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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
How DeepMind's AlphaGo Zero learned all by itself to trash world champ AI AlphaGoThe Register
DeepMind's latest AI breakthrough is its most significant yetWired.co.uk
Quanta Magazine -Motherboard -DailyTech -DeepMind
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World's greatest game-playing computer thrashed by its next-gen - Cosmos (blog)

Chess Research - Wed, 10/18/2017 - 13:01

Cosmos (blog)

World's greatest game-playing computer thrashed by its next-gen
Cosmos (blog)
The autodidactic achievement, described in the journal Nature, marks a milestone in artificial intelligence research that could have far reaching impacts beyond the realm of the board game's 19x19 grid. “Ultimately, we want to harness algorithmic ...
Stunning AI Breakthrough Takes Us One Step Closer to the SingularityGizmodo
DeepMind's latest AI breakthrough is its most significant yetWired.co.uk
Google DeepMind: AI becomes more alienBBC News

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What's Behind Chess Supersite Corp (CHZP)'s Movement - Concord Register

Chess Research - Wed, 10/18/2017 - 12:56

What's Behind Chess Supersite Corp (CHZP)'s Movement
Concord Register
Having goals can eventually make the day to day investing decisions at little bit easier over time. Once a plan is in place, investors can then spend more time focusing on the proper stocks to add to the portfolio. Dedicating time for extensive stock ...

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Pixar's latest Coco clips reveal more about its animated Mexican musical - The Verge

Chess Research - Wed, 10/18/2017 - 12:22

The Verge

Pixar's latest Coco clips reveal more about its animated Mexican musical
The Verge
In recent years, Disney has ramped up its diversity efforts, producing films like Moana, derived from Polynesian culture, and Queen of Katwe, the based-on-real-life story of a Ugandan chess champ. But Pixar, acquired by Disney in 2006, hasn't ... In ...

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Stunning AI Breakthrough Takes Us One Step Closer to the Singularity - Gizmodo

Chess Research - Wed, 10/18/2017 - 12:01

Gizmodo

Stunning AI Breakthrough Takes Us One Step Closer to the Singularity
Gizmodo
Looking back, other “holy shit” moments include Deep Blue defeating Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997, IBM's Watson defeating two of the world's best Jeopardy! champions in 2011, the aforementioned defeat of Lee Sedol in 2016, and most recently, the ...
World's greatest game-playing computer thrashed by its next-genCosmos (blog)
Artificial Intelligence Learns to Learn Entirely on Its OwnQuanta Magazine
DeepMind's latest AI breakthrough is its most significant yetWired.co.uk
BBC News -The Register
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Artificial Intelligence Learns to Learn Entirely on Its Own - Quanta Magazine

Chess Research - Wed, 10/18/2017 - 12:00

Quanta Magazine

Artificial Intelligence Learns to Learn Entirely on Its Own
Quanta Magazine
“When you learn to imitate humans the best you can do is learn to imitate humans,” said Satinder Singh, a computer scientist at the University of Michigan who was not involved with the research. “In many complex situations there are new ... Pure ...

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Signal Update on Shares of Chess Supersite Corp (CHZP) - Davidson Register

Chess Research - Wed, 10/18/2017 - 09:21

Signal Update on Shares of Chess Supersite Corp (CHZP)
Davidson Register
Investors may be taking a second look at shares of Chess Supersite Corp (CHZP). After a recent check, we can see that the beta research opinion is currently Sell . This signal uses a system combining volatility, momentum, and wave theory to help spot ...

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Promote chess in schools - Jamaica Gleaner

Chess Research - Tue, 10/17/2017 - 23:18

Promote chess in schools
Jamaica Gleaner
In addition, we would involve the surrounding community by teaching the residents chess, using the large pieces that can be used on the ground. I am sure you can find research to justify the implementation of this project, but I would love to add my ...

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Do gamers behave the way game theory predicts they should? - San Francisco Chronicle

Chess Research - Mon, 10/16/2017 - 20:03

Do gamers behave the way game theory predicts they should?
San Francisco Chronicle
But it does allow us to study how people actually behave when using trees and backward induction. Research tells us that people struggle when trees become too large. (It's hard to blame them: The decision tree for the relatively basic game of chess is ...

