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Gelman writes a useful overview on causality and statistical learning (caveat lector: I have only read through Angrist and Pischke’s book, among the three Gelman mentiones; that one is very well written, but aimed at junior graduate students at best: hence, the book’s tag “an empiricist’s companion” is overselling it; and that has nothing to do with Josh Angrist kindly “advising” me to change my PhD topic/focus, sometime in my beginning graduate years, because ‘nobody serious would be interested in structural modelling’ :-)).
Category: artificial intelligence
The 6th sense. In practice
Watch & listen (TED talk by Pattie Maes), and be amazed.
More about the project.
More about Pranav Mistry, the MIT Phd student behind all this.
→ Read more Chess games, more and less serious
First, the powerful Corus Chess tournament has started today (first game tomorrow) in Wijk aan Zee. Time for last year’s Group A winner, Magnus Carlsen, to really make history. Ivanchuk did quite well lately, but I still don’t see him with too many chances against the Viking Chessmaster, this time.
→ Read more CES 2008 and Bill’s last keynote speech
SciAm’s full coverage of the ’08 CES. From where surely you won’t miss the Bill Gates bits: Bill on the future of robotics; Bill giving a personal tour of MS’s new “surface”.
→ Read more Celebrate: Checkers is solved!
In today’s Science online: wonderful title, wonderful article, wonderful research. Took quite a while, but the victory is sweet indeed…
“If two players face off at checkers and neither makes a wrong move, then the game will inevitably end in a draw.
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