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The game Go is reported to be one of the most complex games on earth. In 2016, DeepMind’s AlphaGo computer defeated South-Korean Lee Sedol, the reigning world champion. People saw it as a big step in the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI). (more…)

An MIT professor found his name on two papers with which he had no connection. (more…)

7. My sister was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma when I was in my freshman year of high school and she was in her junior year. I didn’t understand then how serious a disease it was. But it was—serious. She died four years later. I thought I would die, too, o... (more…)

They key was to think of this as a translation problem. (more…)