Jon Orwant
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Engineering Director, Google Research
Engineering Director, Google Research
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Analysis, Algebra, and Corn
https://bentilly.blogspot.com.au/2010/08/analysis-vs-algebra-predicts-eating.html
https://bentilly.blogspot.com.au/2010/08/analysis-vs-algebra-predicts-eating.html
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He's a Fields Medalist and a French legislator. Glory days!
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An amazing achievement. Congrats to the Deep Mind team!
Can a computer master the ancient game of Go? With more possible board configurations than the number of atoms in the universe, experts have long thought it to be impossible. But a system developed by researchers at Google DeepMind, called AlphaGo, has done it.
Combining a state-of-the-art Monte-Carlo tree search with two deep neural networks, AlphaGo not only has defeated the top existing Go programs at the forefront of A.I. research, but also has defeated reigning 3-time European Go champion Fan Hui.
The next challenge will be to play the top Go player in the world over the last decade, Lee Sedol, this March in Seoul, South Korea. To learn more, visit the Google Research blog, linked below.
Combining a state-of-the-art Monte-Carlo tree search with two deep neural networks, AlphaGo not only has defeated the top existing Go programs at the forefront of A.I. research, but also has defeated reigning 3-time European Go champion Fan Hui.
The next challenge will be to play the top Go player in the world over the last decade, Lee Sedol, this March in Seoul, South Korea. To learn more, visit the Google Research blog, linked below.
AlphaGo: Mastering the ancient game of Go with Machine Learning
googleresearch.blogspot.com
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GOOD NEWS: Appeals court rules unanimously that Google book scanning is legal, rebuffs Authors Guild. This case goes back a full decade!
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My 12 year old daughter starts 7th grade today, in a new school. It begins with the principal greeting all students in the auditorium.
I've encouraged my daughter to sit in the back. When the principal begins speaking, she is to stand up and yell "I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE!"
Junior high and Hunger Games have a lot in common.
I've encouraged my daughter to sit in the back. When the principal begins speaking, she is to stand up and yell "I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE!"
Junior high and Hunger Games have a lot in common.
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Brilliant payoff at the end.
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Let's dispel with this fiction that AlphaGo doesn't know what it's doing. AlphaGo knows exactly what it's doing.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/12/11210650/alphago-deepmind-go-match-3-result
http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/12/11210650/alphago-deepmind-go-match-3-result
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Tim on Uber, making a lot of sense:
https://medium.com/backchannel/getting-over-taxis-79849b3a4282
https://medium.com/backchannel/getting-over-taxis-79849b3a4282
Getting Over Taxis — Backchannel
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Best lede ever: "A former meerkat expert at London Zoo has been ordered to pay compensation to a monkey handler she attacked with a wine glass in a love spat over a llama-keeper."
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