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Running is hard when there are people in your way Last weekend a couple friends and I played in Journey to the End of the Night (San Francisco edition) for the first time. For those who aren’t familiar with it, Journey is a city-wide game of virus tag, in which you try to visit as many checkpoints as possible without getting tagged. (If you get tagged, you become a chaser.) Here’s what went down. ...

Featuring: Computer Vision! Deep Learning! In April 2014, my friends and I attended Big Hack, a Cal vs. Stanford hackathon. We were wide-eyed freshmen back then, and we threw around the term “machine learning” as if we were Yann LeCun himself. Naturally, we decided to build something that was completely out of our league: an app that would recognize individual chess pieces in a picture of a chessboard, and then tell you who was winning and what the best move was. ...