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Brekkjern · **Joined:** Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:22 am **Posts:** 1435

AWESOME!

Syobon · **Joined:** Mon Jan 24, 2011 10:34 am **Posts:** 15027

An AI has finally defeated a professional Go player.

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AlphaGo was not preprogrammed to play Go: rather, it learned using a general-purpose algorithm that allowed it to interpret the game’s patterns, in a similar way to how a DeepMind program learned to play 49 different arcade games

Syobon · **Joined:** Mon Jan 24, 2011 10:34 am **Posts:** 15027

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environ ... ws_central

This is pretty fucking huge.

Exeres · **Posted:** Thu Feb 11, 2016 6:01 pm

I heard something a few days ago about scientists finding indirect evidence of gravitational waves in accordance with Einstein's work, is this related?

Syobon · **Joined:** Mon Jan 24, 2011 10:34 am **Posts:** 15027

Haven't heard of that but seems that would be related yeah. The instruments used to measure the wave have only been active for 13 days. It's possible that we've been quite lucky to get hit by a measurable one just now.

This collision was 50 times more powerful than all the stars in the universe combined

D-vid · **Posted:** Sun Feb 14, 2016 7:12 am

Can you give me a rundown on what awesome stuff being able to detect them now implies?

Syobon · **Joined:** Mon Jan 24, 2011 10:34 am **Posts:** 15027

Well, before we were only able to detect EM spectrum waves. As you probably already know, this allowed us to effectively look at the past because those waves required time to get here. However, EM spectrum waves only started getting emitted after some point after the Big Bang. This meant there was a time period we were never going to get any information about. With this technique, it's theoretically possible to detect gravitational waves caused even by the Big Bang itself. At present though, we are only capable of detecting the strongest of waves.

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