He's done it twice now. Komodo was also the winner of the TCEC Season 5 final against Stockfish. Mr Dailey passed away just after Komodo had made it to the final, but unfortunately, just too soon to witness the result.
Sure, the mate in 1 is an extreme example, but human grandmasters overlook plenty of other tactics that the computer can find in a fraction of a second, using brute force searches that include seemingly illogical moves. It would be very hard to develop a more 'human-like' playing style for a computer that wouldn't suffer the same problems.
A few thousand years is not enough for significant mutations, but in a large pool of individuals there already exist a wide range genetic variation from previous mutations gathered over longer times. By themselves, these are fairly small, but a period of harsh times can combine and concentrate the beneficial mutations in a smaller group of survivors creating a sudden change in the average genetic makeup.
Of course you can eat 3000kal/day, you can also eat 4000 if your metabolism is fully functional it will not store excess fat unless you are stressed
Nonsense. Metabolism is mostly driven by demand (how much you move), and only to a small degree by available calories. Your argument also make no sense from an evolutionary survival perspective. Excess calories should be stored as fat to survive future times where food may be scarce.
A completely sedentary person may burn 2000 kcal/day. An hour of exercise can increase that to 2500 kcal. That's significant enough. Of course, it doesn't mean that you can eat 3000 kcal/day. Strenuous of exercise, like weightlifting, can also increase metabolism for up to 48 hours after the actual exercise.
Solving chess also benefits from bigger memories for transposition caches. Multiple cores help too. So, Moore's law certainly helps chess engines. But it's not just the hardware that has improved since Deep Blue. There has also been tremendous progress in the engine software. Especially the technique of letting the computer play millions of blitz games against itself helps to tune the many evaluation parameters has been very successful in improving engine strength.
Why ? The current method works better. Occasionally, a grandmaster overlooks a mate in 1, or other easy things. This never happens with computers that do a brute force search.
voluntary prayer is discouraged (if not banned) in public schools
Yes, but it's not because for lack of want by the religious people. It's not a matter of them being tactful towards the atheists. It's simply because the law requires separation of church and state.
If another human-habitable planet is discovered, then might fuel real breakthroughs to get humankind finally spreading across the galaxy to colonize it.
Interstellar travel would require unimaginable breakthroughs in propulsion. Even sending an unmanned probe, capable of slowing down to orbit another star, and then communicating over the enormous distance back to Earth is totally impossible with current technology.
and I am equally unhappy about my money being used to subsidize those other things
Tough for you then. But I'm sure you are enjoying other things that have been subsidized by tax money. Also, the Mars rover programs have been fairly cheap for the amount of data returned.
We'd be better served taking NASA's entire budget away and giving it to sir Richard Branson or Elon Musk.
Branson or Musk aren't going to send a rover to Mars. There's no profit in it.
The crash is still news, but nonetheless people in Italy or England probably would like to know that none of their friends and family were involved. I'm guessing you'd want to know that too in a case like that.
Where's the bullshit exactly ? Russian rockets may be comparatively cheaper, but they are still very expensive, not too reliable, and are limited in total mass they can take up and bring down. Grandparent was comparing NASA to airline travel. The price for a Soyuz trip is still orders of magnitude more than a plane ticket.
I'm all for doing science projects, and discovering unexpected things. I'm just in favour of doing them with a useful primary mission. Let's use our collective resources to find and implement a global replacement for fossil fuels, for instance. That's certainly a more pressing issue than learning how to circle around the Earth.
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they can make the problem vanish overnight - Stop making the system itself a game.
That wouldn't work, unless they all do it at the same time.
Congrats Mr. Dailey. You have done it.
He's done it twice now. Komodo was also the winner of the TCEC Season 5 final against Stockfish. Mr Dailey passed away just after Komodo had made it to the final, but unfortunately, just too soon to witness the result.
Sure, the mate in 1 is an extreme example, but human grandmasters overlook plenty of other tactics that the computer can find in a fraction of a second, using brute force searches that include seemingly illogical moves. It would be very hard to develop a more 'human-like' playing style for a computer that wouldn't suffer the same problems.
Because airlines make more profit this way (assuming that not too many people know how to exploit it).
