Today's Links
After beating the world's best at Chess, deep-thinking computers turn their electronic minds to, what else, Poker. The world's first poker-for-money tournament for robots. No one expects the games to proceed in the same way that a human poker game would - computers have no understanding of bluffing and play for percentages only, but it will be an interesting demonstration of the mathematical probabilities that form the background noise to the instinctive play that personifies a good poker player.
A good UK blog I came across - "someone else's life" this guy does interesting things. Sometimes blogs are just about putting your life down on the screen and some people do it pretty well. Love the pictures, too.