Go!
Linear Digressions
English - February 05, 2016 04:52 - 19 minutes - 27.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 350 ratingsTechnology data science machine learning linear digressions Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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As you may have heard, a computer beat a world-class human player in Go last week. As recently as a year ago the prediction was that it would take a decade to get to this point, yet here we are, in 2016. We'll talk about the history and strategy of game-playing computer programs, and what makes Google's AlphaGo so special.
Relevant link:
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2016/01/alphago-mastering-ancient-game-of-go.html