Tag: programming
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Chess: random wise moves. Not possible. From a computer anyway. [OR: The futility of artificial intelligence]
In May 1997, an IBM supercomputer known as Deep Blue beat then chess world champion Garry Kasparov, who had once bragged he would never lose to a machine. Kasparov and other chess masters blamed the defeat on a single move made by the IBM machine. At the beginning of the second game the computer made […]
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Who will your (future) automatic car decide to kill? [What does Jesus have to do with it?!?]
In philosophy, there’s an ethical question called the trolley problem. If you had to push one large person in front of a moving trolley to save a group of people on the tracks, would you? This abstract idea has taken hold in programming self-driving cars: what happens if it’s impossible to avoid everyone? Researchers from […]
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Human-like computer language. Parmenides. Humans.
Stephen Wolfram wants to create a more human-like language for programming computers. (1) But how can anything we make be non-human? If we think with 1s and 0s this is because for some reason this is encoded into our existence. One and Nothing are the building blocks of the cosmos. From Parmenides to Leibniz, monads rule […]
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RSA, coding, hacking…
RSA, the internet security firm, has warned customers not to use one of its own encryption algorithms after fears it can be unlocked by the US National Security Agency (NSA). In an advisory note to its developer customers, RSA said that a default algorithm in one of its toolkits could contain a “back door” that […]
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A quantum programming language: Program what you don’t know…
Quantum software has finally left the dark ages with the creation of the first practical, high-level programming language for quantum computers. Although today’s devices are not ready for most practical applications, the language, called Quipper, could guide the design of these futuristic machines, as well as making them easier to program when they do arrive. (1) […]
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