月旦 XII
Fight with Infinity,
For January
For January
We’re at the halfway point of the epic 20-day, 150,000-hand “Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence” Texas Hold’em Poker tournament…
Five years ago I wrote a post entitled Is Backgammon in P? It was based on conversations with Peter Bro Miltersen and Uri Zwick …
Jason Les is a seasoned professional poker player, though even he would say there’s not much he can do to prepare for his next…
Last week, researchers claimed to have developed a poker-playing computer program that is nearly unbeatable. What are the…
Last week, researchers claimed to have developed a poker-playing computer program that is nearly unbeatable. What are the…
In a world first, researchers in the Computer Poker Research Group at the University of Alberta have essentially solved heads-up…
If you thought IBM's chess-playing computer, Deep Blue, was impressive, this is going to blow you away. Two-player limit Texas…
It’s a reality: Two-player limit Texas hold’em poker has finally been solved, according to a study published in Science today.
We’ve come to understand that human players will never stand a chance against a computer with enough fire power at finite and…
The Economist reports about this recent breakthrough!
Technology Photo credit: maorix, via Flickr. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The world’s number one poker player has just…
Here is a bit more on the poker story Tyler mentioned yesterday. An important variant of poker, heads-up limit hold’em (HULHE)…
Game theorists have cracked Texas Hold'em poker by creating an algorithm that bluffs, learns from previous mistakes, and makes…
The Toronto Star has a nice story, The computer program billed as unbeatable at poker, about a poker playing program Cepehus…
Forget chess. Poker may be even harder for a computer. But a software program has now "solved" a variant of Texas Hold'em, the…
Researchers in the Computer Poker Research Group at the Univ. of Alberta have essentially solved heads-up limit Texas hold ‘em…
Computers have made remarkable progress when it comes to beating their programmers at a number of games. Checkers, Chess, and…
The best limit Texas Hold'Em poker player in the world is a robot. Given enough hands, it will never, ever lose, regardless of…
Researchers at the University of Alberta have built a robot that has ‘solved’ the game of heads up limit Texas hold’em poker.
Researchers at the University of Alberta have built a robot that has ‘solved’ the game of heads up limit Texas hold’em poker.
Cepheus learned poker by playing over a billion billion hands – more than have been played in the entirety of human history‘Perfe…