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How the Slowest Computer Programs Illuminate Math’s Fundamental Limits

By John Pavlus
December 10, 2020
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The goal of the “busy beaver” game is to find the longest-running computer program. Its pursuit has surprising connections to some of the most profound questions and concepts in mathematics.

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Playing Hide-and-Seek, Machines Invent New Tools

By Stephen Ornes
November 18, 2019
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After millions of games, machine learning algorithms found creative solutions and unexpected new strategies that could transfer to the real world.

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A Life in Games

By Siobhan Roberts
August 28, 2015
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The mathematician John Horton Conway’s myriad accomplishments — including the Game of Life, sprouts and the surreal numbers — are the product of a mind at play.

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