Go is a far better demonstration of "intelligence" than chess in the sense that you require some form of actual AI to be competitive in it. The opening book+brute force combo used by modern chess engines is useless here.
AlphaGo relies heavily on machine learning neural network to play.
It requires more than skill. Pruning such a massive game tree is no minor feat - in fact, we don't know how to do it even today. All Go engines are based on some form of adaptive AI.
Again, chess is waaaaay easier in comparison. Pretty much all chess engines work the same way: they start with precomputed moves from an opening book and then move to what's an essentially brute force approach where the engine tries positions, assigns them scores and then picks the highest score available. How these positions are scored / discarded is what separates them, but the base procedure is unchanged. This is also what leads to what chess players call "computer moves" - most chess engines will favor unassuming, conservative moves yielding small positional advantages instead of, well, more "human", intelligent ones. Picking up pivotal moments from classic games (move 17 on Fischer-Byrne, for example) and feeding them to top-rated chess engines is an enlightening exercise.
This is all but impossible to perform in Go with even modest board sizes. The game complexity, given its simple rules, is just staggering.
I am still waiting for a computer who can recognize my bags at a conveyor belt at least as efficiently as me
I've worked with industrial vision devices in the past and trust me, you could set up a machine to recognize luggage as efficiently as a human being today if you wanted to. In fact, it will do better.
The only thing surprising about the Go event is that it did not happen like ten, or even twenty, years ago. You may be impressed, but I find this most underwhelming.
That's likely because you don't understand what it involves. Go is unlike chess in the sense that just throwing raw computing power at the problem won't help you at all; for a "small" 13x13 there are over 10^300 valid game trees to compute, and the number gets exponentially worse once the board increases in size. For reference, the estimated number of atoms in the universe is 10^130.
Google's AlphaGo engine is an actual machine-learning AI which had to be trained plays the game much like a regular person would - Myungwan Kim actually remarked that it feels like playing against a human being. Having a competitive Go engine today is a major milestone, make no mistake about it.
Gah, never mind:( The article i linked lists a practical attack on SHA-1 (aka SHA160), not SHA-2. Still, it is basically the same algorithm with a larger key so it is a matter of time until someone breaks it too.
Typically you just brute-force them. SHA256 is a special case because, just like MD5, is effectively broken: you can decrypt them with significantly less operations than the brute force approach would require.
Gold is valuable precisely because it is scarce. Yes, you might run into a gold ore but, overall, gold is less than 0.0011 ppm of the earth's crust - you can't easily "get too much of it quickly".
MS without Intel is not exciting, and Intel isn't particularly well positioned under 10W TDP, except if the user needs to run Windows.
Intel's Core-M chips (aka Skylake) are impressively competitive and average around 4.5W. I bought a Zenbook a while ago expecting to give it some light web browsing use and it is my main travel gear right now - lightweight, fanless and powerful enough to code in.
Good for you. Arch is not for newbie users as it lacks a tool to perform automated installs, but once it is up and running i'd venture to say is the most reliable, easiest to use distro out there.
You'd be surprised. Negative interest rates are sadly common in countries with high inflation rates, like Argentina. You're giving away money, yes, but for most people a term deposit of 20% with a 25% of inflation is a good way to cut their losses.
IIRC, the problem with nausea is caused by lag and the apparent disconnection between head movement and display update. Carmack had a number of write-ups on this matter; it was basically the single most important problem the Occulus Rift team had to tackle during development.
It featured a fantastic, humorous episode written by Darin Morgan about a monster who is bitten by a man and turns into one. Its a beautiful satire about an alien trying to make sense of human behavior (working 9 to 5, lying about sexual prowess, our love for fast food) and, at one point, he gets hit by a transgender which leads to an hilarious exchange with Duchovny trying to explain transgenderism to Darby.
So i've just found out that Slate actually run a story on their LGBTQ section titiled Did The X-Files use a transgender character for cheap laughs?. Why, yes. Yes they did. It doesn't matter that the treatment wasn't offensive at all, or that the entire episode was making fun of the human race as a whole, or even that it actually was in line with the transition theme that was the entire point of the episode. Some people got their panties in a bunch because a transgender character threw a punch.
Cleese is absolutely right here. Then again, he usually always is.
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Having a competitive Go engine capable of beating a 9-dan player is huge. Huge.
Go is a far better demonstration of "intelligence" than chess in the sense that you require some form of actual AI to be competitive in it. The opening book+brute force combo used by modern chess engines is useless here.
AlphaGo relies heavily on machine learning neural network to play.
It requires more than skill. Pruning such a massive game tree is no minor feat - in fact, we don't know how to do it even today. All Go engines are based on some form of adaptive AI.
