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Can Computers Be Mathematicians?

The Joy of Why

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Computers Can Beat Humans That Go, Right?

Deep Blue was a machine that could compute chess positions, 200 million positions a second. It had an evaluation function for how to decide which positions are good and favor which side or the other built into it by grand masters. And nowadays, anyone can play with computers at chess that will beat essentially every person on the planet. So i think we know that, yes, you can compensate for a lack of imagination by sheer speed if the domain is circumscribed enough.

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