OpenAI’s Long Pursuit of Dota 2 Mastery – SyncedReview – Medium
A hearty round of applause arose from the crowd packing the Vancouver Rogers Centre on August 22 when a team of unassuming scientists…
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“OpenAI’s underlying research progress is impressive: Using a relatively simple technique, researchers enabled complex coordination and long horizon game play in an imperfect game environment, training a computer from scratch to the level of a Dota 2 master. These techniques can likely be used in other AI applications such as robotics and general AI systems.”
Posted on 2018-09-10T04:30:55+0000
How a shampoo bottle is saving young lives
A doctor in Bangladesh has found a simple way to treat infant pneumonia
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Posted on 2018-09-10T04:04:57+0000
How the U.S. Government Misleads the Public on Afghanistan
After 17 years of war in Afghanistan, military and social progress are worse than American officials have admitted.
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Posted on 2018-09-10T03:53:01+0000
Performance - Stack Exchange
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TIL all of stack exchange is 23 servers. And they did work with only one of their 9 webservers up a few times.
Posted on 2018-09-09T07:49:45+0000
What Happens If We Hit Sperm Count Zero?
A strange thing has happened to men over the past few decades: We've become increasingly infertile, so much so that within a generation we may lose the ability to reproduce entirely.
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"That is to say: We are producing half the sperm our grandfathers did. We are half as fertile."
This is scary
Posted on 2018-09-09T07:23:55+0000
Perspective | At U.S. Open, power of Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka is overshadowed by an umpire’s power play
In a final taut with drama, a clash of two champions is spoiled by the umpire’s chauvinism.
Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole - Quillette
In the highly controversial area of human intelligence, the ‘Greater Male Variability Hypothesis’ (GMVH) asserts that there are more idiots and more geniuses among men than among women. Darwin’s research on evolution in the nineteenth century found that, although there are many exceptions for ...
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I don't know how to feel about this. Does anyone know where I can read more about this?
"Colleagues I spoke to were appalled. None of them had ever heard of a paper in any field being disappeared after formal publication. Rejected prior to publication? Of course. Retracted? Yes, but only after an investigation, the results of which would then be made public by way of explanation. But simply disappeared? Never. If a formally refereed and published paper can later be erased from the scientific record and replaced by a completely different article, without any discussion with the author or any announcement in the journal, what will this mean for the future of electronic journals?"
Posted on 2018-09-09T00:30:43+0000
cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade
Tools of The Trade, from Hacker News. Contribute to cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade development by creating an account on GitHub.
Class-based affirmative action is fairer and more appealing
Richard D. Kahlenberg is the author of “The Remedy: Class, Race and Affirmative Action”
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Posted on 2018-09-08T07:17:10+0000
How LLVM Optimizes a Function – Embedded in Academia
Posted on September 3, 2018September 4, 2018 by regehrHow LLVM Optimizes a Function An optimizing, ahead-of-time compiler is usually structured as: A frontend that converts source code into an intermediate representation (IR). A target-independent optimization pipeline: a sequence of passes that suc...
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Posted on 2018-09-08T06:35:32+0000