Chess Improves Machines and Humans Alike

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Humans Beat Machines in SodaRace For Now

Humans Beat Machines in SodaRace For Now 12/02/2003 12:22 AM
Cnet says that Humans beat AI in robot wars. It's not really a war per se, but rather it's an online competition called the SodaRace which pits humans against virtual robots. It seems that Canadian humans won the first round by creating a machine using trial and error. It may not be a fair test of man vs machine, but interesting nevertheless. If you would like, you can also create and play around with your own soda robots using the sodaconstructor to test your intelligence abilities. You may have seen the sodaconstructor before, but it's the competition of human vs. ai that makes it very interesting. It may be hard to overcome human craftyness but like recent chess matches demonstrate, it may instead be hard to beat the computer. It runs on Java and it's cool. Check it out.

In Search for Life on Mars, Machines Can
Boldly Go Where Humans Can't

In Search for Life on Mars, Machines Can
Boldly Go Where Humans Can't 01/07/2004 02:24 PM
The excitement surrounding the current unmanned landings makes it clear that the scientific questions that may be answered inspire a host of people.

In Chess, Masters Again Fight Machines

In Chess, Masters Again Fight Machines 06/22/2005 02:03 AM
Chess programs are getting harder to beat. So why are more grandmasters taking up the challenge posed by them?

McDonald's Ditches Giant Vending
Machines, Back To Dealing With Humans

McDonald's Ditches Giant Vending
Machines, Back To Dealing With Humans 11/13/2003 02:55 PM
Almost exactly a year ago we wrote about how giant vending machines were coming to the US. These were vending machines the size of small shops, that could pick from over 200 items to drop into your hand at your convenience - without having to deal with (gasp!) a human checkout person. It turns out that many of these machines were actually being run by McDonald's who has now decided that the US market just isn't ready for giant vending machines, which are being shut down. Perhaps there were complaints from teenaged kids who were scared that the vending machines were going to take away their only hope for a job.

Chess queen loses in computer chess
match

Chess queen loses in computer chess
match 06/08/2004 08:17 PM
Xinhua News Agency Jun 9 2004 0:04AM GMT

Gambling Machines Much Safer Than
Electronic Voting Machines

Gambling Machines Much Safer Than
Electronic Voting Machines 06/14/2004 03:33 AM
It appears that making sure gambling is fair is much more important than making sure our elections are fair. One of the defenses pulled out by those who want to keep going with existing electronic voting machines is that no one seems to complain about electronic gambling machines. Perhaps that's because electronic gambling machines are held to a much higher standard than electronic voting machines. This NY Times editorial lists six different ways in which gambling machines in Nevada are under much more scrutiny than electronic voting machines. These include things like the fact that the state requires copies of the source code of all electronic gambling software, as well as their stringent licensing procedure for any company that wishes to sell electronic gambling machines. Employees of any such company have to go through background checks to make sure they have no criminal record. Considering that Diebold had convict ed felons involved with their electronic voting systems - you wonder if a similar licensing procedure might make sense for voting machines as well.

Shotglass Chess - Shotglass Chess Sets,
Pieces and Shotglasses - Home

Shotglass Chess - Shotglass Chess Sets,
Pieces and Shotglasses - Home 10/31/2003 04:04 PM
Shot glass Chess .. game

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2 mln fax machines and combo machines
were sold in the US in 2004

2 mln fax machines and combo machines
were sold in the US in 2004 03/27/2005 05:50 AM
ZDNet Mar 27 2005 10:35AM GMT

Voting Machines Vs. Slot Machines

Voting Machines Vs. Slot Machines 12/04/2003 01:10 PM
Slashdot Dec 4 2003 12:50PM ET

No Two Snowflakes Are Alike. No, Really!

No Two Snowflakes Are Alike. No, Really! 06/07/2004 05:18 PM
Okay, there was this guy, see, and he really liked snow crystals. (We call them snowflakes since we're not cloud physicists.) He invented photomicrography, which is the use of photography...

Look-Alike Tuna and Shark

Look-Alike Tuna and Shark 05/10/2004 05:46 PM
This week's column includes items on the development of similarities in sharks and tuna, a new mineral from the moon and parasite communities.

iPod Used By Jock and Hipster Alike?

iPod Used By Jock and Hipster Alike? 04/16/2004 07:30 AM
JOEL JOHNSON -- If it wasn't clear before, there's a dripping, wet underline on it now: owning an iPod doesn't make you cool. Five O'Clock Bot isn't happy with North Carolina basketball sophomore Sean May's Sports Illustrated article, "Pimp My iPod." Apparently jocks listen to music, and horror of horrors,...

