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Kramnik Ties Fritz; Machines Not Yet Our Masters
Maltov writes "World Chess Champion V. Kramnik ties his match against the software Fritz. Details here.
You can also check out a picture gallery and a short history of computer chess."
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My favourite move is "Porn to Queen 4"
I wrote this, and I agree with the over-rated moderations. I mean really. France surrenders? Is that all I can come up with? I'm disgusted in myself, and will go to be without dinner.
Georgia School Board Bans 'Theory Of Math'
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COGDELL, GA--The Cogdell School Board banned the teaching of the controversial "Theory Of Math" in its schools Monday. "We are simply not confident of this mysterious process by which numbers turn, as if by magic, into other numbers," board member Gus Reese said. "Those mathematicians are free to believe 3 times 4 equals 12, but that dun [sic] give them the right to force it on our children." Under the new ruling, all math textbooks will carry a disclaimer noting that math is only one of many valid theories of number-manipulation.
As we all know, slashdot uses one of those other theories about number manipulation to calculate karma... Here, 50+1-1 == excellent, dude!
What is this effect? "Post about 'Go' in a chess thread for +5 syndrome?" It's funny that this exact same message, more or less, has made +5 in the last 4 or 5 chess stories.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
I couldn't agree with you more.
I still recall one comment posted a while ago along the lines of "If Chess is the thinking man's Checkers, surely Go is the thinking man's Chess.". ???. Ok, dude.
Folks, they're two different animals. The fact that Go contains a massively larger tree and is harder for a computer to play is mostly irrelevant in terms of human players. Both are (for the foreseeable future) too large to even consider calculating. Both trees would contain more nodes than the number of particles in the entire universe.
Imagine it this way. Take two rich people - one has 400 Billion dollars, and one has 500 billion dollars. Clearly the second one is much richer than the first, but that's in no way a slight to the less wealthy person. Both have more money than they'll ever reasonably be able to spend in a hundred years. It would take extraordinary circumstances for the second persons extra hundred billion to be felt at all.
...Also, I didn't know Buggalo could fly.
www.rasterman.com For once I have some news to write that has nothng to do with my life or projects. I'd like to - for the first time ever, say something political. If you're bored - stop reading now, but some people won't like to read this. Our prime minister, John Howard, is rattling his chains of war and wants to follow the USA inot a war with Iraq. What on earth is he thinking? Haven't we learnt from Vietnam? What has Iraq done to us to warrant this? I am with the majority of Australians. I do not want to join with the USA in their war mongering efforts and attack Iraq. I actually think that we should not even be thinking of it. Let them be. What happened in New Yok on September 11, 2001 was wrong. It was gahstly - I have many friends across the USA and I feel for them - but this does not give the USA the right to just go and find someone to attack because Bush has a temper tantrum. Australia is not about war or violence. We are a peaceful country - I know I don't want anything to do with with this war, and no one else I know fo here does. Let Iraq be. They have done us no wrong.