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A noter que la depeche de l'AFP parle d'annulation de la peine de mort.



My panther, my brother
We are at war until youre free.

1: Science. 2007 Sep 14;317(5844):1518-22. Epub 2007 Jul 19. Links

Checkers is solved.

Schaeffer J, Burch N, Björnsson Y, Kishimoto A, Müller M, Lake R, Lu P, Sutphen S.
Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E8, Canada. jonathan@cs.ualberta.ca

The game of checkers has roughly 500 billion billion possible positions (5 x 10(20)). The task of solving the game, determining the final result in a game with no mistakes made by either player, is daunting. Since 1989, almost continuously, dozens of computers have been working on solving checkers, applying state-of-the-art artificial intelligence techniques to the proving process. This paper announces that checkers is now solved: Perfect play by both sides leads to a draw. This is the most challenging popular game to be solved to date, roughly one million times as complex as Connect Four. Artificial intelligence technology has been used to generate strong heuristic-based game-playing programs, such as Deep Blue for chess. Solving a game takes this to the next level by replacing the heuristics with perfection.

Le dernier post du blog de Skaven m'a fait me souvenir de deux pubs dont je voulais vous faire faire profiter, au cas ou elles n'aient pas traverse l'atlantique.

La premiere, qui a fait rire gras tous les ricains dans le pub ou j'etais pendant le superbowl:



La deuxieme, tout simplement tres chouette:

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En direct live de Beantown ! Tire d'un de mes films favoris.

I'm a sailor peg
And I lost my leg
Climbing up the top sails,
I lost my leg!