Month: June 2024

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