Life, the Multiverse and Everything...
Young top seed Magnus Carslen plays with astounding speed, and acuracy, on the highest level! This is the real deal, don’t try this at home! Unless you also want to become the next “grandmaster slayer”… About Mangus Carlsen – Carlsen became a Grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 4 months, and 27 days, making [...]
“Ultimately, what separates a winner from a loser at the grandmaster level is the willingness to do the unthinkable. A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough. Given the opportunity, I must have the guts to explode the game, to upend my opponent’s thinking and, in so [...]
Machines have taken over chess Some say it all started with the industrial revolution, others even say the invention of the wheel was a bad idea after all, but it is generally agreed upon that the introduction of digital watches was the beginning of the end of human intellectual supremacy. In the world of chess [...]
Don’t believe the storyline from the Terminator sequels , here’s how the machines really took over the world… The Terminator Genesis As it seems, Terminators rule the future. Or so I’ve heard. Moreover, apparantly within less then a millisecond of their first glimpse of counscious existance, and without further discussion, they have collectively and objectively [...]
Since Tim Geithner did not predict the economic crisis, Nassim Taleb has no interest in listening to him talk about it now. The author of The Black Swan, a book about risk and … [Read More...]
A leaked internal memo from physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva reports a … [Read More...]
The more one probes the universe at smaller and smaller scales, the weirder matter and energy seem … [Read More...]
Can you recall a moment when you could honestly say 'I told you so', but when no one listens? Well … [Read More...]
