This AI “solves” Super Mario Bros. and other classic NES games
In the 28 years since Super Mario Bros. was released, and it's obviously been comprehensively beaten, thoroughly, many thousands of times in that time by players around the world. But have you ever made the game beat itself? That's what computer scientist Tom Murphy has done. At SigBovik 2013, he presented a program that "solves" how to play Super Mario Bros., or any other NES game, like it's just another kind of mathematical problem. And for those who know that SigBovik is an annual computer science conference dedicated to spoof research, hosted on April 1 every year, Murphy stresses that this is "100 percent real." He outlines his method in a paper, "The First Level of Super Mario Bros. is Easy with Lexicographic Orderings and Time Travel... after that it gets a little tricky," but he also presented the results in the video you can see with this story. Lexicographic ordering is a pretty simple mathematical technique used to determine the best order a set of values should come in.
Former politicians convinced alien life exists and it has visited Earth
WASHINGTON – We are not alone. That is the conclusion of two former members of Congress who heard five days of testimony this week about supposed UFO landings and a government conspiracy to cover them up. Asked if he now believes the government is suppressing the truth about visits by extraterrestrials, former Sen. Mike Gravel (D-Alaska) said, “Very much.” "The testimony was convincing," he told the Daily News. Former Rep. Former Rep. “There's an implication for which one of the answers has got to be an extraterritorial origin,” Cook said. The Paradigm Research Group – which is dedicated to ending the “government-imposed truth embargo surrounding an extraterrestrial presence” – paid six lawmakers $20,000 each to preside over the weeklong “Citizen Hearing on Disclosure.” Former Rep. The other four lawmakers who heard testimony offered more cautious views about alien life, but none of them ruled it out. "The Air Force has admitted there were 701 UFOs that they could not identify. AP Photo
Full Ginsburg
The term is named for William H. Ginsburg, the lawyer for Monica Lewinsky during the sexual conduct scandal involving President Bill Clinton. Ginsburg was the first person to accomplish this feat, on February 1, 1998.[2] Completed full Ginsburgs[edit] Special cases[edit] On September 19, 2009, President Barack Obama could also be said to have achieved a "Full Ginsburg" when he appeared on five programs, even though Univision's Spanish-language Al Punto was not part of Ginsburg's original five programs. The first person to appear on all six shows in the same week was former Governor of Florida Jeb Bush, who achieved the feat on March 10, 2013.[9] Florida Sen. References[edit]
My visit to Defkalion Canada | nickelpower
On February 22 I made my way to the Canadian office of Defkalion. This is a report of my experience and what I learned. 1140 Homer St. in Vancouver is an older building in a well established area of the city. Defkalion is on the second floor. Symeon (I’d call him Mr. Symeon is the head of business development for the company. Mr. Mr. Now, there also was discussion about a certain report in a Greek newspaper . I was not able to confirm any source of government support. A few notes: · Only the R&D portion of expenditures can be applied to the SR&ED program. I learned that there is another R&D pursuit that Defkalion is taking on. Vancouver does offer Defkalion a lot of advantages, one of which is the SR&ED program. Speaking to the head of business development, I surely learned about Defkalion’s business strategy. However, they are placing emphasis on a second marketing strategy, a strategy that I find more interesting. <— To main blog Like this: Like Loading...
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Defkalion plans to Unveil LENR device in August | Cold Fusion News
Defkalion Green Technologies is planning to unveil an improved version of its low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) technology at the National Instruments NI Week corporate conference in August. The company’s CEO Alex Xanthoulis made that revelation to Pure Energy Systems’ Sterling D. Allan in an interview last week. Defklaion seems to have made a lot of progress with its Hyperion LENR technology if claims made to Allan by Xanthoulis and his colleague Symeon Tsalikoglou can be believed. The Greek company which has relocated to Vancouver, British Columbia, has also gone much farther in commercializing LENR than any other organization if these assertions are correct. Xanthoulis said that Defkalion has been approached by 450 different companies interested in licensing its technology. The two did reveal an impressive list of industries that they want to adapt LENR technology to. Xanthoulis said that Defkalion is planning to develop an LENR power source for ships themselves. Related search:
Motorola developing Android phones with stock software, 'just right' size
The dream of a stock Android phone that isn't too big to use with one hand was almost realized by the HTC First, but we may see some other options on the market in the near future, as well. According to a report from PC Mag, Motorola is working on new smartphones that will run 'stock' Android and will be smaller than the giant Android devices that have been dominating the market for the past couple of years. PC Mag spoke with Jim Wicks, Motorola's chief of design, who said that these new phones are the result of collaboration and influence from Google, as opposed to the other devices that Motorola has released in the time since Google acquired the company. "It will be the unadulterated version of Android, and I feel really good about our embracing Android and being the best Android experience." Wicks also touched on included software with phones, more commonly called bloatware, and said that Motorola's phones will be as bloatware-free as possible.
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Red and violet are on opposite ends of the spectrum, yet we perceive violet as being between blue and red. Why? : askscience
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