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Learning How to Play Atari Games Through Deep Neural Networks
In July 1959, Arthur Samuel developed one of the first agents to play the game of checkers. What constitutes an agent that plays checkers can be best described in Samuel’s own words, “…a computer [that] can be programmed so that it will learn to play a be- 21905Murphy ≡ DeepGuide
Chart of the Week: How the Winter Olympics has raised its ‘cool factor
Since the early 1990s, as the Economist chart above shows, Olympics organizers have steadily added more and more freestyle skiing, snowboarding and other X Games-style events in a bid to appeal to younger viewers.- 29241Murphy ≡ Articles
Chart of the Week: The World Cup of (almost) everything
Interactive brackets let you see how the 32 nations competing in the World Cup stack up on 70 different sporting, economic and social indicators.- 25135Murphy ≡ Articles
Why join the gig economy? For many, the answer is ‘for fun
Nearly a quarter of Americans say they’ve earned money in the digital “platform economy” in the past year, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Perhaps surprisingly, though, the most commonly cited motivation for these workers is not the pay.- 29479Murphy ≡ Articles
Younger men play video games, but so do a diverse group of other Americans
In the U.S., four-in-ten women and roughly a quarter of adults ages 65 and older say they play video games at least sometimes.- 28476Murphy ≡ Articles
5 facts about Americans and video games
Overall, 43% of U.S. adults say they often or sometimes play video games. Gaming is popular among teens – especially teenage boys.- 23307Murphy ≡ Articles
Parenting Children in the Age of Screens
Two-thirds of parents in the U.S. say parenting is harder today than it was 20 years ago, with many citing technologies – like social media or smartphones – as a reason.- 27371Murphy ≡ Articles
Online harassment occurs most often on social media, but strikes in other places, too
Three-quarters of U.S. adults who have recently faced some kind of online harassment say it happened on social media.- 27774Murphy ≡ Articles
Teens and Video Games Today
85% of U.S. teens say they play video games. They see both positive and negative sides, from making friends to harassment and sleep loss.- 29146Murphy ≡ Articles
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