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Deep Blue:

Massive search +

Hand-coded search heuristics +

Hand-coded board position evaluation heuristics [1]

AlphaGo:

Search via simulations (Monte Carlo Tree Search) +

Learned search heuristics (policy networks) +

Learned patterns (value networks) [2]

Human strongholds seem to be our ability to learn search heuristics and complex patterns. We can perform some simulations but not nearly as extensively as what machines are capable of.

The reason Kasparov could hold himself against Deep Blue 200,000,000-per-second search performance during their first match was probably due to his much superior search heuristics to drastically focus on better paths and better evaluation of complex positions. The patterns in chess, however, may not be complex enough that better evaluation function gives very much benefits. More importantly, its branching factor after using heuristics is low enough such that massive search will yield substantial advantage.

In Go, patterns are much more complex than chess with many simultaneous battlegrounds that can potentially be connected. Go’s Branching factor is also multiple-times higher than Chess’, rendering massive search without good guidance powerless. These in turn raise the value of learned patterns. Google stated that its learned policy networks is so strong “that raw neural networks (immediately, without any tree search at all) can defeat state-of-the-art Go programs that build enormous search trees”. This is equivalent to Kasparov using learned patterns to hold himself against massive search in Deep Blue (in their first match) and a key reason Go professionals can still beat other Go programs.

AlphaGo demonstrates that combining algorithms that mimic human abilities with powerful machines can surpass expert humans in very complex tasks.

The big questions we should strive to answer before it is too late are:

1)	What trump cards humans still hold against computer algorithms and massively parallel machines?

2)	What to do when a few more breakthroughs have enabled machines to surpass us in all relevant tasks?

Note: It is not entirely clear from the IBM article that the search heuristics is hand-coded, but it seems likely from the prevalent AI technique at the time.

[1] https://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/meet/html/d.3.2.html
[2]
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2016/01/alphago-mastering...
And yet, I feel that US-Chinese trade patterns could directly affect my life.
Those observations are inconvenient, I'm not sure they're controversial.
I wonder if people forget that there are plenty of legitimately secret societies like the sort you described (in just about any sufficiently large city in the world). They're called criminal enterprises. With few exceptions, I don't think most people on HN would enjoy being part of them. However I can certainly think of a few pleasant ones that reminisce the cryptic business card. Then I read on a bit further and realized we were just talking about a game.
I don't think either matters. They don't need to make profit, usually being community events, and are as "wasteful" as going to a concert or meeting friends at the bar, except you also get to learn new stuff and expand your network.
A computer won the Arimaa challenge last year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arimaa
This comment states:

> Facebook's security team is one of the strongest and most sophisticated of any company

If that is true, how come they didn't catch this relatively obvious glitch discussed here.
They didn't to me, but then am not an evolutionary biologist.

However, all natural sciences are simplified models approximating reality, the only question how much predictive force they can demonstrate. Either way, the article presents a better laid out theory than "it seems so to me".
I should have explored outside of the ms / .net stack sooner. Its a comfortable world and a decent platform but limiting for the mind.
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Everything you list there is called physics beyond the Standard Model. It does not predict any of those.
The coolest thing we can do with the last unexpected particle, the muon, is this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon-catalyzed_fusion

It's not in the "Mr. Fusion" stage, of course, but pretty neat nonetheless.
Not sure if this is a good idea. Probably lots of undercover three-letter government agents lurking there.
Are you paying as much as Google? Is your job going to give the same prestige as having "worked for Google" on your CV?

I am not saying that you are wrong, but applying to Google does sound like it will have many benefits above your average company.
I find his 2010 acceleration very unnatural. If you watch his win this past weekend and compare the effort made when accelerating it's like the difference between night and day. 2010 was too effortless even for someone of Cancellara's abilities. There was also the videos of him fumbling with something exactly where you would expect to hide a switch for the motor. All in all I reckon he did cheat with a motor in 2010 which is sad because initially I was amazed by his performance.
Well, by that logic, why can't you describe Lee Sedol as applying an "improved tree search" that happens to have really good move selection heuristics and static board evaluation function as well? After all, all good human Go players read ahead a few moves.
> As far as I know there is nothing particularly novel about AlphaGo,

By that standard there's nothing particularly novel about anything. Everything we have today is just a slight improvement of what we already had yesterday.

