After you just got robbed at an illegal dice game.

Not only did the 53-year-old Iowa City man get robbed of his winnings at an illegal dice game, he got busted when he filed a complaint with police. After Beauhanan Walker allegedly ran off with the pot, Jones called cops and said he wanted his “portion of the winnings.”

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After IBM’s Deep Blue beat Kasparov, one of the last vestiges of human superiority vs computers in board games was the game of Go.

Computers, it seems, are now gaining on humans:

During the Go Tournament in Paris, staged between 22 and 24 March 2008 by the French Go Federation (FFG), the MoGo artificial intelligence (IA) engine developed by INRIA — the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control — running on a Bull NovaScale supercomputer, won a 9×9 game of Go against professional 5th DAN Catalin Taranu. This was the first ever officially sanctioned ‘non blitz’ victory of a ‘machine’ over a Go Master.

9×9 Go is vastly simpler than the full board of 19×19, but the heat’s beginning to be felt.

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