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Gene Expression Map of Human Body Gives Value to Variants - ALS Research Forum

Chess Research - Mon, 10/23/2017 - 10:57

Gene Expression Map of Human Body Gives Value to Variants
ALS Research Forum
Among other uses, GTEx will allow neurodegenerative disease researchers to investigate whether disease risk variants identified in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) actually trigger meaningful gene expression changes in the brain or elsewhere ...

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DeepMind's New AI Taught Itself to Be the World's Greatest Go Player - Singularity Hub

Chess Research - Mon, 10/23/2017 - 10:05

Singularity Hub

DeepMind's New AI Taught Itself to Be the World's Greatest Go Player
Singularity Hub
When chess fell to AI in the 1990s, computer scientists looking for a new challenge turned to the millennia-old Chinese game Go, which despite its simpler rules has many more possible moves and often requires players to rely on instinct. It was ...

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Former Facebook staffer back in Edmonton to do artificial intelligence research - Edmonton Sun

Chess Research - Mon, 10/23/2017 - 08:16

Edmonton Sun

Former Facebook staffer back in Edmonton to do artificial intelligence research
Edmonton Sun
Former Facebook employee Kevin Waugh gave up the perks of the company's California campus last spring for an Edmonton job with the research subsidiary of another tech giant. Waugh, a Canadian who spent seven years at the University of Alberta getting ...

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Former Facebook staffer back in Edmonton to do artificial intelligence research - Edmonton Journal

Chess Research - Mon, 10/23/2017 - 07:37

Edmonton Journal

Former Facebook staffer back in Edmonton to do artificial intelligence research
Edmonton Journal
Former Facebook employee Kevin Waugh gave up the perks of the company's California campus last spring for an Edmonton job with the research subsidiary of another tech giant. Waugh, a Canadian who spent seven years at the University of Alberta getting ...

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So you've learned you've got a “pitifully” low IQ. How worried should you be? - Vox

Chess Research - Mon, 10/23/2017 - 07:30

Vox

So you've learned you've got a “pitifully” low IQ. How worried should you be?
Vox
Scientific sources like Nature argue that "what most people know about intelligence must be updated,” and popular media including Vox itself reports on the "mountain of research showing that it's a genuinely powerful predictor of your health ...

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Making the right moves - International Cement Review

Chess Research - Mon, 10/23/2017 - 03:38

International Cement Review

Making the right moves
International Cement Review
The opening moves in a chess game lay the foundation for every match. Likewise, assigning cement transport orders to contract hauliers plays a crucial role in the daily race for competitiveness. Algorithms can help planners and dispatchers avoid ...

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Google's AlphaGo Zero charts a startling new course in AI research - Gears Of Biz

Chess Research - Sat, 10/21/2017 - 23:01

Google's AlphaGo Zero charts a startling new course in AI research
Gears Of Biz
If you had any doubts about the potential power of artificial intelligence, well, a story just out in Nature should be a wakeup call for us humans. According to the ...

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A world of colour in black and white - Times of India

Chess Research - Sat, 10/21/2017 - 13:58

A world of colour in black and white
Times of India
In 2014, Joseph approached the government of India's department of science and technology with his observations and the results of a couple of pilot studies on the impact of chess training on children. "They liked the idea because not much research has ...

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Fancy Chess Set Manufacturer, The House of Staunton, Shares the Evolution of Chess - Develop

Chess Research - Fri, 10/20/2017 - 20:45

Fancy Chess Set Manufacturer, The House of Staunton, Shares the Evolution of Chess
Develop
The theory on the origin of chess is debated. However, research and archeological evidence lead us to believe that chess originated in India around 600 A.D. At this time, the Gupta Empire played a similar game with pieces that would later become the ...

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Calemdar - Quad City Times

Chess Research - Fri, 10/20/2017 - 18:59

Calemdar
Quad City Times
Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority will sponsor this vendor and craft fair with proceeds benefiting St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Free. Quad-City Audubon Society Field Trip: 7-11:30 a.m., Lock and Dam 14, ... The Iowa Chess Club, in partnership with ...

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Yorkshire MP talks about loneliness 'crisis' - Yorkshire Post

Chess Research - Fri, 10/20/2017 - 14:36

Yorkshire MP talks about loneliness 'crisis'
Yorkshire Post
Immersing herself in the subject for the last ten months has been a learning curve for Ms Reeves, as the Commission's 13 partner organisations – from disability charity to Sense to the British Red Cross and Action for Children – revealed startling new ...

