Thursday, August 03, 2006

A few selections from reddit.com

I found the following links mentioned on reddit.com to be interesting:

For those of us who like reddit.com, this is good news: Reddit hits profit as its technology nets praise in market. One down side to reddit.com's increased popularity is I've been seeing more links that I'd rather not have even known about.

Chess is a fun game. Go is also a good game. The two are both very challenging, in different ways. Chess has a smaller board with a variety of pieces. Go has a larger board with just a single piece. This article Computers just can't seem to get past Go is about how computer scientists have been able to create programs which beat master chess players, but haven't yet been able to do the same with Go. It would be interesting to know just how many man hours have been put into developing chess programs vs. the number of hours on Go.

Ever so often I'll be asked to interview potential employees. I enjoyed this post: One of the best interview questions.

I think anyone who cares about the Harry Potter series knows by now that Dumbledore died in book six. In a recent interview JK Rowling said that Dubledore is definitely dead.

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