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Solar Eclipse Marketing: How Retailers Can Use Special Events To Grow Business - Forbes

Chess Research - Thu, 08/17/2017 - 14:34

Forbes

Solar Eclipse Marketing: How Retailers Can Use Special Events To Grow Business
Forbes
In the days before the internet and Google, this was a manual research effort that took a team of researchers weeks to scour reference books and cross reference citations. We'd work several years out, so that the company had time to design and develop ...

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Students flock to new chess club - The Wahkiakum County Eagle

Chess Research - Wed, 08/16/2017 - 19:56

The Wahkiakum County Eagle

Students flock to new chess club
The Wahkiakum County Eagle
Joel McEntire, who teaches science and language arts at John C. Thomas Middle School, is looking for some community members to join him in teaching, challenging, and just playing the game of chess with students in their club at school. When he started ...

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Game Design Inspirations: Frog Fractions 2's Mechanic and Genre Mashups - Gamasutra (blog)

Chess Research - Wed, 08/16/2017 - 09:18

Gamasutra (blog)

Game Design Inspirations: Frog Fractions 2's Mechanic and Genre Mashups
Gamasutra (blog)
GDI is a weekly bite-sized nugget of brilliant game design, taken from the games that I play “for research purposes”. Frog Fractions 2 by ... Another mini-game, Chess Invaders, is a wave-based Chess game played in real-time. Cooldown bars are used ...

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Alpha Payments Cloud and Australia Post launch e-commerce joint venture - Finextra

Chess Research - Wed, 08/16/2017 - 09:03

Alpha Payments Cloud and Australia Post launch e-commerce joint venture
Finextra
Alpha Payments Cloud, a fintech pioneer aiming to evolve and simplify how payments related vendors are accessed, is excited to unveil its joint venture with Australia Post, named the Alpha Commerce Hub (ACH). ACH aims to transform the Australian ...

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Plymouth Public Library news - Wicked Local Plymouth

Chess Research - Wed, 08/16/2017 - 05:30

Wicked Local Plymouth

Plymouth Public Library news
Wicked Local Plymouth
Bring a chess clock if possible. There are three tournament sections: The open fun section for any age, no USCF rating required and no entry fee; The age 14 and under fun section, no USCF rating required and no entry fee; and the USCF rated section for ...

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Microsoft Research creating an AI to help autonomous gliders stay up indefinitely - MSPoweruser

Chess Research - Wed, 08/16/2017 - 02:33

MSPoweruser

Microsoft Research creating an AI to help autonomous gliders stay up indefinitely
MSPoweruser
“This is what differentiates robotics from a game like Go or chess.” “With a glider, you can test these algorithms with minimal risk to people and property,” Mr. Kochenderfer, a Stanford University professor of aeronautics and astronautics ...

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Do Chess Players Have Higher IQ's? - American Council on Science and Health

Chess Research - Wed, 08/16/2017 - 02:07

American Council on Science and Health

Do Chess Players Have Higher IQ's?
American Council on Science and Health
As is most intelligence research, this is considered controversial. A competing hypothesis blames college admissions. According to this view, colleges select for students with higher IQs through a screening process that involves standardized tests ...

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Microsoft Teaches Autonomous Gliders to Make Decisions on the Fly - New York Times

Chess Research - Tue, 08/15/2017 - 23:15

MSPoweruser

Microsoft Teaches Autonomous Gliders to Make Decisions on the Fly
New York Times
Last week, in the desert valley surrounding Hawthorne, Nev., 130 miles south of Reno, Mr. Kapoor and his fellow Microsoft researchers tested two gliders designed to navigate the skies on their own. Guided by computer .... Over the last two years ...
Microsoft Research creating an AI to help autonomous gliders stay up indefinitelyMSPoweruser
Science mimics nature: Microsoft researchers test AI-controlled soaring machine - News CenterMicrosoft News Center

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'It knew what you were going to do next': AI learns from pro gamers — then crushes them - Washington Post

Chess Research - Tue, 08/15/2017 - 08:52

Washington Post

'It knew what you were going to do next': AI learns from pro gamers — then crushes them
Washington Post
For decades, the world's smartest game-playing humans have been racking up losses to increasingly sophisticated forms of artificial intelligence. The defeats began in the 1990s when Deep Blue conquered chess master Garry Kasparov. In May, Ke Jie ...

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Elisa Cooper: A gifted intellectual and a Berkeley activist - Berkeleyside

Chess Research - Mon, 08/14/2017 - 13:40

Elisa Cooper: A gifted intellectual and a Berkeley activist
Berkeleyside
Despite the setbacks of her early life, she became a local chess champion and took the initiative to apply for a scholarship to a private school for a year of college preparation. Out of her class at her ... Elisa entered the University of California ...