That would require a good data acquisition (DAQ) card with high sampling rate D/A converters.
Or a cheap VGA output. Connect the RGB outputs to X, Y and Z and load the frame buffer with a suitable picture.
It takes 1 minute for the author to write temperature in both scales. It takes N*1 minute for N readers to do the conversion.
A few thousand years is not enough for significant mutations, but in a large pool of individuals there already exist a wide range genetic variation from previous mutations gathered over longer times. By themselves, these are fairly small, but a period of harsh times can combine and concentrate the beneficial mutations in a smaller group of survivors creating a sudden change in the average genetic makeup.
The irony is that it's only taken 40+ years to get to display resolutions for raster graphics to approximate vector graphics.
Assuming you only look at images optimized for vector graphics display, and you don't actually accurately measure the position of the lines.
Of course you can eat 3000kal/day, you can also eat 4000 if your metabolism is fully functional it will not store excess fat unless you are stressed
Nonsense. Metabolism is mostly driven by demand (how much you move), and only to a small degree by available calories. Your argument also make no sense from an evolutionary survival perspective. Excess calories should be stored as fat to survive future times where food may be scarce.
A completely sedentary person may burn 2000 kcal/day. An hour of exercise can increase that to 2500 kcal. That's significant enough. Of course, it doesn't mean that you can eat 3000 kcal/day. Strenuous of exercise, like weightlifting, can also increase metabolism for up to 48 hours after the actual exercise.
but diet is 100% of what you can do about it.
And exercise is the rest.
Solving chess also benefits from bigger memories for transposition caches. Multiple cores help too. So, Moore's law certainly helps chess engines. But it's not just the hardware that has improved since Deep Blue. There has also been tremendous progress in the engine software. Especially the technique of letting the computer play millions of blitz games against itself helps to tune the many evaluation parameters has been very successful in improving engine strength.
Apparently, being in the cold promotes the growth of brown fat cells. That's nice, but is has nothing to do with being in good shape.
Any AI problem that is solved, is no longer an AI problem.
Why ? The current method works better. Occasionally, a grandmaster overlooks a mate in 1, or other easy things. This never happens with computers that do a brute force search.
voluntary prayer is discouraged (if not banned) in public schools
Yes, but it's not because for lack of want by the religious people. It's not a matter of them being tactful towards the atheists. It's simply because the law requires separation of church and state.
Tact is nice, but why does it always have to come from the side of the non-believer ?
Because the supersonic airflow into the nozzle makes it hard to control.
If another human-habitable planet is discovered, then might fuel real breakthroughs to get humankind finally spreading across the galaxy to colonize it.
Interstellar travel would require unimaginable breakthroughs in propulsion. Even sending an unmanned probe, capable of slowing down to orbit another star, and then communicating over the enormous distance back to Earth is totally impossible with current technology.
and I am equally unhappy about my money being used to subsidize those other things
Tough for you then. But I'm sure you are enjoying other things that have been subsidized by tax money. Also, the Mars rover programs have been fairly cheap for the amount of data returned.
We'd be better served taking NASA's entire budget away and giving it to sir Richard Branson or Elon Musk.
Branson or Musk aren't going to send a rover to Mars. There's no profit in it.
What if a bunch of 35 year old parents were in the plane, while their kids stayed at home ? What's the formula for tragedy then ?
The crash is still news, but nonetheless people in Italy or England probably would like to know that none of their friends and family were involved. I'm guessing you'd want to know that too in a case like that.
Where's the bullshit exactly ? Russian rockets may be comparatively cheaper, but they are still very expensive, not too reliable, and are limited in total mass they can take up and bring down. Grandparent was comparing NASA to airline travel. The price for a Soyuz trip is still orders of magnitude more than a plane ticket.
I'm all for doing science projects, and discovering unexpected things. I'm just in favour of doing them with a useful primary mission. Let's use our collective resources to find and implement a global replacement for fossil fuels, for instance. That's certainly a more pressing issue than learning how to circle around the Earth.
That mars rover has produced some interesting information about mars, but in what way does that knowledge benefit me?
You could ask the same about football or Marvell movie adaptations. Mostly entertainment. The Mars rover entertains a different audience.