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For nearly two decades, fifty computers have been running day and night on an extremely complex problem. Today, scientists from the University of Alberta announced the result of all that work - they have
solved the game of checkers. Chinook, the computer program they developed, can never be beaten -
try for yourself. While checkers is the most complicated game to be solved so far, it is
not the only one. You can play a
perfect game of tic-tac-toe, of course, but also
connect four, and a 6x6 board of the game
othello. Chess players are already
thinking ahead to when their game is solved, with
Advanced Chess being Gary Kasparov's answer. The hardest game to completely solve might be Go, which
may not be solved until 2100.
posted to MetaFilter by blahblahblah
at 7:02 PM on July 19, 2007
(76 comments)
"Tired of the
LIBERAL BIAS every time you search on Google and a Wikipedia page appears?" At
Conservapedia, a "conservative encyclopedia you can trust," you can learn that "faith" is
a concept "exclusive to Christianity," and about how Wikipedia is
biased in matters such as its description of the Bell Trade Act of 1946, its gossipy treatment of the private life of NPR reporter Nina Totenberg, and its seeming acceptance of evolution. The Wikipedia bias entry also complains of a "rant" against the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, a group for which Conservapedia founder (and son of conservative gadfly
Phyllis Schafly)
Andrew Schlafly has worked. Signups are
here; its take on evolution is criticized
here.
posted to MetaFilter by ibmcginty
at 5:17 PM on February 23, 2007
(153 comments)
what is the dumbest, funniest, most peculiar piece of advice you have ever found in a self-help book?
posted to Ask Metafilter by krautland
at 9:16 AM on April 5, 2007
(37 comments)
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