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This AI chess engine aims to help human players rather than defeat them
Maia's algorithms find mistakes that players should work on. Artificial intelligence has become so good at chess that its only competition now comes from other computer programs. Indeed, a human hasn’t defeated a machine in a chess tournament in 15…
Introduction Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is an exciting field which facilitates the automatic design of deep networks. It has achieved state-of-the-art performance on a variety of tasks, surpassing manually designed counterparts [e.g., 1–3]. Recently, one-shot NAS methods became popular due…
Editor’s note: AI programming is one of the great expectations that people have for artificial intelligence. Although current AI programming technology has benefitted many ordinary users who do not know how to program, it still has a long way to…
“The world runs on software” —— Our modern life relies on diverse software systems, which provide services including search, shopping, chatting, recommendation, and so on. As user requirements and scenarios increase, these systems continuously grow in scale and complexity over…
While heuristic evaluations are less expensive, they’re typically not as exciting to run as usability studies or interviews, and they don’t produce convincing videos for stakeholders. So, how can we raise the stakes for heuristic evaluations and when should we?
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Researchers built an AI that plays chess like a person, not a super computer
They trained Maia on millions of online games played by humans. We mere mortals haven't truly been competitive against artificial intelligence in chess in a long time. It's been 15 years since a human has conquered a computer in a…
Trustworthy data and analyses are key to making sound business decisions, particularly when it comes to A/B testing. Ignoring data quality issues or biases introduced through design and interpretations risks leading to incorrect conclusions that could hurt your product. In…
LAMBDA: The ultimate Excel worksheet function
| Andy Gordon and Simon Peyton Jones
Ever since it was released in the 1980s, Microsoft Excel has changed how people organize, analyze, and visualize their data, providing a basis for decision-making for the millions of people who use it each day. It’s also the world’s most…
GitHub 8.7K星背后，是跨“圈”的融合与碰撞
编者按：微软亚洲研究院自动机器学习（AutoML）工具 NNI 自发布以来好评如潮，全新升级的2.0版本也备受关注。它的成功是跨领域、跨 Lab、开源社区内外通力合作的成果。本文将带领大家了解 NNI 背后的故事，讲述 NNI 是如何做到开源合作与跨界创新的。 2020年，经历了9个小版本的迭代与优化，微软亚洲研究院研发的自动机器学习（AutoML）工具 NNI（Neural Network In...