Again, chess is waaaaay easier in comparison. Pretty much all chess engines work the same way: they start with precomputed moves from an opening book and then move to what's an essentially brute force approach where the engine tries positions, assigns them scores and then picks the highest score available. How these positions are scored / discarded is what separates them, but the base procedure is unchanged. This is also what leads to what chess players call "computer moves" - most chess engines will favor unassuming, conservative moves yielding small positional advantages instead of, well, more "human", intelligent ones. Picking up pivotal moments from classic games (move 17 on Fischer-Byrne, for example) and feeding them to top-rated chess engines is an enlightening exercise.
This is all but impossible to perform in Go with even modest board sizes. The game complexity, given its simple rules, is just staggering.
I am still waiting for a computer who can recognize my bags at a conveyor belt at least as efficiently as me
I've worked with industrial vision devices in the past and trust me, you could set up a machine to recognize luggage as efficiently as a human being today if you wanted to. In fact, it will do better.
The only thing surprising about the Go event is that it did not happen like ten, or even twenty, years ago. You may be impressed, but I find this most underwhelming.
That's likely because you don't understand what it involves. Go is unlike chess in the sense that just throwing raw computing power at the problem won't help you at all; for a "small" 13x13 there are over 10^300 valid game trees to compute, and the number gets exponentially worse once the board increases in size. For reference, the estimated number of atoms in the universe is 10^130.
Google's AlphaGo engine is an actual machine-learning AI which had to be trained plays the game much like a regular person would - Myungwan Kim actually remarked that it feels like playing against a human being. Having a competitive Go engine today is a major milestone, make no mistake about it.
Wha'? That's as simple as a baby toy shapes. Which only makes it more fun.
I have fond memories of playing that game when i was a kid.
It's not hard to play a game.
Well, that's up for debate. Go is arguably the hardest game to play (and master) there is.
Agreed, but "decrypting" is the common term used for breaking hashes - you only need one input generating the hash value you're after.
It is also interesting how most hash algorithms are built around block cipher primitives.
Gah, never mind :( The article i linked lists a practical attack on SHA-1 (aka SHA160), not SHA-2. Still, it is basically the same algorithm with a larger key so it is a matter of time until someone breaks it too.
Typically you just brute-force them. SHA256 is a special case because, just like MD5, is effectively broken: you can decrypt them with significantly less operations than the brute force approach would require.
i think it should be illegal to publish info obtained illegally but that's just me.
Is it illegal to reverse-engineer a firmware downloaded via WiFi?
Seems the guys' Tesla automagically downgraded its firmware after the discovery was made public. Musk's answer is priceless.
Flight Simulator is sorely missed guys.
If anyone and their mother start flying drones high enough, it is sadly a matter of time.
The difference is that you need to find an ore to mine in the first place.
Gold is valuable precisely because it is scarce. Yes, you might run into a gold ore but, overall, gold is less than 0.0011 ppm of the earth's crust - you can't easily "get too much of it quickly".
MS without Intel is not exciting, and Intel isn't particularly well positioned under 10W TDP, except if the user needs to run Windows.
Intel's Core-M chips (aka Skylake) are impressively competitive and average around 4.5W. I bought a Zenbook a while ago expecting to give it some light web browsing use and it is my main travel gear right now - lightweight, fanless and powerful enough to code in.
HACK THE PLANET!
I'm moving to Arch
Good for you. Arch is not for newbie users as it lacks a tool to perform automated installs, but once it is up and running i'd venture to say is the most reliable, easiest to use distro out there.
You'd be surprised. Negative interest rates are sadly common in countries with high inflation rates, like Argentina. You're giving away money, yes, but for most people a term deposit of 20% with a 25% of inflation is a good way to cut their losses.
IIRC, the problem with nausea is caused by lag and the apparent disconnection between head movement and display update. Carmack had a number of write-ups on this matter; it was basically the single most important problem the Occulus Rift team had to tackle during development.
Is this the kind of stuff i can expect under /.'s new management? Because i won't stay around if that's the case.
It's almost like they're begging people to prove them wrong.
It featured a fantastic, humorous episode written by Darin Morgan about a monster who is bitten by a man and turns into one. Its a beautiful satire about an alien trying to make sense of human behavior (working 9 to 5, lying about sexual prowess, our love for fast food) and, at one point, he gets hit by a transgender which leads to an hilarious exchange with Duchovny trying to explain transgenderism to Darby.
So i've just found out that Slate actually run a story on their LGBTQ section titiled Did The X-Files use a transgender character for cheap laughs?. Why, yes. Yes they did. It doesn't matter that the treatment wasn't offensive at all, or that the entire episode was making fun of the human race as a whole, or even that it actually was in line with the transition theme that was the entire point of the episode. Some people got their panties in a bunch because a transgender character threw a punch.
Cleese is absolutely right here. Then again, he usually always is.