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Google's AlphaGo Zero charts a startling new course in AI research - Digital Trends

Chess Research - Fri, 10/20/2017 - 14:27

TNW

Google's AlphaGo Zero charts a startling new course in AI research
Digital Trends
It's much more complex and random than chess. Scientists figured it would be another 10 years before an AI computer could beat a human player. They were wrong. Now, AlphaGo Zero, which is actually an even more simplistic design than AlphaGo, just ...
Google's DeepMind achieves machine learning breakthroughs at a terrifying paceTNW

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NC Biotech Center event plants the seed for RTP high-tech tree startup - WRAL Tech Wire

Chess Research - Fri, 10/20/2017 - 09:40

WRAL Tech Wire

NC Biotech Center event plants the seed for RTP high-tech tree startup
WRAL Tech Wire
Research Triangle Park, N.C. — ​An appearance at a North Carolina Biotechnology Center event in 2016 convinced the CEO of a high-tech ag biotech startup to move his company from Massachusetts to the Research Triangle. And it's been a good move, ...

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Fancy Chess Set Manufacturer, The House of Staunton, Shares the Evolution of Chess - Gamasutra

Chess Research - Fri, 10/20/2017 - 05:00

Fancy Chess Set Manufacturer, The House of Staunton, Shares the Evolution of Chess
Gamasutra
The theory on the origin of chess is debated. However, research and archeological evidence lead us to believe that chess originated in India around 600 A.D. At this time, the Gupta Empire played a similar game with pieces that would later become the ...

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Fancy Chess Set Manufacturer, The House of Staunton, Shares the Evolution of Chess - Markets Insider

Chess Research - Fri, 10/20/2017 - 04:08

Fancy Chess Set Manufacturer, The House of Staunton, Shares the Evolution of Chess
Markets Insider
The theory on the origin of chess is debated. However, research and archeological evidence lead us to believe that chess originated in India around 600 A.D. At this time, the Gupta Empire played a similar game with pieces that would later become the ...

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Four professors awarded DARPA Director's Fellowship - The Brown Daily Herald

Chess Research - Thu, 10/19/2017 - 22:40

The Brown Daily Herald

Four professors awarded DARPA Director's Fellowship
The Brown Daily Herald
As a researcher in artificial intelligence, Konidaris explained that many AI researchers are currently failing to intelligently process both low-level tasks, like picking up and identifying objects, and high-level tasks, such as playing chess. His work ...

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[OP-ED]: There are no winners in Dreamers debate - AL DIA News

Chess Research - Thu, 10/19/2017 - 11:28

AL DIA News

[OP-ED]: There are no winners in Dreamers debate
AL DIA News
Public confidence in government is now at a historic low, with only 4 percent of us believing Washington will do what is right “just about always” and 16 percent believing it would do so “most of the time,” according to the Pew Research Center. And the ...

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Of course teachers fear robo-marking - Courier Mail

Chess Research - Wed, 10/18/2017 - 21:57

Courier Mail

Of course teachers fear robo-marking
Courier Mail
They can translate foreign languages, trounce grand masters at chess, pilot planes, design buildings, compose music and they will soon drive cars. Nevertheless, the New South Wales Teachers Federation claims that computers are incapable of marking ...

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Of course teachers fear robo-marking - Daily Telegraph

Chess Research - Wed, 10/18/2017 - 21:56

Daily Telegraph

Of course teachers fear robo-marking
Daily Telegraph
They can translate foreign languages, trounce grand masters at chess, pilot planes, design buildings, compose music and they will soon drive cars. Nevertheless, the New South Wales Teachers Federation claims that computers are incapable of marking ...

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Artificial intelligence: Learning to play Go from scratch - Nature.com

Chess Research - Wed, 10/18/2017 - 15:18

Nature.com

Artificial intelligence: Learning to play Go from scratch
Nature.com
When chess fell to computers, Go was left standing as the board game that humans could count on to dominate computers for a long time. In a result that surprised many at how soon it arrived, the artificial-intelligence (AI) program AlphaGo defeated a ...
Stunning AI Breakthrough Takes Us One Step Closer to the SingularityGizmodo
World's greatest game-playing computer thrashed by its next-genCosmos (blog)
Artificial Intelligence Learns to Learn Entirely on Its OwnQuanta Magazine
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