World experts in go and ML as recently as last year thought it would be many more years before this day happened. Who are you to trivialize this historic moment?
There is a lot of progress being made in AI right now. Hard problems that were expected to take decades, are being beaten regularly. Who is to say how much AI could advance in the next 20-30 years? Do you really believe there's less than a 50% chance strong AI won't be invented in your lifetime?
the prices look sweet. anyone has experience with them? How's the network stability? support response times?
Apple removed an app that hinted at that:

http://www.geek.com/apple/apple-approves-then-removes-app-hi...
How about walking and image recognition.
has somebody experience with Scaleway? Especially if you compare to DigitalOcean? First time I see them. Seems for me the biggest difference is that their servers are baremetal and not VMs?!
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Care to share those elements? Genuinely interested.
> its programmers gave it the ability to improve by playing against itself

Good chess programs definitely use self-play to improve themselves, eg to tune parameters and heuristics.
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I wonder if their move selection algorithm takes into account the "surprise" factor: given two moves that are almost equal in strength when analyzed to a depth of N, chose the one that looks worst at N-1. That is, if all else is equal, assume that you can search deeper than your human opponent, and lay traps accordingly.
It's generally a lot easier to not eat 100 calories than it is to burn them off. One thing I've found that works well, apart from just calorie counting, is finding filling low calorie foods. Bulking up a meal with cauliflower for example, or making carrot soup or just a big pile of roast carrots.

As you lose weight, it'll get easier to do some more exercise as well.
""[I]n many ways, the breakfast is the most important meal of the day, because it is the meal that gets the day started," Lenna F. Cooper, B.S., writes in a 1917 issue of Good Health, the self-proclaimed "oldest health magazine in the world" edited by none other than Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, the co-inventor of flaked cereal. "It should not be eaten hurriedly, and all the family, so far as possible, should partake of it together. And above all, it should be made up of easily digested foods, and balanced in such a way that the various food elements are present in the right proportions. It should not be a heavy meal, consisting of over five to seven hundred calories," Cooper's article continues.

Granted, Kellogg did hold an M.D. degree, but there's no denying he had a product to sell."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/06/breakfast-most-impo...
> The tau neutrino was discovered without any prior reason to believe it existed. We knew of neutrinos and they seemed to fill the only related gaps we had. It wasn't until the tau neutrino was experimentally detected that we even realized there was a gap for it.

The tau neutrino was discovered in 2000. The discovery of the tau lepton 25 years prior heavily implied the existence of an associated neutrino.
> You'd have to have a real vendetta against someone to value ruining their life at $15k.

15k is actually cheap when compared with the costs of a private eye, a biker gang or a contract killer.
Seems like your mouse never broke (or, if you have a wireless one, the battery in it has never died, and if it did, you could immediately replace it).

Or are you the type that does everything on a touchscreen? Because, judging from your logic, traditional computer controls must die too...
The "moving goalposts" argument is one that really needs to die. It's a classic empty statement. Just because other people made <argument> in the past does not mean it's wrong. It proves nothing. People also predicted AGI many times over-optimistically; probably just as often as people have moved goalposts.
I've had similar experiences living in Newport Beach and San Diego (Mission/Pacific Beach). I've never paid more than $1000/room (in three bedroom houses) and those are usually good sized houses or condos just across the street from the beach, which is worth it to me. If you live by yourself it could cost as much as $1600 nowadays, probably in an ~800sqft apartment. I also have friends that pay similar amounts to live in downtown SD which is also nice.

All in all I can't imagine living/working anywhere better.
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I host my blog with a C1. The load hasn't been huge, but I've had zero problems. Provisioning is fast, and the pre-packaged images are well designed.
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Thanks for those links. Could you check #4?

After I posted my comment I connected up this idea with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Guice
You do realize the American public is probably (a tiny bit) more sheltered from the abuses of NSA/CIA/(insert your favorite alphabet agency) surveillance that non US citizens, right?

