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July 30, 2007

We’ve been deceived in the most profound manner

Man vs Wild macho man Bear Grylls checked into hotels during his survival adventures and had his crew help out in difficult situations:But this British adventurer is now the subject of an investigation by U.K.'s Channel 4, which already has confirmed that Grylls checked into motels on a few occasions...

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July 20, 2007

That Intelligent Checkers Game

There are 500,995,484,682,338,672,639 possible different checkers play positions and a computer program, called "Chinook", knows them all. If you play your game perfectly the best possible outcome against the computer is a draw. You can never win. Chinook was developed by scientists at the University of Alberta who used an...

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