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Analyzing AlphaGo's Victory Against Go World Champion Lee Sedol(gogameguru.com)
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by xianshou 11y ago
What are the intended costs of the program?
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Go players react to computer defeat(nature.com)
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Artificial Intelligence Mastered Go, but One Game Still Gives AI Trouble: Poker(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
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Google Computers Defeat Human Players at 2,500-Year-Old Board Game(bloomberg.com)
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A.I. Masters Wickedly Complex Game of 'Go'(gpb.org)
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Challenge of the Go-bot: How a machine cracked ‘the most complex game’(theglobeandmail.com)
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Google AlphaGo computer beats professional at Go(independent.co.uk)
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by xianshou 11y ago
Here is Nature's video, which also explains how AlphaGo works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-dKXOlsf98 A few neural nets, a lot of MCTS, and a little touch of ingenuity.
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Game Over? AlphaGo Beats Pro 5-0 in Major AI Advance(usgo.org)
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Google Beats Facebook in Race to Beat Go(recode.net)
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Google pips Facebook to solve 'grand challenge' of AI(wired.co.uk)
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Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion(bbc.co.uk)
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by xianshou 11y ago
Here is the paper for Google's DNN-based move evaluation in Go: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~cmaddis/pubs/deepgo.pdf
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by xianshou 11y ago
This is an admirable display of tactics, but a poor general strategy. His repeated threats to leave, as well as lies about other offers, only worked because the company in question was already struggling and needed to hold onto him for fear
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by xianshou 11y ago
Some distractions are enriching, like the reading of this very article. Others are temporarily entertaining but ultimately disappointing, such as Buzzfeed. The main thrust of this article is that "we are what we think," and distra
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by xianshou 11y ago
This is a complete troll, but a very pleasing and cleverly written one. If you search "Baader-Meinhof", you get the militant group, this article (from 2006), another article referencing the same definition without citation (from 2
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by xianshou 11y ago
This is no new phenomenon, but its effects have become more and more obvious and pronounced over the past decade, especially with the massive overrepresentation of Indians in engineering, science, and health. Indian American children actual
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by xianshou 11y ago
The tl;dr: Respond to an email and confirm your ownership of the domain within 15 days, or your site dies. I would discourse further on the silliness of this policy, but they stated it best: "You can thank ICANN...because if it were up
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by xianshou 11y ago
He devoted the last few years of his life attempting to prove himself wrong by sharing his property and belongings with the homeless, only to become more depressed when some of them stole from him and he was eventually evicted. No wonder hi
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by xianshou 12y ago
This is a collection of Yudkowsky's blog posts on LessWrong, and it's making the rounds now because it forms the basis for most of Harry's rationalist insights in the extremely entertaining and recently finished Harry Potter
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by xianshou 12y ago
The fact that finance is ripe for (and now rife with) technological disruption is one factor pushing the bankers in that direction, but the primary one since 2008 has been this: it's the gold rush of the decade. A certain portion of th
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by xianshou 12y ago
I've paid with Apple Pay, and it feels much more pleasant in comparison. Cash: Get out wallet, count out cash, get change that I'll probably lose anyway. I hate small denominations. Card: Get out wallet, put card in machine, wai
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by xianshou 12y ago
Here are a few more excellent resources on the potential and the dangers of machine intelligence. Even if you don't expect to read Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence - a deep, provocative, and thoughtful book, but also very verbos
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by xianshou 12y ago
Both of those rates are real (I have, in fact, had exactly that salary and charged exactly that rate at different points in my career), but freelancers don't make $300k per year in any but the rarest cases. Part of their pay derives fr
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by xianshou 12y ago
The author's thesis is that, since "airplanes don't fly like birds fly," defining AI by human imitation or servitude is really a provincial kind of speciesism. There's a very important distinction, however, between
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by xianshou 12y ago
Practially speaking, design is legally indefensible as intellectual property - if you actually paid lawyers to make a case for you, you'd only be depleting your own war chest to make your copycats go through the relatively small hassle
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by xianshou 12y ago
The sheer level of interest combined with the widespread lack of knowledge about supplements makes them easy to exploit in ways that would normally not be tolerated. For another example, take a look at this ad from the Yahoo homepage, which
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by xianshou 12y ago
On the basis of regression to the mean ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean ), or what we might call the "J.K. Rowling effect," it would be far too much to hope that the sequel will match t
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by xianshou 12y ago
A perfect application of the Forer effect: humans have an amazing ability to interpret what can apply to anyone as having special significance for themselves. It's the same reason why horoscopes and fortune cookies work. Stepping back

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