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Aurelius and Windstream's game of default chess to be probed - Gulf Times
Gulf Times
Aurelius and Windstream's game of default chess to be probed
Gulf Times
“Aurelius is definitely trying to manufacture a default,” said Stephen Hazelton, founder of Street Diligence, a research firm that analyses credit agreements. “The question is whether or not their argument is valid.” Representatives for Windstream and ...
Gulf Times
“Aurelius is definitely trying to manufacture a default,” said Stephen Hazelton, founder of Street Diligence, a research firm that analyses credit agreements. “The question is whether or not their argument is valid.” Representatives for Windstream and ...
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DeepMind creates tests that may prevent AI apocalypse - The Japan News
DeepMind creates tests that may prevent AI apocalypse
The Japan News
Bloomberg LONDON (Bloomberg) — You don't have to agree with Elon Musk's apocalyptic fears of artificial intelligence to be concerned that, in the rush to apply the technology in the real world, some algorithms could inadvertently cause harm. Now ...
The Japan News
Bloomberg LONDON (Bloomberg) — You don't have to agree with Elon Musk's apocalyptic fears of artificial intelligence to be concerned that, in the rush to apply the technology in the real world, some algorithms could inadvertently cause harm. Now ...
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Chess for Success marks 25th anniversary - KTVZ
KTVZ
Chess for Success marks 25th anniversary
KTVZ
PORTLAND, Ore. - The mission of Chess for Success is to help children develop the skills necessary for success in school and in life through learning chess. In 1992 Dick Roy, Phil Margolin, and Frank Eiseman saw a need in their community for chess ...
KTVZ
PORTLAND, Ore. - The mission of Chess for Success is to help children develop the skills necessary for success in school and in life through learning chess. In 1992 Dick Roy, Phil Margolin, and Frank Eiseman saw a need in their community for chess ...
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ASU applied mathematics doctoral grad found inspiration in high school math program - Arizona State University
Arizona State University
ASU applied mathematics doctoral grad found inspiration in high school math program
Arizona State University
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2017 commencement. See more graduates here. Arizona State University graduate Javier Baez was interested in chess at an early age and enjoyed solving puzzles. He liked math but did not think ...
Arizona State University
Editor's note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2017 commencement. See more graduates here. Arizona State University graduate Javier Baez was interested in chess at an early age and enjoyed solving puzzles. He liked math but did not think ...
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Aurelius and Windstream's Game of Debt Chess Heads to Court - BloombergQuint
BloombergQuint
Aurelius and Windstream's Game of Debt Chess Heads to Court
BloombergQuint
... trial in May. As the hearing approaches, credit and restructuring experts say the closely watched drama will set precedents for whether defaults can be manufactured -- as Windstream argues is the case here -- in a slow restructuring market ...
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BloombergQuint
... trial in May. As the hearing approaches, credit and restructuring experts say the closely watched drama will set precedents for whether defaults can be manufactured -- as Windstream argues is the case here -- in a slow restructuring market ...
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Hedge Fund Takes Rural Phone Company to Court Over Debt Drama - Bloomberg
Hedge Fund Takes Rural Phone Company to Court Over Debt Drama
Bloomberg
The Uniti transaction doesn't appear to have breached covenants to begin with, the independent credit research firm said in a Dec. 8 note. Yet even if Windstream triumphs against Aurelius in court, it may not be the end of this restructuring saga. The ...
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The Uniti transaction doesn't appear to have breached covenants to begin with, the independent credit research firm said in a Dec. 8 note. Yet even if Windstream triumphs against Aurelius in court, it may not be the end of this restructuring saga. The ...
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Armenia to have Scientific Research Institute of Chess - Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am (press release) (blog)
Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am (press release) (blog)
Armenia to have Scientific Research Institute of Chess
Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am (press release) (blog)
YEREVAN. – The government of Armenia has allocated 31.9 million drams (about US$66,000) from the reserve fund, for the establishment of the Scientific Research Institute of Chess. The decision to this effect was adopted at Thursday's Cabinet meeting of ...
Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am (press release) (blog)
YEREVAN. – The government of Armenia has allocated 31.9 million drams (about US$66,000) from the reserve fund, for the establishment of the Scientific Research Institute of Chess. The decision to this effect was adopted at Thursday's Cabinet meeting of ...
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Checkmate: DeepMind's AlphaZero AI clobbered rival chess app on non-level playing, er, board - The Register
The Register
Checkmate: DeepMind's AlphaZero AI clobbered rival chess app on non-level playing, er, board
The Register
“Starting from random play, and given no domain knowledge except the game rules, AlphaZero achieved within 24 hours a superhuman level of play in the games of chess and shogi (Japanese chess) as well as Go, and convincingly defeated a world-champion ...
The Register
“Starting from random play, and given no domain knowledge except the game rules, AlphaZero achieved within 24 hours a superhuman level of play in the games of chess and shogi (Japanese chess) as well as Go, and convincingly defeated a world-champion ...
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Inferior by Angela Saini wins Physics World's 2017 Book of the Year - physicsworld.com
Inferior by Angela Saini wins Physics World's 2017 Book of the Year
physicsworld.com
Saini found that the clashing research results were a feature of the controversy within the fields themselves, thanks to bias, prejudice and speculation by the researchers themselves. The book touches upon controversial gender studies in in biology ...
physicsworld.com
Saini found that the clashing research results were a feature of the controversy within the fields themselves, thanks to bias, prejudice and speculation by the researchers themselves. The book touches upon controversial gender studies in in biology ...
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Chess wiz 'alien' AlphaZero is an AI game-changer - Hindu Business Line
Hindu Business Line
Chess wiz 'alien' AlphaZero is an AI game-changer
Hindu Business Line
As FIDE Master Mile Klein noted on chess.com, it's comparable to “a robot being given access to thousands of metal bits and parts, but no knowledge of a combustion engine, then it experiments numerous times with every combination possible until it ...
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Hindu Business Line
As FIDE Master Mile Klein noted on chess.com, it's comparable to “a robot being given access to thousands of metal bits and parts, but no knowledge of a combustion engine, then it experiments numerous times with every combination possible until it ...
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Dr. Pamela Sklar, scientist who studied the genetics of mental illness - Baltimore Sun
Baltimore Sun
Dr. Pamela Sklar, scientist who studied the genetics of mental illness
Baltimore Sun
... Dr, Sklar co-founded the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research. She also served as chair of the department of genetics and genomic sciences and professor of psychiatry, neuroscience and genomic sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount ...
Baltimore Sun
... Dr, Sklar co-founded the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research. She also served as chair of the department of genetics and genomic sciences and professor of psychiatry, neuroscience and genomic sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount ...
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Pivot Points in Focus: Chess Supersite Corp (CHZP) - Nelson Research
Pivot Points in Focus: Chess Supersite Corp (CHZP)
Nelson Research
One of the technical analysis indicators used to glean the overall trend of the market over differing time periods are pivot points. The pivot point itself is where the average of the high, low and closing prices from the previous day's trading ...
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Nelson Research
One of the technical analysis indicators used to glean the overall trend of the market over differing time periods are pivot points. The pivot point itself is where the average of the high, low and closing prices from the previous day's trading ...
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AlphaZero Is the New Chess Champion, and Harbinger of a Brave New World in AI - ExtremeTech
ExtremeTech
AlphaZero Is the New Chess Champion, and Harbinger of a Brave New World in AI
ExtremeTech
The world has quietly crowned a new chess champion. While it has now been over two decades since a human has been honored with that title, the latest victor represents a breakthrough in another significant way: It's an algorithm that can be generalized ...
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The world has quietly crowned a new chess champion. While it has now been over two decades since a human has been honored with that title, the latest victor represents a breakthrough in another significant way: It's an algorithm that can be generalized ...
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AlphaZero Is the New Chess Champion, and Harbinger of a Brave New World in AI - ExtremeTech
ExtremeTech
AlphaZero Is the New Chess Champion, and Harbinger of a Brave New World in AI
ExtremeTech
The world has quietly crowned a new chess champion. While it has now been over two decades since a human has been honored with that title, the latest victor represents a breakthrough in another significant way: It's an algorithm that can be generalized ...
