Great game. Lee Sedol played some awesome moves and glory be, AlphaGo actually made mistakes. Go great Gu Li described Lee Sedol’s move 78 as “the hand of God”. AlphaGo is up 3-1 and has won the series, but Sedol has a chance for one… Read More
I tried to stay up late last night to watch game 3 of the Google DeepMind million dollar challenge – Go great Lee Sedol vs the bot, AlphaGo. The match started at 11 PM our time. I lasted until 1:30 AM after which I needed… Read More
Go champ Lee Sedol has been defeated for a second game in a row by the bot, AlphaGo. I stayed up last night for part of the game – it started at 11 PM, but I had to get to bed as I have to… Read More
Super-bot Alpha Go defeated Lee Sedol in the first of 5 games in their million dollar match. AlphaGo won by resignation after 186 moves. Lee Sedol said at the post-game press conference, ‘I would like to express my respect to Demis and his team for… Read More
I suppose just about everyone in North America knows the John Henry story. In the annals of American folk tales in general and African-American folk tales more specifically it’s a big one. It’s a big one because it’s the story of the underdog. John Henry… Read More
For years there have been chess programs that have beaten top players, but computers playing the game of Go haven’t fared so well – until now. Check out this article. This morning, Nature published a paper describing DeepMind’s system, which makes clever use of, among other… Read More
Go is perhaps not a game for everyone, but I love it, and have been playing for many years. Tonight I stumbled across the Sunday Go Lessons YouTube channel, which has some actual games with commentary. In this game, we get to see one of… Read More
Last night was Go night – Vox and I play most Friday evenings. Go, for those who don’t know is that Asian game played on a 19 X 19 line grid with black and white stones. Vox and I have been playing since sometime in… Read More
As many of you know, I play the game of Go. I’ve been playing with my friend Vox in particular, since sometime in the 80s. We’ve played thousands of games against one another over the years . Last night we played 6 games and I… Read More
Played 6 games of Go last night with Vox. I won 4 of the 6 games but one of them was by just half a point, so overall we were close. I did well exploiting weaknesses and was able to kill a number of groups… Read More
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