Also, the legislative process is just as opaque and undemocratic everywhere else... (TTIP anyone?)
The funny thing about AI at this scale is we don't really know why the computer does what it does. It's more of a inductive extrapolation that we can verify that a technique works for a small problem, so we'll throw a whole bunch of GPU power and data at it and it SHOULD work for a big problem. How it actually works is fuzzy though as there's just a couple of gigabytes of floats representing weights in neural networks. No human can look at that and say: "Oh! I see why it made that move". It's so much data that it becomes kind of nebulous what the AI is doing.
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Well, HN is -just like any other community- biased and also suffers from echo chamber problem. Even if it is much smaller scale than any other online forum, still there is a chance for getting down voted even though your are absolutely 100% right about something and most of the down voters are wrong. You can either live with this and just ignore it or getting annoyed by it. I am not sure if this is going to be fixed or it needs to be fixed at all.
Prices seem really great but a few paragraphs down they say the servers are based on Avoton SoCs. Intel Avoton is an Atom chip (Silvermont core), so CPU-bound performance will be somewhat lower than the usual Sandy Bridge/Haswell/whatever core that you get on AWS or Google Compute Engine. It's a server SoC though so I/O throughput is probably pretty decent...
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I like your comment about the boomers. They are very naive in deed. Work hard and everythings fine...sure...I will get and burn what is left of oil, coal and gas and leave tons of debt to the next generation and when im old, ill tell them, they "dont work hard enough".
Some experts in Go less than 10 years ago believed it would be accomplished within 10 years. Also, you didn't actually refute his argument. Can you point to an algorithm that is not an incremental improvement over algorithms that existed 10 years ago? MCTS and reinforcement learning with function approximators definitely existed 20 years ago.
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I do IF, with milk in my tea and coffee before lunch, and then break the fast at lunch time.

I think I better watch my milk input, particularly on non-lifting days (I'm a real amateur lifting), since it's probably bringing me out of "fasted" state according to my body. I drink a five cups of tea/coffee by lunch time.
Invite only.... So you cannot even get them. What's the use of this announcement?
I think the thing that would surprise a researcher from ten years ago is mainly the use of graphics cards for general compute. The shader units of 2005 would only be starting to get to a degree of flexibility and power where you could think to use them for gpgpu tasks.
They are a subsidiary company of Online.net, itself a subsidiary of Iliad/Free, one of the leading ISPs in France.

I have over 50 servers at Online since more than a year now, and they have been pretty much flawless. Support is good and reachable by phone. I haven't worked with Scaleway though.
Infinite state/belief/world space. Infinite action space. It's not so much that there aren't rules (there are - physics), it's that the complexity of the full set of rules is exponential or super-exponential.
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> I'd usually go about every 3 or 4 days. If you're not pooping at least once a day

Well, isn't that common sense ?
isn't that true for many thing other than instruments though?

Doing any sort of sport will likewise teach you that "practice makes perfect". So would knitting, drawing, singing in a choir or doing magic tricks with cards.
That's what scares me a bit. The multi-core performance is great (considering their pricing), but single-threaded performance is quite a bit below what the competition gets you. If you're running a web server with something single-threaded (like PHP) requests might start taking a bit longer than you're used to.
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Here in Germany we have pp who retired in their 50s. Like 55 or so. Today they collect fine wines from all over the world and tell young pp "to work harder"(i know some of them)....no comment.
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It's actually sad that this excuse would be more accepted.
Except the original quote in this comment chain was "Discounting the fact that CocoaPods is used by millions of iOS developers." so that's what 'developers' was referring to in the comment you originally replied to
Was upgrading even recommended before 3.3?
Yes but UTF-8 with or without byte order mark ? ;-)
Why does Teodolfo even need a citation for that? Are you really suggesting that there is no group of people who believe AI is not a threat to worry about, and believed that AlphaGo would win?
Can't remember where I got it from, but: https://github.com/aktau/dotfiles/blob/master/.zshrc-extra#L...
I totally recommend it. Learning Go is a beautiful experience.

It is indeed very interesting to play against another new player just to see what you come up with, then do some reading and solve some basic problems (it may even be a good idea to have a look at the easier problems before playing your first game), play more games, read more advanced books, join KGS... It is a very nice rabbit hole to fall into.
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I can see nothing about where the servers are, which can impact latency dramatically in some cases. I have to serve to a chunk of our users in China, and I need to have at least a server in Asia.

Am I missing something?
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> He explained that Disqus offers API services that include "MD5 hashes" of email addresses that allow users to access third-party services such as Gravatar, which in turn permits users to display a consistent avatar across platforms.

Does this mean that other services using Gravatar are also leaking in this way?
I see it in the good old human error "it's too simple, it can't be right". Well, same goes for exercising. But of course nowadays there's a shitload of stuff to sell and money to be made with "coaching", so ...
Watts per kilo is what they all optimise for in pro cycling (expect for the pure sprinters where it's no as important).
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The rules can be explained in 1 minute, but the game takes some time to just start making sense.

I suggest starting on a 9x9 or 13x13 board. The regular 19x19 has too much strategic depth and noobs feel lost on it.
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python prompt isn't much of a development shell, use ipython
it lets you type exit and if you turn on autocall (%autocall) it lets you run functions without parens(hint this isn't valid python).

print isn't a statement in python 3 and range was never a statement
This doctor's channel is great:

http://youtu.be/Syleh_6Aopw
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> - socially awkward. Most social gatherings involve eating. All celebrations are eat-feasts.

