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Calvinball 
No computer will ever be able to beat anyone in Calvinball.
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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In the game AI world, the game of "Go" was the last "common" abstract strategy game by which computers could not outsmart humans. It is also a known "milestone" in that milieu.
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It's even more intelligent than we had thought - it deliberately threw the last game to keep the human mark interested.
Classic hustler ploy.
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You're prolly right!
Life is too shor
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I was listening to Auntie(Radio 4) this morning and it was explained that Alpha Go uses a form of AI where it learns from its mistakes and from previous games.
The move that caused the win was ranked with a chance of something like 1/10,000 which is why the computer dod not see it coming.
The interesting bit is that Alpha Go is now going to be more capable of not being beaten with that move in future.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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megaadam wrote: we see one last (?) sliver of light
Oh, for pity's sake. This has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence. It is a computer designed for the single purpose of doing something that computers are good at better than the computers that preceded it. At best it it is an idiot savant with the emphasis entirely on the idiot. It has zero awareness of its existence or its environment. It is not thinking; merely calculating. It is not creative or innovative. It has neither mastery nor independence. It is no threat to anyone (unless, of course, they allow it to enter the Go world championships).
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I'm not.
Ok, leaving...
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I'm still waiting for Godot. He promised he'd drop by some time today. Then again, he keeps saying that.
This space for rent
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I got an email from Vladimir saying he was delayed with Estragon and would be round later.
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You should ask Diana Trent[^] if she's seen him. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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She's busy celebrating the feast day of St Kermit Of All Frogs with Tom Ballard.
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You'll have to wait a bit longer.
Problems on the tracks* means that it won't be arriving until 16.23
* The wrong kind of OS
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Book the font - Caesar's birth announced in paper! (5,3,5)
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Well done - quick too - you are up tomorrow. 
This was originally a hint for a FSOW I posted a few weeks back, but I thought it was too good to waste on a hint! 
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I don't have the full explanation though.
Book the Font = definition, Times New Roman common font in book printing
Caesar = Roman
birth = New
paper = Times
announced in = ?? reverse words ??
Ok... Take two... Maybe it works more like this?
Caesar's birth = New Roman
paper = Times
.. announced in .. = Times New Roman
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Pretty close: think punctuation:
"Caesar's birth announced in paper!"
"Times: New Roman!"
"The Times" is a newspaper in many countries...
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OriginalGriff wrote: "The Times" is a newspaper in many countries...
It used to be...
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Oh very good don't understand the book part though
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Times New Roman was a popular font for books (and many other publications, including internet web sites that couldn't find Comic Sans), and you could "Book a font" for the baptism of a newborn.
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Ah ok ta
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Probably would have been better to leave out the article. "Book the font" is not really a fair representation of "book font".
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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...but it's needed to make the clue into a sentence. Misdirection is allowed in CCC's! Encouraged even!
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OriginalGriff wrote: .but it's needed to make the clue into a sentence.
No it isn't! You don't hear sergeants major crying out "Present the arms!"
OriginalGriff wrote: Misdirection
This isn't misdirection. It's lies. Damned lies! The misdirection is already there in the use of 'book' as a verb in the surface reading while getting the answer requires it to be read as a noun and the suggestion of the 'wrong' meaning of 'font'.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Movie Quote Of The Day
Whores, liars, cheaters, & deserters: all in the same.
Which movie?
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