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#87 Hannah Fry: The Role of Algorithms

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Caspar Off - I'm Not Playing You Anymore

The i b m team deliberately coded their machine so that it would sort of searcho for solutions, and depending on how long that search would take would be how quickly the answer came back. They deliberately coded it so that sometimes in certain positions, the machine might find the answer very quickly, but rather than just come back with the response, they ded in a random amount of time where it looked like the machine was ticking over. And casparof himself had said that he, you know, was trying to second guess what the machine was doing at all times. So was trying to work out why this machine stuck grunting through very difficult calculations and essentially got siked out by the machine....

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