Month: June 2024

Othello Is Solved: But If You’re Curiousity Is Still Running Rampant, Check Out These References

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:::info Author: (1) Hiroki Takizawa, Preferred Networks, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan (contact@hiroki-takizawa.name). ::: Table of Links Abstract and Intro Related Works Methods Results Discussion and Conclusions and Acknowledgements Additional Information and Declarations and References Additional Information and Declarations Competing Interests The author declares that there are no competing interests. Author Contributions Hiroki Takizawa conceived and … Read more

We Solved Othello… But What Does This Mean?

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:::info Author: (1) Hiroki Takizawa, Preferred Networks, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan (contact@hiroki-takizawa.name). ::: Table of Links Abstract and Intro Related Works Methods Results Discussion and Conclusions and Acknowledgements Additional Information and Declarations and References 5 Discussion and Conclusions We conclude that our study has weakly solved Othello, although we recognize that our achievement is just … Read more

The Results of Our Othello Experiment: How We Solved the Game

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:::info Author: (1) Hiroki Takizawa, Preferred Networks, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan (contact@hiroki-takizawa.name). ::: Table of Links Abstract and Intro Related Works Methods Results Discussion and Conclusions and Acknowledgements Additional Information and Declarations and References 4 Results First of all, we enumerated and shortly evaluated all positions with 50 empty squares. We only enumerated positions with … Read more

The Methods We Used to Solve Othello

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:::info Author: (1) Hiroki Takizawa, Preferred Networks, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan (contact@hiroki-takizawa.name). ::: Table of Links Abstract and Intro Related Works Methods Results Discussion and Conclusions and Acknowledgements Additional Information and Declarations and References 3 Methods 3.1 Use of Terms “Ply” and “Move” In chess, there is a tradition where two sequential moves, one from … Read more

Live Nation took 11 days to confirm the massive Ticketmaster data breach

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Illustration: Beatrice Sala Someone going by the name “ShinyHunters” has been advertising a 1.3TB cache of data allegedly containing personal data (names, email/home addresses, and phone numbers), credit card details, and other information about 560 million Ticketmaster customers for $500,000 in hacking forums all week. Now, Ticketmaster parent Live Nation — the company that upset … Read more