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Comment Re:Infoporn Fact (Score 1) 210

by Knoglinger on Monday October 22, 2007 @01:23AM (#21068909) Attached to: The Development of Ecologically Sound Jet Fuel

And for the rest of the world (where I am from) it is 4l/100km. ~~~~

Cracking Go 328

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday October 10, 2007 @04:10PM from the brute-force-always-a-fun-solution dept.

prostoalex writes "IEEE Spectrum looks at current trends in artificial technology to crack the ancient Chinese game of Go, which theoretically has 10^60 potential endings. Is conquering the game via exhaustive search of all possibilities possible? 'My gut feeling is that with some optimization a machine that can search a trillion positions per second would be enough to play Go at the very highest level. It would then be cheaper to build the machine out of FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays) instead of the much more expensive and highly unwieldy full-custom chips. That way, university students could easily take on the challenge.'"

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