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Did Elon Musk's AI champ destroy humans at video games? It's complicated - The Verge

Chess Research - Mon, 08/14/2017 - 12:54

The Verge

Did Elon Musk's AI champ destroy humans at video games? It's complicated
The Verge
First, we need to look at Musk's claim that Dota is “vastly more complex than traditional board games like chess & Go.” This is ... Brockman's response is that this sort of skill is trivial for an AI to learn, and was never the focus of OpenAI's ...
A bot just defeated one of the world's best video gamersCNNMoney
Elon Musk's $1 billion AI startup made a surprise appearance at a $24 million video game tournament — and crushed ...Business Insider
Elon Musk heralds the future of AI as a Dota 2 bot beats a human champPC Gamer
iAfrica.com -GeekWire -GQ India
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A Practical Solution To Fulfill The Duty Of Care - Seeking Alpha

Chess Research - Mon, 08/14/2017 - 08:21

Seeking Alpha

A Practical Solution To Fulfill The Duty Of Care
Seeking Alpha
That idea certainly applies to the human advisors working with Robo-Analysts. The Robo-Analysts' research makes advisors more effective than either a standalone human or robo-advisor in the same way that a human chess player aided by a machine is ...

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Editorial: Cheers for all those who lead by example - Times Herald-Record

Chess Research - Mon, 08/14/2017 - 02:02

Editorial: Cheers for all those who lead by example
Times Herald-Record
In another green note, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority recently designated the county as a Clean Energy Community. “It's been teamwork,” said Luis Alvarez, chairman of the Sullivan County ... CHEERS: To City of Newburgh ...

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Elon Musk's AI Research Arm Defeats World's Top DOTA Players; Amazing, Tweets Vishal Sikka - NDTV Profit

Chess Research - Sat, 08/12/2017 - 22:33

Engadget

Elon Musk's AI Research Arm Defeats World's Top DOTA Players; Amazing, Tweets Vishal Sikka
NDTV Profit
OpenAI, a research company founded by Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Sam Altman, the President of YCombinator, has created a Artificial Intelligence (AI) bot which beat the world's top professional players in one-on-one battles of DOTA 2 a multiplayer online ...
Elon Musk's $1 billion AI startup made a surprise appearance at a $24 million video game tournament — and crushed ...Business Insider
A bot just defeated one of the world's best video gamersCNNMoney
Elon Musk's OpenAI Bot Just Crushed a Dota 2 Pro Gamer!Edgy Labs (blog)
The Register -GeekWire
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A bot just defeated one of the world's best video gamers - CNNMoney

Chess Research - Sat, 08/12/2017 - 14:20

CNNMoney

A bot just defeated one of the world's best video gamers
CNNMoney
This one from Open AI -- a nonprofit artificial intelligence research firm known mainly for its backing by serial entrepreneur Elon Musk, of Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX fame -- is a different story, and possibly a cautionary one. Open AI says its mission ...
Elon Musk's $1 billion AI startup made a surprise appearance at a $24 million video game tournament — and crushed ...Business Insider
Elon Musk's AI beats pro gamersiAfrica.com
Man vs AI: Musk's bot crushes pro-gamer in DOTA 2NewsBytes
Edgy Labs (blog) -Digit -The Register
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'StarCraft 2' Now Being Used for AI Research - Christian Post

Chess Research - Sat, 08/12/2017 - 09:41

Christian Post

'StarCraft 2' Now Being Used for AI Research
Christian Post
Blizzard Entertainment"Starcraft 2" now being used in AI research. Using games to test a machine's ability against humans has been done for decades now. Whether it is a chess robot beating a grandmaster or IBM's Watson winning against "Jeopardy" ...
DeepMind struggles to overcome next milestone: 'StarCraft II'Taipei Times

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Zimbabwe: Will There Be Military Coup in Zimbabwe? - AllAfrica.com

Chess Research - Sat, 08/12/2017 - 03:41

AllAfrica.com

Zimbabwe: Will There Be Military Coup in Zimbabwe?
AllAfrica.com
It's a big chessboard, whether you are army, military, police, Mugabe is the chess player. Don't be fooled." These findings are consistent with earlier research by Blessing Miles Tendi, a scholar at Oxford University. Tendi asserts that Mugabe has ...

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Elon Musk's $1 billion AI startup made a surprise appearance at a $24 million video game tournament — and crushed ... - Markets Insider

Chess Research - Fri, 08/11/2017 - 19:10

Markets Insider

Elon Musk's $1 billion AI startup made a surprise appearance at a $24 million video game tournament — and crushed ...
Markets Insider
Computers have already beaten the world's best humans at classic games like chess and Go. Now one has beaten one of the world's best players of the smash-hit video game ... The bot from OpenAI, the $1 billion artificial-intelligence research nonprofit ...

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A Practical Solution for Fulfilling the Duty of Care - WealthManagement.com

Chess Research - Fri, 08/11/2017 - 12:03

WealthManagement.com

A Practical Solution for Fulfilling the Duty of Care
WealthManagement.com
The robo-analysts' research makes advisors more effective than either a standalone human or a robo advisor, in the same way that a human chess player aided by a machine is better than either one on its own. What Should a Prudent Man or Institution Do?

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