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Go match — final reflections

by scribe | Mar 17, 2016 | current news, off-topic, people, ruminations

My ISP had server problems the last couple days, so I wasn’t able to post in a timely fashion and the “news” is no longer news. The match between Lee Sedol, the top human go player, and AlphaGo, a new computer program developed by Google, ended in a...

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