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Dota 2 players can sign up to compete against OpenAI’s champion-crushing bots this week

Apr15
by on April 15, 2019 at 7:48 am
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, gaming


Over the past few years, artificial intelligence research firm OpenAI has been hard at work training its bots to play a range of games like Chess, Go, and more complex ones like Dota 2. It’s gotten awfully good at all of them, and if you’ve got MOBA chops, you can now test your skills against its AI system in a round of Dota 2. The company’s Five – a team of neural networks that have been trained on a collective 45,000 years of Dota 2 gameplay – just defeated a world champion e-sports team called Team OG in San Francisco…

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CHEAP: Protect your family with Ring’s 15-piece home security kit for just $300

Apr14
by on April 14, 2019 at 8:06 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Not long ago, getting your hands on a decent automated home security system was an almost impossible task – at least for those who didn’t have a few thousand dollars to burn. Things are different now, and you can pick up a sophisticated home protection system for just a few hundred dollars. Take, for example, Ring’s 15-piece home security set, which is currently on sale on Amazon for $305. So, what do you get for your hard-earned cash? One base station One smoke and carbon monoxide detector One keypad (to deactivate the system from within the home Seven contact sensors…

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4 scenarios where hiring an offsite dev team makes sense

Apr14
by on April 14, 2019 at 7:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Podium


What is the biggest problem of every Silicon Valley startup founder? Finding developers. What is the average annual salary for a senior engineer in Silicon Valley? Well, it is over $100K, which is pretty expensive for any young, yet promising company. If you own a small startup and cannot compete with London, New York, or San Francisco in terms of salary, you might consider hiring globally. For many established businesses and startups alike, offsite development is the first thing that comes to their mind when getting a new business idea off the ground. Many go for offsite development due to…

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