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Slashdot | Procedural Programming- The Secret Behind Spore

Old mill town a vestige of the past – Seattle Times Newspaper

The solution includes 500,995,484,682,338,672,639 configurations of the board!

Read about the twenty years in making solution in this article (“Computerized checkers player can’t be beaten” By Robert Mitchum Chicago Tribune via Seattle Times).

Links:
1. Chinook – World Man-Machine Checkers Champion (University of Alberta Department of Computer Science)

Digg – Inkjet printers are filthy, lying thieves

A very interesting bit about a study of the mathematics behind suduko: Arstechnica – When sudoku and mathematics intersect.

With so many black boxes in them:
Are electronics making cars obsolete faster? – Autoblog.

Digg – Air Conditioners – A Slaying Machine each Summer!

Digg – The Sun’s Amazing Ultraviolet Spectrum (Pic)

Digg – ASTOUNDING: New Power Station Makes the Air Glow in Spain (PICS!)

Digg – New ’sleep machine’ could signal the end of insomnia

Slashdot | 12 Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know

Maximum Access: Top Ten Wired Software Stories of All Time

This is interesting, at 20k-30k generations in a few seconds.

Bits of News – First Hardware to go through Evolution Developed
Found via Boing Boing: Evolutionary computer improves its hardware with genetic algorithms