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Meanwhile in Germany...

12,000 Year Old Forest to be Chopped Down for Coal Mine

For the past several years the Hambach forest has been the site of a dedicated effort to save one last strip of Europe’s natural diversity. Since about 2012, activists have been building tree-houses, setting up barricades, and camping in the forest to prevent the last 10% from being destroyed. The movement is huge, comparable to the resistance to DAPL last year at Standing Rock.

http://themindunleashed.com/2017/11...pped-down-for-coal-mine-activists-defend.html
 

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Meanwhile in Germany...

12,000 Year Old Forest to be Chopped Down for Coal Mine

For the past several years the Hambach forest has been the site of a dedicated effort to save one last strip of Europe’s natural diversity. Since about 2012, activists have been building tree-houses, setting up barricades, and camping in the forest to prevent the last 10% from being destroyed. The movement is huge, comparable to the resistance to DAPL last year at Standing Rock.

http://themindunleashed.com/2017/11...pped-down-for-coal-mine-activists-defend.html


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Google's AlphaZero Destroys Stockfish In 100-Game Match

Chess changed forever today. And maybe the rest of the world did, too.

A little more than a year after AlphaGo sensationally won against the top Go player, AlphaZero has obliterated the highest-rated chess engine.

Stockfish, which for most top players is their go-to preparation tool, and which won the 2016 TCEC Championship and the 2017 Chess.com Computer Chess Championship, didn't stand a chance. AlphaZero won the closed-door, 100-game match with 28 wins, 72 draws, and zero losses.

Oh, and it took AlphaZero only four hours to "learn" chess. Sorry humans, you had a good run.

That's right -- the programmers of AlphaZero, housed within the DeepMind division of Google, had it use "machine learning," which is sometimes called "reinforced learning." Put more plainly, AlphaZero was not "taught" the game in the traditional sense. That means no opening book, no endgame tables, and apparently no complicated algorithms dissecting minute differences between center pawns and side pawns.

This would be akin to a robot being given access to thousands of metal bits and parts, but no knowledge of a combustion engine, then it experiments numerous times with every combination possible until it builds a Ferrari. In less time that it takes to watch the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. The program had four hours to play itself many, many times, thereby becoming its own teacher.

https://www.chess.com/news/view/google-s-alphazero-destroys-stockfish-in-100-game-match

Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a
General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm (PDF)


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