). Edit: Fixed for me now.
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by gort 11y ago
They're different people. The Turkish air force shot down the plane, but it crashed in Syrian territory and the pilots were allegedly killed by ethnic Turkmen in Syria, who are not under the control of the Turkish government.
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by gort 11y ago
Also, these planes travel fast enough that it could be fired upon while in Turkish airspace, but hit while in Syrian airspace. Or it could be hit while in Turkish airspace, but crash in Syrian territory. It supposedly came down 4 km inside
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by gort 11y ago
I suppose going to war with Valve would have been pretty bad PR. Still, Valve was forced to change a bunch of Dota characters' names and visuals so as to not infringe on Blizzard's IP. Examples: Windrunner changed to "Windran
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by gort 11y ago
"incessant attacks on Christianity ... sneers at Christianity ... slandering Christians ... vitriolic sneers at Christianity ... strong antireligious prejudices" Sheesh. His main point is a reasonable one, but this sort of righteo
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by gort 12y ago
Are the messages true?
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by gort 12y ago
Slightly better audio of the Heathrow incident at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcGA3vRwzuE
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by gort 12y ago
The number of chips. So if there are 3 defects in 7 chips... Some specific chip has the first defect. The odds that it has the 2nd defect are 1 in 7 The odds that it also has the 3rd defect are 1 in 7 squared. Which equals 0.0204

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