News That Stays News

Linked October 24, 2010

1. An article from Slashdot about an artificial intelligence competition in which “chatterbots” vie with each other to deceive judges into thinking that they are human. Back in 2008, a reporter from The Times was fooled, and wrote about the experience.

2. An interesting optimization problem: what route would you take to round the bases? Math says that batters could do better.