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'Survival of the laziest': Finally, a scientific reason to stay on the couch - Chicago Tribune

Chess Research - Mon, 08/27/2018 - 17:06

Chicago Tribune

'Survival of the laziest': Finally, a scientific reason to stay on the couch
Chicago Tribune
But consider this: All that exercise may be a selfish act - a shortsighted game of checkers in an evolutionary chess match that's been going on for eons. And by not stepping ... The researchers studied the fossils of bivalves and gastropods in the ...
'Survival of the laziest': Finally, there's a scientific reason to not get off the couchWashington Post

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Boomers and Beyond - Wicked Local

Chess Research - Mon, 08/27/2018 - 15:17

Boomers and Beyond
Wicked Local
Spotlighted volunteer opportunities: This month's spotlighted opportunities include: Quilting Group leader; TRIPPS – data entry support, and/or research and writing on transportation topics; Information Desk – backup; Lunch Program, 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m ...

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'Survival of the laziest': Finally, a scientific reason to stay on the couch - SFGate

Chess Research - Mon, 08/27/2018 - 14:33

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'Survival of the laziest': Finally, a scientific reason to stay on the couch
SFGate
But consider this: All that exercise may be a selfish act - a shortsighted game of checkers in an evolutionary chess match that's been going on for eons. And by not stepping ... The researchers studied the fossils of bivalves and gastropods in the ...
'Survival of the laziest': Finally, there's a scientific reason to not get off the couchWashington Post

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AI Couldn't Beat a Team of Professional Gamers at DOTA 2, but It Held Its Own - Futurism

Chess Research - Mon, 08/27/2018 - 12:34

AI Couldn't Beat a Team of Professional Gamers at DOTA 2, but It Held Its Own
Futurism
AI may be able to best humans at games like Go and chess and poker. But for the cooperative ... During the tournament, research group OpenAI had its OpenAI Five, a team comprising five neural networks, play against professional DOTA 2 players. It was a ...

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Researchers want to make an AI that can destroy human beings in Dota 2 - The Outline

Chess Research - Mon, 08/27/2018 - 10:54

The Outline

Researchers want to make an AI that can destroy human beings in Dota 2
The Outline
We wanted to work on getting bots to play complex video games because in many ways they are a step closer to the real world than games like chess and Go, which are very cerebral, but not continuous. In chess and Go, you have time to stop and think ...
OpenAI's Dota 2 defeat is still a win for artificial intelligenceThe Verge

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Researchers want to make an AI that can destroy human beings in Dota 2 - The Outline

Chess Research - Mon, 08/27/2018 - 10:54

The Outline

Researchers want to make an AI that can destroy human beings in Dota 2
The Outline
We wanted to work on getting bots to play complex video games because in many ways they are a step closer to the real world than games like chess and Go, which are very cerebral, but not continuous. In chess and Go, you have time to stop and think ...

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Carlsen, Caruana, Aronian All Earn Sinquefield Cup Titles As Playoff Nixed - Chess.com

Chess Research - Mon, 08/27/2018 - 02:00
Carlsen, Caruana, Aronian All Earn Sinquefield Cup Titles As Playoff Nixed  Chess.com

First there was a two-man playoff. Then a three-man playoff. Then, no playoff at all. After a wild day at the 2018 Sinquefield Cup when the gamesmanship didn't ...

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Top 10 Benefits of Chess - Chess.com

Chess Research - Mon, 08/27/2018 - 02:00
Top 10 Benefits of Chess  Chess.com

Chess is played everyday around the world and brings people of different cultures and backgrounds together. Let's take a look at the top 10 benefits of learning ...

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Top 10 Benefits of Chess - Chess.com

Chess Research - Mon, 08/27/2018 - 02:00
Top 10 Benefits of Chess  Chess.com

Chess is played everyday around the world and brings people of different cultures and backgrounds together. Let's take a look at the top 10 benefits of learning ...

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Researchers want to make an AI that can destroy human beings in Dota 2 - The Outline

Chess Research - Mon, 08/27/2018 - 02:00
Researchers want to make an AI that can destroy human beings in Dota 2  The Outline

Over a year ago, OpenAI set themselves the task of building AI bots that could defeat a professional team of humans at Dota 2, a highly complex multiplayer ...