And a popular theme is that fast food is taking a toll in recent decades. Well if basically most gatherings involve food, this being advertised with instapics etc. becoming a norm, why do people wonder that the avg. weight is rising ? After starting IF, I'm actually getting to a point where I'm annoyed because everytime I visit somewhere, people insist to offer something to eat.
And still U+5350 works. Better than a thousand words sometimes.
I was surprised to see Swift above Obj-C.
Avotons are very slow, an 8C SoC will typically be slower than an 8 year old 2C desktop CPU (I ran Go builds as a benchmark on my own 2.4 GHz C2750 vs. a 2008 iMac with 2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo).

As for Scaleway, some people seem to like it very much, but I found their policy about spamming their users problematic. They (online.net) mock you at registration with a sleazy checked and disabled box for receiving spam ("product news" etc.), therefore I would consider their offers "ad-supported".

The C2 is advertised as "bare-metal", but since they offer a 4C variant, I doubt that (there's a 4C variant, the C2550, but that doesn't seem to be a sane choice). C2L might be a full dedicated box (or not), but C2S and C2M seem very much VPS/shared. It's likely to be based on SuperMicro MicroBlades: http://www.supermicro.nl/products/MicroBlade/module/MBI-6418... (4 nodes in 1 3U blade!).
Without. BOM (when used for UTF-8) is an obsolete crap invented by necrosoft in order to make their software incompatible with normal.
Possibly its biased towards more articles?

Go is a simpler language thats not evolving as quickly as rust is and the hype has started to wear off.
HTTPS can do more then hide the exact content you're looking at.
Given the domain name and size of reply(https) the exact content can be estimated.
But the user will be sure to be reading the contents without modification.
Is this video laggy and constantly showing "The match will start in -0- seconds" for anyone else?
The guys at GCN have an interesting video on the practicalities of using one, but conclude it's unlikely anyone in the Pro peloton are using it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv5F5N6mFf0
I have a six year old, although this is not homework I do extra tuition with her on maths because she wants to. She bugs me to set her maths questions for her, because she enjoys them. I set them because she enjoys the challenge. I think as long as children enjoy it and don't see it as a choir then its ok. If they resent it though, then that's going damage their love for learning. They need to enjoy learning for learnings sake.
Homework needs to be optional, my school also offer alternative pieces of work so the kids can pick one they will enjoy doing the most.
That is actually a really impressive robot.
I'd imagine so. I also like the approach that Amazon has taken with its recently launched AWS Certificate Manager. You can create as many SSL certificates as you like free of cost, even wild-card ones (which if I am correct Let's Encrypt does not support yet), and the AWS Certificate Manager takes care of the rest. The only restrictions, off the top of what I've read, are: 1) You have to be using the AWS infrastructure; b) You'd have to use their load balancer or CDN solutions, against which the certificates are placed.
I was a staunch Python 3 supporter until I encountered such a thing. I avoid Python 3 now because I don't want to be forced to make a decision between writing the requisite library myself (a huge undertaking), abandoning the project entirely, or rewriting everything into Python 2 again. Better to just start with Python 2 in the first place.
Agreed. People don't realize that all of the huge algorithmic innovations (LSTMs, Convolutional neural networks, backpropagation) were invented in past neural net booms. I can't think of any novel algorithms of the same impact and ubiquity (e.g. universally considered to be huge algorithmic leaps) that have been invented in this current boom. The current boom started due to GPUs.
So, it's like normal social interactions in something that look like a club or a non-profit but done by a private company that watch you all the time ?

That sounds to me like something for people that lack actual interesting social groups...
The truly incredible things tend to be created/discovered by the most passionate. This means you'll have selection bias on the people who have a tendency to "work themselves to death" for the cause they're passionate about. It does not mean that you have to work yourself to death to arrive there.
Austria is significantly more immigrant-hostile than Germany, in terms of the burocracy - how much paperwork you have to submit, how often you need to renew your visa, down to how long they make you wait for an appointment and how (un)pleasant the government workers who are handling immigration are.

I've lived for 8 years in Austria and a bit over 2 now in Germany. The feeling I get was that the Austrian officials were constantly looking for ways to make it as hard as possible for me to stay in the country and the Germans for ways to make it easier.
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I was not commenting on the results. I was commenting on the person from China's concern that Chinese schools would never agree. This is true. American schools do not have to any degree whatsoever the same kind of homework-driven culture as most Chinese schools.
Let's ban Salon articles in Hacker News.
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