Jeremy, tell Magnus that Garry’s letter might even not work for Sophia ’cause his self-quotes are far too long to be regarded as footnotes

Magnus, why don’t you ask the staff to put together a robot in order to keep Garry busy quoting the first three chapters of “A for Andromeda” during your playing time?

chess24.com (@chess24com)

Magnus, you really must ask yourself whether it is a good idea to invite him at your wedding day

Garry Kimovich Kasparov (@Kasparov63)

How Do Dinosaurs Say Happy Birthday?

It’s the price of success. While in London to take part in the 9th London Chess Classic, 16th World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen had to celebrate his 27th birthday in a way consistent with the values and aims his mentor Garry Kimovich Kasparov actually follows. So, he was cajoled into playing the 5th Pro-Biz Cup and losing a blitz game with Kasparov. Who knows what else will come out when the birthday party begins. A can of red balls? The famous last words by Sophia? C’mon, everything passes by, after each winter comes spring again.

Diving Queen 吴敏霞 (Wú Mǐnxiá) celebrating both her birthday and her first month of marriage on November 10, 2017. Photo: weibo.com/wuminxia.

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• Jan Sample, Google’s DeepMind makes AI program that can learn like a human, The Guardian, March 14, 2017

The DeepMind AI mirrors the learning brain in a simple way: it reuses what it has learned and applies it to solve new tasks. Photo: DeepMind.

Algorithms on Sky

On March 19, 2016, the strongest Go player in the world, Lee Sedol, sits down for a game against Google DeepMind’s artificial-intelligence program, AlphaGo. They’re at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul’s Gwanghwamun district, and it’s a big deal: Most every major South Korean television network is carrying the game. In China, 60 million people are tuning in. For the English-speaking world, the American Go Association and DeepMind are running an English-language livestream on YouTube, and 100,000 people are watching. A few hundred members of the press are in adjacent rooms, watching the game alongside expert commentators. [Read more].

• Christopher Moyer, How Google’s AlphaGo Beat a Go World Champion, The Atlantic, March 29, 2016

Tron: Legacy

Seoul, March 9 (Reuters) – Google’s AlphaGo computer program on Wednesday won the first of a series of five matches against one of the world’s best players of the complex board game, Go, marking a new milestone in the development of artificial intelligence (AI). South Korean professional Go player Lee Sedol, an 18-time international title winner, conceded defeat in a match broadcast live, with one Youtube stream watched by tens of thousands of people worldwide, and domestic cable gave frequent updates. AlphaGo, built by Google subsidiary DeepMind, made history in October, by becoming the first computer program ever to beat a human professional player at the ancient Asian board game. [Read more].

• Google’s AlphaGo AI Program Defeats One Of World’s Best “Go” Players, The Huffington Post, March 9, 2016

AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol
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