N.C. Man Wins Hemingway Look-Alike Prize
(AP)

N.C. Man Wins Hemingway Look-Alike Prize
(AP) 07/25/2004 03:54 PM
AP - On his eighth try, a North Carolina real estate broker — with a silver-white beard and khaki fisherman's vest — won the annual Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest.

Intel's Mac Mini Look-Alike [Updated]

Intel's Mac Mini Look-Alike [Updated] 06/05/2005 11:31 PM
Wired Magazine is reporting that a new Wintel prototype that copies the Mac Mini design is due out this week.Working prototypes of the Mac mini look-a...

iMac look-alike shown at Intel
conference

iMac look-alike shown at Intel
conference 09/08/2004 07:56 PM
At this week's Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Ina Fried of CNET News.com spotted a new all-in-one PC from Korea's Lluon that bares a strong resemblance to Apple's iMac G5...

Georgia's New Leader Baffles U.S. and
Russia Alike

Georgia's New Leader Baffles U.S. and
Russia Alike 08/16/2004 10:30 PM
Mikhail Saakashvili's populist ride has hit bumps on the central question of reunification with two breakaway regions.

Students and faculty alike must do as
much librarying as they do Googling

Students and faculty alike must do as
much librarying as they do Googling 06/22/2004 04:37 AM
Old Search Engine, the Library, Tries to Fit Into a Google World .. NYT on the role of libraries in a Google-driven world .. New York Times

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Hack turns GIMP into Photoshop
Look-alike

Hack turns GIMP into Photoshop
Look-alike 03/31/2005 07:41 PM

Realtor Wins Hemingway Look-Alike
Contest (Reuters)

Realtor Wins Hemingway Look-Alike
Contest (Reuters) 07/26/2004 07:16 AM
Reuters - A North Carolina realtor beat out a teetotaling short story writer from Kazakhstan and nearly 140 other snowy-haired, bearded men from around the world in this year's Ernest Hemingway Look-Alike Contest.

No two moments are any more alike than
two snowflakes. -- Zora Neale Hurston

No two moments are any more alike than
two snowflakes. -- Zora Neale Hurston 03/08/2004 11:04 PM
The Bentley Collection of Snowflake Photographs

High-tech abets child pornographers,
pursuers alike

High-tech abets child pornographers,
pursuers alike 02/09/2003 10:47 AM
With the help of ordinary Internet tools like Google, Mapquest and Internet phone directories, the Clovis team was able to track down the abusers of 70 children ...

Estate agent wins Hemingway look-alike
contest (Reuters)

Estate agent wins Hemingway look-alike
contest (Reuters) 07/26/2004 12:35 AM
Reuters - A North Carolina estate agent beat out a teetotalling short story writer from Kazakhstan and nearly 140 other snowy-haired, bearded men from around the world in this year's Ernest Hemingway Look-Alike Contest.

Large, Medium and Small Businesses Alike
Now Maintain or Enhance their
Competitiveness through Competitive
Intelligence

Large, Medium and Small Businesses Alike
Now Maintain or Enhance their
Competitiveness through Competitive
Intelligence 02/01/2005 09:10 PM
ENTERWeb, the Knowledge Portal for Small Business ( http://www.enterweb.org ) has just opened a new section which will lead you to everything you need to know on Competitive Intelligence. [PRWEB Feb 1, 2005]

Krugman: In reality, all infidels
probably look alike to the terrorists,
but if they do have a preference,
nothing in Mr. Bush's record would make
them unhappy at the prospect of four
more years

Krugman: In reality, all infidels
probably look alike to the terrorists,
but if they do have a preference,
nothing in Mr. Bush's record would make
them unhappy at the prospect of four
more years 07/21/2004 09:42 AM
everybody knows .. points out .. Krugman .. column

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die puny humans:

die puny humans: 12/24/2003 03:01 AM
posting to Die Puny Humans .. "statements for 2004," .. wrote a short piece

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XAML is for humans

XAML is for humans 11/10/2003 11:12 PM

Don Box: Today, the data needed to initialize an object graph is hidden behind imperative statements in your programming language of choice. That makes it difficult to tease out of the rest of your program without weird markers in the source code to delimit the structure of your code into recognizable pieces.

