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How AlphaStar Became a StarCraft Grandmaster

2020-02-13 Tommy Thompson One of the biggest headlines in AI research for 2019 was the unveiling of AlphaStar – Google DeepMind’s project to create the worlds best player of Blizzard’s real-time strategy game StarCraft II.  After shocking the world in…

How the 1% Scrubs Its Image Online

2019-12-13 Rachael Levy Prominent figures from Jacob Gottlieb to Betsy DeVos got help from a reputation management firm that can bury image-sensitive Google results by placing flattering content on websites that masquerade as news outlets  

Google Colaboratory Notebook and Repository Gallery

2019-11-25 firmai / Derek Snow “A curated list of repositories with fully functional click-and-run colab notebooks with data, code and description. The code in these repositories are in Python unless otherwise stated.” Some of the Google Colaboratory Notebooks listed use…

Money Stuff: Playing the Game of Infinite Leverage

2019-05-11 Matt Levine [A] Reddit user called MoonYachts who claims to have gotten 250x leverage, putting in $4,000 and turning it into a $1,000,000 stock position. You are not supposed to be able to do this; normal stock market games…