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3 unusual facts about TD-Gammon


First Internet Backgammon Server

Bots have been developed, some based on neural net programs like gnubg, JellyFish, TD-Gammon, and Snowie, to allow human players to compete with these computer programs on FIBS and to analyze these programs' performance in real-world play.

Neurogammon

In 1992, Tesauro completed TD-Gammon, which combined a form of unsupervised learning with the human-designed input features of Neurogammon, and played at the level of a world-class human tournament player.

TD-Gammon

Unlike previous neural-net backgammon programs such as Neurogammon (also written by Tesauro), where an expert trained the program by supplying the "correct" evaluation of each position, TD-Gammon was at first programmed "knowledge-free".


Archer T. Gammon

Gammon, aged 26 at his death, was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Danville, Virginia.

Fraternité Notre-Dame

In 2000, The movement opened its Mother House for North America in Chicago's Austin neighborhood in the former Gammon United Methodist Church, a structure built by noted Cleveland architect Sidney Badgley and featured in a number of books on Chicago architecture, notably "The AIA Guide to Chicago" by Alice Sinkevitch (Harvest Books 2004).

Georgia Bulldogs football under Charles McCarthy

As the bill sat on the desk of Georgia Governor William Yates Atkinson, a letter that Gammon's mother, Rosalind Burns Gammon, had written to the state legislature was revealed.

Harry Richardson

Harry Van Buren Richardson, president of Gammon Theological Seminary and the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta

Jardine Matheson

These include a number of Jardines’ long-standing businesses such as Jardine Engineering Corporation (JEC), Jardine Shipping Services, Jardine Aviation Services, Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals, Jardine Schindler, Gammon Construction and Jardine Travel Group as well as more contemporary interests that reflect the demands of Asian consumers; among them Pizza Hut restaurants in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Vietnam, KFC franchises in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, and Jardine OneSolution IT services.

John Nielsen

John Nielsen-Gammon (born 1962), American meteorologist, climatologist and academic

John Nielsen-Gammon

On December 22, 2009, Nielsen-Gammon wrote a detailed analysis of the erroneous projected date of melting of Himalayan glaciers in the Working Group II section of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report which said that "the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate."

The story had been covered by BBC News but had not at that time gained wider publicity.

Reg Gammon

Among the books illustrated by Gammon are a number in the 'Romany' series, by George Bramwell Evens.

Samuel Rhea Gammon III

Samuel Rhea Gammon III (born January 22, 1924) was an American diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Mauritius under the Carter Administration.

Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge

An amendment to the Musial bill, sponsored by Sen. Gary Romine (Farmington, Missouri), would name a portion of the highway for Gammon, the bridge worker who died.


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