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ExtremeTech
The world has quietly crowned a new chess champion. While it has now been over two decades since a human has been honored with that title, the latest victor represents a breakthrough in another significant way: It's an algorithm that can be generalized ...
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Inside the world's biggest and most important AI conference - Quartz
Inside the world's biggest and most important AI conference
Quartz
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, 41, whose team dropped new research showing that its world champion Go-playing AI had also mastered chess and shogi, stepped up to a microphone after a talk to rebut comments from NYU professor and ex-Uber AI guru Gary ...
Quartz
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, 41, whose team dropped new research showing that its world champion Go-playing AI had also mastered chess and shogi, stepped up to a microphone after a talk to rebut comments from NYU professor and ex-Uber AI guru Gary ...
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DeepMind Has Simple Tests That Might Prevent Elon Musk's AI Apocalypse - Bloomberg
DeepMind Has Simple Tests That Might Prevent Elon Musk's AI Apocalypse
Bloomberg
Whether it goes far enough to ensure safety remains debated. In other research DeepMind conducted with OpenAI, a non-profit AI group backed by Musk, an AI software program learned to satisfy a human teacher, rather than pursuing the best strategy ...
Bloomberg
Whether it goes far enough to ensure safety remains debated. In other research DeepMind conducted with OpenAI, a non-profit AI group backed by Musk, an AI software program learned to satisfy a human teacher, rather than pursuing the best strategy ...
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4 lessons learned from training successful traders - Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance
4 lessons learned from training successful traders
Yahoo Finance
Our overriding takeaway is that the development of trading expertise is not so different from the development of elite performance in other fields, such as athletics and chess. It follows from a sustained developmental process. Unfortunately, aspiring ...
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Yahoo Finance
Our overriding takeaway is that the development of trading expertise is not so different from the development of elite performance in other fields, such as athletics and chess. It follows from a sustained developmental process. Unfortunately, aspiring ...
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Deutsche Bank Sees Huge Potential in Blockchain - Cryptovest (Cryptocurrency & Blockchain News)
Cryptovest (Cryptocurrency & Blockchain News)
Deutsche Bank Sees Huge Potential in Blockchain
Cryptovest (Cryptocurrency & Blockchain News)
The fact that CHESS is in good enough shape to continue functioning at a decent level strengthens further the case for blockchain application. Deutsche Bank considers this emerging technology “one of the most innovative developments in recent years ...
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The fact that CHESS is in good enough shape to continue functioning at a decent level strengthens further the case for blockchain application. Deutsche Bank considers this emerging technology “one of the most innovative developments in recent years ...
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Google's AlphaZero AI mastered chess in just four hours - Infosurhoy - Infosurhoy
Google's AlphaZero AI mastered chess in just four hours - Infosurhoy
Infosurhoy
Google's latest artificial intelligence, AlphaZero, has defeated one of the best chess programs in the world after learning the game from scratch in just four hours. The 'superhuman' AlphaZero AI played 100 games against rival computer program ...
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Infosurhoy
Google's latest artificial intelligence, AlphaZero, has defeated one of the best chess programs in the world after learning the game from scratch in just four hours. The 'superhuman' AlphaZero AI played 100 games against rival computer program ...
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In Just 4 Hours, Google's AI Mastered All The Chess Knowledge in History - Science Trends
Science Trends
In Just 4 Hours, Google's AI Mastered All The Chess Knowledge in History
Science Trends
“It's a remarkable achievement, even if we should have expected it after AlphaGo,” says Garry Kasparov about AlphaZero. “We have always assumed that chess required too much empirical knowledge for a machine to play so well from scratch, with no human ...
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Science Trends
“It's a remarkable achievement, even if we should have expected it after AlphaGo,” says Garry Kasparov about AlphaZero. “We have always assumed that chess required too much empirical knowledge for a machine to play so well from scratch, with no human ...
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