My previous post on this subject had more to it, but I chickened out and didn't post it.  What the heck, I could be wrong, but... here's essentially what I said.

...

"die puny humans:"

"die puny humans:" 12/24/2003 09:20 PM

Share and share alike?: 'Open-source'
networks vs. intellectual property

Share and share alike?: 'Open-source'
networks vs. intellectual property 12/06/2003 06:10 AM
Seattle Times Dec 6 2003 5:16AM ET

Humans vs. Computers, Again. But There's
Help for Our Side.

Humans vs. Computers, Again. But There's
Help for Our Side. 04/17/2004 07:09 PM
An effort is afoot to bring Googlelike clarity to the swamp of personal data on a user's computer.

The End of Mathematical Proofs by
Humans?

The End of Mathematical Proofs by
Humans? 04/06/2005 05:06 AM

The End of Mathematical Proofs by
Humans?

The End of Mathematical Proofs by
Humans? 04/06/2005 05:22 AM
Slashdot Apr 6 2005 9:19AM GMT

When All The Humans Are Gone From
Customer Support

When All The Humans Are Gone From
Customer Support 12/29/2004 10:35 PM
The NY Times is running an article similar to ones that others have run before, noting how incredibly difficult it is to actually get a human on the phone these days when you need customer support from a company. While many people know the "tricks" such as hitting 0 to get around the painful menus, it looks like some companies are spending more time making it harder for customers to reach humans (rather than, say, actually figuring out ways to help their customers). This means that the "0" trick won't always work -- though, sometimes hitting it three or four times in a row will get you through. Other tricks include hitting the * key in the hopes of getting a company directory. What's still not clear is why companies do this. Most of these automated systems simply keep people on these phone calls for a longer period of time and tend to piss them off. My favorite system so far was a Comcast system that required me to go through twelve menus before I could speak to a human, whose first question to me was "what phone number are you calling from" when in step two or three I had specifically punched in my phone number.

Bots and Humans Play Together

Bots and Humans Play Together 01/01/2004 12:20 PM
Bots and Humans Play Together
http://snipurl.com/3m2e

Joining a pickup ball game is a good way to get to know people. It might also be a good way for humans and robots to learn to work together. To that end, CMU researchers are putting together mixed teams for soccer, with the Segway scooter as the common denominator.

Measuring Pollution In Humans

Measuring Pollution In Humans 12/29/2003 08:25 AM
CHaN_316 writes "Scientists have begun measuring pollutants in our body and the results sound like a chemical clean-up site. They've found things such as flame ...

A worthy aspiration for most humans: To
be like your own dog

A worthy aspiration for most humans: To
be like your own dog 05/11/2004 12:38 AM
A worthy aspiration for most humans: To be like your own dog .. this to say .. more»

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Robots to put humans to work

Robots to put humans to work 07/23/2004 06:35 PM
Firm with Carnegie Mellon roots, plans to hire 100 people to help make and sell 'bots that fix sewer pipes.

The Top Three Reasons for Humans in
Space

The Top Three Reasons for Humans in
Space 04/11/2005 03:17 PM

Why Humans Must Return To The Moon

Why Humans Must Return To The Moon 12/09/2003 05:02 PM
Roland Piquepaille writes "Space.com gives us "10 Reasons to Put Humans Back on the Moon." While some of these reasons seem obvious, like our needs for dreams or a common goal for nations to collaborate, some are less expected, like generating energy from lunar power stations. This also could lead to the arrival of space tourism and to a better knowledge of our past through the analysis of craters and rocks in situ. And many new things also might be invented on the Moon just to live there. Finally, with men on the Moon, future explorations of Mars or asteroids could be easier to organize. The original article is spread over ten pages, so I put the full list of these ten reasons on my blog as a single page for your convenience, along with short quotes and other references. "

Humans vs Robots on Mars

Humans vs Robots on Mars 01/11/2004 08:15 PM
The Washington Post has an editorial on manned vs robotic Mars exploration by Robert Zubrin, president of the Mars Society. The erroneous idea that robots will eliminate human space travel seems to come up whenever a space mission is in the news and we've covered it before. Zubrin points out that while robots are useful, fun, and cheap ways of exploring, many of the tasks involved in looking for life would be much easier for a human explorer. And, regardless of how many robots are sent to Mars for exploration, humans will still go themselves eventually in order to live there.
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