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Why the artificial intelligence bubble looks like it has already burst - Telegraph.co.uk

Chess Research - Sat, 08/25/2018 - 09:33

Telegraph.co.uk

Why the artificial intelligence bubble looks like it has already burst
Telegraph.co.uk
By then, the first computer programs that could beat humans at chess had been developed, and thanks to plentiful government grants at the height of the Cold War, AI researchers were making rapid progress in other areas such as algebra and language ...

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Community Calendar - Sandusky Register

Chess Research - Sat, 08/25/2018 - 05:06

Sandusky Register

Community Calendar
Sandusky Register
Proceeds benefit Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Downtown Oak Harbor Farmers Market: 9 a.m.-noon fourth Saturday ... Huron Public Library Chess: 10 a.m. All ages and abilities. 419-433-5009. Gibsonburg Birchard Public Library Lego Challenge: ...

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Caruana Fends Off Carlsen, Still Leads Sinquefield - Chess.com

Chess Research - Sat, 08/25/2018 - 02:00
Caruana Fends Off Carlsen, Still Leads Sinquefield  Chess.com

The usually irrepressible Magnus Carlsen couldn't put away Fabiano Caruana today at the 2018 Sinquefield Cup. They drew, and the chess world will now wait ...

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A message to all the pawns - Minden Press-Herald

Chess Research - Fri, 08/24/2018 - 15:40

Minden Press-Herald

A message to all the pawns
Minden Press-Herald
Just like pawns in the chess game, Americans are being affected by those in politics. Their allies report, post, and speak in a way that ... No longer do we formulate our own thoughts based upon personal research. We take what we are fed and move in ...

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Inside the robot-inspired office of Borealis AI, with basketball hoops, chess tables and a swing room - Toronto Life

Chess Research - Fri, 08/24/2018 - 08:24

Toronto Life

Inside the robot-inspired office of Borealis AI, with basketball hoops, chess tables and a swing room
Toronto Life
Half of the team is responsible for research, while the other half takes that research and applies it to banking. Additional labs have opened in Montreal, Edmonton and Waterloo, with each focusing on a specific research area (Montreal's lab, for ...

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Caruana Takes Sinquefield Lead, World #1 Ranking At Stake Tomorrow - Chess.com

Chess Research - Fri, 08/24/2018 - 02:00
Caruana Takes Sinquefield Lead, World #1 Ranking At Stake Tomorrow  Chess.com

There are about 1500 grandmasters in the world, yet Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana are separated by only one other person alphabetically. But in chess ...

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Chess in the universe of Borges - Chessbase News

Chess Research - Fri, 08/24/2018 - 02:00
Chess in the universe of Borges  Chessbase News

Born at the very end of the 19th century, 119 years ago today, Jorge Luis Borges is a key figure in twentieth-century literature. The Argentine, known for his ...

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Researchers Defeat 3D Printing Piracy with Hidden QR Codes - All3DP 3D Printing News

Chess Research - Thu, 08/23/2018 - 09:50

All3DP 3D Printing News

Researchers Defeat 3D Printing Piracy with Hidden QR Codes
All3DP 3D Printing News
So much so that Gupta and his team's work was funded by The Office of Naval Research. They explain that it was possible to exploit the layer-by-layer printing process and turn QR codes into “a game of 3D chess” by exploding the code into the file.
Flat QR Codes Converted into Complex Features Hidden in 3D-Printed Parts to Foil CounterfeitersAZoM

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Researchers turn tracking codes into 'clouds' to authenticate genuine 3-D printed parts - Space Daily

Chess Research - Thu, 08/23/2018 - 06:09

Researchers turn tracking codes into 'clouds' to authenticate genuine 3-D printed parts
Space Daily
... a doctoral student under Gupta; and joint NYU Tandon and NYU Abu Dhabi researchers Nektarios Tsoutsos, Michail Maniatakos and Khaled Shahin, detail how they exploited the layer-by-layer AM printing process to turn QR codes into a game of 3D chess.

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Humans grab victory in first of three Dota 2 matches against OpenAI - The Verge

Chess Research - Thu, 08/23/2018 - 04:55

The Verge

Humans grab victory in first of three Dota 2 matches against OpenAI
The Verge
Artificial intelligence has swept the board with humans in games like chess and Go, but taking on e-sports might be a step too far — for now. At The International tournament last night in Vancouver, a team of human pro gamers defeated a team of ...
Pro gamers defeat Elon Musk's AI Bots in Dota 2TechRadar

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