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  1. Oct 2023
    1. Andif it takes a poker-playing supercomputer to remind us that we can’tenjoy the rewards without taking the risks, so be it.

      I feel it was well written but personally I was confused on the purpose and moral of it. It seemed it was being written on the amount of work needed to be a grandmaster but then at point it gave moments of the writer in moments playing this game.

    2. Mybrainchild saw the light of day in a match in 1998 in León, Spain, andwe called it “Advanced Chess.” Each player had a PC at hand runningthe chess software of his choice during the game. The idea was tocreate the highest level of chess ever played, a synthesis of the best ofman and machine

      I enjoy the examples and different parts of the game being explained. I'm a bit confused on the moral of this though, it doesn't fully seem to add up.

    3. process indicative of Malcolm Gladwell’s“10,000 hours to become an expert” theory as expounded in hisrecent book Outliers.

      The grit and work ethic is at an all-time high when needing to succeed in this game

    4. Kidslove computers and take to them naturally, so it’s no surprise that thesame is true of the combination of chess and computers.

      Is this saying there seems to be more potential for future players due to the technology combined with the game of chess?

    5. Perhaps a realversion of HAL 9000 would simply announce move 1.e4, withcheckmate in, say, 38,484 moves.

      The way this game is simulated and played is extremely challenging.

    6. It was an impressive achievement, of course, and a humanachievement by the members of the IBM team, but Deep Blue wasonly intelligent the way your programmable alarm clock isintelligent.

      It seems unbelievable that at that point in time, the AI was so advanced that it was able to create such simulations at a great level. I can only imagine what the future has in store.

    7. It illustrates the state of computer chess at the time that it didn’tcome as much of a surprise when I achieved a perfect 32–0 score,winning every game

      Is this possible? It is against computerized players so it is seems nearly impossible to play perfectly against them.

    8. I played against thirty-two different chesscomputers at the same time in what is known as a simultaneousexhibition. I walked from one machine to the next, making my movesover a period of more than five hours.

      How can he remained very focused and working so well during an extended period of time.

  2. Aug 2023
    1. By the time an eater has donethe deuce, he or she has consumed 4.4 pounds of solid food and a few pounds ofwater, has taken in 6,180 calories, 403 grams of fat, and almost 14 grams ofsodium,

      The amount of food consumed in such a short period is unbelievable.

    2. Donahue is announced as havingeaten 152 of his namesake peppers. The great Sonya Thomas is described as “across between Anna Kournikova, Billie Jean King, and a jackal wild on theSerengeti.”

      An interesting comparison with some of the greats