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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,337 posts.
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Google AI Challenge Winner Post-Mortem
The lead in the last month or so was an indicator of having good chances, but there was a huge shuffling of ranks in the last week and some last minute casualties.
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Google responds to NY Times article by improving its algorithms
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Generating code from natural language is closer than you think
Articles by Stephen Wolfram covering artificial intelligence, computational science and computational thinking, data science, education, future and historical perspectives, sciences, software design, technology, Wolfram products, more.
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Using WolframAlpha to Hack Text CAPTCHA
I’ve been playing around with the Text CAPTCHA demo page and wondered how well WolframAlpha is at logic questions. As it turns out, Wolfram is pretty smart! Although, since a CAPTCHA requir…
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Using genetic algorithms to find Starcraft 2 build orders
UPDATE: Just to make this explicitly clear: I did not write this program. The fourth sentence makes this fairly clear, but some comments indicate that some people are a bit lazy :). I also added a video of the rush to the bottom.
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A Personal Perspective on Machine Learning
Having a bit of history as both a user of machine learning and a researcher in the field I feel I have developed a useful perspective on the various trends, flavors and nuances in machine learning …
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Google Instant, behind the scenes
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Our new search index: Caffeine
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Webapp: image recognition to find nearest tennis courts from satellite photos
This is a description of how ahathereitis.com works. The things I'll be looking for are basically just a bunch of lines on the ground (like...
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Google acquires reCAPTCHA
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Robot hand ties knots, dribbles a ball, and uses tweezers (video)
A few blogs are passing around videos of the Ishikawa Komuro Lab's high-speed robot hand performing impressive acts of dexterity and skillful manipulation. However, the video being passed around is slight on details. Meanwhile, their video presentation at ICRA 2009 (which took place in May in Kobe, Japan) has an…
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Designing Emergent AI
A lot of people have been curious about how the AI in AI War: Fleet Command works, since we have been able to achieve so much more realisti...
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Google Calculating Which Employees Are About to Quit
[Google] recently began crunching data from employee reviews and promotion and pay histories in a mathematical formula Google says can identify which of its 20,000 employees are most likely to quit.
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Stephen Wolfram’s Introduction to Wolfram Alpha (screencast)
Building the ultimate computational knowledge engine is a highly ambitious and long-term project. The Wolfram|Alpha that you will get to start exploring next week is really just the beginning. Still, there are a lot of ways that you might use Wolfram|Alpha.
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Three Major Singularity Schools
( Originally appeared on the Machine Intelligence Research Institute blog, September 2007.)