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Red Sox road to recovery will be long and arduous - BoSox Injection

Chess Research - Mon, 10/16/2017 - 11:22

BoSox Injection

Red Sox road to recovery will be long and arduous
BoSox Injection
Baseball is a game that is often compared to chess in that moves must be planned for a few innings or even a few games ahead. Decisions that may reek of being classic bonehead moves prove to be correct. ... Do you see a marvelous future for the Red Sox ...

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Agenda - Emporia Gazette

Chess Research - Mon, 10/16/2017 - 10:24

Agenda
Emporia Gazette
The American Legion Post 5, 2921 W. 12th Ave., holds Bingo night at 7 p.m. All are welcome. Proceeds support veterans programs. Refreshments available: 342-1119. The Emporia Chess Society meets from 6 - 8 p.m. at Gravel City Grinders, 608 Commercial ...

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Digital Asset Holdings raises $40 million - Finextra (press release) (blog)

Chess Research - Mon, 10/16/2017 - 09:48

Finextra (press release) (blog)

Digital Asset Holdings raises $40 million
Finextra (press release) (blog)
The new funding comes just weeks before the Australian Securities Exchange makes a critical decision on whether to dismantle its existing Chess system in favour of a distributed ledger platform built using DAH technology. In September, Top ASX ...

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Specific Brain Wave Patterns for Different Learning Styles - PsychCentral.com

Chess Research - Mon, 10/16/2017 - 07:00

Specific Brain Wave Patterns for Different Learning Styles
PsychCentral.com
Investigators explain that learning how to pedal a bike and memorize the rules of chess require two different types of learning. The new research now shows, for the first time, that different types of learning can be distinguished by the brain-wave ...

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There are no winners in Dreamers debate - Lockport Union-Sun & Journal

Chess Research - Sun, 10/15/2017 - 23:03

There are no winners in Dreamers debate
Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
Nothing that has come out of the White House in the past eight months smacks of the cunning necessary to actually play a chess game, let alone win it. What Weingarten hit on the nose is that people despise D.C. ... Public confidence in government is ...

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Richard Thaler Receives Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics - CMU The Tartan Online

Chess Research - Sun, 10/15/2017 - 18:26

Richard Thaler Receives Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
CMU The Tartan Online
“Standard economics thinks that people are completely rational — they behave like computers, perfectly predict all their moves in the game of chess and win, or they can calculate infinitely many rounds.” According to Prof. Kushnir, Dr. Thaler's ...

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4 Pasco schools lag behind on test scores. WSU Tri-Cities plans to fix that - Tri-City Herald

Chess Research - Sun, 10/15/2017 - 16:46

Tri-City Herald

4 Pasco schools lag behind on test scores. WSU Tri-Cities plans to fix that
Tri-City Herald
The four Pasco schools — Emerson, Longfellow, Rowena Chess and Virgie Robinson — lag behind other schools in the district and the state in their state assessment test scores. They also have a high number of students from low-income families and are ...

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Strategy, Love & Politics: UCI Drama presents a Concert Staging of CHESS - Broadway World

Chess Research - Sun, 10/15/2017 - 16:11

Strategy, Love & Politics: UCI Drama presents a Concert Staging of CHESS
Broadway World
UC Irvine's Claire Trevor School of the Arts Department of Drama opens its 2017 - 18 season with a concert staging of the musical Chess, a complex exploration of strategy and love set at the intersection of US - Russia political relations. With music ...

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Engineering Design Pod: The Newest Innovation Center - Duke Today (blog)

Chess Research - Sun, 10/15/2017 - 13:00

Engineering Design Pod: The Newest Innovation Center
Duke Today (blog)
The “Design Pod” was created alongside Duke's new engineering design course in order to to foster learning through hands-on experience. Students have tested out the 3D printer to create items such as a skull and even chess pieces. There's a massive ...

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Cepeda: There are no winners in Dreamers debate - Danville Commercial News

Chess Research - Sat, 10/14/2017 - 22:12

Cepeda: There are no winners in Dreamers debate
Danville Commercial News
Nothing that has come out of the White House in the past eight months smacks of the cunning necessary to actually play a chess game, let alone win it. What Weingarten hit on the nose is that people despise D.C. ... Public confidence in government is ...

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