by Tom | Mar 15, 2016 | Reading, Tech
More on AlphaGo. Such respect to Sedol for choosing to play the last match against what he views as the stronger incarnation of the machine. It didn’t help, of course. Fan Hui, the 3-time European champion has improved from number 600-ish in the world to be in...
by Tom | Mar 14, 2016 | Personal, Reading, Science, Tech
So much sci-fi coming to earth this last week. AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol and convincingly. It’s important because the game was thought to be too “big” for traditional computer strategies based on simulating playing the game forward a few rounds and...
by Tom | Mar 14, 2016 | Business, Tech
Intriguing thought. I strongly dislike and avoid advertising, but maybe free self-driving transportation is my price? Source: A Global Robotic Transportation System is Almost Here
by Tom | Feb 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
I had never seen a view of opera scheduling across seasons like this. Fascinating how often the ABC+T get performed. My assumption is that ROH and Glyndebourne would be more varied, but that’s just gut feel.
by Tom | Jan 28, 2016 | Reading, Tech
Everyone expected computer domination of Go to be “ten years” away. It looks strongly like it’s nearly with us. A European master was defeated 5-0 and a match up with a world champion match is due in March. Once again, the human player described the...
