Category: Random
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Free Will – Is Our Understanding Wrong? *Edit* => Has It Ever Been Right?
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19526154.200?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=mg19526154.200 REDEFINE the concept of free will? Only a Nobel laureate would have the nerve. Last year, the Dutch physicist Gerard ‘t Hooft announced that the weird effects that spring from quantum mechanics arise from a deeper deterministic reality based on classical physics. People objected that his theory appeared to rob us of free will,…
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Invincible Checkers Database (Named Chinook) Created
A story on the Nature site announced that a team of computer scientists at the University of Alberta has solved checkers. From the game’s 500 billion billion positions (5 * 10^20), ‘Chinook’ has determined which 100,000 billion (10^14) are needed for their proof, and run through all relevant decision trees. They’ve set up a site…